DeMeyer's sixth album, co-written with Will Kimbrough, is one of the year's best Americana/roots-music releases.
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Mozart's sister has been the subject of several novels and a film, but it's hard to imagine anyone can have brought her back to life with as much vivid urgency as Sylvia Milo does on stage.
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The pianist explores love and longing on her debut release on the Steinway & Sons label, with music by Schubert, Liszt, Prokofiev, Granados and more.
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Our new weekly roundup of major new music releases.
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Theatrical spectacle can derive both its meaning and its power from any number of forms of expression. But no one had tried using pure rap on a Broadway scale before.
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This collection of short plays by five playwrights offers something of a master class in the many styles of contemporary writing for the stage.
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Copland Dust Bowl "folk opera" still feels fresh and interesting on its 60th anniversary in this impressive production from Chelsea Opera.
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Broadway razzle-dazzle is alive and kicking, but would these production numbers, in and of themselves, have made me want to see the shows? Mostly not.
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When pop stars get the Broadway bug, results are mixed. But results are going to be mixed no matter what, so why not?
Read More »Win a Copy of the ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ Original Cast Album
With the Tony Awards approaching faster than a speeding bullet, we've got a copy to give away of the original cast recording of the Woody Allen musical nominated for six Tonys.
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