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Soho Rep's "Uncle Vanya' in New York
Theater for hard times, or: Getting there is half the fun
It took me a week of standing in line to see Annie Baker's updated adaptation of Uncle Vanya. But where else can you see cutting-edge theater for 99 cents, not to mention climbing over Kevin Kline to reach your seat?
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"The Rotation': Baseball's ups and downs
The greatest baseball team ever assembled (but only on paper, unfortunately)
In my youth, Philadelphia baseball fans took losing for granted, so we found other attractions in the game. Today they take winning for granted— a dangerous delusion, as we've seen this year.
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"Singin' in the Rain' turns 60
A musical that keeps growing on you
What's so special about Singin' in the Rain? No one perceived this musical comedy about the dawn of talking pictures as a classic when it opened in 1952. Two things explain why its popularity continues to grow, 60 year after its premiere.
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"Porgy and Bess' on Broadway
Whose Porgy is it, anyway?
Tinker with Gershwin's Porgy and Bess? Why not? Producers have been doing it for 75 years, beginning with the composer himself.
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Frances Diem Vardamis's 'Time Running Out'
Apocalypse at the top of the world
Frances Diem Vardamis's Time Running Out, the latest installment of her Yannis Lavonis detective series, carries her hero to the top of the world for a confrontation with a breed of Christian apocalypticists spawned by the new Russia. Vardamis is a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene with a sharp eye for character and detail, and her protagonist is worth caring about.
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"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,' at the Ritz Five
One artist with courage makes a majority
What could be more threatening to a dictatorship than an artist who acts like a free man? That is the question posed by Alison Klayman's graceful documentary about the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei.
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Allen Krantz at Laurel Hill
A lucky accident
Accidentally forced to give a rare solo program, the guitarist-composer Allen Krantz demonstrated his skills as a teacher and speaker.
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"Mansfield Park': Book vs. film
The unmaking of an Austen heroine
How much fidelity does a filmmaker owe to the source novel— especially if the novel's heroine is deliberately plain, boring and unsexy?
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David Frankel's "Hope Springs'
Sexless in America: If Meryl and Tommy Lee can't do it....
Hope Springs is a women's wish-fulfillment film about rekindling that lost spark in your marriage when sex has become more of a job than a joy. If only the Baby Boomers had known the '60s sexual revolution would come to this.
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Sondheim's "Into the Woods' in New York
Be careful what you wish for
There's no place more magical than outdoor summer theater, and no setting more fitting for Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods than the woods of Central Park— even if Sondheim's woods are as dark and disturbing as anything imagined by Maurice Sendak or Roald Dahl.
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