Singer-songwriter Megan Slankard is a distinctive talent – a gifted melodist, and a literate and crafty, if hard to parse, lyricist.

Magnificently acted, beautifully written, and claustrophobically staged in the round with a pile of dirt in the center, the cast running and slinking in circles behind the audience, 'Wolf in the River' is a jolt of dark energy.

The collection of live performances captured on this double album suggests a bright future for this versatile, intelligent, and soulful young pianist.

Glorious music and wonderful singing more than compensate for a weak story in this comic opera by the first classical composer of African ancestry.

Enter to win a box set with remastered and expanded 2-CD versions of Phil Collins's classic 'Face Value' and 'Both Sides' solo albums.

This production digs into the tribal roots of the ultimate cautionary tale from ancient Greece with just the collective animal energy called for.

Five superb musicians who play the treble, tenor, and bass members of the viola da gamba (or viol) family gave us baroque music from France, including some unexpected adaptations and arrangements.

Judith Sloan's compelling solo show at La MaMa, 'Yo Miss!', is grounded in her experience teaching drama to underprivileged New York City high school and college students.

In Forest's sure hands, comedy, storytelling, and song flow together into a wave of warmhearted, dirty-minded, unexpurgated humanity.

Brimming with a studied outrageousness, and brushed with sentiment, the show takes a sidelong look at the pretentiousness of downtown artsiness, while reminding us – or introducing us to – the French force of nature who provoked the spirits of so many 20th century creatives.