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Ibsen's "Master Builder' in Brooklyn
Not exactly the master builder that Ibsen had in mind
What alchemy of genius, vision and audacity (not to mention money) drives today's master builders? Don't ask John Turturro or director Andrei Belgrader. In this case the resident genius is the set designer, Santo Loquasto.
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Philadelphia Orchestra's bankruptcy, reconsidered
The Orchestra's bankruptcy: Ruin or renewal?
Allison Vulgamore absorbed much heat when she took the Philadelphia Orchestra into bankruptcy in April 2011. Today that drastic act can be seen as a gutsy and necessary decision.
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Woodmere Art Museum's annual juried exhibition
On the brink of a new art form? Maybe, maybe not
The Woodmere Art Museum's annual juried exhibition is a breath of fresh 21st-Century artistic air, even if it lacks the revolutionary audacity of the 1913 New York Armory show.
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Two male authors, at opposite extremes
Wet dreams and clean pants, or: What do women want from men?
One best-selling male author writes books about a neutered man; another about a stallion near a mare in perpetual heat. When I see the kind of books that women read, I feel embarrassed for my gender.
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The Third World in America
When Nigerians and Pakistanis start to think like Americans
Can today's global conflicts be disguised as love stories? Yes, and very effectively, when the lovers are Nigerians or Pakistanis studying at Ivy League universities.
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James Graham's "This House' in HD-Live
British politics: Comedy or tragedy?
Britain's Parliament before Margaret Thatcher was a basket case where nothing ever seemed to get done. James Graham, who didn't experience the '70s, treats the chaos as a comedy. Do you suppose Americans will be chuckling about our own dysfunctional Congress 40 years hence?
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EgoPo's "Uncle Tom's Cabin' at Plays and Players (2nd review)
Slavery, up close and personal
In the 1850s, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin mobilized public opinion against slavery. But EgoPo's stage adaptation is even more powerful. It's one thing to read about slave whippings and auctions, another to actually watch them.
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Chestnut Singers and Fine Art Piano
A little more of something different, please
Two recent additions to the Philadelphia music scene offer reason to hope that that the Classical tradition will elude the undertaker. But the Chestnut Street Singers could stand a bit more variety in their programs.
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Anselm Kiefer at the Gagosian in NY
Scenes from an apocalypse
Anselm Kiefer's latest show takes us back to the subject matter on which his art has long brooded: the Nazi era and the Holocaust. If you'd rather not dig through all the symbolism, you can more simply enjoy some of the most impressive landscape art since Matisse and Nolde.
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Sondheim's "A Little Night Music' at the Arden (2nd review)
A Broadway musical, or a period piece?
An excellent Arden production brings out the best of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music— specifically, his music and lyrics. But the play's theme of marital dalliance is growing tired.
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