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Burn Notice
Brat Productions' <i>The Bald Soprano</i> is back and badder than ever.
by A.D. Amorosi
Brat's back — every hour, on the hour. Six actors, 24 performances. No breaks. No kidding.

Theater Calendar
by David Anthony Fox
Gagarin Way | Golden Age | Any Given Monday | Happily Ever After ... | Romeo and Juliet/King Lear/Macbeth/Henry IV, Part I/A Midsummer Night's Dream | When We Go Upon the Sea | August: Osage County | Leaving | Sunday in the Park with George

Visual Art Calendar
by Carolyn Huckabay
Philagrafika: The Graphic Unconscious | While You Were Out | Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris | Marvels and Ciphers | Looking at Animals

Classical Calendar
by Peter Burwasser
Brentano Quartet | Philadelphia Singers/ Relâche/ Orchestra 2001 | Academy of Vocal Arts | Philadelphia Orchestra | Philadelphia Classical Symphony | Curtis Symphony Orchestra | Network for New Music

Jazz Calendar
by Shaun Brady
Circulasione Totale Orchestra | Grant Stewart/Jeremy Pelt | McCoy Tyner Quartet | Gerald Veasley | Radical Jewish Music Festival | Donny McCaslin | Art Ensemble of Chicago | Sofía Rei Koutsovitis | Chris Speed's Yeah No | Danilo Perez | Kenny Garrett | Chris Potter Underground | Giuseppi Logan Quartet | Matt Mitchell's Central Chain | Organ Jam

Worlds Collide
Miro choreographs a sisterhood of the traveling dance.
by Lauren F. Friedman
The two realized that the many parallels between their lives could be fertile ground for creative collaboration. They were born the same week; they started studying classical dance at the same time; and several years ago, they both began to focus on contemporary performance. These dovetailing paths form the basis of How Am I Not Myself?.


Next!
Our resident prognosticator foretells the sound of Philadelphia 2010.
by A.D. Amorosi
We can no more predict what'll be on our plates than what'll be on our playlists. Still, you can't help but eye up the spiciest meatballs ahead of time.

Roots Calendar
by Mary Armstrong
Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys | International Guitar Night | Gina Sicilia | Sweet Honey in the Rock| RUNA | Los Lobos plus Leo Kottke | King Sunny Ade | Music from the Crooked Road

Rock/Pop Calendar
by Patrick Rapa
MC Lyte/Big Daddy Kane/Chubb Rock| Lady Gaga | Ruder Than You | Mariah Carey | Slayer/Megadeth/Testament | Welcome to My Face | Mos Def | St. Vincent | P.O.S. | Jay-Z | Air | Joanna Newsom | The XX/JJ | Japandroids | Vampire Weekend | Wilco | Screeching Weasel

Movies Calendar
by Molly Eichel
The White Ribbon | The Last Station | Shutter Island | The Art of the Steal | Alice in Wonderland | Greenberg | Clash of the Titans | Iron Man 2 | Robin Hood | Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps | Prince of Persia: Sands of Time | Toy Story 3

Dance Calendar
by Janet Anderson
River North Chicago Dance Co. | Streb | New Edge Mix | Black Grace | Pennsylvania Ballet | Jeanne Ruddy Dance | BalletX | Philadanco | Bad Boys of Dance