They could almost be the characters in an old-fashioned murder mystery. But no one's solving a crime; they're here to support each other as they try to solve themselves.
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Classical China: 10th Edition of Youth Music Culture the Greater Bay Area (YMCG) Opens Today with Concerts in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao
YMCG focuses on young artists, offering educational activities and cross-cultural dialogue as well as performances and masterclasses.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Fire This Time Festival 2026
Six short plays by emerging Black playwrights tackle racism and civil rights, heroes and villains, and family dynamics.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘Twelve Blocks’ by Michael Stephen Brown; ‘Poulenc’ from Pascal Rogé, Elena Font, Lidy Blijdorp
'Twelve Blocks' further establishes Michael Stephen Brown as a composer with skills on par with his pianistic virtuosity.
Read More »Music Review: Stew Cutler and Friends – ‘Undercover (Mostly)’
Guitarist Stew Cutler merges blues, soul, and jazz with the best of them. But he's never done a covers album before.
Read More »Theater/Cabaret Review (NYC): ‘Tiergarten’ from Death of Classical and the Prototype Festival
Death of Classical and the Prototype Festival, two of NYC's cultural powerhouses, coalesced on Friday night, turning packed audiences into time travelers.
Read More »Music Review: Mikhail Pletnev – ‘Chopin & Scriabin: Préludes’
Pletnev seems to model his tempos and rhythmic freedom after human speech, or, where a tempo is fast, the pace of thought.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Dream Feed’ by The HawtPlates
Both the show and the music mingle genres so organically that they actually escape genre, building a thoroughly original creation that draws the audience into an ecstatically human experience.
Read More »Opera Review: Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ from NYGASP
The cast's many company veterans play off of one another with frankness and ease in the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' latest staging of the classic light opera.
Read More »Opera Review: ‘Hildegard’ by Sarah Kirkland Snider
A new opera based on the life of the 12th-century Benedictine nun and visionary is one of the most enthralling theatrical experiences I can remember.
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