Musical (2005)
Book by Craig Lucas
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 9 – June 15, 2025
A beautifully produced musical about an American mother and daughter on a trip to Italy and the unexpected romance the daughter finds there.
Heads Up – Calliope’s Call:
Art Songs based on poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Concert
Calliope’s Call
Church of the Redeemer
379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA
May 16, 2025, 7:30pm
An upcoming concert of art songs based on the work of two iconic women poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Eclipse: Schreker, Goodyear, Mendelssohn, Carreño
Concert
A Far Cry
Featuring Stewart Goodyear, piano
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 9, 2025
A superb concert, including a piano concerto by the very young Mendelssohn, and some lesser known pieces, one of them composed by Stewart Goodyear who also plays a very mean piano here.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Play (2023)
by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 2-31, 2025
A lively, exuberant and, at times, poignant reflection on the lives and challenges of African immigrants in the United States.
Decoding Shosktakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 8
Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conducting
Baiba Skride, violin
Symphony Hall, Boston
May 3, 2025
A riveting program with a superb violin soloist in the first violin concerto, and a moving and tempestuous rendition of the long, varied and compelling middle-period eighth symphony.