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Richard Goode/Jonathan Biss piano recital (2nd review)
This team is different
Yes, Richard Goode and Jonathan Biss conveyed the requisite precision. But it was the differences between them as artists that raised their recent duo piano recital to a higher level.
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"Coupla White Chicks' by New City Stage (2nd review)
When the audience is the problem
John Ford Noonan's play about two women trying to salvage lives for themselves out of their wrecked marriages offers a forward-looking insight into the shortcomings of sisterhood. The night I attended, it also offered insight into the damage caused by a single boorish audience member.
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Graham's "Any Given Monday' by Theatre Exile (2nd review)
What's a decent husband to do?
Overlook the logical lapses in Any Given Monday. Bruce Graham has delivered a major moral message about how a man must behave to hold his marriage together in an age filled with politically correct lies.
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Dylan at the White House
Dylan at the White House (or was that Shakespeare?)
At the recent White House concert honoring the music of the Civil Rights movement, Bob Dylan again provoked controversy by refusing to hop on any political bandwagon. That's the mark of great artists: They enlarge themselves and enrich their audiences by savoring the world's ambiguities.
Campbell's "The Pride,' off-Broadway
Gay anguish, then and now
Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride is a deeply engrossing play contrasting the closeted gay world of 1958 to the wide-open scene of today. It's enlivened by four fine actors but marred by excessive speechifying.
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Premieres from Orion Quartet and Dolce Suono
Haydn's ghost meets Star Wars
The Orion Quartet and Dolce Suono present two new works that span the gamut from musical farce to starry nights and gentle funeral songs-- just like Haydn did.
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Diane Burko's "Politics of Snow' at Locks Gallery
A change of temperature, on canvas
In “The Politics of Snow,” Diane Burko's painted sequences of the same vista incrementally pace us through the accelerating changes created by rising temperatures, as she charts the gradual disappearance of ice and snow in the face of global warming.
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Philagrafika: Our international print festival
Filling in spaces, lifting spirits
Philagrafika 2010 is the world's biggest print show, and all of it in our backyard. It's here for us to enjoy, savor and possibly even to learn something about the myriad ramifications of printmaking. This is it: the Alpha and Omega of printed art today.
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"Coupla White Chicks' by New City Stage (1st review)
The way we were
Thirty years after this flimsy suburban comedy opened with Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan, A Coupla White Chicks still possesses some value— not for any lasting insight into the feminine psyche or gender relations, but as a reminder of how our perceptions have evolved in 30 years.
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Fritz Lang's "Metropolis,' restored
Metropolis, as Lang intended it
Fritz Lang's futuristic 1927 silent masterpiece, Metropolis, isn't for everyone. But the recent discovery of a missing hour's worth of footage will help untangle some of the film's conundrums.
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