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Mauckingbird's "Midsummer Night's Dream'
Shakespeare meets Lady Gaga
Mauckingbird's imaginative, gender-bending staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream offers a spectacle that the Facebook generation can sink its teeth right into, notwithstanding the limitations of Mauckingbird's scatterbrained approach to Shakespeare's text.
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"Saturday Night Fever,' revisited
Should you be dancin'? Saturday Night Fever, revisited
Saturday Night Fever evokes a brief moment in pop culture history: the sexual freedom between the dawn of the Pill and the advent of AIDS. To those of us born to that particular slice of the Baby Boom, this gritty 1977 movie and its buoyant songs often strike a contradictory note.
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Julia Roberts and "Eat, Pray, Love'
Julia Roberts confronts mature womanhood
Eat Pray Love is a forgettable work of escapist fantasy. But its star, Julia Roberts, is evolving in the opposite direction: from bimbo to mature woman with real brains and real-life problems.
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Why so many Jewish artists?
Why so many Jewish artists? The Holocaust connection
Why are there so many Jews in the visual arts? And why now? Is it just a coincidence? Or did the unique experience of the Holocaust engender an unequally unique psyche that looks powerfully inward for self-expression and for an outlet for hidden fears?
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"Late Renoir' at the Art Museum (4th review)
Updating Renoir: Young Woman With Laptop, anybody?
Renoir grasped the poetry inherent in scenes of everyday life. In that case, what would he paint if he were alive today? Where is the artist who can bridge the chasm between technology and art?
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Dennis Tafoya's "Wolves of Fairmount Park'
Crime and redemption, Philadelphia-style
Philadelphian Dennis Tafoya's second crime novel is a twisting journey into the gray, gritty urban demimonde of dope.
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Iron Age Theatre's "Empress of the Moon'
Men conquer, women suffer. So what else is new?
Instead of delving into the remarkable story of a 17th-Century woman who wrote some of the most popular plays of her era, writer-director Chris Braak trots out the usual feminist complaints.
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GérÓ´me revival at the Getty in Los Angeles
Famous in his time: A GérÓ´me revival in Los Angeles
Jean-Léon GérÓ´me, once perhaps the world's most famous artist, plummeted into obscurity in the 20th Century, his work largely relegated to the domain of kitsch. The Getty Museum's revival show hides no faults but reveals a painter of exceptional talent who produced some historically significant paintings amid the dross, and who never merely pandered to his public.
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"Matterhorn,' a Vietnam novel by Karl Marlantes
A not-so-distant mirror
For those of us who lived through the Vietnam War, this powerful and compelling novel triggers haunting memories.
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New cultural capital: Tallinn, Estonia
Free at last: Estonia's cultural spree
After centuries of oppression by everyone from Crusaders to Nazis to Communists, Estonians are free at last to pursue their own destiny. The result is a remarkable cultural outpouring in Tallinn, the capital. I've never seen so many first-rate museums.
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