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Opera Company's "Otello' (1st review)
Otello's unsung heroine
If you see this very capable production of one of the greatest works in the operatic repertoire, I hope you will reflect, as I found myself doing at Sunday's matinee of Otello, on the unsung heroine of this particular tragedy.
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Charles Burchfield in New York (2nd review)
A painter who heard as much as he saw
Charles Burchfield, the less-esteemed peer of Hartley, Hopper, and O'Keeffe, ranks with them as a master of American landscape. Two New York shows, one recently concluded and the other still in progress, make the case for him as an artist of the first rank.
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Friedlander's "America by Car' at the Whitney in N.Y.
Discovering America, trapped in a machine
Lee Friedlander's “America by Car” is a tour of the U.S. and a tour de force of the photographer's art. Each of the 192 black-and-white images in the suite is framed by the interior of the car Friedlander is driving, which makes it a co-participant in the journey and raises subtle questions about the nature of our vision— human and mechanical— and its relation to landscape.
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Lee Hall's 'Pitmen Painters' on Broadway (1st review)
When miners become artists
Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, a play about English miners who learn to paint, contains enough ideas—political and aesthetic—and enough charm to please any crowd, although the second act becomes less charming and more preachy.
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Hollinger’s “Ghost-Writer” at the Arden (2nd review)
Three mysteries in one
Ghost-Writer concerns the mysterious process of literary creation. That's quite a monumental task, but Michael Hollinger handles it so well that the drama flows with energy and wit.
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Collective's "The Duchess of Malfi'
A distant mirror
Four centuries after the English overthrew their absolute monarchy, this gripping portrayal of amorality and deceit among the governing classes begs the question of what we've gained by waiting our turn at the ballot box.
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A composer's intentions (Krantz's "Trio')
What did the composer mean to say? And does it matter?
How much do we need to know when we listen to music that presents a portrait of a family? I posed that nagging question to Lynn Henson, who commissioned Allen Krantz's Trio after a Harrowing ordeal.
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Marina Sirtis with Orchestra 2001
She doesn't sing, but what an actress!
For its season opener, Orchestra 2001 delivered the kind of near miss that an innovative organization has to produce now and then. The main event of the evening was a performance by a guest star who didn't sing a note.
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EgoPo's "Marat/ Sade' (4th review)
Crumbling walls, crumbling authority
Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, the merits of using the Rotunda Sanctuary for Marat/ Sade outweighed its auditory problems: This decaying building proved marvelously effective as an incarnation of a 17th-Century institution and as metaphor for crumbling authority.
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"Madwoman of Chaillot' (2nd review)
The wrong box for Giraudoux
Was The Madwoman of Chaillot a swipe at France's Nazi occupiers? Only in retrospect. Let's lay this myth to rest and consider the play's other virtues.
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