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...lifts into the air. As the music builds, so does the emotion and intricacy of the steps until the scene ends with Tatiana sending her letter to Onegin. Larissa Ponamarenko is a beautifully delicate Tatiana who in each lift seems to be wafted like a feather on a breath...
...another grand, richly decorated room of this quaint museum, one is instead greeted inside by white walls and pages upon pages of text by each of the few paintings exhibited. The small room reserved for the special exhibition space seems like another world compared with the elegant colonnades and breath-taking courtyard left behind...
Exiting the gallery is like a breath of fresh air. Mystery and wonder are once again lurking at every corner and there's not a white wall in sight. There is playfulness in the compositions and questions popping up everywhere; the art collection becomes fun again...
...Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Here he might be a Henry V who's gone just this side of bonkers." The movie is filled with outstanding moments, but if there's a lapse, it's in the central performance. "Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster," says Corliss. "But he can't so easily make it poetic. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger...
...Beckett Festival. For Samuel Beckett, life was a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt. But no event this year had more artistic vitality than the New York City staging by Dublin's Gate Theatre of 19 Beckett works--from the 40-second Breath to the tour-de-force Happy Days, with the great Rosaleen Linehan buried up to her wit's end in sand and self-delusion...