With Broadway-class talent and Jerome Robbins's original choreography, this is a production to please newbies and old hands alike.

'Powerhouse' is a potent combination of inventive creativity and spot-on realization, with puppetry, dance, music, and a smashing cast.

Listeners need bring no esoteric knowledge of classical music to enjoy this album, only an appreciation for beauty.

Plus Everclear, Cracker, Jason Marsalis, Soundgarden, Cream (R.I.P. Jack Bruce) and R.E.M.

Kouyate is so heavily identified with the West African lute called the ngoni that the instrument's Wikipedia page features a photo of him.

Blessed Unrest's adaptation of the controversial psychologist's "metaphorical memoir" delivers a powerful punch to both lobes of the brain.

Just in time for the new Broadway revival of 'On the Town' comes a new book showing how the show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was as groundbreaking socially and politically as it was artistically.

In a nation where media hype is stirring anxiety about a very difficult-to-catch virus into near-panic, it's good to laugh, and especially good to laugh at our own fears.

'Odd Birdz' combines a hint of vaudeville and a touch of the Marx Brothers with moments of zany 'Laugh-In'-era humor and a dose of performance-art archness.

Composer John Adams led the musicians in Beethoven, Stravinsky, and his own "Absolute Jest," a wonderful new work by a composer at the top of his game.