Object.

November 15, 2019
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Dance, Performance Art
Choreographed by DeAnna Pellechia
KAIROS Dance Theater
Boston Center for the Arts
November 15-17, 2019
A dance theater piece on the subject of the objectification of women.

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Fellow Travelers

November 14, 2019
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Opera (2016)
Music by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the novel Fellow Travelers (2007) by Thomas Mallon
Conductor: Emily Senturia
Stage Director: Peter Rothstein
Boston Lyric Opera
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District
November 13-17, 2019
A superb production of a beautifully written opera about the Lavender Scare of the early 1950’s, an anti-gay program sanctioned by the United States government.

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Frankie

November 8, 2019
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Film (2019)
Directed by Ira Sachs
Screenplay by Ira Sachs and
Mauricio Zacharias
With Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei , Greg Kinnear
A brooding and thoughtful meditation on family, aging, vulnerability and loss.

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Admissions

November 7, 2019
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Play (2018)
by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 25 – November 30, 2019
A very funny, yet tragicomic, take on college admissions policies and ethnicity.

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Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

October 31, 2019
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Concert, Performance
Produced by Arktype
In Cooperation with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Composed by Bryce Dessner
Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle
Featuring Words by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith
Featuring Roomful of Teeth
With Alicia Hall Moran and Isaiah Robinson
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in association with Celebrity Series of Boston
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
October 30 – November 3, 2019
A performance by the amazing vocal octet Roomful of Teeth featuring photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Trayf

October 17, 2019
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Play (2018)
by Lindsay Joelle
Directed by Celine Rosenthal
A New England Premiere
New Repertory Theater
Mosesian Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
October 12 – November 3, 2019
A comedy about two young Hasidic Jewish guys in New York.

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Pagliacci

October 4, 2019
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Opera (1892)
Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Steriti Memorial Rink
North End, Boston
September 27 – October 6, 2019
A circus-like festival production of the brief opera classic.

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Passengers

October 1, 2019
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Play, Dance, Performance, Circus
The 7 Fingers
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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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