Aesthetic encounters in the Boston area… and sometimes beyond.

Passengers

October 1, 2019

Play, Dance, Performance, Circus
The 7 Fingers
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Theater district, Boston
September 25 – October 13, 2019
A wonderfully choreographed compendium of dance, acrobatics and other circus treats by the smallish (but growing) noted Montreal-based circus.

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Nixon’s Nixon

September 28, 2019

Play (2006)
by Russell Lees
Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue
New Repertory Theatre
Mosesian Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA
September 14 – October 6, 2019
A beautifully acted two-person play about Nixon and Kissinger on Nixon’s last night in office.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

September 27, 2019

Play (1966)
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Peter DuBois
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 20 – October 20, 2019
An energetic and beautifully produced rendition of the early Stoppard takeoff on two minor characters in Hamlet.

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The Crucible

September 26, 2019

Play (1953)
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Nora Theatre Company
in conjunction with
Bedlam
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 12 – October 13, 2019
A passionately unhinged production of the modern classic about the Salem witch hunts of the seventeenth century.

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Little Shop of Horrors

September 19, 2019

Musical (1982)
Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film (1960) by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
August 30 – October 6, 2019
An exuberant and wonderfully staged revival of the show about a flower shop with a plant that eats humans.

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Virtue and Virtuosity: Bach, Berio, Yamada, Beethoven

September 13, 2019

Concert
A Far Cry
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area
September 13, 2019 8:00pm
An exquisitely performed series of offerings by Boston’s very own highly virtuosic, yet democratically organized, string chamber ensemble.

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