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Merián Soto's "Postcards from the Woods' at Live Arts Festival
Bringing nature indoors
After cavorting outdoors for years, Merián Soto and her dedicated dancers enabled an indoor audience to experience a meditative connection to nature outside.
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"Two Unrelated Plays By Mamet' in New York
Staccato rhythms and male competition, or: David Mamet phones it in
Four plays by David Mamet open in New York this fall, three of them new. Of the first two, School is a lame skit about recycling, and Keep Your Pantheon offers dismaying evidence that the great Mamet isn't above recycling old material himself.
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Beckett's "Happy Days' by Lantern Theater (1st review)
When only words remain
In Lantern's production of Beckett's Happy Days, the remarkable Mary Elizabeth Scallen somehow manages to demonstrate simultaneously both the importance and the irrelevance of words. But what words!
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Orchestra 2001's George Crumb tribute
The revolutionary and his disciples
Drama attends the music of George Crumb— in this case literally, when the Lang Concert Hall's sound system blew out at Orchestra 2001's tribute to his 80th birthday. Not to worry: The acoustic versions were beautiful and plenty loud, as Crumb prefers.
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Pisoni's "Humor Abuse' at PTC (1st review)
Son of Pagliacci
To win the love of his clown father— as well as the audience— Lorenzo Pisoni drives his body through every pratfall in the standard clowning handbook. The result is exhausting.
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Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story' (1st review)
Man with a (heavy-handed) mission
Shooting fish in a barrel, Michael Moore's latest gotcha documentary provides abundant evidence that American capitalism is out of control. Unfortunately, Moore steps on his own feet by repeatedly inserting himself into the drama.
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"The Art of the Steal': The Barnes on film
Wheelin', dealin', stealin': The Barnes dispute on film
The Art of the Steal is an ambitious attempt to relate the saga of the Barnes Foundation from its founding in Merion to its impending move to Center City Philadelphia. Don Argott has wisely chosen to tell it in terms of its principal personalities. It belongs on a short list of documentaries that have spoken truth to power.
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"Hermitage' at Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Life in an urban attic
New York's legendary Collyer brothers hoarded 180 tons of materials in their Harlem mansion by the time of their deaths in 1947. Frederick Anderson's Hermitage offers a sympathetic view of two men who withdraw psychologically as their urban neighborhood changes demographically.
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"Microworld(s)' and "Digital Effects' at Fringe Festival.
Solo acts: Micro to magic
In Microworld(s), the last resident of a Tokyo apartment tower provides a metaphor for the ways our humanity survives within modernity's inhuman structures. In Digital Effects Steve Cuiffo takes the magician's art into the post-modern realm.
Microworld(s), Part 1. Written and performed by Thaddeus Phillips. Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental production for Philadelphia Fringe Festival. September 4-19, 2009 at Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. (215) 413.9006 or www.pafringe.com/details.cfm?id=9067.
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"Annihilation Point' at Fringe Festival
The future is very funny
In The Annihilation Point, the lunatic crew from Time Mender productions offers a hectic array of fast-paced and unpredictable scenes of the future that generate almost continuous laughter.
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