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0 ithe linquiter 1 TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2017 1 PHILLYCOM 1 THEATER BEAT Rev Shakes strikes again! Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., Revolution Shakespeare descends on Brewery ARS, 1927 W. Passyunk for the Rev Shakes 2017-18 season revels. Titled 1 All-Natural Summer Honey, it's an evening of conviviality and theater. A $40 ticket includes a JOHN TIMPANE beer, munchies, and Jtimpane performances from past and future RevShakes works. Check it out at revolutionshakespearaorg.

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Nice work, gents! 'Oslo' awesome. For Father's Day, my adored spouse took me to see J.R. Rogers' Oslo, developed in part here at Play Penn on South Broad Street, and, I must say, it won that best play Tony for a reason. Seldom have I heard an audience so abuzz when lights came up for the break. Not everyone's cup of tea, but neither is tea.

May it play here soon. U2 silhouetted at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday. The band is on tour playing their 30-year-old album "The Joshua Tree" in its entirety. YONG KIM Staff Photographer CONCERT REVIEW 'HERE WE STILL ARE' 44'144 1, 1 U2 fired up 50,000 fans on the Joshua Tree tour Sunday. "Oslo" by J.T.

Rogers is deserving of its best play Tony Award. I CHARLES ERICKSON insisting that in a world torn by strife, music can be will be a unifying force. "How long must we sing this song?" he sang, while insisting "Tonight, we will be as one." Three other non-Joshua Tree songs followed: "New Year's Day," "Bad" before which Bono spoke of twin scourges plaguing American cities (heroin and nationalism) and the hortatory Martin Luther King Jr. tribute "Pride (In the Name of Love)." With that, we were into the The Joshua Tree, the obsessedwith-America album that turned U2 into a stadium-filling attraction all over the world. Text from the Declaration of Independence liner notes of America," according to Bono) and King's "I Have a Dream" speech were shown on the video screen, and the singer spoke of "the America we fell in love with 30 years ago" as "a place of community and See 'JOSHUA TREE' on C6 By Dan DeLuca MUSIC CRITIC Before U2 got around to playing their 30-year-old album The Joshua Tree on Sunday night beneath a starless sky at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia, the Irish rock band fired up the fervent fans in attendance with four songs even older than that.

As another Irish band's song "The Whole of the Moon," by the Waterboys pumped through the crowd, dressed-inblack U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. strode to his kit on an auxiliary stage that extended well into the crowd and beat out the martial intro to "Sunday Bloody Sunday," from the 1983 album War. One by one, Mullen was joined by his bandmates guitarist the Edge, bass player Adam Clayton, and, of course, lead vocalist and rock-and-roll evangelist Bono, now as always Immortalized at 8 with a scientific name Speaking of Play Penn Support new plays! Fresh from the dizzying success of Oslo, Play Penn has announced its Summer Conference lineup for July 11-30. Culled from 800-plus eager applicants, six plays go into development with casts including great Phi Ily actors (Mary Tuomanen, Akeem Davis, Joliet Harris, Jered McLenigan) and directors, and then, in one of the summer's great entertainment values, two free public readings of each play. Yes, I said free.

I'm planning to go see some; you? Here's the lineup. I'll follow each title with the dates for the public readings (all at the Drake). Beat the rush and see a couple: Hard Cell, by Brent Hashem Askari (8 p.m. July 18 and 8 p.m. July 28); Galilee, by Christine Evans (5 p.m.

July 18 and 8 p.m. July 27); Thirst, by C.A. Johnson (5 p.m. July 19 and 8 p.m. July 29); The House of the Negro Insane, by Terence Anthony (8 p.m.

July 20 and 2 p.m. July 30); With, by Carter William Lewis (5 p.m. July 20 and 5 p.m. July 30); and penny candy, by Jonathan Norton (8 p.m. July 19 and 4 p.m.

July 29). Other readings, monologues, and seminars also are planned. See more at playpennorg tzte 7,, .4116, der OW 1 'Are 1)01 IL III Illir I 31114PS" .0 110111-'' 4 P. lit .,1. Nss, branch of zoology dealing with fish.

Sabaj, a scientist with a casual air (his de facto uniform is jorts and a polo shirt that reads "Catfish Study Group is trained in taxonomy the field concerned with identifying species, describing them, and giving them names. For years, Sabaj worked on the All Catfish Species Inventory, a project with a mission as impossibly simple as its name: to identify every species of catfish on the planet. Since age 2, Sofia, an elfin ichthyophile with a mop of brown locks, has accompanied her father on research trips across the world, collecting catfish to bring back to Phi Ily. Sabaj recently christened See CATFISH on C6 By Tarp ley Hitt STAFF WRITER On any weekday evening after school has let out for the summer, you might find an 8-year-old girl in the back room of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, slicing the eyes off a dead fish. She might take a specimen apart and diagram its spine on a piece of scrap paper, or study the fine, bony whiskers under a microscope set aside just for her.

This girl is Sofia Sabaj Perez. As of this spring, the rising third grader has something most children don't: a rare species of catfish named in her honor. Mark Sabaj Perez, Sofia's father, is the academy's interim curator of ichthyology, the Sofia Sabaj Perez with a catfish much larger than the species that was named in her honor. MARK SABAJ PEREZ Ticket Vivid Seats ticketing company says Phi Ily ranks seventh among U.S. theater towns, based on the number of live productions in 2017.

The list is (1) New York; (2) Chicago; (3) Los Angeles; (4) Las Vegas; (5) Washington; (6) San Diego; (7) Phi Ily; (8) Denver; (9) St. Louis; and (10) Kansas City, Kan. The average ticket is $131. The top ticket prices, according to Vivid, are Wicked (July 26-Aug. 27, Academy of Music) at an average of $152; Saturday Night Fever (through July 16, Walnut Street Theatre) at $93, and Stomp (Dec.

26-31, Kimmel Center's Merriam Theater), booming at $75. Penn conference explores all things Pound te7t7 S. It's the first time the conference on the poet will be held at his alma mater. Ezra Pound at the University of Pennsylvania (top row, left). Big blast for Tiny Dynamite.

Tiny Dynamite's Perfect Blue, July 14-23, will be producing artistic director Emma Gibson's last show. Kathryn MacMillan, wondrous actordirector, will then step in. I hope you saw her work in Grounded at Inter Act Theatre and Mrs. Warren's Profession at the Lantern Theater. Dynamite, indeed.

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The center of that vortex University of Pennsylvania grad Ezra Pound is the focus of the 27th Ezra Pound International Conference at Penn this week (June 19-23), titled "Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius and Modern American Poetry." It holds forth at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. David McKnight, director of Penn's rare book and manuscript library, and a big Pound fan, is co-convener of the seminar, A vote for 'School Sarah Vogel of Philadelphia loves Tribe of Fools' School Play "I am trying to get everyone I know to come see it while it's still at St. Peter's School. A marvelous work; it broke my heart and enlivened my soul. I can't wait to see their contribution at the Fringe Festival.

I know Philadelphia has many theater companies, and this one is a gem." See something good? Write me! along with Pound scholar Emily Mitchell Wallace of Bryn Mawr College. "I first read Pound back in the early 1970s," McKnight says, "and when we were first asked whether we could emist explosion. "Not only was Pound a genius," Wallace says, "the city itself is a genius city, an amazing city many of its residents don't understand. William Penn See MODERNISM on C3 have the conference here by people who'd been working several years to make it happen I knew we had to do it." It's a breathtaking claim: Phi Ily as center of the mod Can't Wait to See: Upper Darby Summer Stage's production of the Stephen SchwartzAlan Menken musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame (July 28-29 and Aug. 4-5).

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