In Context: A Star Has Burnt My Eye

Howard Fishman’s new play tells the recently uncovered story of Connie Converse, a polymathic songwriter in the 1950s who vanished without an audience or album to her name but left behind a treasure trove of groundbreaking home recordings. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of related articles and videos. After you've attended the show, let us know what you thought by posting in the comments below and on social media using #AStarHasBurnt.

Free Music: BAMcafé Live All-Star Howard Fishman

Singer-songwriter Howard Fishman began his career singing and playing guitar on the streets of New Orleans. Next came the New York City subways and, not long after, the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. You can still hear bits and pieces of all three in Fishman's music, which, as a kind of repository of purple mountain Americana, seems incapable of forgetting a thing. Here are three sides of the BAMcafé Live All-Star, playing a free show Friday night at BAMcafé Live:

  The exuberant:

The experimental:

The elegiac: