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"Water By the Spoonful' in New York
Forgiveness and redemption in a virtual world
Tired of cynical plays about dysfunctional families? The beautiful Water By The Spoonful offers a refreshing change of pace: a “family” of lonely humans connecting and uplifting each other in cyberspace.
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McDonagh's "Beauty Queen of Leenane' at the Lantern (2nd review)
Learning to appreciate Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is best known for the escalating violence of his dramas. So I arrived at a new appreciation for the intimacy and sad sweetness of this domestic tale, his first work.
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Yannick's new take on Bruckner
Bruckner, unhurried and very Austrian
Never have I heard Bruckner sound so Austrian as he did last weekend under Yannick's baton— not Classical, not Wagnerian, but relaxed in an Austrian way.
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Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband' at the Walnut (1st review)
Oscar Wilde gets serious
At the fringes, Oscar Wilde's characters in An Ideal Husband convey a spritely delight in mocking the staid practices of a moralistic society. But Wilde keeps dragging them into a ludicrous plot that he wants us to take seriously.
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Beckett's "Endgame' at the Arden (1st review)
Beckett, with a smidgen of hope
Kevin Depinet's set prompts a fresh look at a Beckett classic. It's a specific illustration of the end of a world as we knew it; but it's not quite the end of civilization, as Endgame has been interpreted in the past.
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Richard Goode plays late Beethoven
Realms of elation
Richard Goode's annual Philadelphia recital brought a lifetime of engagement to Beethoven's last three piano sonatas, which collectively constitute one of the summits of musical literature.
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Andrei Codrescu's "Bibliodeath'
Requiem for the printed word
Andrei Codrescu grew up in Communist Romania, where printed words were deemed more dangerous than bombs. Now he lives in a virtual world inundated with too many instantly disposable virtual words. Ah, but he has a solution.
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Art forgers: great artists?
The art of the steal
Do forgers qualify as “real” artists? Jonathan Keats thinks so. He makes his case by spinning intriguing tales of great skill and gullible art authorities, but he's a bit gullible himself.
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Orchestra's "inter-war' concert (2nd review)
A tyranny Yannick never knew
Yannick Nézet-Séguin is only 37, with no conscious memory of Stalin or Hitler. Yet he instinctively grasped the emotions of composers who suffered under those tyrants.
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Clarinet debut: Romie de Guise-Langlois
Memories, encounters and good news from Syria
In her Philadelphia recital debut, Romie de Guise-Langlois explored the development of the clarinet repertoire, including a premiere that may evoke her earliest memories.
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