The collection of live performances captured on this double album suggests a bright future for this versatile, intelligent, and soulful young pianist.

Glorious music and wonderful singing more than compensate for a weak story in this comic opera by the first classical composer of African ancestry.

Enter to win a box set with remastered and expanded 2-CD versions of Phil Collins's classic 'Face Value' and 'Both Sides' solo albums.

This production digs into the tribal roots of the ultimate cautionary tale from ancient Greece with just the collective animal energy called for.

Five superb musicians who play the treble, tenor, and bass members of the viola da gamba (or viol) family gave us baroque music from France, including some unexpected adaptations and arrangements.

Judith Sloan's compelling solo show at La MaMa, 'Yo Miss!', is grounded in her experience teaching drama to underprivileged New York City high school and college students.

In Forest's sure hands, comedy, storytelling, and song flow together into a wave of warmhearted, dirty-minded, unexpurgated humanity.

Brimming with a studied outrageousness, and brushed with sentiment, the show takes a sidelong look at the pretentiousness of downtown artsiness, while reminding us – or introducing us to – the French force of nature who provoked the spirits of so many 20th century creatives.

The reopening of Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer's modernist 1960s Madison Avenue building might be enough in itself to draw curious crowds, but two expansive exhibits make an early visit to the new Met Breuer a must.

From the get-go, with the weird 5/4 beat of "Mr. Rocket Boots Celery Man," this sly jazz quintet weaves a web of smooth themes and spidery solos, their earthy vibe reinforced by a clean but lo-fi roominess in the recording, uncomplicated arrangements, and tribal rhythms.