Musical (1956)
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 4 – October 11, 2015
The sixty-year old hit returns to the intimate Lyric Stage.
Rosenwald
Film (2015)
Directed by Aviva Kempner
A thoughtful and revealing documentary about Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), the genius behind Sears Roebuck, and his significant philanthropic dedication to African-American education in the early part of the twentieth century.
The Flick
Play (2013)
by Annie Baker
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
Gloucester Stage Company
Gloucester, MA
August 20 – September 12, 2015
A first-rate production of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning play about three employees in a run down movie theater in the middle of Massachusetts.
Up, and Coming:
Tales From The Forgotten Kingdom
The Guy Mendilow Ensemble
Concert
Rockport Music
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Thursday, August 27, 2015, 8:00pm
An evening of traditional, but reinterpreted, music and storytelling – in Ladino, a Jewish-Sephardic language derived from Old Spanish.
Waitress
Musical (2015)
Book by Jessie Nelson
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
August 2 – September 27, 2015
An energetic and entertaining musical adaptation based on the 2007 film of the same name about a waitress with a confused personal life, a distinctive talent for baking memorable pies, and two devoted waitress friends.