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Met's "Simon Boccanegra' on simulcast
Domingo and Morris confront eternity
The Met's new production of Verdi's unjustly ignored masterpiece, Simon Boccanegra, had even more impact on a big screen than in the opera house. Imagine Domingo and Morris, in close-up and in the fullness of their maturity, singing beautifully about the end of life.
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Graham's "Any Given Monday' by Theatre Exile (1st review)
The way of the wimp
Bruce Graham purports to create an edgy satire of modern mores, in which an idealistic teacher benefits from the murder of his romantic rival. But Graham is just too soft around the edges. Instead of pushing the envelope of comedy, he stays carefully within its existing borders.
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McNally's "Golden Age' by PTC (3rd review)
McNally's triumph about a triumph
From its first moments, Terrence McNally's Golden Age liberates itself from the fetters of the stage and soars into the magical realm that only theater can make possible.
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Bachfest by Vox Ama Deus at the Perelman
Bach: One conductor's vision
Valentin Radu's idiosyncratic personal vision shapes a winter Bachfest at “Castle Perelman.”
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (4th review)
The meaning in her movements
Elizabeth Streb is a charismatic, kinetic physicist who plumbs the stripped-down elements of dance movement: space, time and especially energy. Her movement “actions” are presented without the baggage of what many expect from dance, such as narrative, metaphoric representations of the body, eye-appealing forms and grace.
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (3rd review)
Movement without meaning
Elizabeth Streb, the eponymous “action architect and choreographer” of STREB, received a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1997. But is Brave a work of genius, or a very ambitious workout?
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (2nd review)
The fear factor
Streb is a dance company that's more about physicality than dance. The choreography aspect simply means the movements have been staged so no one gets hurt. The drama lies in the chance that someone might.
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Villanova Theatre's modernized "Medea'
Medea meets Oprah
You wouldn't want Medea for a nanny, but she's always welcome on the boards if you know how to treat her. But the current Villanova production never does find a coherent way to project Euripides's most famous drama onto a modern stage, and the result is an Oprahfied heroine with a knife in her waistband.
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Richard Goode/Jonathan Biss piano recital (2nd review)
Odd couple
On the surface, Richard Goode and Jonathan Biss have little in common. Yet these pianists played together almost as if they were one person.
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In defense of Jane Austen's prose
Jane Austen is still good in bed
Some folks rejoice at the current spate of Jane Austen film adaptations because they find her novels impenetrable. But if Austen's books are such a slog, why have they remained in print continuously for almost 200 years?
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