Circus, Performance
by Cirque du Soleil
Directed by Diane Paulus
Marine Industrial Park
South Boston, MA
May 30 – July 6, 2014
A beautifully stylized circus performance loosely modeled on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
The Immigrant
Film (2013)
Directed by James Gray
With Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner
Kendall Square Cinema
A melodramatic period piece about a Polish immigrant in New York in the 1920s.
The Double
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Richard Ayoade
With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn
An adeptly and cleverly done adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella of the same name, with deft performances by its two stars.
Into The Woods
Musical (1986)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Catherine Stornetta
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
May 9 – June 29, 2014
A lively production of the celebrated quasi-Jungian Sondheim-Lapine fairy-tale extravaganza.
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
Emerson-Majestic Theater, Boston
May 20 – 31, 2014
A touchingly evocative, musically enhanced account of the life and death of Lincoln, told mainly through the character of the young doctor who attended to him at his death.