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"Skyscrapers' at the Art Museum
American icons: Skyscrapers and the way we were
Are skyscrapers “documents of progress,” as the Art Museum's new show suggests? That notion short-changes the almost religious awe in which these modern ziggurats were held not very long ago.
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"Spectacle' at the Art Museum
The curious photographers
“Spectacle” is all about looking—but who is photographing the photographers?
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Opera Company's "Rape of Lucretia' (2nd review)
Raging and raping: Christians and Greeks together
The Rape of Lucretia is the only musical creation I know of that places both the Judeo-Christian and the Greco-Roman traditions on the same stage.
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"Coraline' off-Broadway
The joy of quirkiness
Coraline, based on the young adult novel by Neil Gaiman, is musical proof positive that you don't have to be cynical to be sophisticated.
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"Battle Hymns' at Hidden City Philadelphia (1st review)
Making sense of war: Musicians invade the Armory
The Hidden City Arts Festival presents a remarkable choral and dance response to war that merits comparison with the works of writers like Hemingway and George Orwell.
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Orchestra's season finale
Odd couple: The Orchestra's difficult season ends
The Philadelphia Orchestra ended its season with a program that unprofitably yoked Debussy's meandering composite, Images, with the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. The latter, though unevenly played, sent the musicians home with a standing ovation that, one hopes, will leave them with a final good memory of what has been a difficult year.
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Olive Prince's 'Serenade'
The agony of a lopsided relationship
In ten powerful minutes, Olive Prince's erotic and psychologically perverse Serenade brought racing back some of the most painful (as well as some of the best) moments of my existence— moments that, like the intense experience watching her choreography, I wouldn't replace for the life of me.
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Opera Company's "Rape of Lucretia' (1st review)
Raping Lucretia, raping Europa
The Opera Company of Philadelphia's deft staging of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia is both a welcome revival of a pioneering work of chamber opera and, in the midst of our own current wars, a timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man.
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James Toback's "Tyson'
The dark prince of boxing
Tyson, James Toback's celebrated documentary, explores a life that the boxer himself called “a Greek tragedy.” The former “baddest man on the planet” obviously trusted Toback to the point that he acquiesced in Toback's brilliant cinematic strategy of using Tyson himself as the sole interviewee and narrator of the film.
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"Frost/Nixon' on DVD
Frost/Nixon on DVD: The play vs. the movie vs. the real thing
Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, now available on DVD, works as a tale about two ambitious men confronting each other in search of redemption, absolution, worldly success and ultimate closure.
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