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Exhibit of the week: Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics
feature The Walters Art Museum’s newest blockbuster is “equal parts art exhibit and science experiment,” said Mary Carole McCauley in the Baltimore Sun.
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Theater: Time Stands Still
feature The four actors who play the main characters in Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still—Laura Linney, Brian D’Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Alicia Silverstone—are “at the to
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Theater: Forgiveness
feature In David Schulner's play, a daughter forgives her father, who raped her, and introduces him to her fiancé.
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Theater: The Miracle Worker
feature Ironically, in this revival of William Gibson's 1959 play, the most potent scenes between Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller are the wordless ones.
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Theater: Passion Play
feature Passion Play imagines the backstage drama behind three very different re-enactments of the last days of Christ.
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Opera: Amelia
feature Amelia is the first work commissioned by the Seattle Opera in almost three decades.
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Johnny Baseball
feature Robert Reale and Richard Dresser’s musical about the 86-year “curse” that kept the Boston Red Sox from winning a World Series Championship is a work that “even a Yankee could love,” said Frank Rizzo in Variety.
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Summer stages: This year’s best theater festivals
feature Shakespeare in the Park; Festival of New American Musicals; Shaw Festival; National Music Theater Conference; East to Edinburgh; Ravinia Festival
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Low Down Dirty Blues
feature Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman’s new jukebox musical “seamlessly traces the full emotional arc of the blues,” said Hedy Weiss in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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The Tony Awards: The year the Oscars met the Grammys
feature The ceremony itself made clear that, these days, Broadway imports its musical sensibility as well as its stars, said David Hinckley in the New York Daily News.
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The Farnsworth Invention
feature The TimeLine Theatre's take on The Farnsworth Invention proves “bracing throughout,” said John Beer in Time Out Chicago.
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Exhibit of the week: Luc Tuymans
feature The Belgian artist’s first American survey brings together more than 70 works from the 1980s to the present.
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Theater: A Steady Rain
feature Keith Huff’s two-man cop drama is breaking box office records thanks to Hollywood action stars Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman.
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William Blake’s World: A New Heaven Is Begun
feature Blake’s delicate and rarely shown watercolor prints are now on display at the Morgan Library in New York.
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