Three new Off-Broadway shows don’t just show us what draws musicians to their chosen medium; they make us hear it, with often bracing effect.

Though Mary Karr might not consider herself a conventional writer of spiritual autobiography, her three memoirs have made this poet and professor a standard-bearer in the genre.

There’s much more to this story than glamour. At its heart, “Priscilla” is about a woman lost in a twisted marriage.

In 'Katherine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision,' the historian Margaret McGuinness has performed another valuable service to American Catholic history.

“Catch Me If You Can” returns to Christmas again and again, like a scab it can’t stop scratching.

In “Poor Things,” Emma Stone is Adam, in a sense, the product of a modern Prometheus, who will drive men wild. Which is both the funniest and pointed aspect of her picaresque tale.