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Joffred: Know where you're going.

Sport, theater and Lauren Feldman's "Grace'

Climb every mountain

Can't mix sport and theater? The Greeks did it, and so does Lauren Feldman's compelling Grace, in which a troubled young woman literally mountain-climbs her way out of depression before our eyes.
Jim Rutter

Jim Rutter

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Swidey, Greene: Chess, history and Hamlet, too.

Beckett's "Endgame' by EgoPo (1st review)

Not quite the end

Samuel Beckett's Endgame is an enduring play that's been turned on end in a new production by EgoPo. Director Lane Savadove's innovations add new dimensions to a classic work. They also subtract.

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Martin in Geneva, 1928: Words mean something too.

Philadelphia Singers: A lesson in economy

Like Hemingway in music

The Philadelphia Singers have largely abandoned the Baroque and classic choral repertoire to focus on more modern scores. Their first concert this season produced a triumph for the new approach, as well as a four-part lesson in the relationship between music and words.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

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Gonglewski, Russell: Some couples survive, some don't. (Photo: Mark Garvin.)

"Rabbit Hole' at the Arden

Grief lessons

In David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, a decent husband and wife face the indecent horror of the loss of a child and try to deal with a grief that has left them in separate and opposed universes. Jim Christy's thoughtful production respects the play's bleak integrity and its message of chastened hope.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

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Tom Sanders: One last chance?

Musicians and money

The art of the musical deal

No one goes into a musical career for the money, but even passionate musicians need to eat, as I was reminded when I bargained with a dedicated amateur clarinetist named Tom Sanders.
Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley

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‘The Artist and His Mother’: Schmaltz for a buck?

Gorky retrospective at Art Museum (3rd review)

Will the real Arshile Gorky please sit down?

Arshile Gorky manufactured a fake biography and an excess of imitative artwork before he blossomed upon discovering Cubism in the ‘30s. Visitors to his retrospective should ignore the former and focus on the latter.

Anne R. Fabbri

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Maley: A career that never ripened.

Peggy Maley: Hollywood castoff

Ready for my 15 minutes of fame, Mr. DeMille

In The Wild One, Peggy Maley delivered one of the most famous set-up lines in film history. Then she vanished, apparently forgotten forever by everyone, except me.
Bob Levin

Bob Levin

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White (left), Rebeck: Walking a literary tightrope.

Rebeck's "The Understudy' in New York

Actors without audiences

As its title suggests, Theresa Rebeck's pointy comedy The Understudy concerns unappreciated people. Rarely is a comedy this entertaining also so human.
Toby Zinman

Toby Zinman

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Khachatryan: Intimate effect.

Jurowski awakens the Orchestra

The buzz is back

The combination of Vladimir Jurowski's inspired Slavic programming and the exciting young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan generated the sort of intermission buzz that hasn't been heard at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts for a good while.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

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Would you call Carl Nielsen a 'traditional' composer?

The Orchestra's strange new "Collections'

If it's Tuesday, these must be Masterworks

As the result of a survey three years ago, the Philadelphia Orchestra now offers subscribers four “collections” of concerts. But the guidelines for each “collection” seem arbitrary, if not amorphous.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

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