Shira Nayman's stage adaptation of her own fiction powerfully evokes a war child's search for her roots – with a shocking twist.
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Concert Review: Karen LeFrak – Composer Spotlight at National Sawdust
A survey of music by Karen LeFrak ranged from piano solo works to a guitar concerto with Sharon Isbin and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
Read More »Concert Review: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler, Georg Kallweit
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and – Johann Bernhard Bach? Akamus opened its concert by showing us that J.S. Bach and his sons weren't the only musical Bach-family members.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Thistles,’ a Prickly Family Dilemma by Cyndy A. Marion
This pandemic-era family drama sustains a tricky balance of tragedy and comedy most of the way thanks to a star turn by Mel House.
Read More »Concert Review: Curtis Symphony Orchestra in Lincoln Center Debut
The orchestra led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin made its Lincoln Center debut with music by Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Dvořák.
Read More »Concert Review: The Orchestra Now – ‘Charles Ives’s America’
Leon Botstein led The Orchestra Now and guests in a well-rounded appreciation of the music of the great American iconoclast.
Read More »Concert Review: The Marian Consort – Music from Renaissance Scotland
The eight singers of the a cappella ensemble brought out every part in a selection complex contrapuntal music written or compiled in 16th-century Scotland.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Agamemnon: The Circle of Blood’—War Stories Old and New
Rafika Chawishe's collage of theater, film, and performance art commingles ancient Greek history with the present day and reminds us how humanity never seems to learn from its past.
Read More »Concert Review: Pacifica Quartet – ‘American Snapshots’ at 92NY
Their Dvořák and Samuel Barber resonated, but their revival of George Crumb's Vietnam War protest 'Black Angels' was the star of the show.
Read More »Art: ‘Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A triumphant new exhibition surveys decades of Black artists engaging with the art and iconography of ancient Egypt.
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