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A throwback to start the summer at The Mann --- MUSIC
Almost Famous
rocks the stage --- THEATER
All the stage's a world --- THEATER
A fire that only flickers --- THEATER
A sit-com rather than a real comedy --- THEATER
A sad song about the deaths of queens --- THEATER
An Iliad
for our time --- THEATER
Are you a clone? --- THEATER
A colorful Boheme in Philly --- MUSIC
Apartheid revealed by EgoPo --- THEATER
Awake and Sing!
--- THEATER
Amahl returns for a Christmas visit --- MUSIC
A Human Being Died That Night --- THEATER
An unforgettable premiere:
Sky on Swings
--- MUSIC
A new
Carmen,
colorful but tame --- MUSIC
Andrea Chenier
in Barcelona --- MUSIC
Aida
in Spain with new perspective --- MUSIC
Age of Anxiety, Bernstein’s most impressive composition? --- MUSIC
A Quiet Place at the end of Leonard Bernstein’s life --- MUSIC
Ariadne auf Naxos,
a polished gem --- MUSIC
Angela Meade, intimately --- MUSIC
1812 Productions reports on Trump's first year --- THEATER
Auguste Rodin & Albert Barnes --- ART
A major film studio was at Valley Forge --- THEATER
Angels in America
, live from London on movie screens --- THEATER
Anna Karenina
re-imagined by EgoPo --- THEATER
Asian Temple treasures --- ART
Allegiance, from stage to screen --- THEATER
Anthracite football champions --- THEATER
A New Brain: getting better --- THEATER
All-American Youth Orchestra in a time of war --- MUSIC
36 Views, an Asian art mystery --- THEATER
American Still Life on exhibit --- ART
Andy, a "Popera" but is it an opera? --- MUSIC
AVA Boheme features future Met stars --- MUSIC
Any Given Monday you might kill someone --- THEATER
Adam Guettel Keeps Changing Chords --- MUSIC
American Bandstand’s untold story --- MUSIC
Anne Frank as an emerging woman --- THEATER
A Little Night Music: Sondheim in three-quarter time --- THEATER
Angels in America Part 2, reconsidered --- THEATER
Angels in America two decades later --- THEATER
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Billy Crystal back on stage in
Mr. Saturday Night
--- THEATER
Barcelona, great and not-so --- TRAVEL
Bridge over troubled lovers --- THEATER
Becoming Dr. Ruth --- THEATER
Brussels, a delicious under-explored city --- TRAVEL
Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist --- ART
Barnes and Stokowski --- MUSIC
Baby Case:
Making the Baby --- THEATER
Bernstein Centennial continues in Philadelphia --- MUSIC
Braithwaite's backstage stories --- THEATER
Bernstein centennial begins --- MUSIC
Bandstand,
the new American musical --- THEATER
Bull in a China Shop
at a women's college --- THEATER
Blomstedt leads the Philadelphia Orchestra --- MUSIC
BroadwayCon: an inside look --- THEATER
Beautiful: the Carole King musical --- THEATER
Broadway songwriters --- MUSIC
Black Nativity
is joyous holiday entertainment --- THEATER
Bullets Over Broadway --- THEATER
Bandstand,
a Broadway-bound musical --- THEATER
Budapest and a tale of two opera houses --- TRAVEL
Bad Ischl comes alive to the sound of operetta --- TRAVEL
Bach at Leipzig: an imaginative fugue --- THEATER
Bruce Graham's North of the Boulevard --- THEATER
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Creativity thrives in
Tick, Tick...Boom!
at Theatre Horizon --- THEATER
Comedy geniuses return in
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
--- THEATER
Caroline, or Change
back on Broadway --- THEATER
Córdoba's multicultural beauty --- TRAVEL
Come From Away,
the 9/11 musical --- THEATER
Cirque du Soleil: Amaluna --- THEATER
Candide,
not the best of all possible worlds --- MUSIC
Completeness,
about incomplete relationships --- THEATER
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on tour --- THEATER
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies --- THEATER
Camelot
remains compelling --- THEATER
Cold Harbor
-- Guare's journey begins --- THEATER
Come to this Cabaret --- THEATER
Christian Borle is spectacular in
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
--- THEATER
Come From Away,
in the days after 9/11 --- THEATER
Curiosity, in this case, killed the dog --- THEATER
Contemporary art on loan --- ART
Cailliet, mystery man of orchestral music --- MUSIC
Capriccio by Strauss: hot-blooded --- MUSIC
Cold Mountain: an intimate take --- MUSIC
Cirque du Soliel revisits Avatar --- THEATER
Children's Hour, an adult play --- THEATER
Columbus's four voyages.
Yes, four
. --- BOOKS
Can-Can: I love Paris --- THEATER
Cy Coleman's Life: Suddenly Seymour --- MUSIC
Cold Mountain: a bit chilly in Santa Fe --- MUSIC
Chile: Liberty Within Order --- TRAVEL
Cinderella, re-imagined by Rodgers & Hammerstein's team --- THEATER
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Dolly is back where she belongs --- MUSIC
Dancing With the Stars on tour --- THEATER
Dvorak's
Rusalka,
intimate yet dramatic --- MUSIC
Desire Under the Elms
from South Africa --- THEATER
Disney’s
Aladdin
on tour --- THEATER
Dreaming of a new Met Opera --- MUSIC
Desperate Measures
is a surprising hit --- THEATER
Dancing with the stars, in person --- THEATER
Dear Evan Hansen
waving through a window --- THEATER
Daphnis et Chloe's complete music --- MUSIC
Dostoyevsky modernized --- THEATER
Driving Miss Daisy & its history --- THEATER
Disaster! the musical --- THEATER
David Raksin, the face in the misty light --- MUSIC
Diner
gleams with nostalgia --- THEATER
Don Giovanni, who almost gets away with murder --- MUSIC
Disgraced, a play about Muslim American assimilation --- THEATER
Death of a Jewish Salesman --- THEATER
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Egyptians & Israelis: The Band's Visit --- THEATER
Explorers Club: a wacky farce --- THEATER
Elixir of Love, from Santa Fe to Philadelphia --- MUSIC
Exit Strategy for a condemned school --- THEATER
Edwin Forrest, actor & super-patriot --- THEATER
Equivocation: a Shakespeare play that might have been --- THEATER
Eurydice goes to hell in Sarah Ruhl's play --- THEATER
Eakins' historic paintings of doctors in action --- ART
Edna Phillips, the pioneering female orchestral musician --- BOOKS
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Feel inspired by your hotel in Phoenix --- TRAVEL
Falsettos
in a boutique production --- MUSIC
Fiddler on the Roof
in Yiddish --- THEATER
Fiddler on the Roof's
new national tour --- THEATER
Frankenstein -- he's back! --- THEATER
From Paris to Normandy --- TRAVEL
Factory workers in gripping drama --- THEATER
Fun Home
in a fine new staging --- THEATER
Finding Neverland
on national tour --- THEATER
Falsettos
returns, in movie theaters --- THEATER
Fun Home
controversial on tour --- THEATER
French photography masterpieces --- ART
Fairmount Park, where King George's loyalists lived --- TRAVEL
Fiddler on the Roof for our generation --- THEATER
Freedom Theater's long road --- THEATER
Fully Committed, in two towns --- THEATER
Funnyman: a comic's sad life --- THEATER
Firebird complete by Philadelphia Orchestra --- MUSIC
Frank Gehry's spectacular architecture --- ART
FDR's private getaway at Hyde Park --- TRAVEL
Fledermaus: the original Batman --- MUSIC
Faust directed by Capobianco at AVA --- MUSIC
Finn de Siecle, the finite joy of William Finn --- MUSIC
Freud's Last Session was a dramatic one --- THEATER
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Grey House
brings a spooky genre to Broadway --- THEATER
Greenland,
an opera about Nazi propaganda --- MUSIC
Glass & Handel creatively combined --- MUSIC
Gianni Schicchi
and what follows --- MUSIC
Guare’s
Lydie Breeze trilogy
continues --- THEATER
Get Me to the Stage On Time --- THEATER
Gypsy:
musical shows signs of aging --- THEATER
Golden Cockerel (Coq d'Or) revived --- MUSIC
Grand Concourse & the problem of hunger --- THEATER
Gogol's The Nose, face-to-face --- THEATER
Guards at the Taj, in fear --- THEATER
Gloria Estefan's story comes to Broadway --- THEATER
Great Expectations brought to the stage --- THEATER
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Hilarity back on Broadway in
POTUS
--- THEATER
Hangmen
, a menacing thriller --- THEATER
Homer’s epic, re-imagined --- THEATER
Height of the Storm --- THEATER
Handel's
Semele
revived in Philadelphia --- MUSIC
Hadestown,
a unique achievement --- THEATER
Hip Hop on Broadway --- THEATER
Holiday Inn
re-interpreted in Philadelphia --- MUSIC
Harry Potter with the Philadelphia Orchestra --- MUSIC
Hammerstein recalled --- MUSIC
Humans, on two levels --- THEATER
Haydn’s
Seasons
makes a rare appearance --- MUSIC
Hand To God
with different interpretations --- THEATER
Harassment of a desperate single mom --- THEATER
Hamlet, an effective “new” opera --- MUSIC
Hamlet's 150-year overnight musical success --- MUSIC
Hand to God, where sacrilegious puppets take over the stage --- THEATER
Hamlet as a medieval Sherlock Holmes --- THEATER
High Society, too crass, not enough class --- THEATER
Holiday Inn finally comes to the stage --- THEATER
Henry IV and his son, part one --- THEATER
Henry IV: Do we need two Shakespeare plays about him? --- THEATER
Hunchback of Notre Dame: a darker Disney --- THEATER
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It's not wonderful --- THEATER
Iceland, the land of fire and ice --- TRAVEL
Intimate Bernstein tribute by Leonard & Sperling --- MUSIC
In the Heights
visits DC --- THEATER
Ideation,
an unsettling thriller --- THEATER
Indecent:
a classic play deemed obscene --- THEATER
In Transit: the sounds of New York City --- THEATER
Ionesco's Exit the King, contemplating oblivion --- THEATER
Ibsen's A Doll's House in an odd adaptation --- THEATER
Impressionists and the man who made them --- ART
Into the Woods, around a campfire --- THEATER
Incorruptible: Michael Hollinger's medieval farce --- THEATER
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Justice in Delaware --- MUSIC
Jack-o-Lanterns glow in Philadelphia --- THEATER
John Guare at a career summit --- THEATER
John Denver's enigmatic life --- MUSIC
Johan Botha dies --- MUSIC
Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire --- THEATER
Jamaica, re-imagined --- THEATER
Jamaica's
troubled past --- THEATER
Jackie Robinson recalled --- Uncategorized
Jay David Saks goes on record --- MUSIC
Jonathan Larson's life --- THEATER
Jerry Herman, still smiling --- MUSIC
Jewish basketball stars? Don't laugh. --- BOOKS
Jekyll & Hyde musical revised by Frank Wildhorn --- THEATER
Jesse James in vaudeville --- THEATER
Jack Dempsey's comeback --- THEATER
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Kimberly Akimbo
, a heartwarming gem --- THEATER
Ken Ludwig’s tenors return --- THEATER
Killings at The Manor: history repeats --- THEATER
Kurt Vonnegut satirizes militarism --- THEATER
King and I: the best ever --- THEATER
Kiss Me Kate on an intimate stage --- THEATER
Kano art and a family reunion --- ART
King John, the Magna Carta guy, as rendered by Shakespeare --- THEATER
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Little Shop of Horrors
back where it belongs --- THEATER
London, the city for everyone --- TRAVEL
Looking back at
Wozzeck
--- MUSIC
Legally Blonde at the Walnut --- THEATER
Lolita returns --- THEATER
La voix humaine,
reimagined --- MUSIC
Louis Kahn and I --- ART
Lehár’s
Czarevitch
is a gender-bending romance --- MUSIC
Lydie Breeze trilogy concludes --- THEATER
Lost Girls: mesmerizing drama --- THEATER
"Love from Afar" on a sea of inertia --- MUSIC
LaChiusa's extraordinary musicals on record --- MUSIC
Lobby Hero---or snitch? --- THEATER
Love of Three Kings: a buried treasure --- MUSIC
Lulu
and its creator, Alban Berg --- MUSIC
Las Vegas imports Broadway --- TRAVEL
La Bête: innovation versus tradition --- THEATER
Latin American art --- neglected and under-valued --- ART
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Mischief of the Mind at New World Stages --- THEATER
Morissette’s
Jagged Little Pill
opens on Broadway --- THEATER
Mahler's soulful Fifth Symphony --- MUSIC
Mandy Patinkin starts national tour --- MUSIC
Mozart by the Philadelphia Orchestra --- MUSIC
Mud Row
at Peoples Light --- THEATER
Miss Saigon
proves its effectiveness --- THEATER
Midsummer Nights
by Britten --- MUSIC
Marnie's musical premiere --- MUSIC
Manie Sacks, the saint of show biz --- MUSIC
Maine & Nova Scotia on a luxury cruise --- TRAVEL
Mahler's Third, his longest and possibly best symphony --- MUSIC
Midsummer Night at the Arden --- THEATER
Mozart's
Idomeneo
from the Met Opera in HD --- MUSIC
Menuhin at 100 --- MUSIC
Mauritius: a crime drama about rare postage stamps --- THEATER
Machinal, a superb example of Expressionism --- THEATER
Mozart's Magic Flute directed by Julie Taymor --- MUSIC
Maurice Hines tap dancing thru life --- THEATER
Man and Superman: Shaw's provocative philosophy --- THEATER
Measure for Measure inside a morgue --- THEATER
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National Dog Show coming back to Philadelphia suburbs --- TRAVEL
New York, New York
brings Kander & Ebb back to Broadway --- THEATER
Nostalgic hits in the joyous
& Juliet
--- THEATER
Nézet-Séguin conducts contrasting religious pieces --- MUSIC
Neil Simon's
Biloxi Blues
--- THEATER
New Records - Fall, 2017 --- MUSIC
Nat King Cole, recalled dramatically --- THEATER
New Records - Summer 2017 --- MUSIC
New Records - June 2017 --- MUSIC
Non-stop hilarity that “Goes Wrong” --- THEATER
Nabucco: Levine is back in good form --- MUSIC
National Dog Show behind the scenes --- THEATER
Nancy LaMott: still here --- MUSIC
Nerds: Steve Jobs versus Bill Gates --- THEATER
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Only Gold
shines on stage --- THEATER
Our Town
with music added --- THEATER
Oklahoma!
at 75 --- THEATER
Offenbach at 200 --- MUSIC
Once,
better than ever --- THEATER
On the Exhale:
why some people love guns --- THEATER
Old people dance in
Half Time
--- THEATER
One-person theatricality --- THEATER
Otello season-opening new production at the Met --- MUSIC
Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband --- THEATER
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Philadelphia Orchestra brings
The Lion King
to the Kimmel --- MUSIC
Prince of Broadway --- THEATER
Pelléas et Mélisande
casts a spell --- MUSIC
Puccini’s Trittico centennial is celebrated --- MUSIC
Philadelphia Orchestra in a memorable concert --- MUSIC
Peter & the Starcatcher,
pure imagination --- THEATER
Phantom of the Opera
re-imagined --- THEATER
Picasso as an emerging artist, in
Azul
--- THEATER
Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates Paris --- MUSIC
Presidential politics spoofed --- THEATER
Puccini's
Tabarro
resurrected --- MUSIC
Picasso's conflict, experiment and change --- ART
Playing the Assassin
is powerful drama --- THEATER
Peer Gynt: Ibsen transported to Appalachia --- THEATER
Parade, the tragedy by Jason Robert Brown --- THEATER
Philadelphia Phillies colorful history --- BOOKS
Phillies greatest pitching staff, albeit briefly --- BOOKS
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Reimagined classic comes to Philadelphia --- THEATER
Relaxation north of the border in Quebec --- TRAVEL
Rocky
back in Philadelphia --- THEATER
Rent
returns in a flashy production --- THEATER
Renoir father & son at the Barnes --- ART
Revolutionists: liberté, égalité, sororité --- THEATER
Red Herring,
fishing for Commies --- THEATER
Rock and Roll Man
tells a true story --- MUSIC
(R)evolution of Steve Jobs
in its world premiere --- MUSIC
Rodin's many kisses --- ART
Russian opera in authentic Russian style --- MUSIC
Rodgers & Hart reconsidered, or "taken to Hart" --- MUSIC
Romberg remembered --- MUSIC
Rizzo still dominates the streets of Philadelphia --- THEATER
Ragtime --- the making of the musical --- THEATER
Rigoletto at Santa Fe sounds better than it looks --- MUSIC
RCA & Columbia merge: their longplay records no longer play --- MUSIC
Rachmaninoff wrote an opera? --- MUSIC
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Stagecraft mastered at
Life of Pi
--- THEATER
Six
reigns in Philadelphia --- THEATER
Some Like It Hot
, a fresh classic --- THEATER
Singing for Votes --- MUSIC
Sam Shepard's
Fool for Love
--- THEATER
Santa Fe: diversity made it happen --- TRAVEL
Shepard's
Buried Child
--- THEATER
San Francisco: the ultimate libertarian city --- TRAVEL
Shaw’s
Saint Joan
updated --- THEATER
Switzerland's uniqueness --- TRAVEL
She Loves Me,
gentle and nostalgic --- THEATER
Sweat
brings blue-collar problems close to home --- THEATER
Stockhausen’s
Klang
over two full days --- MUSIC
Sing the Body Electric
on stage --- THEATER
Semiramide
returns --- MUSIC
Something's delicious --- THEATER
Spongebob Squarepants, the joy we need --- THEATER
Selling art treasures to the Nazis --- THEATER
Santa Fe Opera 2017 --- MUSIC
Shostakovich's neglected masterpiece --- MUSIC
She Loves Me in HD --- THEATER
Staying up-to-date with election humor --- THEATER
See What I Wanna See, and manufacture your own truth --- THEATER
Sex With Strangers isn't so great --- THEATER
Stephen Schwartz at mid-career --- THEATER
School of Rock: a new Broadway hit --- THEATER
Sinatra's 100th birthday on HBO --- MUSIC
Sinatra 100th birthday tribute on CBS --- MUSIC
Santa Fe, the City Different --- TRAVEL
Something Rotten!
is a fresh treat --- THEATER
Stella and Lou alone in South Philly --- THEATER
Salome removes her psychological veils --- MUSIC
Spring training in Florida --- TRAVEL
Songwriters Sammy Cahn & Julie Styne --- MUSIC
Salome
without the music or veils --- THEATER
Stars of David: a song-cycle about being Jewish --- THEATER
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The Lehman Trilogy
brings captivating history to Philadelphia --- THEATER
Tick, Tick...Boom!
comes to Bucks County --- THEATER
The perfect way to visit San Juan, Puerto Rico --- TRAVEL
The Piano Lesson
, a star-studded hit --- THEATER
The Kite Runner
from the page to the stage --- THEATER
The Wolves, zoomed into your home --- THEATER
The king's favorite woman, revived --- MUSIC
The Children,
a superb & troubling play --- THEATER
The Band's Visit, musically memorable --- MUSIC
The hills are alive in Salzburg for The Sound of Music --- TRAVEL
The Wrong Man
is all right --- THEATER
The making of
Ragtime
--- THEATER
The opera of the future? --- MUSIC
The Temptations,
Ain't Too Proud
--- THEATER
The Few,
facing loneliness --- THEATER
Three Sisters Two,
a sequel to Chekhov --- THEATER
test --- Uncategorized
The True is stronger than fiction --- THEATER
The Nap:
no snoozing here --- THEATER
The craziest Lucia --- MUSIC
Tommy McDonald, football star, & his childhood fan turned sportswriter --- THEATER
Tuesdays with Morrie, on stage --- THEATER
Tosca
with orchestral color --- MUSIC
Traviata
returns to new life at AVA --- MUSIC
Thomas Jefferson and his slave --- MUSIC
The New World,
premiering in Bucks County --- THEATER
TouchTones:
the danger of phone sex --- THEATER
Two composers, one librettist --- MUSIC
The Hero
is notable for its anti-heroic protagonist --- THEATER
Theater With a View presents intimate family drama --- THEATER
TV kids' shows of yesteryear --- THEATER
The King and I
on national tour --- THEATER
Tilson Thomas leads atonal music --- MUSIC
Tom Lehrer
joyfully revisited --- THEATER
Tancredi: revelations in a rare opera --- MUSIC
The Seagull
for theater-goers who have not liked it --- THEATER
The King of Instruments in Philadelphia --- MUSIC
Tristan & Isolde: lost at sea --- MUSIC
This Is the Week: Election Special --- THEATER
The Man behind the Mann --- MUSIC
Tchaikovsky's piano concerto restored --- MUSIC
The invisible hand of money in the Middle East --- THEATER
Tuck Everlasting, and a tough choice --- THEATER
The Sound of Music back on stage --- THEATER
The Symphony of a Thousand's quieter side --- MUSIC
The Women: a serious critique --- THEATER
The Hard Problem: brain or conscience? --- THEATER
Three Maries: When the queen of Romania visited Philadelphia --- THEATER
Tannhauser: obsolescent? --- MUSIC
The Flick
is a most unusual play --- THEATER
The Captive, a pioneering play about a lesbian --- THEATER
The Hairy Ape brought to life by EgoPo --- THEATER
The Academy of Music: unfairly maligned --- MUSIC
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Uncle Tom's Cabin brought to the stage --- THEATER
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Volta, high-voltage return to the past --- THEATER
Vienna: a disturbing festival --- MUSIC
Valley Forge's harshest winter --- TRAVEL
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Walter Dallas, a gentle giant --- THEATER
What's Indecent? --- THEATER
Woody Sez --- THEATER
Written on Skin, indelibly --- MUSIC
Waitress
the musical --- THEATER
Wagner's
Rheingold
with immediacy --- MUSIC
War Stories by Opera Philadelphia --- MUSIC
Wake World: an art-inspired new opera --- MUSIC
William Tell "from out of the past" --- MUSIC
War of the Roses: less nasty this time --- THEATER
Werther and his sorrowful life --- MUSIC
Williams before he was Tennessee --- THEATER
William Finn's overlooked masterpiece --- THEATER
Winslow Homer and the power of the ocean --- ART
Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn comes to Broadway --- THEATER
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Yannick's busy schedule --- MUSIC
