Musical (2008)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Co-Directed by Spiro Veloudos and Ilyse Robbins
Music Director: Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 12 – February 11, 2018
A thoroughly competent and sometimes rousing account of the latest Stephen Sondheim musical, now ten years old, based on the historic lives of the Mizner brothers who made their names as con artists in business during the first part of the twentieth century.
The Liar
Play (2013)
by David Ives
Adapted from the comedy (1644) by Pierre Corneille
Directed by Marta Rainer
Wellesley Repertory Theatre
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
January 11 – February 4, 2018
A wonderfully acted and beautifully written farce by contemporary playwright David Ives, based on a comedy by seventeenth century French playwright Pierre Corneille.
Phantom Thread
Film (2017)
Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
With Daniel Day-Lewis
Set in London in the 1950s, a portrait of a charismatic and narcissistic middle-aged dress designer, and the story of his encounter with a young waitress who takes up with him.
Hold These Truths
Play
by Jeanne Sakata
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
December 1-31, 2017
An incisive show about a Japanese-American man, Gordon Hirabayashi, who resisted domestic internment during World War II, was imprisoned as a result, and who subsequently fought for his exoneration in an extensive court battle.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Play (1970)
by Dario Fo
Directed by James Peter Sotis
Praxis Stage
First Church
Marlborough Street, Boston
November 30 – December 17, 2017
An intimate account on the now classic comic-surrealistic take on an historic account of the mysterious death of an anarchist held in police custody.