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Mälkki Way: CK Reviews Ligeti, Mussorgsky & More at the New York Philharmonic (for Parterre Box)

A fascinatingly varied program captured both intellectual rigor and palpable joy in music-making.

How did this slimly plotted show make it to Broadway? Four words: Josh Gad! Andrew Rannells!

Cameron offers a loving tribute to James Jorden, Parterre Box’s founder and eternal force.

Francois Girard’s Holländer sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.

Doug Wright’s new biographical dramadey, seems at once intimately familiar with and entirely alien to its subject.

A main theme in Sarah Ruhl’s play is how history is distorted by those who get to tell it.

Lloyd Suh’s moving, meditative play considers the rise of anti-Chinese sentiment during America’s Westward expansion.

Sondra Radvanovsky eschewed the customary recital format, putting her selections in a highly personal context.

Martyna Majok Pulitzer Prize-winning play overflows with complexity. It begins with the title.

In this moving, unsettling work, playwright Gracie Gardner gives the experience of illness pitched to true life.