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"The Persians' at People's Light
A 2,500-year-old play for all seasons
Ellen McLaughlin’s The Persians is a mesmerizing event for anyone interested in the constancy of human relationships and universal reactions to power.
The Persians. By Ellen McLaughlin; directed by Jade King Carroll. Through October 19, 2008 at People's Light and Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Rd, Malvern, Pa. (610) 644-3500 or http://www.peopleslight.org.
The Persians. By Ellen McLaughlin; directed by Jade King Carroll. Through October 19, 2008 at People's Light and Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Rd, Malvern, Pa. (610) 644-3500 or http://www.peopleslight.org.
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Baseball or Beethoven?
Baseball or Beethoven?
My dilemma resolved
Our music critic confronted a painful choice: The concert hall or the ballpark? Then Jimmy Rollins solved the dilemma for him.
Leipzig: The heady air of freedom
Leipzig: No longer a loser, or:
The freedom to be foolish
Leipzig took some of the meanest strokes of the late unlamented German Democratic Republic. What a difference a decade can make when such people awaken.
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Sonata-form, Part 9: The augmented sixth
Sonata-form, Part 9: Beethoven's miraculous device, the augmented sixth
In Part 9 of his series on sonata-form, Dan Coren discusses one of the most sophisticated devices available in the toolkit of classical harmony: “For me, hearing a dominant seventh become an augmented sixth is one of the miracles of the natural world, something akin to seeing a chameleon change color.”
Thomas Chambers paintings at Art Museum
America's forgotten first modern
Thomas Chambers was an itinerant artist who traveled Jacksonian America's back roads, offering his works for sale in second-rank cities and prosperous towns. Yet his images corkscrew their way into your brain and remain there.
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Scrap's "Tide' at Fringe Festival (2nd review)
Energy vs. environment on South Street
In Isaiah Zagar's mosaic garden on South Street, dancers perilously climbed and danced off walls of embedded bottles and ceramics in the early evening, when subtle lighting added a mysterious glow to the performance.
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React/Dance's South Philly Tour, at Fringe Festival
Beyond gentrification's reach
React/Dance, led by Jacelyn Biondo and Kristen Shahverdian, took its dancers and audience on a tour of South Philly, with nary a chic restaurant or much of a sign of gentrification in sight.
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"The Giant Squid' at Fringe Festival
Science of the absurd
In a brilliant and very funny faux science lecture demonstration, the “class” discovers the life, times and sex life of a 600-ton squid that weighs "the same as the Norwegian Parliament."
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"Car' at Fringe Festival
All the world's a garage
In Car, director/choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace took audiences of three or four in a car ride within a parking garage— an ambitious, aggressive and sometimes violent experiment.
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