Birdie Blue is a little slip of a woman clad in furry slippers and a housedress. There’s nothing remarkable in her looks or (as a black woman in her 60s) in her idolatry of civil-rights giant the Rev.

While it may be no more than a wisp of a play, "Birdie Blue" is a sweetheart of a character study. Cheryl L. West's poignant look at the life of a long-suffering woman at the end of her rope gets a ...

In our rushed daily lives, it often seems utopian to find time to reflect on past grievances. English indie-folk singer-songwriter Birdy beautifully opens up this space in her fourth studio album ...