Opera (1816)
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Cutler-Majestic Theater
Theater district, Boston
October 12-21, 2018
A lively, nicely designed, very entertaining rendition of the opera buffa about the clever barber Figaro and his clientele.
Equivocation
Play (2009)
by Bill Cain
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Sanctuary at The United Parish in Brookline
210 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
October 11 – November 10, 2018
A dramatically detailed speculation on the genesis of the writing of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, playing in repertory with the Scottish tragedy itself, making use of much of the same masterful cast.
Colette
Film (2018)
Directed by Wash Westmoreland
With Keira Knightley, Dominic West
A pointed, well-crafted, and persuasive biopic about the talented late nineteenth-century French novelist.
The Niceties
Play (2018)
by Eleanor Burgess
World Premiere
Directed by Kimberly Senior
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
August 31 – October 6, 2018
A searing two-woman university drama pitting an African-American student against her middle-aged white English professor.
Between Riverside and Crazy
Play (2014)
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 14 – October 13, 2018
A tragicomedy about an African-American off-duty cop in New York, wounded by a white cop, being pressured into accepting a financial settlement in exchange for withdrawing charges.