Circus
Varekai: Tales of the Forest
Written and directed by
Dominic Champagne
Cirque du Soleil
Aggasis Arena, Boston University
925 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
July 15 – 19, 2015
Tickets
Another seasoned installment in the great Cirque du Soleil pantheon, this time with “wandering” as the theme.
Circus
Traces
Circus Performance
Les 7 Doigts de la Main
Direction and Choreography by Shana Carroll
and Gypsy Snider
Acrobatic Coaching by
Sébastien Soldevila
ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
October 1 – 12, 2014
A first-rate acrobatic entertainment couched in a subtle narrative about survival, self-revelation and mutual interdependency.
Amaluna
Circus, Performance
by Cirque du Soleil
Directed by Diane Paulus
Marine Industrial Park
South Boston, MA
May 30 – July 6, 2014
A beautifully stylized circus performance loosely modeled on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Up and Coming:
Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna
Circus, Performance
Directed by Diane Paulus
Cirque du Soleil
Boston Marine Industrial Park on the Waterfront, Boston, MA
5/29/2014 –
Tickets to the general public go on sale on 2/28/2014. Presale tickets to Cirque Club members available beforehand. (Please check Amaluna event website to confirm details.)
A show directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus – which sounds like an interesting feminist adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – featuring a mysterious island, its queen, Prospera, her daughter, and some shipwrecked suitors.
Pippin
Musical (1972)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
December 5, 2012 –
January 20, 2013
A revival of the 70s musical, putatively about Charlemagne’s son, but mostly about growing up, enhanced by the wonderful circus arts of Les 7 Doigts de la Main from Montreal.