Nick Cave

March 2, 2014
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Sculpture Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
February 5 – May 4, 2014
A fun, colorful, display of two general kinds of sculptural works – large soundsuits, and intricate constructions out of woven strands of beads and assorted kinds of curios.

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Death of a Salesman

February 27, 2014
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Play (1949)
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company
Boston, MA
February 14 – March 15, 2014
A very moving rendition of the classic modern tragedy about work, family and desperation in late middle age, with stellar performances by Ken Baltin and Paula Plum as Willy and Linda Loman.

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Up and Coming:
Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna

February 27, 2014
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Circus, Performance
Directed by Diane Paulus
Cirque du Soleil
Boston Marine Industrial Park on the Waterfront, Boston, MA
5/29/2014 –
Tickets to the general public go on sale on 2/28/2014. Presale tickets to Cirque Club members available beforehand. (Please check Amaluna event website to confirm details.)
A show directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus – which sounds like an interesting feminist adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – featuring a mysterious island, its queen, Prospera, her daughter, and some shipwrecked suitors.

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Man In A Case

February 26, 2014
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Play, Performance, Dance
Adapted from two short stories
by Anton Chekhov
Baryshnikov Productions
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Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston
February 25 – March 2, 2014
With Mikhail Baryshnikov
Two short pieces about lost love comprise this multimedia evening made particularly festive by the presence of the great ballet dancer turned actor.

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The Cherry Orchard

February 23, 2014
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Play (1904)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Pine Manor College
Chestnut Hill, MA
February 12 – March 9, 2014

The last of Chekhov’s plays, about an aristocracy in decline, done in a regal setting.

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No Place To Go

February 20, 2014
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Concert-Play-Performance
by Ethan Lipton
Music composed and performed by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
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Liebergott Black Box, Paramount Theater
February 20 – 22, 2014
A wry, witty, poignant, powerful, fun and musically superb theatre-concert piece about the travails of unemployment.

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Witness Uganda

February 12, 2014
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Musical (2014)
by Matt Gould and
Griffin Matthews
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 4 – March 16, 2014
A vividly honest and vibrant musical about the life and aspirations of a young American relief worker, and the people he encounters in Africa.

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The Monuments Men

February 7, 2014
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Film (2014)
Directed by George Clooney
With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban
Near the end of World War II, a group of experts try to save great works of art from destruction: intentional, by the Nazis, and inadvertent, from Allied bombings.

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