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"The Scottsboro Boys' on Broadway (1st review)
Two cheers for the minstrel show
Those Broadway pickets who object to the minstrel format of The Scottsboro Boys miss the point. This musical tells a disturbing story of racism through a device that's racially charged, and also very entertaining.
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Lesa C. Lim at F.A.N. Gallery
A subtle fragrance
Lesa Chittenden Lim deals in a sort of visual perfume. It's a very subtle fragrance— a harmony of colors, the lightning strike of a line across the paper's surface.
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Pistoletto: '60s survivor at the Art Museum (2nd review)
The artist as social visionary
Can art change the world? Michelangelo Pistoletto— equal parts artist and activist— is determined to keep trying, even at age 77.
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Lantern Theater's "Uncle Vanya' (2nd review)
The landed gentry, awaiting extinction
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is, like his other works on turn-of-the-20th-Century Russia, a comedy that breaks the heart. It's well served in the Lantern Theater's current production.
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Orchestra 2001: From China to Scotland
Chinese visions, highland memories
Orchestra 2001 presented a globetrotting program that bridged the divide between entertainment and art while it linked the Eastern and Western musical traditions.
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"Kaidan Insuto' by Daniele Strawmyre's readySetGo
Japanese ghosts in Kensington
In a suitably ghostly abandoned warehouse in Kensington, Daniele Strawmyre and her readySetGo dance company presented Kaidan Insuto, an engrossing performance installation work based on ghost tales from 17th-Century Japan.
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Arcimboldo, 16th-Century Surrealist, in Washington
Surreal before his time
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was one of the most imaginative artists of all time. His weirdly striking “portraits” of fruits, flowers, fish and other creatures tell stories of the discovery of the natural world in the 16th Century.
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Bourgeois morality tales: "Traviata' vs. 'Lulu' (3rd review)
When the opera makes no sense, try reading the book
Verdi's La Traviata and Berg's Lulu seem worlds apart sonically and dramatically, but they share a vision of the bourgeois world in which an untrammeled female temptress is sacrificed, in one case on the altar of respectability and on the other to Jack the Ripper's knife. Now, where is the composer who'll do justice to the Age of Madoff?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Gatz' in New York
The power of many, many, many words
The entire Great Gatsby, read word for word on stage aloud, in the course of seven hours plus a dinner break? Yes— and it's one of the most valiant coups de théâtre I've ever seen: a stunning theatrical feat of virtuosity and sheer audacity.
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Herbert Gans imagines America in 2033
An academic envisions a future he won't see
As its title suggests, my old colleague Herbert Gans's latest book is a hopeful and engaging imagined “history” of the first third of the 21st Century. It begins like a novel and ends as a series of clearly stated position papers on the issues that made George W. Bush's presidency such a tragic American aberration.
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