Musical Revue (1981)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim
Conceived and Developed
by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 6 – 27, 2013
A delightful, compact repackaging of a collection of Sondheim songs that almost made it into various of his shows.
Silver Linings Playbook
Film (2012)
Written and directed
by David O. Russell
A film about a man with bipolar disorder who develops a friendship with a woman who faces mental and emotional challenges of her own.
33 Variations
Play (2007)
by Moisés Kaufman
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Boston, MA
January 4 – February 2, 2013
An ingeniously interwoven narrative about Beethoven and his authoring of the Diabelli Variations, and a contemporary musicologist who tries to uncover their secrets, in a beautifully tuned production.
Invisible Man
Play (2012)
Adapted for the stage
by Oren Jacoby
Based on the novel
by Ralph Ellison
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
January 4 – February 3, 2013
A heartfelt and dutiful recapitulation of the numerous episodes from the novel, with ten actors playing twenty-five characters, surrounded by many videos projected on a background of multiple screens.
Pippin
Musical (1972)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
December 5, 2012 –
January 20, 2013
A revival of the 70s musical, putatively about Charlemagne’s son, but mostly about growing up, enhanced by the wonderful circus arts of Les 7 Doigts de la Main from Montreal.