"What matters isn't whether you can tell a story...What matters is that you've lived a story."

Shadow puppets, song, dance, and narrative form a captivating visual-musical memoir of a Cuban family's experiences before and during the Communist revolution.

Even in this outdoor setting, the group's Baroque-style instruments actually sounded pretty natural, without distracting artifacts of electronic magnification, in this exhilarating performance of concertos.

Internal conflict derails a Democratic Socialists of America chapter meeting in this acute new comedy from Taylor Jon Gonzalez and Perfect 10.

These Drilling Company productions get closer to what feels like authentic Shakespeare than many larger and more polished stagings do. Real Shakespeare, AND a party.

This play about a half-Jewish, half-Irish Catholic family is a masterful relay race of pointed, witty dialogue that's equal parts hilarious and touching.

The players showed consummate skill in Beethoven's final string quartet and virtuosic enthusiasm in new music from Jeff Scott.

With his trademark down-home suavity and languid silly-putty phrasing, Lovett alternated songs funny and sincere, soulful and jazzy, bluesy and country (and novelty).

'Both Sides Now' takes the listener on a silken journey through classics by Joni Mitchell, Michel Legrand, Cole Porter and more.

In the music on composer David Bird's new album, the hardness and coldness of actual metal seem almost literally audible.