Musical (2010)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Conceived by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 15 – February 21, 2016
An exquisitely good film-enhanced musical production exhibiting the work and life of one of musical theater’s greatest lyricists and composers.
Citizens of the Empire
Play (2016)
A Space Opera by
Kevin Mullins
Directed by Lindsay Eagle
Boston Public Works
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 8 – 23, 2016
A space epic set eight hundred years in the future.
David Finckel, Wu Han,
David Shifrin
Concert
David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano
David Shifrin, clarinet
Works by Beethoven, Bruch, Brahms
Celebrity Series of Boston
Jordan Hall, Boston
January 15, 2016, 8pm
A delightfully nuanced account of an array of Romantic pieces for the somewhat unlikely combination of piano, cello and clarinet.
Violet
Musical (1997)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Brian Crawley
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 9 – February 6, 2016
A lively and very well produced musical about a young woman on a bus journey through the South in 1964 to visit a faith healer.
Disgraced
Play (2012)
by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area
January 8 – February 7, 2016
A comedic melodrama featuring a Pakistani Muslim corporate attorney in New York, his Caucasian American artist wife, a female African-American lawyer colleague, and her white Jewish-American art-dealer husband. Sparks fly.