Still, the splendid performers -- the cellist Ariane Lallemand and the pianist Sara Davis Buechner -- made every moment count.
What's magical now about baseball is the continuity of having these splendid performers there for me month after month, year after year.
One episode, about a murder among the members of a wealthy, poisonous family, featured four splendid performers -- George Martin, David Aaron Baker, Laila Robins and the Québécois actor Lothaire Bluteau.
It's an amusing piece of dance-theater, full of satirical wit, and, best of all, it features two splendid performers: Ms. Noël, who is from Haiti and now lives in Mali, and Ms. Xaba, a South African.
Calling the New Victory home through Oct. 22, nine splendid performers, equally comfortable in comedy and drama, are accompanied by two equally versatile musicians as they revisit ancient Samarkand and Persia in the days of kings, caliphs and viziers and of Ali Baba, the 40 thieves and Sinbad (here called Sindibad) the Sailor.
There was, alas, no such splendid performance.
This immensely gifted performer, so splendid in "True West" last year, gives off real emotional ferocity and sorrow.
Each September the city plays host to a jubilant jazz festival that features many big-name performers at one of the most splendid times of the year -- when the fog lifts and dabblers can go about their business in sunglasses.
It's hardly surprising that the performers featured in these pieces do such splendid work.
