Richard da Silva

Contributor

BSR Contributor Since March 19, 2011

Richard da Silva is a cataloguing technician who lives in Philadelphia.

Richard da Silva is a cataloguing technician and the amateur archivist of the volunteers' archive at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, a collection of all documents related to the Kimmel. He also writes a column for the collection's newsletter. He is currently working on a book.

By this Author

9 results
Page 1
Two statues stand guard at the Franklin Institute's 'Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor' exhibition. (Photo courtesy of the Franklin Institute.)

Franklin Institute's Tuttleman IMAX theater presents Keith Melton's 'Mysteries of China'

The 2,000 year old men
The IMAX film 'Mysteries of China' arrives at the Franklin Institute just in time to accompany its 'Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor' exhibition. Richard da Silva reviews.

Richard da Silva

Articles 3 minute read
Soldiers brawl in a tableau at the Museum of the American Revolution. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the American Revolution.)

Celebrating independence at the Museum of the American Revolution

Visiting 1776 in 2017
What better time to consider the Museum of the American Revolution than in the midst of Philadelphia's Independence Day celebrations? Richard Da Silva visits.

Richard da Silva

Articles 4 minute read
Jane Jacobs presenting evidence during her fight to save the West Village. (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Robert Kanigel's 'Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs'

City living through the eyes of its champion
Robert Kanigel's 'Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs' takes a new look at the urban champion. Richard da Silva reviews.

Richard da Silva

Articles 3 minute read
Comic anarchy with singing and dancing

'Plutus' by Aristophanes at Plays and Players

Wealth and poverty for laughs
The youthful cast of Once More Theater embody high spirits, belly laughs, clever off-center meditations, and all-around comic anarchy in Aristophanes’s Plutus.

Richard da Silva

Articles 2 minute read
Mary Beard being filmed in Rome. (Photo by Tristan Ferne via Creative Commons/Flickr)

'SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome' by Mary Beard

Rome redux
By presenting a sampling of her insights into the history of Roman civilization in a spirited, learned, and accessible manner, Mary Beard's lecture was not just a good advertisement for and introduction to her long and massive study, it was good performance art.

Richard da Silva

Articles 3 minute read
Stepping out from "The Scream": Miriagos and cast. (Photos by Alexander Iziliaev)

Attis Theatre's 'Antigone' at the Wilma (second review)

From Greece with agony
The emotional scale of the Attis Theatre production of Antigone is outsized and overwrought, but that’s the nature of war and tragedy and the Greeks didn’t sugarcoat it.

Richard da Silva

Articles 4 minute read
Don’t you recognize me? Chen Daoming and Gong Li in “Coming Home.”

Zhang Yimou’s 'Coming Home'

Family breakdown, Chinese-style
Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home moves like a strong poem — slowly and delicately, yet with power.

Richard da Silva

Articles 4 minute read
Gatti: Searching for Sensurround.

Orchestre National de France at Verizon Hall

The French impression
Is spring really as violent as Stravinsky imagined? Whatever— 98 years after its premiere, his Rite of Spring provoked not a riot but a standing ovation.

Richard da Silva

Articles 2 minute read
A year that Eliot scholars have overlooked.

How Paris transformed T.S. Eliot

O, to be a young poet in Paris
In 1910, Paris was the world's intellectual and cultural center and T.S. Eliot was only 22. His year there served as life-long inspiration for his groundbreaking poetry, plays, and criticism.

Richard da Silva

Articles 2 minute read