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"The Winter's Tale' at People's Light
A rare Shakespearean turkey
The Winter's Tale is surely one of Shakespeare's messiest and least satisfying scripts, notwithstanding People's Light's energetic efforts to distract our attention from its failings.
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"Hyde Park on Hudson' (2nd review)
The road to war, and the only adult in the room
King George's visit to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the eve of World War II is a subject worth exploring, but Roger Michell's Hyde Park on Hudson bites off more history and a little more drama than it can chew.
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Two birds, one composer (Part II)
The composer's quandary: What does emotion really sound like?
Watching a fight between two birds had inspired me. Now came the real challenge: to pinpoint my emotion and translate it into music. Generic emotion, I knew, produces generic music, just as it produces bland acting, uninvolving painting, and vanilla poetry.
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Paquette and Edgerton at Gross McCleaf
Tall trees, short stories
This is one of those interesting shows: two artists with little in common— a landscape painter and a portrait painter—sharing the same exhibit space.
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Shostakovich and free speech (3rd comment)
Shostakovich's problem, and ours
Even in a “free” society, creative people must confront the challenge that Shostakovich addressed in Stalin's Soviet Russia with his “Classical Symphony”: What do you do when your creative impulses conflict with the demands of the people who pay for your work?
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Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband' at the Walnut (2nd review)
Oscar Wilde makes his case
Some critics consider Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband a lightweight play. On the contrary, it's a deceptively eloquent plea for individual expression in the face of Victorian conformity.
An Ideal Husband. By Oscar Wilde; Malcolm Black directed. Through March 3, 2013 at the Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. (215) 574-3550 or www.walnutstreettheatre.org.
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Do-it-yourself analysis at home
Can't find a good shrink? Try listening to your furniture
Forget about what your home tells the world about your social status. It may be able to tell you something about your psyche— something you may or may not want to acknowledge.
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Alfred Stieglitz "Treasures' at the Art Museum
A legend in his own mnd: The overblown Alfred Stieglitz
No reputation in the history of photography has been more inflated than that of Alfred Stieglitz. The Art Museum, which owns a large cache of his works, took the path of least resistance in this undeserved homage.
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Caravaggio: The first human painter
Birth of the Baroque: The first palpably human painter
Caravaggio was a revolutionary in the boldest sense. He taught us a new way to paint, a new way to see, and a new function for art itself: seduction.
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Michael Djupstrom's contemporary pieces
The other side of the street
Like many young composers, Michael Djupstrom gives his work titles that link to stories and personal experiences. But in his case that's not necessary.
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