Opera Philadelphia challenges our preconceptions of opera with its O17 Festival
The stillness in the endings for both Bartok’s BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE and John Adam’s DOCTOR ATOMIC at The Kimmel Center this past weekend left me with a clear image for, “all’s fair in love and war.”
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THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption! A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson. 
PlayPenn, Theater, and “A comfortable place for misfits”: Interview with founder Paul Meshejian, Part 1 It’s unfashionable to suggest there’s such a thing as human nature, but we are “Homo narrans”—Man, the story teller. The theater will always... 
COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL: Dance review, part 1 The collective energy of the deep field of Philly dance and visiting artists created a palpable festival atmosphere. 
SOMETHING ROTTEN in Philadelphia: Philly natives return with the touring production Philadelphia natives Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis are returning home for SOMETHING ROTTEN. 
BLOODY MILK (dir. Hubert Charuel): Philadelphia Film Festival review Bloody Milk is a sort of genre-less affair which could best be described as “occupational drama
dressed up like a thriller.” 
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