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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Iraq's Modern Past In Baghdad, a gymnasium completed in 1982, suffering the signs of decades of violence, poverty, and ill-executed renovation, has sparked a small preservation movement, reawakening a country to its neglected cultural heritage. 10 Artists You Need To Know In 2012 Thinking In A Foreign Language Leads To Better Decisions: Study 'Romeo And Juliet,' Iraq Style The Flaming Lips Cover The Beach Boys Acts Of Congress Will Be Sold To The Highest Bidder BLOG POSTS Wilborn Hampton: 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' Review: Bring Back Prohibition Who says they don't write Broadway musicals like they used to? With a reshuffled Gershwin playlist, Kelli O'Hara as a bootlegger and Matt Broderick as a Roarin' Twenties playboy, one can only say bring back Prohibition! Bess Rowen: There's a Party Going on Right Here: Festen (The Celebration) at St. Ann's Warehouse I have never seen a show with such temporally uneven acts. But though I'm not sure the intermission, which allows for a scene change, was necessary, I am quite happy that the play defied expectations in this way. Kim Witman: The Don Juan Mirror It seems that when we look at Don Giovanni, what we see are our own cultural obsessions peering back at us. In the late 20th century, we began to see Giovanni increasingly as a man in existential crisis. E. Nina Rothe: Ivana Mladenovic's Turn Off the Lights at Tribeca: An Interview Ivana Mladenovic's Turn Off the Lights is a tribute to the resilience of the Roma people. I caught up with Mladenovic during the and asked her about growing up in Serbia during the war and her inspirations as a filmmaker. David Browning: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? This was the Carnegie Hall debut for soprano Jennifer Rowley and tenor Noah Baetge, likely for mezzo Leann Sandel-Pantaleo and bass Harold Wilson as well. The fact that all four had issues in keeping with the conductor would seem to indict the conductor rather than any of them.

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