Nyro’s music was superb from the word go, thanks to her soulful mezzo vocal work, intimate and poetic lyrics, surprising rhythmic inventions, and unique blend of pop, Motown, doo-wop, rock, folk, jazz, gospel, and R&B.
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This is the calm before the storm in ;Eureka Day' a play which pulls out all stops about childhood vaccinations.
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That's what I asked myself this morning as I glanced out the window.
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With all its high-tech spectacle and stagecraft, Richard Foreman's first new work in a decade revels in the retro
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Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader envisions what might have taken place during Arendt's eight-day imprisonment in 1933 Berlin.
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A “secret” 1999 concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire music venue by a fired-up Rolling Stones included some rarely heard numbers.
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Ryan Barton-Grimley's film is a peculiar stylistic mashup.
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A compelling blend of police procedural, murder mystery and folk legend, 'The Soul Eater' is compulsive viewing.
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'The Spirit of the Samurai' is hampered by some sticky gameplay, but the visuals, story, sound design and amazing stop-motion animation shine.
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...and just when you think things can’t get any hotter, Steve Van Zandt shows up to sing and play guitar on the show’s five final numbers.
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