Arts Fuse Editor
This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.
Pete Shelley’s elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.
The company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.
None of the opera recordings I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.
The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.
This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
“Now I’m retired, but I still look forward to honoring the legacy of John Coltrane.”
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