Musical (1959)
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by memoirs of
Gypsy Rose Lee
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 1 – October 8, 2017
A robust revival of the classic Broadway musical about the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her forceful stage mother.
Constellations
Play (2012)
by Nick Payne
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Central Square Theater
September 7 – October 8, 2017
With Marianna Bassham, Nael Nacer
A play about the cosmic possibility of multiple outcomes, featuring a romance between a cosmologist and a beekeeper, brought to life by two of Boston’s most compelling actors.
Reversible
Performance
Circus
Directed, Written and
Choreographed by Gypsy Snider
The 7 Fingers
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Theater District, Boston
September 6 – 24, 2017
An exquisitely conceived, choreographed and performed piece of acrobatic theater – touched lightly with narrative – by the ever-innovative Montreal circus troupe.
Tulip Fever
Film (2017)
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Screenplay Tom Stoppard and
Deborah Moggach
Based on the novel by
Deborah Moggach
With Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, Judi Dench
A romantic drama set in The Netherlands of the mid-seventeenth century when painters were prolific and rapidly inflated tulip bulbs became worth fortunes overnight.
Menashe
Film (2017)
Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein
With Menashe Lustig (Menashe)
A poignant, artfully done, film, almost entirely in Yiddish (with subtitles), about a young widower in a Brooklyn Hasidic community who attempts to raise his young son in spite of strong challenges from within it.