Musical (1964)
Music and lyrics by by Jerry Herman
Book by Michael Stewart
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
May 16 – June 22, 2025
An excellent production of the Broadway classic about the eponymous powerhouse who knows how to get things done.
The Light in the Piazza
Musical (2005)
Book by Craig Lucas
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 9 – June 15, 2025
A beautifully produced musical about an American mother and daughter on a trip to Italy and the unexpected romance the daughter finds there.
Heads Up – Calliope’s Call:
Art Songs based on poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Concert
Calliope’s Call
Church of the Redeemer
379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA
May 16, 2025, 7:30pm
An upcoming concert of art songs based on the work of two iconic women poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Eclipse: Schreker, Goodyear, Mendelssohn, Carreño
Concert
A Far Cry
Featuring Stewart Goodyear, piano
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 9, 2025
A superb concert, including a piano concerto by the very young Mendelssohn, and some lesser known pieces, one of them composed by Stewart Goodyear who also plays a very mean piano here.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Play (2023)
by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 2-31, 2025
A lively, exuberant and, at times, poignant reflection on the lives and challenges of African immigrants in the United States.