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Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson -- but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one.
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Magos Herrera teamed up with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet to create a collection of music that makes its case for life, love, and liberation through its sheer beauty.
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Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?
The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical's strengths -- its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.
With this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible "book," of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.
A delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.
In the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.
Kate McGarry's latest release is a gorgeous seminar on the many facets of love. Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Gary Versace, The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown Records) By Evelyn Rosenthal Tod…
Road Show is unlikely to top anyone's list of Sondheim favorites, it's an often entertaining take on a quintessentially American story.
Toninho Horta's musical signature is one of the most distinctive, with complex harmonies, subtle but masterful guitar work, and gentle, plaintive vocals outlining indelible melodies.
"Music is to be shared, no matter what genre it is.
The more we learn about Thomas' characters and their lives, the more we like them and root for them.
The cherry on top of this terrific production is its stunning technical design, from lighting and sets to sound, projection, and costumes.
Director Paul Daigneault and SpeakEasy Stage have a hit on their hands
Sondheim on Sondheim is an entertaining, moving, hilarious mixture of reminiscences and stories about Sondheim's life and a well-chosen sampler of musical numbers from 19 of his shows.
Childs's aim was to reimagine Nyro's music. "I took what the songs meant to me and heightened that, illustrated it more, through the lens of my experience."
When she composes a song, she said, it's her guitar, rather than her voice, that "chooses the key. The guitar is the boss."
Iconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno's multiday residency at Berklee will be capped tonight by a concert featuring her music.
What comes through clearly in Beautiful is the joy Carole King and the other writers took in putting together the songs that captured our hearts.
The Huntington Theatre Company's magnificent production of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece A Little Night Music is as good as it gets.
I've never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn't in fine voice, and this show was no exception.
The Lyric Stage Company's entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.
Leigh Barrett and her collaborators sing and act beautifully, and they are obviously having a great deal of fun performing Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire's heartfelt songs about the tria…
To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.
"Magic" reflects the Mendes touch"more than 50 years of expert piano, arranging, and production chops, and a genius for choosing the right collaborators.