Hollis Heichemer’s Imminence exhibition at the Gross McCleaf Gallery presents 16 works by the artist – the majority on Mylar, two on canvas.
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Category: Reviews
Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
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WILDE TALES (Quintessence): Where the WILDE things are
Oscar Wilde once wrote to a friend that his two books of fairy tales were intended “partly for children and partly for those who have…
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[book review] MAD TO LIVE: Randall Brown’s Literary machines of compression
Flash fiction has established itself as a literary genre whose popularity only grows as our attention span shrinks
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BORTLE 8 (Tiny Dynamite): Set the controls for the heart of darkness
Chris Davis’s imaginative one-man play gets a deservedly professional staging as part of Tiny Dynamite’s A Play, A Pie, and A Pint series
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GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER (Moscow Ballet): Dance review
The Moscow Ballet delivers all that is expected from a first-rate Nutcracker, but there are no surprises.
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THE CAROLS (1812 Productions): Ghost of past holiday movies brought to comic life
A great entertainment present for Philly’s Christmas present.
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George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents
It uses the same stage, the same music, and the same settings as previous years, but this year’s NUTCRACKER is even more convincing and more magical than before.
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THIS WONDERFUL LIFE (Act II): Every time a bell rings…
Tony Braithwaite re-enacts a holiday film classic in Act II Playhouse’s THIS WONDERFUL LIFE.
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PARSONS DANCE (NextMove DANCE): Modern technology meets dance
The repertoires PARSONS DANCE present at the Prince have clear themes and stories, yet remain enigmatic and abstract.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (PAC): A mingled web well woven
PAC’s current production confirms its reputation as the best adaptor of classic works.
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A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD (Arden Children’s Theatre): Another year with frog and toad
The simple tricks of the stage awe an audience of CGI-era children, showing that even something as normal as friendship can be magic.
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TWO WALKENS (Miniature Refrigerator Operator): Finding Christopher Walken, finding us
Meehan and Collins use convincing Christopher Walken impressions in an intriguing look at how the fantasies of popular culture provide escape from our lives while they shape them.
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BECOMING AN IMAGE (PAFA): Intimacy and isolation in the dark – Cassils at PAFA
There is a strange, uncomfortable mix of intimacy and isolation at play when a group of people are thrust into total darkness together.
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ANTAGONYMS (Curio): What are any of us but destructive dualities
The messiness in Rachel Gluck’s debut play is what make it most lifelike. In the end, what are any of us but destructive dualities, fighting between our desires and our own self-interest?
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A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES (Walnut Street): 60-second review
Written by Welshman Dylan Thomas in the 1950s, A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES is every nostalgic Christmas trope with song thrown in, and it’s totally delightful.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY (People’s Light): Festive wake-up
The Grimmish fairy tale kingdom is transformed to Paoli Shoals, a town depressed by the collapse of a once-thriving recording industry
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RUMORS (Allens Lane Theater): 60-second review
Noel Hanley’s masterful treatment of Neil Simon’s RUMORS exemplifies a farce done right.
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HANDLE WITH CARE (Montgomery Theater): 60-second review
HANDLE WITH CARE is brilliantly seasoned with humor—the type found when differing cultures collide.
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JEAN & TERRY (FringeArts): A mystery of the heart
What exactly is the relationship between Jean and Terry?
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