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New albums from Billy Hart, Phil Haynes & Free Country, Pat Thomas, Kalia Vandever, and the Webber/Morris Big Band.
A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.
When it comes to the aberrant conditions in today’s jails and prisons, concerns such as how corrections officers are regarded by their superiors in the system, the media, and the public are beside the point.
Sun Ra was often deliberately far out, as we used to say, and also joyously entertaining.
Add these four remastered Ray Charles albums to your collection and remind yourself what the real thing sounds like when it finally comes along.
“Fun Home”‘s relevance not only lies in how it flawlessly interweaves three storylines that revolve around the same character, but how it dramatizes, with grace, humor, and pathos, a familiar human struggle — looking at our parents through adult eyes.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.
Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard
One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.
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