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"Macbeth' in London, violence everywhere
There will be blood, or: Can you top this?
Playwrights and directors are devoting more attention to the role of violence in the world, which is good. But some of them seem to be celebrating it rather than condemning it.
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Piero della Francesca at the Frick in NY
On the cusp of a Renaissance moment
No painter of the Italian Renaissance exudes more mystery than Piero della Francesca, or tantalizes us more. He makes us linger in front of his canvases, always wondering a bit just where we are and what that slight but decisive thing is that we're missing.
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Penn Singers' 'Patience' at Annenberg
You've got mail, or: My not-so-brilliant stage career
Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience is a Victorian romp concerning jealousy among poets, soldiers and lovesick maidens. But the most jealous character of all was in the audience: me.
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Who saved the Opera Company?
Nothing succeeds like a successor, or: Philadelphia opera history, rewritten
Robert Driver claims he saved the Opera Company of Philadelphia in the 1990s— and the Inquirer critic has swallowed his self-serving narrative. As Driver's predecessor, I can attest that he takes credit that he doesn't deserve.
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: Doing something right
Rocky Mountain high
With its home in Aspen, a season in Santa Fe and a healthy touring schedule, the 16-year-old Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is as good a role model as any ballet company could follow.
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Three plays in London
Odd couple: Pinter and Asperger's
Harold Pinter's Old Times will make you question your memory, not to mention human trust and love. But a new play about a boy with Asperger's syndrome will restore your faith in all of them.
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"Owen Wingrave' by Opera Philadelphia and Curtis
One man who refused to fight
Benjamin Britten's rarely performed opera about a pacifist in wartime deserves greater exposure— and more explicit supertitles.
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Temple Orchestra's hidden assets
Why do I love Temple? Let me count the ways
Temple's orchestra presented a varied program that showcased conductor Luis Biava and Philadelphia's leading tuba virtuoso.
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Philadelphia Orchestra's percussion virtuoso
Drums to waken Wagner, and Stokowski too
Percussionist Colin Currie starred in a noisy and outrageous performance that discomfited some folks in the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience, just the way Leopold Stokowski's innovations used to do.
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Why I love "Dancing with the Stars'
Eat your heart out, Lawrence Welk
The pros and stars take this utterly absurd dance competition show completely seriously — but everyone involved remains keenly aware that the competition is, indeed, utterly absurd.
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