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Tillie Walden’s “Charity & Sylvia” transforms archival fragments into a resonant portrait of devotion in early 19th-century Vermont.
Director Travis Knight’s self-aware reboot turns Reagan-era toy marketing into a surprisingly sharp, character-driven comedy about power, nostalgia, and growing up.
Arpeggione Ensemble turns music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Mahler into a resonant chamber seascape.
Gabriel Graetz and Paul Melendy power Charles Ludlam’s camp classic, even as a stripped-down design leaves some comic potential untapped.
This was not genre-pushing experimentation. Kurt Rosenwinkel’s tunes stayed well within recognizable patterns of chords and rhythms, but the inventive craft alerted the ear at every turn.
Prolific avant-garde composer, saxophonist, arranger, producer, and improviser John Zorn led a sharply attuned band through knotty takes on his Masada songbook.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
At Shalin Liu, Skylark pairs Poulenc’s “Figure humaine” with Civil War–era music in a program of striking contrasts
Arts Commentary: The Last Laugh — Stephen Colbert, Comedy, and Cultural Resistance
How Stephen Colbert’s late-night run became a casualty of corporate power, political retaliation, and the thin skin of America’s oligarch class.
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