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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Give And Take: The National Ballet of Canada’s Mixed Program

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Svetlana Lunkina, Peng-Fei Jiang and Artists of the Ballet in Concerto . (Photo:Karolina Kuras, Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) A...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Long Distance Operator: The Visionary Writing of Stanislaw Lem

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Stanisław Lem, Kraków, 1971. (Photo: Jakub Grelowsk) As for me, I am busy pointing my telescope through the bloody mist at a mirage of the ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

An African Rite of Spring

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Photo: Maarten Vanden Abeele Within seconds, Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring has you by the throat, not letting go for close to 40 minutes of...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Portrait of the Artist, Part I: The Fabelmans

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Paul Dano, Mateo Zoryan and Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans . The fallback of filmmakers who dramatize some version of their coming-of-ag...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Dylan in Winter, Part I: The Philosophy of Modern Song

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Bob Dylan performing in stage in Los Angeles in 2012. (Photo: Chris Pizzello) I. Each of the 66 chapters in Bob Dylan ’s The Philosophy of ...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Political Theatre for Pre-Programmed Audiences: Parade and Straight Line Crazy

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Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt in Parade at New York City Center. (Photo: Joan Marcus) The 1998 musical Parade , written by Alfred Uhry (book...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Music Men: Almost Famous and The Music Man

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 Casey Likes and Solea Pfeiffer in Almost Famous . (Photo: Neal Preston) Affable and well-acted and entertaining as it is, I’ve always thou...