A new film focuses on the climactic period of Lennon and McCartney's legendary songwriting partnership.
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Theater Review (NYC): Zero by Danny and Robert O’Connor
Danny O'Connor plays a batch of wayward twenty-somethings in an impressive, if frustrating, one-man show.
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The operatic tradition has always had a place in rock and pop, but this band comes at it from the other direction.
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Get shipwrecked with Viola and Sebastian in the Queen's Company's hilarious, updated but fully Shakespearean take on the classic comedy.
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A novel about two refugees, one Jewish and one Palestinian, reminds us that there is no simple right or wrong.
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Matt Morris's high, fluty tenor wafts his words into your consciousness like a message carried on the wind.
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Immerse yourself in the macabre mind of M R James, the master of the English ghost story.
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A new documentary raises the question of where we should be living.
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Laura Vecchione's second disc is a consummately crafted and craftily written set of tunes that touch on commercial country, country-rock, and alt/Americana.
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This two-disc set is a close look at Donovan's life, music, and, maybe even more interesting, his times.
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