The jazz pianist and composer holds his own amidst Beethoven and Brahms with an inspiring concert piece.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sarah Flood in Salem Mass’ by Adriano Shaplin
A new take on the run-up to the Salem witch trials proves a gripping work with echoes of Shakespeare as well as 'The Crucible.'
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Recorded for A&M Records in 2000 but never before released, Griffin's "lost" album finally sees the light of day.
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"The Rite of Spring" descends on Brooklyn in an exciting new context.
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Most shows have backdrops. But what happens when the backdrops are the show?
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You can feel the raw emotion in these well-crafted songs, and especially in Telisha Williams's voice as she sings songs of experience, but not of innocence.
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Hit by a car and killed, 58-year-old Eric Argyle awakens into a bewildering procedural nightmare.
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A scintillating play explores the time Brendan Behan spent in New York's Chelsea Hotel in 1963 shortly before his early death.
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A well-told tale of Jews and Israeli Arabs proves Romeo and Juliet never really died.
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Three dream-and-reality dualities reflect our topsy-turvy, almost fantastical post-9/11 world of secret prisons and climate disasters.
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