The tale of Broadway's first lesbian kiss, nearly a century ago – and of one unique and strangely representative facet of the infinitely complex tale of the Jews of Europe and their migration to America.

A dominatrix, an android companion – an opera? 'Three Way' zeroes in on the now and the near future of power and sexuality. Ahead of its NYC premiere, we talk with the composer, and debut a video excerpt.

'It's always fun to get into an artist whose career, like hers, has stretched through different periods in popular music; there's something usually in every style to sample.'

What good's talk therapy if the patient won't talk? Ten-year-old Cindy has gone mute, and her desperate mother and stepfather have brought her to self-assured therapist Vera to try and get to the bottom of the mystery.

Performing music of Mozart, Richard Strauss, and 20th-century composer Jean Françaix, the four musicians played as one, like lifelong friends, with exquisite sensitivity and skill.

The English philosopher and aesthete reminds thinking people – and especially liberals – that despite rampant know-nothingism on today's political right wing, the conservative movement has always had an intellectual foundation.

This new comedy-drama tackles digital-age bullying, an issue we've heard no end of in recent years. But with a seamlessly talented and committed cast, 'Rare Birds' proves that talent and skill can make an 'issue' piece a compelling work of art.

This Lear is an old man in a care facility, wearing hospital pajamas and being sung to by the staff on his birthday. Yet, neither radical nor half-hearted, this re-conception of Shakespeare's grandest tragedy results in a respectful and forceful staging.

Holcombe creases a sense of decrepitude and weariness into his deliberately half-wrecked-sounding voice and uses both to pointed effect, speaking directly to the immigrant, the wanderer, the home-seeker in all of us.

Taken together the tracks on Stuart's 18th studio album form not quite a concept album but a contiguous tapestry of engagement with and love for the idealized West, from the Native American chants on the "Desert Prayer" prologue and the laid-back mariachi flavor and slide guitar licks of the tasty instrumental "El Fantasmo Del Toro" to the mellow-catchy Johnny Cash cloak of "Old Mexico" and the drugged-out haze of the title track.