Internal conflict derails a Democratic Socialists of America chapter meeting in this acute new comedy from Taylor Jon Gonzalez and Perfect 10.

These Drilling Company productions get closer to what feels like authentic Shakespeare than many larger and more polished stagings do. Real Shakespeare, AND a party.

This play about a half-Jewish, half-Irish Catholic family is a masterful relay race of pointed, witty dialogue that's equal parts hilarious and touching.

The players showed consummate skill in Beethoven's final string quartet and virtuosic enthusiasm in new music from Jeff Scott.

With his trademark down-home suavity and languid silly-putty phrasing, Lovett alternated songs funny and sincere, soulful and jazzy, bluesy and country (and novelty).

'Both Sides Now' takes the listener on a silken journey through classics by Joni Mitchell, Michel Legrand, Cole Porter and more.

In the music on composer David Bird's new album, the hardness and coldness of actual metal seem almost literally audible.

"Each of these four figures, Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Jeanne Manford, and Xulhaz Mannan, carried a kind of radical tenderness into a world that often met them with hostility."

A selection from the 76 pieces of Kwon's "America/Beautiful" project showed the composers' vast range of styles and approaches.

Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."