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During a recent visit to the New Museum, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, music reverberated throughout the building. The sound was emanating from the fourth floor, where Shedrick Mitchell, seated ...

The Western hemisphere is familiar with musical giants like Beethoven and Mozart and the beautiful compositions they left behind on the five-lined staves in treble and bass clef. Yet long before this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Maggie Spicer-Brown, Injoy Fountain and Kennedy Caughell take a break during rehearsals of “Waitress.” (Courtesy of ...

Costume designer Tahra Zafar has said she was "overwhelmed" by the public response to the lifelike Paddington Bear puppet, following the West End musical’s opening night. Zafar, a costume and creature ...

Don't be alarmed if you spy a green-haired ghoul or a perennially perky Girl Scout roaming the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo grounds. "Beetlejuice," the musical based on Tim Burton's 1988 film, is ...

Graduating senior Ben Lanzi, who is majoring in music and minoring in Chinese, is ubiquitously associated with the Tufts music department and jazz scene. Lanzi, a pianist, singer and conductor, has ...