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"Legacy of Light' at People's Light
Meeting of minds
Legacy of Light follows two brilliant woman scientists living 260 years apart. As a play of ideas, it's not quite up to Shaw or Stoppard, but it's a respectable addition to the genre.
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Yo-Yo Ma at the Kimmel (1st review)
Ma's middle-aged crisis, or: Brahms, where is thy sting?
Yo-Yo Ma delivered beautiful tone but neither bite nor flashes of anger in his confusingly bland Brahms. Brahms wants his Sonata No. 1 to both shout and whisper; Ma chose to sit comfortably somewhere in between.
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Yo-Yo Ma at the Kimmel (2nd review)
How an artist makes a difference
What force could nearly fill Verizon Hall to hear a cellist, even a great cellist, especially on a night when the Phillies were fighting for survival in the National League championship series?
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Peter Conn's "The American 1930s'
America's 1930s, in detail
Penn professor Peter Conn's The American 1930s is a scholarly wonder about a painful period. His perspective is more sociological than literary, and he misses little.
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"Cleopatra' at the Franklin Institute
What becomes a legend most?
Few artifacts survive from Cleopatra's reign, but a show at the Franklin Institute makes the most of what little remains.
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The Met's "Das Rheingold' in HD-Live (1st review)
Ready (at last) for your close-up, Herr Wagner
The Metropolitan Opera's recent HD-Live broadcast of Das Rheingold was a more successful realization of Wagner's dramatic and musical intentions than I could have ever believed possible. The overall result was gripping psychological drama in which Wagner's marvelous music operated subliminally beneath the action, just as Wagner intended.
Jen Childs in "Why I'm Scared of Dance'
Oh, for the life of a would-be dancer
In this original and often charming one-woman autobiographical tour, the multi-talented comedienne Jen Childs reflects on her life as an aspiring dancer who's a tad too short and clunky for the Kirov or A Chorus Line.
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Keith Crowley paintings at Bridgette Mayer Gallery
The music of light on water
Keith Crowley's landscape images convey the instantaneous feel of snapshots taken on the fly.
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Blaming the critics: "Jekyll and Hyde' in Media
Meltdown in Media
I didn't intend to write about the Media Theatre's Jekyll and Hyde, but Jesse Cline left me no choice. This director's greatest gift, it seems, is his talent for turning potential friends into enemies.
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"Macbeth' at the Wilma (3rd review)
A human monster, rendered natural
The remarkable strength of this Wilma production is its clarity of language and action, releasing the power of Macbeth through means that are devoid of histrionics. The clarity also allows us to revisit and better understand the other characters who co-habit the stage with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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