In a revival in its original home, this fantasy cabaret surrounds legendary avant-garde performance artist Joey Arias with the visual magic of puppetry mastermind Basil Twist.

The composer pays tribute to the Persian poet-musicians of late antiquity on this superb album featuring soprano Sara Paar.

The analogies to tarot cards might have been somewhat fanciful, but that's the magic of tarot: It becomes what you choose to make of it, as this concert and a current exhibit at the Morgan show.

This is the accomplished and often exciting portrait album from the pianist and multidisciplinary artist.

The life of the poet-scholar A.E. Housman illuminates the social and mental compromises that must be made when society outlaws an essential part of one's very nature.

It's a thing of beauty when a heartrending script meets the perfect actor. That's just what happens in this memoir of mental illness.

Mozart's music symbolizes the artistic eclecticism and cross-pollination audience members experience at the Beijing Music Festival.

Beltline Bones, a "new music ensemble disguised as a trombone quartet," offers an album with much variety, yet these commissions seem to lean into one another. Each engages in its own way, as all five composers seem to fully understand the ensemble's sensibility.

Cappiello wields a crossbow of stinging humor to explore in three one-act plays how the Catholic Church treats women's bodies in the context of motherhood.

This new play exemplifies the rare talent of mixing mysticism and politics, and the acutely personal and the abstractions of philosophy, in one story and by doing so engaging minds and hearts alike.