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Gene therapy and "The Forever Fix'
The day medicine changed: Are you ready for gene therapy?
If you don't know about gene therapy, you will soon. Thanks to gene therapy, a boy destined to become totally blind has begun to see clearly for the first time in years. As Ricki Lewis persuasively argues in The Forever Fix, he's just the beginning.
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Lantern's "The Island' (2nd review)
Which prisoner is the hero?
Since South African Apartheid no longer officially exists, this 1973 Athol Fugard work might seem merely historical. Yet The Island's relevance transcends its criticism of one particularly cruel and arbitrary state.
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"Il Postino' by Center City Opera
Is there a Hispanic in the house?
Center City Opera Theater has launched an ambitious initiative to mount Hispanic opera productions. It got off to a good start this month with Daniel Catán's Il Postino. Just one quibble: Il Postino isn't very Hispanic.
Il Postino. Opera by Daniel Catán; conducted by Andrew M. Kurtz; Leland Kimball directed. Center City Opera Company production May 17-20, 2012 at Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut St. (215) 238-1555 or www.operatheater.org.
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Shakespeare Theatre's "Titus Andronicus' (2nd review)
Time for dinner!
For once, an audience cheered a Shakespeare play not for its literary style but for its sheer blood-and-guts entertainment.
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The BBC's "Jekyll'
The mother of all midlife crises
How would we react to a Jekyll-Hyde split personality in the post-Freudian age? The BBC's “Jekyll” provides a possible (and entertaining) answer.
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Lantern's "The Island' (1st review)
Profiles in courage
When The Island was first performed in South Africa in 1973, it represented a courageous attempt to capture the inhumanity of Apartheid. It's still compelling from the relative comfort of a theater seat in Philadelphia, but nothing like the real thing, as I can attest.
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Of composers and bridges
Imagining early music: What I've learned by crossing bridges
Once no bridges crossed the Delaware River; now 120 do. There's a lesson here for composers like me, since we build bridges all the time.
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E.L. James's "Fifty Shades of Grey'
Not the whips and chains again!, or: Fifty Shades meets the voice of experience
Just what the world needs: another romance novel about a blushing virgin who's ravished by a wealthy, attractive and powerful sadomasochist. As an older woman who has known genuine pain and loss, I have a better idea.
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Tempesta di Mare's survival formula
Thriving through 9/11 and recession too: Secrets of musical survival
Tempesta di Mare finished its celebration of its successful completion of ten full seasons— an achievement based on its founders' application of a secret formula, known to a select few.
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"Deco Japan' in New York
Flappers and fascists: Japan's inter-war fascination with the West
“Deco Japan” is a first and fascinating look at the extraordinary artistic experimentation of interwar Japan, with its unique synthesis of Western subject matter and native forms. It's also a remarkable look at Japan's troubled identity at the moment it emerged as a world power.
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