April 20-26, 2006
City Week
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mix picks
On The DL…: Gender Bending Live Art
Been There/Done That: For Those About to Rock
Justify Your Existence: Shag Party, the dancing kind
Just Do It: Vote For Fashion
In The Event That…: Your Faking It Skills Are Camera-Ready
Just Opened: H&M
Just Do It: Run, Philly, Run
art picks
Sprites of Spring: Skittering, fluttering and scampering across the Academy's big stage, an assortment of fairies, fireflies and magical beings courtesy of Pennsylvania Ballet are in residence on Broad Street through the weekend. Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps George Balanchine's tightest, most carefully constructed story ballet. —Janet Anderson
The Kinks Preservation Society: Gene Terruso's desire to make a musical from the songs of The Kinks has outlived the band. —Michael Pelusi
A New Lease on Life: At the end of Tick, Tick … Boom!, the narrator/protagonist, a composer/lyricist named Jonathan, is promised "a great future." —David Anthony Fox
Gene Genie: Theater focuses on individuals, so any play attempting to explore a larger societal issue must make the question personal. —Mark Cofta
Game, Set, Match: Tennis, anyone? Yes, please!—as long as it's played with the wicked brio that opens Act 2 of Hell Meets Henry Halfway. —David Anthony Fox
Back to the Drawing Board: Beware inviting unflattering comparisons, proves the lesson of Design For Loving, a new play by Walt Vail presented by the Vagabond Acting Troupe at the Playground. —Mark Cofta
music picks
Thrilladelphia —Patrick Rapa
Eagles of Death Metal/Rye Coalition —Andrew Parks
Big Satan —Shaun Brady
Caterpillar —Patrick Rapa
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra —Peter Burwasser
movies
dj nights
DJ Nights: A selective guide to who's spinning what and where. —Sean O'Neal
