Musical (2015)
Music, Lyrics, Book and Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square Area, Boston
January 6 – February 5, 2023An interesting, semi-historical, psychologically-oriented exploration of a difficult period in the great nineteenth century Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s life and career.
Life of Pi
Play (2022)
Based on the novel by Yann Martel
Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by Max Webster
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023 A beautifully executed rendering of the popular philosophical novel about a survivor of a shipwreck and the fanciful account of how he lasted at sea for 227 days accompanied by a tiger named Richard Parker.
The Hours
Opera (2022)
Music by Kevin Puts
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham
And on the 2003 film based on the novel
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Metropolitan Opera, New York, Live in HD
December 10, 2022
A superlative production of a very well-written new opera adapted from the novel about Virginia Woolf and two other women in different times and places, brilliantly synthesized into a fascinating amalgam of its different settings. Sung, played, designed and directed with passion and ingenuity.
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
Musical (2001)
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Book by Allan Knee
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed and Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern
A radiant production of a nicely written musical based on the famous book about four sisters from Concord, Massachusetts, set during the Civil War, superbly directed and choreographed.
An Evening Of Jazz And Healing
Concert, Film
Donal Fox, piano
Screening of Jazz Saved My Life about Justin Freed
Maria Schneider Orchestra Quartet
Featuring Gary Versace, piano; Scott Robinson, woodwinds; Jay Anderson, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums
Coolidge Corner Theater
Brookline, MA
December 1, 2022
An evening rich with wonderful jazz and a biographical film about artist and jazz impresario Justin Freed, former owner and concert programmer of the Coolidge Corner Theater, with a special interest in jazz as a healing force.