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This Midsummer Night’s Dream is a pleasant enough entertainment that is helped mightily by the bucolic waterfront setting.
The release of previously unavailable recordings from Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane are causes for celebration. Two unforgettable voices in jazz — are back!
Big Deal differs from other Bob Fosse biographies in its focus on the dances themselves.
An Inspector Calls speaks with ease to our own times, bedeviled with “alternate facts” and ethical doubts.
You might argue that this session was forgotten, but this new release shouldn’t be thought of as lost — because no one was looking for it
Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.
Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.
The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
Colin Carr supplied an extraordinary performance of Bach’s Six Cello Suites.
Film Commentary: “The King” and The King
Eugene Jarecki’s ramshackle, occasionally provocative, and frequently entertaining documentary on Elvis Presley gets some things wrong.
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