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Saxophonist Brian Landrus seems to know what he’s got in this magnificent trio: Fred Hersch on piano, Drew Gress on bass, and Billy Hart on drums.
Read MoreFrom the opening moment of this show, suspension of disbelief flies out the window and never returns.
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.
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Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
Read MoreEmily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.
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Read MoreAs a theatrical event, The American Stage anthology would have to be classified as a rousing vaudeville show: there are literary routines for all brows—high, middle, and low. The American Stage: Writings on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner, edited by Laurence Senelick, Library of America, 867 pages, $40. By Bill Marx “There is…
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It is always a pleasure to see Ibsen on stage, but this production of one of his masterpieces is generally humdrum.
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A marvelous first recording of a highly engaging opera by Baroque composer Bernardo Pasquini, known until recently for a single piece: “The Cuckoo.”
In Transit, Christian Petzold explores why the ghosts of Europe’s troubled past are stirring once more.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025