Opera (1887)
Music by Jules Massenet
Conductor David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Performing Arts Center
Shubert Theater
Theater District, Boston
March 11-20, 2016
A wonderful production of the Massenet opera inspired by Goethe’s early hit The Sorrows of the Young Werther (1774) about disappointed love.
How I Learned What I Learned
Play
by August Wilson
Co-conceived and Directed by
Todd Kreidler
Featuring Eugene Lee
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 5 – April 3, 2016
A moving and entertaining rendition of playwright August Wilson’s background and early influences.
H.M.S. Pinafore
Operetta (1878)
by W.S. Gilbert and
Arthur Sullivan
Co-Adapted by Sean Graney,
Andra Velis Simon and Matt Kahler
Directed by Sean Graney
Music Directed by
Andra Velis Simon
Oberon at American Repertory Theater
in association with The Hypocrites
Oberon Theater, Arrow Street,
Harvard Square, Cambridge
March 8 – 20, 2016
Gilbert and Sulli-fun to the max, with lots of original material, but done up and recharged in all sorts of ways, entertaining and musically tight.
Art
Play (1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Fran Weinberg
Arts After Hours
Lynn Arts
25 Exchange Street, Lynn, MA
March 4 – 19, 2016
An excellent production of the witty and moving dramatic comedy about three middle-aged men who argue about the merits of an almost all-white painting that one of them has just purchased at extravagant cost.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Film (2016)
Directed by Glenn Ficarra and
John Requa
Screenplay by Robert Carlock
Based on the memoir
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days
in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Kim Barker
With Tina Fey, Margot Robbie,
Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina,
Billy Bob Thornton
A wonderfully done and surprisingly amusing account based somewhat loosely on the life and career of Kim Barker who became a war correspondent in Afghanistan in 2003.