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Laurent Cantet's 'Heading South'
Here’s a plot with no hope but a tawdry ending: Three ladies of a certain age go shopping for sex in late-‘70s Haiti and get both more— and less— than they bargained for. Audiences get less.
Heading South (Vers Le Sud). A film directed by Laurent Cantet. Playing at the Ritz at the Bourse, Fourth and Ludlow Sts. (215) 925-7900.
Heading South (Vers Le Sud). A film directed by Laurent Cantet. Playing at the Ritz at the Bourse, Fourth and Ludlow Sts. (215) 925-7900.
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What price admission to the Barnes?
Hefty admisssion increases are the new order of the day at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum. Derek Gillman, new chief of the Barnes Foundation, may be tempted to follow suit. Here's one hard-nosed reason why he shouldn't.
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Chamber music lovers' alert
Heads-up for chamber music lovers: Two dates to circle for next season
If you’re looking for an opportunity to hear some of the greatest chamber music masterpieces— works that are much too rarely performed— here are two dates to circle on your calendar in 2007.
My problem with Denyce Graves
The celebrated mezzo-soprano lacks the magnetic star quality that seizes an audience by the throat, as she demonstrated yet again in a guest appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Music Center.
Denyce Graves with the Philadelphia Orchestra. At Mann Music Center, July 19, 2006. www.philorch.org.
Denyce Graves with the Philadelphia Orchestra. At Mann Music Center, July 19, 2006. www.philorch.org.
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Alex Katz at the Pennsylvania Academy
When it comes to telling us what life is like in the here and now, this is the real thing. See this exhibit and banish the cobwebs of pseudo nostalgia created by other recent museum exhibitions in town, such as you-know-whose.
“Alex Katz in Maine.” Through Sept. 3 at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts. www.pafa.org
“Alex Katz in Maine.” Through Sept. 3 at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts. www.pafa.org
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How Andrew Wyeth manipulated me
The Art Museum’s recent Wyeth exhibit moved my wife and me to tears. Only upon later reflection did we conclude that we’d been conned. From the audio tour to the paintings themselves, the enterprise was characterized above all by the art of calculation.
“Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic.” March 29- July 16, 2006 at Philadelphia Museum of Art Dorrance Galleries, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street. www.philamuseum.org.
“Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic.” March 29- July 16, 2006 at Philadelphia Museum of Art Dorrance Galleries, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street. www.philamuseum.org.
'The Lion King' & 'Cirque du Soleil'
The Lion King offers something for grownups as well as kids: The rich and accessible texturing of Garth Fagan’s choreography. At Cirque du Soleil, choreographer Debra Brown welds disciplines together into a flowing movement narrative string that provides more than mere breathers from the show’s pyrotechnic spectacles.
The Lion King. Choreography by Garth Fagan. At the Academy of Music through September 10, 2006.
The Lion King. Choreography by Garth Fagan. At the Academy of Music through September 10, 2006.
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The great Barnes shell game
If the Barnes Foundation failed to make a go of it on the Parkway, it could drag down the Art Museum, whose attendance revenues already lag. So why do the key players in the Barnes move seem unconcerned by the daunting financial projections? Is it possible that the Barnes’s fund-raising campaign itself is a shell game created to mask the real intent of the players: to capture the permanent gallery collection for the Art Museum itself?
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Peregrine Arts? 'Deadly She-Wolf'
The plot convolutions need streamlining, and the narration needs to be better paced with the action sequences, but this work of dance theater is an involving morality tale that deploys thrilling Samurai swordfights and martial arts exhibitions, as well as a score that's involving on every level.
Deadly She-Wolf Assassin At Armageddon. Dance-theater directed by Thaddeus Squire for Peregrine Arts. June 24-25 at
Mandell Theater, Drexel University.
Deadly She-Wolf Assassin At Armageddon. Dance-theater directed by Thaddeus Squire for Peregrine Arts. June 24-25 at
Mandell Theater, Drexel University.
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The trouble with gay theater
Thanks in part to a profusion of brilliant gay playwrights, the straight world’s Age of Ignorance about the gays and lesbians among us is rapidly drawing to a close. That’s good news for civilized society but bad news for gay playwrights themselves, since gay-on-gay relationships are inherently less dramatic than the eternally mysterious dance between men and women.
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