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A Ray Bradbury remembrance (1st tribute)
My summer on the tongue with Ray Bradbury
After years of reading the late Ray Bradbury's work, I heard his voice: a genuine melody of words and images tumbling in mid-air until they hit the ear just as they hit the page.
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Spratlan's "Hesperus' by Network for New Music and The Crossing
Spratlan's afterlife, with a dash of irony
For Hesperus Is Phosphorous, Lewis Spratlan created musical settings of three witty prose vignettes on the afterlife taken from Sum, an odd little international bestseller by the neuroscientist David Eagleman.
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LaBute's "reasons to be pretty' by PTC
Beautiful but miserable
Like its predecessors in Neil LaBute's trilogy, reasons to be pretty throws together four insecure young people with hangups about beauty and their friends' opinions.
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Tony Kushner's "A Dybbuk,' by EgoPo
Sympathy for our devils
Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Dybbuk concerns unrequited love among Hasidic Jews in Eastern Europe. But mysticism is only part of this tale: The story works for skeptics as well as for believers, and for non-Jews as well.
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"Tulipomania' at the Arden (2nd review)
When the present interferes with the past
The intriguing story of Amsterdam's 17th-Century tulip mania somehow got subordinated within a fictitious story set in a present-day pot bar. Michael Ogborn should have let the audience draw its own comparisons.
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The anti-Barnes on the Parkway
On moving Chartres Cathedral to Ben Franklin Parkway
The Barnes Foundation's home in Merion was the Chartres of Modernism, designed by Albert Barnes to proclaim that the greatest European art of his own time represented a radically new way of seeing the world, as well as a reaffirmation of the great art of the past. So, would the French move a great cathedral to Paris to double the tourist draw?
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"My Fair Lady' at Act II in Ambler
Henry Higgins, male chauvinist no more
Is it possible to improve on Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins? Tony Braithwaite has a youthful spring in his step that renders him more plausibly romantic.
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"Uncorked!': Wine history at Winterthur
Have a cup of caudle, or: The good old days of drinking
Winterthur's “Uncorked!” looks at drinking over the centuries with an abundance of fascinating objects that tell stories about a favorite pastime.
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Lantern's "The Island' (3rd comment)
Out of sight, out of mind: Why island prisons don't work
Island prisons like Robben Island and Guantánamo share one notable characteristic: They never solve the problems that created them.
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"Tulipomania' at the Arden (1st review)
A good investment
Tulipomania concerns greed, not as a deadly sin but as a by-product of market opportunity. For a musical about 17th-Century Holland, it sounds all too contemporary.
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