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Though Al Stewart can’t hit the high notes like he used to, his distinctive, crisp voice is still strong and melodic at 72.
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Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
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Piercing choreographs its weirdness early and often.
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Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
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The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
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One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
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Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
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JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.
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Most of the time, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Macbeth is compelling.
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