Concert
A Far Cry
Musical arrangements by
Alex Fortes
Featuring Estelí Gomez, Soprano
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall Area, Boston
November 18, 2022
A stupendous concert – lively, inventive, warm, inspiring, fun, and impeccably rendered.
The Orchard
Play (2022)
Based on The Cherry Orchard (1903)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Igor Golyak
Emerson Paramount Theater, Boston
November 4-13, 2022 (& streaming)
With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jessica Hecht, Nael Nacer
An inventively interpreted and staged version of the classic about the loss of home and the vagaries of love.
The Prodigal Son
Opera (1968)
by Benjamin Britten
A Parable for Church Performance
Enigma Chamber Opera
Live October 21-22, 2022 7pm
The Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston
Streaming 28 October 2022 7pm ET through 4 November 2022
Intimately staged, a beautifully sung and wonderfully played account of one of the three so-called church parables of Benjamin Britten.
On Beckett
Performance (2022)
Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
October 28-30, 2022
A stupendous performance by the brilliant mime and actor Bill Irwin who leads a scintillating tour through works of Samuel Beckett, illuminating them with incisive commentary and hysterically funny clowning.
Triangle of Sadness
Film (2022)
Written and directed by Ruben Östlund
AMC Boston Common, Boston
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A dark satire on power and social relationships, winner of the 2022 Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Reviewed by Tim Jackson