The Gallery Players' well-played revival of this Pulitzer-winning play explores the Cuban custom of a reader entertaining factory workers with romantic novels.
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Music Review: Joe Bonamassa – ‘Redemption’
The album focuses more on the songs than on shredding, with Bonamassa's six-string wizardry worked into the arrangements rather than blatantly front and center. Still, his masterful solos remind us that we're in the hands of one of our era's greatest blues-rock guitarists.
Read More »Music Review: Neave Trio with Carla Jablonski – ‘Celebrating Piazzolla’
Together the musicians craft the feel of a much larger band, taking turns evoking the bandoneón through technique and imaginative force, and summoning orchestral depth by turns dark and brilliant.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Broadway): ‘The Ferryman’ by Jez Butterworth
Wordy and deep, Jez Butterworth's Olivier-Award-winning play leaps brightly into the sunshine carrying the bloody torch of Irish drama.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Guy Livingston – ‘Dada at the Movies’ (NYC, 17 October 2018)
Livingston doesn't just champion this early 20th-century music, he brings it to vivid life, even as he entertains and educates on the classic Dada films.
Read More »Concert Review: Zemlinsky Quartet – ‘Zemlinsky, Janáček, Dvořák and Their Muses’ (NYC, 16 Oct 2018)
The Zemlinsky Quartet's onstage bonhomie, vivid engagement with the audience, and tremendous skill made the concert a joy.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Salome’ by Oscar Wilde
This fine new production uses an admirable new translation from the French that stays close to the original, giving us Wilde indeed, flaws and all.
Read More »Music Reviews: Strands of Bluegrass from Hot Rize, Kenny and Amanda Smith, and Singer-Songwriter Beth Snapp
Hot Rize's live 40th anniversary album is a blistering set of 18 prime bluegrass tunes. Many written by band members, they showcase the group's undimmed musicianship and enthusiasm.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’ at BAM
Director Anne Bogart and SITI Company charge up Aaron Poochigian's balanced new translation in a graceful 90-minute production of Euripides' 'The Bacchae,' alive with ecstatic bacchanalia and gruesome violence.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘I Was Most Alive with You’ by Craig Lucas
Being Deaf today brings with it controversies over vocalizing, lip reading, and ASL. All of that helps define just one character in Craig Lucas's kaleidoscope of a drama, now in its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
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