Hanneke Cassel Band
Hanneke Cassel (fiddle), Keith Murphy (guitar, vocals), Jenna Moynihan (fiddle, vocals)
Club Passim
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
May 9, 2024, 8pm
Some wonderfully hot, Cape Breton style fiddling, with some more contemporary variations on the style.
The Drowsy Chaperone
Musical (1998)
Music and Lyrics by
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Directed and Choreographed by Larry Sousa
Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
April 5 – May 12, 2024
A brilliantly staged production of a musical about a guy who brings an imaginary classic musical to life in his mind’s eye.
A Strange Loop
Musical (2022)
Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Music Direction by David Freeman Coleman
Speakeasy Stage Company and
Front Porch Arts Collective
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
April 26 – May 25, 2024
A heartbreakingly funny account of a character who wants to write a musical called A Strange Loop and who engages with all of the challenging thoughts he encounters while trying to do so.
Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
Musical (2023)
Music and Lyrics by
Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez
Book by Lisa Loomer
Based on the play by Josefina Lopez and
HBO’s Real Women Have Curves
Directed and Choreographed by Sergio Trujillo
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2023 – January 21, 2024
An exuberant celebration of the lives and ambitions of a group of Latino women working at a dressmaking business in Los Angeles.
Immortal:
Late Mozart and Schubert String Quintets
Concert
A Far Cry
Pickman Concert Hall
Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
December 17, 2023
A festival of very late quintets by two amazing geniuses who died way too young.