"Buddy": The day the music… lived
Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story is a highly entertaining musical about the meteoric rise - and, alas, fall -- of the 1950s rock 'n' roll icon.
"We Will Rock You": Screaming Queens
The musical, is a sheer delight for lovers of the British band Queen in particular and of classic rock in general, with a little bit of anti-censorship, antifascist pop politics.
"Begin Again" features music industry and people
Starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, and several products of Apple, Inc. It's about producing and distributing music without the overhead costs or help of the traditional industry.
“Pleasures of Being Out of Step”: Nat Hentoff, music, politics
Even if its subject is unconventional, "Step" is conventionally crafted, including archival footage and photos, as well as original interviews .
“We Are the Best!”: Little anarchists start a band
Clearly, "We Are the Best!" is a remembrance of someone's 1982 life on the cusp of womanhood.
Cirque Du Soleil's The Beatles LOVE Show
Once the show begins, "somebody calls you... A girl with kaleidoscope eyes," into a production that's more an evocation of the Beatles, their music and philosophy, than a chronological narrative.
"Porgy and Bess": Gershwin - You is my man now!
Inspired by a newspaper clipping about a true-life crime, this perennial classic takes place in Charleston's fictionalized Catfish Row .
A triumphant must-see show about Paul Robeson
Daniel Beaty doesn't miss a beat in his one-man tribute to African American Paul Robeson, the son of a runaway slave who went on to become an actor, activist and Renaissance Man.
Labor says "NO" to outsourcing of "Draft Day's" music
"Some people think music drops from heaven. But it doesn't. It takes talented union musicians to make music."
"Floyd Collins": heaps of social commentary on musical stage
One day in late January 1925, while searching out a new entrance to the underground,Floyd Collins fell into a narrow crawlway, got trapped there, and ultimately died of starvation and exposure on Friday, February 13.
