Seven years since his breakout musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” a reworking of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” that eventually reached Broadway, Dave Malloy returns with an impressive ...

2020 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Dave Malloy 2020 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Musical Annie Tippe 2020 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Lyrics Dave Malloy 2020 Drama ...

I walk in and see a woman cleaning up crumpled numbered cards and colorful plastic chips. My eyes pass over an old coffee maker and a handful of flyers to a sign: A bingo game has just ended, and ...

The Metropolitan Jazz Octet (MJO) is the reawakening of a group that started in the 1950’s by Chicago saxophonist and arranger Tom Hilliard. From 1950 through mid-'80s Hilliard wrote many of the ...

For much of the past year, Mateen Milan, a second-year student at the Yale School of Music, was unable to meet indoors with fellow woodwind players to perform chamber music. Occasionally during the ...

Eight people describe their internet addictions in 'Octet,' the new musical by Dave Malloy, the creator of 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.' By Frank Scheck You’ll think twice before ...

BOTTOM LINE Elegant a cappella music, but a frightening look at our obsession with technology. Those of us who attend theater frequently are surely sick of those ubiquitous, often annoying, messages ...

Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has been both the beacon and a touchstone for the West Coast free improvising community, particularly in Los Angeles, for over 30 years. Golia started his ...

Eight people meet to share their stories and lift their voices up in song. They’re a 12-step group of sorts, but the addiction they’re looking to kick is the internet. Whether they’re obsessively ...

Seven years since his breakout musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” a reworking of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” that eventually reached Broadway, Dave Malloy returns with an impressive ...