Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Repeats, Saturday, 10/27, 8:00pm, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Sunday, 10/28, 3:00pm, Sanders Theater
Scintillating and moving renditions of the Prokoviev Violin Concerto No. 2, with former wunderkind, now wunder-young-adult, Stefan Jackiw, and of Strauss’s Don Quixote, with the Philharmonic’s dynamic principal cellist, Rafael Popper-Keizer, and an unfamiliar but interesting Sibelius piece to boot.
The Chosen
Play (1999)
Adapted by Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner
From the novel by Chaim Potok
Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Boston, MA
October 19 – November 17, 2012
A faithful rendition of the noted novel by Chaim Potok about two Orthodox Jewish boys and their fathers, one a Hasidic rebbe, the other a scholar.
Argo
Film (2012)
Directed by Ben Affleck
Somerville Theatre
Somerville, MA
A gripping and suspenseful account based on the true story of the heroic rescue of a group of Americans trapped in Iran in 1979 during the same time as the hostage crisis.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Film (2012)
Directed by Stephen Chbosky
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A beautifully written and wrought treatment of engagement and confrontation with self and others during adolescence.
Race
Play (2009)
by David Mamet
New Repertory Theatre
Watertown, MA
October 14 – November 4, 2012
A racially mixed group of lawyers faced with defending a white man in a racially-charged case.