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Browse This Issue: October 15th, 2009

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Mask Appeal
Robin Rice on Visual Art: Totems and Teenager Project
by Robin Rice
Bonus Web Content
Totemic art for contemporary artists is usually even more personal: self-chosen and particular to an individual. | Their clothing is mostly crumpled and casual but decidedly trendy. Of course — they're teenagers!

Theater Review:
In a Class by Itself
THEATER REVIEW: The History Boys
by Mark Cofta
We walk away heads swimming with ideas, still digesting the play's profound emotional impact.

Theater:
Making History
INTERVIEW: Frank X and Terry Nolen of The History Boys
by David Anthony Fox
Frank X is one of Philadelphia's most distinguished actors — and the Arden is one of our finest theaters. Yet amazingly, The History Boys marks their first collaboration.

Theater Review:
Ho-Hump
THEATER REVIEW: The First Day of School
by David Anthony Fox
The list of really good sex comedies is short, and it doesn't include The First Day of School, which, true to its title, feels like an assignment dispatched in haste by an inexperienced writer.

Kaleidoscope
Laura Marling | Elizabeth Geiger's Wedding Gifts | Modern Family | Aemen Bell

Arts Picks:
Outward Looking/Inward Seeing
Through Nov. 1, free, Muse Gallery, 52 N. Second St., 215-627-5310, musegalleryphiladelphia.com.
by Lauren Seibert
Bonus Web Content
Anne Marble Caramanico's dreamy acrylic paintings and monotype prints could be anything: people, landscape or even light itself.

Grace, or the Art of Climbing
Through Nov. 8, $15-$20, Nice People Theatre Co. at Power Plant Basement, 233 N. Bread St., 267-909-3309, nicepeopletheatre.org.
by Mark Cofta
While the play explores relationships, it also demands climbing's physical challenges.

Pennsylvania Ballet
Oct. 21-25, $24-$129, Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St., 215-893-1999, paballet.org.
by Janet Anderson
Pennsylvania Ballet opens its 46th season with a traditional bow in the direction of ballet genius and company godfather George Balanchine.

Mister, Mister
Through Oct. 25, $20-$25, Quince Productions at Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge St., 215-627-1088, quinceproductions.com.
by Mark Cofta
A "systematizer," Bollin stumbles over his need to document his deeds while pestered by eerily amoral teens who tease him and take his stuff.

ART . Blog Posts
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by Ryan Carey
449 days ago
NBC is facing an interesting moment in the history their perennially dominant Thursday night comedy lineup. They arguably have the 4 funniest »»
by Eric Schuman
449 days ago
More than just the grafting of watch gears and typewriter keys onto modern appliances, Steampunk is a thriving culture of artists, engineers »»
by Jane Cassady
449 days ago
Devoted poet/avid concert-goer/nerd-grrrl extraordinaire Jane Cassady’s weekly horoscopes run in this space every Friday morning (and sometimes »»
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