April 20-26, 2006

City Week

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mix picks

On The DL…: Gender Bending Live Art

Been There/Done That: For Those About to Rock

Justify Your Existence: Shag Party, the dancing kind

Just Do It: Vote For Fashion

In The Event That…: Your Faking It Skills Are Camera-Ready

Just Opened: H&M

Just Do It: Run, Philly, Run

art picks

Sprites of Spring: Skittering, fluttering and scampering across the Academy's big stage, an assortment of fairies, fireflies and magical beings courtesy of Pennsylvania Ballet are in residence on Broad Street through the weekend. Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps George Balanchine's tightest, most carefully constructed story ballet. —Janet Anderson

The Kinks Preservation Society: Gene Terruso's desire to make a musical from the songs of The Kinks has outlived the band. —Michael Pelusi

A New Lease on Life: At the end of Tick, Tick … Boom!, the narrator/protagonist, a composer/lyricist named Jonathan, is promised "a great future." —David Anthony Fox

Gene Genie: Theater focuses on individuals, so any play attempting to explore a larger societal issue must make the question personal. —Mark Cofta

Game, Set, Match: Tennis, anyone? Yes, please!—as long as it's played with the wicked brio that opens Act 2 of Hell Meets Henry Halfway. —David Anthony Fox

Back to the Drawing Board: Beware inviting unflattering comparisons, proves the lesson of Design For Loving, a new play by Walt Vail presented by the Vagabond Acting Troupe at the Playground. —Mark Cofta

music picks

Thrilladelphia —Patrick Rapa

Eagles of Death Metal/Rye Coalition —Andrew Parks

Big Satan —Shaun Brady

Caterpillar —Patrick Rapa

The Curtis Symphony Orchestra —Peter Burwasser

movies

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dj nights

DJ Nights: A selective guide to who's spinning what and where. —Sean O'Neal