"To gift" or not "to gift?"

Members of a program for the mentally ill homeless gathered with Teaching Artist Leo Schaff to create and perform a Christmas waltz to lift your spirits this holiday season.

Legendary Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre and his band touched down in New York City for a night of blues, rock, and Tull.

Casting a bit of light on the history of free blacks in the West, a Shakespearean actor brings a kind of humble audacity to role of the first black man to cast a vote in England. It's a lovingly and masterfully crafted performance, buoyant and never didactic.

The change in ownership of a locally influential but definitely local paper is big news, even in the age of the decline of newspapers, because of the vast sums of money its new owner spends in the political arena.

The video version of the album is a goofy-fun immersion into a mid-1970s world of hyper-costumed, half-baked concept-album dizziness. But there's nothing half-baked about this masterful, somewhat neglected album.

If you're not familiar with these early modern Spanish composers, this sensitively played album is a fine place to start.

This hour-plus of insidious, challenging weirdness lands its punch squarely in the gut.

Lovingly reconstructed, this aspirational-fantasy story of Russian shtetl Jews emigrating to America is a fascinating period piece of great historical and cultural interest, as well as a robustly acted and brilliantly sung spectacle of theatrical joy.

New Georges' experiment in "exploded view" theater is more of an implosion.