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Browse This Issue: September 23rd, 2010

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Mauck 'Em Dead
With a hefty grant from Temple, a fledgling theater company gets its wings.
by A.D. Amorosi
When Peter Reynolds won Temple University's Provost Seed Grant, it wasn't just a gift given for services rendered.

Arts Picks:
Banned Books Week
Wed., Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

by Eric Schuman
Every September since 1982, bookworms have commemorated how narrow-minded The Man can be by celebrating a host of damn good reads that have either been challenged or banned from public view.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Through Oct. 16, $25-$45, People's Light & Theatre Co., 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, 610-644-3500, peopleslight.org.

by Mark Cofta
The film's 35th anniversary has inspired productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest all over the country, a nice reminder of how Dale Wasserman's play stays much truer to Ken Kesey's novel than the movie.

Theater Review:
Supernatural Selection
Ghost-Writer at Arden Theatre Co.
by Mark Cofta
Hollinger's intimate, powerful work — given a superb Arden Theatre Co. production by director Jim Christy — uses supernatural mystery to explore creative inspiration.

The Good Ol' Days
Curtains at Walnut Street Theatre
by David Anthony Fox
It's a small miracle that Kander and Ebb's Curtains ever made it to Broadway.

Arts Picks:
Days With My Father
Through Nov. 6, free, Gallery 339, 339 S. 21st St., 215-731-1530, gallery339.com.
by John Vettese
"I want to think seriously about what I can accomplish with what's left of my life."

Re-View:
Pots & Paeans
Robin Rice on Visual Art
by Robin Rice
Shows in two adjacent galleries at the PMA's Perelman Building please the eye and refresh the psyche in utterly opposing styles.

Arts Picks:
Reality Check
Through Nov. 18, $10, Brandywine River Museum, Route 1, Chadds Ford, 610-388-2700, brandywinemuseum.org.

by Shaun Brady
Observing people examining the paintings in the Brandywine River Museum's new show is more like watching visitors at a funhouse hall of mirrors than patrons at an art exhibition.

Kaleidoscope
Titus Andronicus | Nigga Files | Swans' "You Fucking People Make Me Sick" | Fourth Wall Arts Salon

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