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The Broadway musical Spring Awakening arrived trailing a slew of awards (including the Tony for Best New Musical of 2007). But this staging amounts to a cartoon version of Frank Wedekind’s landmark play about the repressed adolescence in 1890s Germany. Spring Awakening. Book and lyrics by Stephen Sater, based on the play by Frank Wedekind; music by Duncan Sheik; directed by Michael Mayer. June 23-28, 2009 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Sts. www.kimmelcenter.org/news/item.php?item=2009-03-18 view full article |
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Music
Michael Jackson and his demons
Chamber Orchestra turns cautious
My mother’s greatest gift
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Music Reviews
Dolce Suono’s ‘New Voices’
Philadelphia Orchestra’s Berlioz Requiem
‘Battle Hymns’ at Hidden City Arts Festival
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Art
Art Museum’s admission hike
Bruce Nauman at the Venice Biennale
The New Barnes: Our Potemkin Village (2nd comment)
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Art Reviews
‘Legacies’: The future at Pennsylvania Academy
George Romney’s living portraits
‘Skyscrapers’ at the Art Museum
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Theater
The storm over Caryl Churchill’s ‘Seven Jewish Children’
‘Jihad Jones’ and Arab stereotypes
Theatrical readings, and where to find them
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Theater Reviews
‘Spring Awakening’ at the Academy of Music (1st review)
‘Spring Awakening’ at Academy of Music (2nd review)
‘Coraline’ off-Broadway
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Opera
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 5: ‘Siegfried’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 4: ‘Die Walküre’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 1)
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Opera Reviews
Opera Company’s ‘Rape of Lucretia’ (2nd review)
Opera Company’s ‘Rape of Lucretia’ (1st review)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 3: ‘Das Rheingold’)
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Dance
Scrap’s ‘Tide’ at Fringe Festival (2nd review)
React/Dance’s South Philly Tour, at Fringe Festival
‘Car’ at Fringe Festival
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Dance Reviews
Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘La Sylphide’ (2nd review)
Olive Prince’s ‘Serenade’
Jaamil Kosoko’s ‘Virus’ at UArts
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Cross-Cultural
On being a Twit
How I became a writer: a 1960 memoir
One woman’s quest for peace and quiet
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Hidden Cities Arts Festival
James Toback’s ‘Tyson’
‘Frost/Nixon’ on DVD
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