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Jamie and Jordan, which returns on April 28 as part of the monthly Performance Network children’s theater series, is a charming musical about two boys born in the same hospital on the same day who become best friends until...

Violinist Joshua Bell with the Academy of St. Martin in the FieldsIs this some kind of mistake?That the UMS is presenting American violinist Joshua Bell as the soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in their season’s...

Some folks say Jack Driscoll doesn’t get out much. The same people are inclined to say that this is the reason Driscoll remains “our best-kept literary secret.” If they mean that this fabulous writer...

Charles Lloyd is a jazz musician who revels in spirituality and in sound. When he first came to public attention in 1960 as a member of the popular Chico Hamilton Quintet, like many saxophonists of the time he was heavily...

Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys have been playing all over the state during the last year or so, and they’re coming in April for three Ann Arbor shows in one week: at the Circus on April 11 and April 18, and at Wolverine...

Fans of the Western might have noticed that it’s not so easy to mount one on a live stage, where the big sky will always look fake and cheesy. Fights and stunts, even if they look OK, are dangerous, and how can you do a...

Many years ago, when my brother and I were teenagers, my mom occasionally drove us to New York City, to the Metropolitan Opera House. It was always special and memorable. Two years ago, I got to go back to the Met, albeit only...

“I like to think / (right now, please!) / of a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics,” wrote the late American poet and writer Richard Brautigan, imagining a utopian future “where deer stroll...