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Tracy Stuckey's West at Schmidt/Dean Gallery
One wild man's Wild West
Tracy Stuckey's West is a peculiar place, where women are always centerfold-beautiful and usually wear tiny bikinis. They can do without cowboy boots and six-shooters— or even cowboys, come to think of it.
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Dohnányi, the "non-Yannick' (1st review)
The return of ‘old school' conducting
Amid the well-deserved hoopla over Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christoph von Dohnányi reminded Philadelphia audiences why many musicians venerated an old-fashioned Central European conductor like Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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The day I 'got' Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin vs. my left hemisphere
When I first saw the late work of the abstract expressionist Agnes Martin I couldn't find any meaning in it. Later I realized that the problem was mine: I was thinking about her paintings instead of absorbing them.
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Wagner's "Parsifal' at the Met
No country for wise men
Wagner's Parsifal may lack much in the way of a story or singable tunes, but the new Metropolitan Opera production exquisitely captures the spirit of holy Christian reverence that lies at its heart.
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"New Worlds' at the Art Museum (2nd review)
Treasures of the Spanish conquest (all for the price of one Warhol)
The Art Museum's rich new exhibition of colonial art from Catholic South America spotlights an area that's been neglected by most museums, and grievously overlooked by collectors.
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Can dance reach young audiences?
I've seen the future of dance, and it's in the streets
The music and movie industries have no problem reaching younger audiences— the very people dance companies need to reach to assure their future. Yet dance packs more action than any other form of entertainment short of the circus. Why not take to social media and the streets and beat the movies and video companies at their own game?
Quintessence Theatre's "Diary of a Madman'
Send in the clowns (and the shrinks, too)
Who among us has not allowed our fantasies and obsessions to get the best of us from time to time? But this updating of Gogol's short story treats the protagonist not as everyman or even as a clown, but as a diagnosis.
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"New Faces' at Artists' House
Striking, ethereal and simply amazing
Artists' House presents another group show offering something for every taste.
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The education of Toby Zinman
A pariah who bounced back: The education of Toby Zinman
American Theater Magazine recently named the Inquirer's Toby Zinman one of the nation's 12 most influential theater critics. How did she reach that lofty plateau? And how did a gentle academic develop a skin thick enough to survive a public assault on her character?
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Beckett's "Endgame' at the Arden (3rd review)
Beckett for a new century
Beckett's Endgame— an often baffling intellectual relic of the ‘50s— can be off-putting to a young theatergoer like me. The Arden production bridged the generation gap with brilliant performances and a mesmerizing set that created a genuine sense of sensory deprivation.
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