Jed Gottlieb

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Jed Gottlieb

Seo Hye Han spends a lot of her time tripping around magical wonderlands. A principal dancer with the Boston Ballet since 2016, Han has played Cinderella and Clara in “The Nutcracker.”“Those are fairy tales, which are like fantasies where you need to look pretty,” Han told the Boston Herald with a little laugh. Her upcoming lead role in “Roméo et Juliette” may have magic to it, but it doesn’t come with a fairy tale ending. It’s a part that leans on a dancer’s acting chops more than most ballets.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Jed Gottlieb

Melvin Seals logged more time with Jerry Garcia than anyone outside of the original Grateful Dead members. The keyboardist played in Garcia’s solo band for nearly two decades and is now a  “keeper of the flame” of Jerry’s legacy leading the JGB. Seals loves his ex-band leader’s playing and proudly embraces the jam band label. But don’t expect him to put on “Live/Dead” or “Europe ’72” at home. “I always loved orchestral music, classical and opera music,” Seals told the Boston Herald.

2 weeks ago | bostonherald.com | Jed Gottlieb

Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, opera, ballet, and a time-traveling Delorean. Yes, the summer theater season is pretty darn diverse. “Hello, Dolly!”now through June 22, Lyric StageSongs you know by heart. Wait, what? You don’t know the title song? Or “Put on Your Sunday Clothes?” Oh, wow. Time to get your classical musical theater wings in this silly, sublime tale of the ultimate matchmaker who just might find her match.

3 weeks ago | bostonherald.com | Jed Gottlieb

“Dancing in the Dark” is Bruce Springsteen’s most poppy song. It’s got that big hook. It was remixed to be spun by club DJs. Its video features a doe-eyed Courteney Cox. “The original is really peppy, really fun,” Ward Hayden told the Boston Herald. “But it’s a song of despair.

3 weeks ago | bostonherald.com | Jed Gottlieb

A decade ago, while freshman at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Georgia Greene and Lauren Jones began writing a tune together for a songwriting class they were taking. Greene and Jones thought what they had could use a boost so they asked Quinn D’Andrea to add a third harmony part to the song. “The three of us were singing in Lauren’s dorm room and that was the first time our voices came together and it was magical,” D’Andrea told the Boston Herald.