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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.
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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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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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