Gratitude journals and Donald Trump may be easy prey for someone with Finley's arts and smarts, but the legendary performance artist continues to find new, sometimes startling angles of analysis and attack.

Though they're all by different composers, the pieces in combination provide a sweet balance of moody atmospherics and richly expressive statements, abstract and concrete, sometimes simultaneously. They add up to one 37-minute sweep of curious musicality that's just enough to leave the receptive ear wanting more.

The influence of Turkish music on Turkish-American composer Karman Ince's work brightens his intriguing, rewarding, and often fun pieces with vivid color.

At moments, the refreshed production of NYC's longest-running play reminded me of looking at those books of old New Yorker cartoons from the 1950s and '60s, with their wordless multi-panel stories and their hapless Organization Men. But for most of its length, I wished I'd gotten on line for something else.

New Light Theater Project's new production gives us an uncommon triple portrait of common anguish, straight from the strange country of the human condition.

To paraphrase an old campaign slogan of that other famous Clinton: "It's credibility, stupid."

This 'Hamlet' isn't the exploration of Shakespeare's sources that I expected. But it's good Shakespeare.

This intense new play hurls us into a deadly thicket of politics and diplomacy, international business intrigue, the clash of cultures, and jihad through the fictional story of a British hostage in Somalia.

When American racial tensions and violence cause the same diplomatic reactions as Islamic State terrorist atrocities, we can come to only one conclusion: Houston – and Dallas, etc. – we have a problem.

With its new album, the brass-quintet-plus-percussionist hits a sweet spot between esoteric modern composition and easy-to-digest musical fun.