Nellie McKay

Live review: Aimee Mann at the Wiltern

2011-12-12 04:34:45

<![CDATA[Live review: Aimee Mann at the Wiltern]]>

Today's music pick: Nellie McKay @ the Roxy

2010-11-04 16:35:15

<![CDATA[Today's music pick: Nellie McKay @ the Roxy]]>

Wednesday's Talk Shows

2010-11-30 21:34:16

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South Coast Rep is hoping to expand its musical repertoire with shows like 'Cloudlands'

2011-04-30 16:33:27

<![CDATA[South Coast Rep is hoping to expand its musical repertoire with shows like 'Cloudlands']]>

Friday's Talk Shows

2010-12-09 21:34:18

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Old Hats

2013-03-08 00:30:05

Clowns rule in "Old Hats," a brilliant oddball of a show written and performed by Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who originally teamed up to create their 1993 Tony-winning tour de force, "Fool Moon." Everything old is new again, in this comic puree of...

'Variety's the spice' for Nellie McKay

2013-01-03 12:45:00

"You think that your personality is going to go over, but it doesn't," laments singer-songwriter Nellie McKay. "I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over." In 2004, McKay released an attention-...

New Haven Fall Arts Preview: A Lively, Unpredictable Theater Season

2012-09-12 08:40:00

Let the casting debates begin! Paul Giamatti will star as Hamlet next spring at the Yale Repertory Theatre, part of a lively Rep season that includes new works by Sarah Ruhl (with the Clean House playwright devising "a play in letters" from the...

Madeleine Peyroux: 'Growing toward the sun'

2011-09-27 07:13:00

With a timbre suggestive of Billie Holiday and an intimate style of phrasing that needs only the subtlest twist of a syllable to hook a listener, Madeleine Peyroux has cleared a distinctive path in today's jazz world. That path does not include a lot...

'Rumor Has It ...'

2006-05-05 00:00:00

You may have heard that "Rumor Has It ..." is a sequel of sorts to "The Graduate." It is not. It wants to be a kind of sister picture to it -- a companion piece that reflects the plotline of Mike Nichols' seminal 1967 film through a contemporary...

Pop, jazz and hip-hop artists to play Ravinia

2005-03-24 09:43:58

Jazz legends Chick Corea and McCoy Tyner, cabaret divas Barbara Cook and Sylvia McNair and hip-hop performer Wyclef Jean will headline the Ravinia Festival's pop and jazz season, the Highland Park-based organization has announced. Jean's appearance, on...

'Get Away From Me' seems unlikely after McKay's debut

2004-07-08 00:00:00

She talks a lot - her words at times bumping into one another. In mid-sentence, she may pause for a second to collect her thoughts, then she's off again. Nellie McKay, 19, has a lot on her mind, and that's apparent throughout the singer-songwriter's...

Nellie McKay

2013-01-03 12:47:00