“Hope,” as Emily Dickinson famously said, “is the thing with feathers.” I’ve always loved Carmen McRae’s 1958 album “Birds of a Feather,” which consists of 12 songs about skylarks, nightingales, ...

The most prominent feature of Emilie Claire Barlow's music is its pure happiness. Disneyland bills itself as "The Happiest Place on Earth." But Barlow has the Imagineers beat and she does that without ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. During the dark isolation days of the coronavirus pandemic, award-winning Canadian ...

While the jazz pipeline produces plenty of artists who pay no mind to an audience's interests, those types--figures with tunnel vision, in many if not most ways--rarely reach their full potential.