PRINTED MATTER: CP Arts + Entertainment, March 18

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PRINTED MATTER: CP Arts + Entertainment, March 18

POSTED: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 9:30 PM

Filed Under: Printed Matter

Here's what you'll miss if you don't pick up a City Paper this week:

philadelphiatheatrecompany.org

FEATURES!

A.D. Amorosi chats with sultry-voiced megastar Kathleen Turner, who'll play the titular role in Philadelphia Theatre Co.'s upcoming production of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Says the actress: "I always tell myself I'd like to do something easy and soft ... but those roles never attracted me. I don't care for roles where women are victims."
Mark Cofta reviews Language Rooms (about post-9/11 life for Arab-Americans), onstage at the Wilma Theater through April 4. The verdict? "Some scenes seem unnecessary, and the characters and issues walk a thin line between violence and absurdity ... but [playwright Yussef] El Guindi's ambitions are impressive."
Shaun Brady reviews Mother in this week's edition of Flick Pick. Dealing "deftly in inconsistencies, in characters and tone," it's a film that "becomes a slapstick comedy, and both a melo- and psycho-drama without ever conceding its whodunit identity."

COLUMNS!

Full Exposure heads to the Big Apple, where John Vettese waxes photographic on Philly-based Megawords' showcase at NYC's Printed Matter gallery (thanks for the headline idea, Printed Matter gallery!).
Suite Spot shouts out the Academy of Vocal Arts, which celebrates 75 years of opera-making next Wednesday. Says Peter Burwasser: "It's a perfectly appropriate treat for a major anniversary.

AND THEN THERE'S ...

Album Reviews of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' Brutalist Bricks, Emma Pollock's The Law of Large Numbers, Seabear's We Built a Fire, Gorillaz's Plastic Beach and Acrassicauda's Only the Dead see the End of the War
Arts Picks on Kun Yang Lin/Dancers, SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance and Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream
Kaleidoscope quick hits on Miro Mash-Ups, Shut Up & Dance, Little Dragon and Drive-By Truckers
Movie Shorts on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Neil Young Trunk Show, The Runaways and The Secret of the Kells
Music Picks on Fruit Bats, Air and Joanna Newsom

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