The title of Macie Stewart’s second solo album, When the Distance Is Blue, is borrowed from Rebecca Solnit’s essay “The Blue of Distance,” a meditation on longing. The Chicago composer and ...

Ben Ratliff’s “Run the Song” is an ecstatic and eccentric blend of criticism, music, autobiography and philosophy.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Ben Platt have led tributes to late Broadway composer William Finn. Finn's longtime partner, Arthur Salvadore, told The New York Times that the cause of death was pulmonary ...