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"Survive!': Exploring the future with Swim Pony
Fasten your seat belt
In Swim Pony's brilliantly executed Survive!, we find ourselves venturing through space to answer an intriguing question: Could we understand our own lives without art but solely through science?
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Early Diebenkorn, Late Monet in New York
Beginnings and endings: Two painters
Richard Diebenkorn's refinement of Matisse and other masters makes him a significant figure in 20th-Century art, and a show of his early work shows him working out a distinctive vocabulary that synthesizes both abstraction and representation. Claude Monet's late paintings from Giverny show a similar process at work, and they rank among the glories of modern art.
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Straus's "The Merry Niebelungs' by Concert Operetta Theater
Siegfried plays the stock market
Whether you love Wagner or loathe him, you'll probably enjoy Oscar Straus's 1904 parody, especially in its new American translation.
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Cavalia: Man and horse in the Meadowlands
Bring on the dancing horses
Who are the more talented performers— people or horses? This two-hour collaboration between highly skilled horses, riders, dancers, acrobats, aerialists, singers, musicians and sound and light designers will make you wonder.
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'Late Renoir' at the Art Museum (1st review)
An old man's nostalgia: Beneath Renoir's schmaltzy period
Renoir's late paintings are the works the contemporary art pros love to hate and everyone else loves. Now we have an opportunity to see almost 80 of them and, perhaps, even change our opinions. Are they really too pretty, too idyllic and conservative? Or are we prejudging before looking at the actual works of art?
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Mithen's "Singing Neanderthals'
They couldn't talk, but boy, could they hum
Archaeologist Stephen Mithen opened up a music-filled box of speculation about the ways humans think, dance, sing and speak. He says we owe it all to our much-maligned Neanderthal ancestors.
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Early O'Neill and Williams, together in London
Spring awakening: Young O'Neill/Young Williams
The British director Laurie Sampson had the brilliant idea of pairing the earliest full-length efforts of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, and directing, cross-casting and producing them in repertory with a unifying set. The effort reveals many intriguing common characteristics”“ as well as the debt that Williams clearly owed to O'Neill.
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Kate Kern Mundie's recent paintings, at F.A.N.
Old school, without apologies
Kate Kern Mundie's style hearkens back to the work of the “Ashcan School” of early 20th Century artists.
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"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' at the Arden
The perils of appeasement
Arden Theatre's adaptation of Jody Davidson's tale about a boy who attempts to appease an incorrigible mouse is a non-stop delight for all ages, laced with gags inspired by the Marx Brothers, Martin and Lewis and Good Dog Carl.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet'
Who needs Shakespeare?
Shakespeare may be history's greatest playwright, but the Pennsylvania Ballet's current production of Romeo and Juliet proves that we don't need a great writer to tell a great story.
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