Concert
From Russia to Riverside Drive:
Rachmaninoff & Friends
Rachmaninoff’s ravishing romanticism and
his American contemporaries
Songs by Rachmaninoff, Ellington, Gershwin, Schillinger
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier, Artistic Director
Michael Barrett,
Associate Artistic Director
with
Dina Kuznetsova, soprano
Shea Owens, baritone
Dalti Warshaw, theremin
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
Another fascinating offering from the brilliant, distinguished and totally fun group of musicians from New York who bring classical and popular vocal music together in inventive ways.
Up and Coming:
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Musical (2013)
Book by Doug McGrath
Words and Music by
Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
The Boston Opera House
Washington Street, Boston
Through November 15, 2015
An entertaining and well-staged account of the early life and career of the singer/songwriter.
Copenhagen
Play (1998)
by Michael Frayn
Directed by Eric Tucker
Central Square Theater
October 1 – November 15, 2015
With Steven Barkhimer, Robert_Najarian, Debra Wise, Han Nah Son
A superbly good rendition of the dense, thoughtful and deeply interesting play about the mysterious and celebrated meeting between the fathers of quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, in 1941.
Suffragette
Film (2015)
Directed by Sarah Gavron
Screenplay by Abi Morgan
With Carey Mulligan Helena Bonham-Carter,Meryl Streep
A well made account about the militant movement for women’s rights in Britain in the early twentieth century.
Labyrinth of Lies
Film (2014)
Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli
A dramatized account of the investigations of surviving Nazis in Germany leading to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials held in the early 1960s.