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Mauckingbird’s imaginative, gender-bending staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers a spectacle that the Facebook generation can sink its teeth right into, notwithstanding the limitations of Mauckingbird’s scatterbrained approach to Shakespeare’s text. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By William Shakespeare; directed by Peter Reynolds and Lynne Innerst. Mauckingbird Theatre Company production through September 12, 2010 at Randall Theatre, Temple University, 1301 W. Norris St. (at 13th St.). (215) 923-8909 or www.mauckingbirdtheatreco.org. view full article |
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Music
Why piano students cry
My evening with Miles Davis (memoir)
Frank Loesser’s enduring power
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Music Reviews
Natalie Merchant on tour at the Merriam
Varèse festival in New York
Chris Isaak at the Keswick
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Art
Why so many Jewish artists?
New cultural capital: Tallinn, Estonia
Charles Burchfield at the Whitney in New York
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Art Reviews
‘Ellis Island Ghosts’ at Michener Art Museum
‘Late Renoir’ at the Art Museum (4th review)
Gérôme revival at the Getty in Los Angeles
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Theater
Shakespeare, Shylock, anti-Semitism— and Al Pacino (1st comment)
Early O’Neill and Williams, together in London
The meaning of Havel’s ‘Leaving’ (4th review)
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Theater Reviews
Mauckingbird’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Iron Age Theatre’s ‘Empress of the Moon’
‘La Cage Aux Folles’ on Broadway
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Opera
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 6: ‘Götterdämmerung’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 5: ‘Siegfried’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 4: ‘Die Walküre’)
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Opera Reviews
Opera Company’s ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ (3rd review)
Opera Company’s ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ (2nd review)
Opera Company’s ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ (1st review)
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Dance
The dance season: Nine highlights
Dancing for his life in Rwanda
Alex Ketley: A choreographer’s failure
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Dance Reviews
BalletX Summer program at the Wilma (2nd review)
BalletX Summer program at the Wilma (1st review)
Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
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Cross-Cultural
‘Saturday Night Fever,’ revisited
Julia Roberts and ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
The imam, the mosque and Ground Zero
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Dennis Tafoya’s ‘Wolves of Fairmount Park’
‘Matterhorn,’ a Vietnam novel by Karl Marlantes
Laura Bennett’s ‘Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday?’
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