Editorials
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A few more words about booing
If classical audiences were more demonstrative, maybe the performers would be too, and other thoughts about booing and cheering at concerts. Plus: What the New York Philharmonic can teach Philadelphia (maybe) about filling seats.
Editorials
5 minute read
Dissent about the Lantern's "QED'
Our critic Jim Rutter notwithstanding, Peter Parnell’s QED is indeed dramatic, even if the drama takes place entirely within the protagonist’s head. Transferring that drama from paper to stage is no mean feat.
QED. By Peter Parnell, directed by Kathryn Nocero. Lantern Theater Co. production through December 3, 2006, at St. Stephen’s Theater, Tenth and Ludlow Sts. (215) 829-9002 or www.lanterntheater.org.
QED. By Peter Parnell, directed by Kathryn Nocero. Lantern Theater Co. production through December 3, 2006, at St. Stephen’s Theater, Tenth and Ludlow Sts. (215) 829-9002 or www.lanterntheater.org.
Editorials
2 minute read
Julia Child, Ben Franklin and us
French culture is above all about savoring the roses; American culture is above all about growth and productivity. But it wasn’t always that way, nor must it continue that way.
Editorials
2 minute read
Melissa Hayden's real name; chain restaurants
The late ballerina Melissa Hayden’s career didn’t take off until she discarded her dowdy birth name. What is the lesson here? Also, what can Center City do about the plague of chain restaurants inundating our performing arts district?
Editorials
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'Best of Philly' at the Constitution Center
What was the National Constitution Center thinking when it hosted a panel discussion (July 26) on “Behind the Scenes at ‘Best of Philly’ ”?
Editorials
2 minute read
On beating up Victorians
It's fun to spoof hypocritical Victorians, as Caryl Churchill does in Cloud 9. But where would she be without them?
Plus: Follow-up about Andrea Mitchell's Talking Back.
Plus: Follow-up about Andrea Mitchell's Talking Back.
Editorials
6 minute read
Culture, the suburbs and the Orchestra
Dan Rottenberg replies briefly to (a) Patrick Hazard's take on top-down culture, (b) a suburbanite's lament about traveling to the Ritz, and (c) Dan Coren's concern about the high cost of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Editorials
4 minute read
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Searching for Joe Kluger's successor
The Orchestra's next president must seize the public's imagination, not to mention his own musicians'. Plus four other pieces of unconventional wisdom about the state of orchestras and their boards.
Editorials
7 minute read
Why this new website? Why in Philadelphia? Why
A few words from the editor about the birth of Broad Street Review
Editorials
6 minute read