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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Nutcracker': Three generations
To see with the eyes of a child
At what age should you introduce a child to The Nutcracker? And do you take her for her benefit, or yours?
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Wharton Esherick: American original
Innocence or experience? The man who refused to choose
Wharton Esherick, the dean of American craftsman, was a renaissance man who defied pigeonholing in an age of narrow specialists. His continuing coming-out party has been remarkable for those who don't know his work, and plain gratifying for those who do.
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"Driving Miss Daisy' in New York
Pride and prejudice in the emerging South
Why spend money on seats that cost many times the price of the DVD? To see three of the finest actors of our times share a stage and work their own particular magic on Alfred Uhry's classic.
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"The Great Game: Afghanistan' in New York
One evening in Afghanistan (that lasts 168 years)
In 12 short plays lasting more than seven hours, this unique “total immersion” production provides a vividly dramatic and crucial context for understanding Afghanistan.
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Spanish drawings at the Frick Museum (2nd review)
Draughstman with a conscience
For centuries past, many great artists expended their sense of compassion on the Man of Sorrows. For Goya, clearly, that was not good enough.
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Degas and Lichtenstein at the Morgan in N.Y.
Consummate master meets satiric rebel
Degas was a great and punitively fastidious voyeur. The gleefully rebellious Roy Lichtenstein, by contrast, hides his own eroticism behind the deadpan humor of a Jack Paar.
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Theatre Horizon's "Very Merry Xmas Carol'
Scrooge meets Frosty the Snowman
We often hear about plays intended for audiences of all ages, but this broad satire of A Christmas Carol is a rare one that really works across a wide spectrum.
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"The Gross Clinic' restored (2nd review)
The Gross Clinic restoration revisited: What did Thomas Eakins really want?
I feel the greatest respect for the dedication and effort that went into the Art Museum's restoration of The Gross Clinic. But the fact remains: We still don't have Thomas Eakins's painting here.
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Piffaro's Renaissance Christmas
Pagans and Christians on common ground
On a single Christmas program, Piffaro managed to combine our mix of pagan rite, Christian holy day and All-American party-time.
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Jazz pianist Trudy Pitts: an appreciation
In sushi heaven with Trudy Pitts
What defines a musical treasure? For me, it was the pleasure that the jazz pianist and organist Trudy Pitts brought to many a weekend evening and Sunday brunch.
