The early music ensemble Sonnambula opened its 'Women's Voices' season with music by an innovative 17th-century French woman composer.

A witty and soulful amalgam of physical theater, clowning, dance, magic, and miniatures, this U.S. premiere from the Oslo-Paris physical theater ensemble presents a series of atmospheric vignettes on themes both tragic and comic, sad and romantic.

As expected on a Wooten project, this new jazz-funk-fusion album seethes with virtuosity. But every track also drips with fun.

What's remarkable about the show is that it treats what strikes most people as bizarre with humor and respect.

A stunning feat of ingenious puppetry and inventive storytelling, this dystopian noir fantasy is both a solo show and a cornucopia of marvels.

What we hear on this recording is a virtuoso who makes it all sound easy, who draws deeply felt emotion and faery-dust thrills from her instrument with a feeling of effortlessness.

Tragic overtones aside, the smooth beauty of Emily Mure's music leaves a quietly happy echo, while Bob Bradshaw's 'American Echoes' shows a singer, songwriter, and bandleader in full command of his muse.

A bravura star turn by newcomer Amy Londyn stands out against prosaic lyrics and sketchily drawn characters in a new musical about the dawn of the Nazi era.

God and the Devil figure prominently in the Texas troubadour's magnificent and dark new opus. But it's music itself that's authentically sacred in the world he creates.

This is lively full-strength Shakespeare, a dizzying story of changing fortunes and changing sides, loyalty and betrayal, weakness and strength, war and more war, with only small and hesitant hopes for peace – and all made easy to follow and admire.