Frightened girl, earth mother, rusty old wreck, fallen angel, Dean's central character has lived a life larger than life, yet feels as real as cemetery dirt. Amidst a brilliant production, Deirdre O'Connell helps make 'Terminus' one of the best shows I've seen in a long time.

Matteo Liberatore uses unconventional tools and methods to pluck a variety of jolts and scratches, arpeggio sequences, and melodic and chordal motifs from that most common of instruments, the acoustic guitar.

The scrappy Secret Theatre, whose snazzy production of 'Cabaret' was an Off-Off-Broadway highlight last year, has done well by another classic big musical with a sinewy 'Gypsy.'

In Bob Geldof, the "smiling public man" of Irish letters finds yet another champion. Yeats' words have never stopped ringing, but his life was just as fascinating.

Firmly established as a talent to be reckoned with, Viele won two New England Music Awards in 2016, for Album of the Year and Male Performer of the Year. 'Howl' called his shows 'transcendent,' with music that 'will rattle your bones and penetrate to the core.'

Phillips muscles into the muck of our times with angry energy on his new album.

This powerful reworking of Ferenc Molnár's classic 'Liliom' is set in Coney Island during the Great Depression

Intriguing, suspenseful, beautifully written and brilliantly acted, this world premiere production grabbed me by the nervous system and didn't let go until the lights came up.

Few writers can match Neil LaBute's ability to muscle the hateful sides of human nature into full relief.

A highly pictorial survey of American music for piano trio by Leonard Bernstein, Russell Steinberg, and Robert Paterson