Musical (2016)
Book, Music and Lyrics by
Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour
Directed by Taibi Magar
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
May 14 – June 23, 2019
A brilliant and explosively energetic account of the Arab Spring demonstrations in Cairo in 2011, and a more subdued account of the more dismal sequelae.
Musicals
Pacific Overtures
Musical (1976)
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
May 10 – June 16, 2019
A superb production of the offbeat Sondheim musical about the abrupt entry by the United States into Japan in the mid-nineteenth century.
Once
Musical (2011)
Book by Enda Walsh
Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Inglova
Based on the motion picture (2011)
Written and directed by John Carney
Directed by Paul Melone
Speakeasy Stage Company
March 1 – April 7, 2019
A wonderfully produced rendition of the musical based on the film about an Irish songwriter street musician and the Czech woman who inspires him.
Onegin
Musical (2016)
by Amiel Gladstone and
Veda Hille
Based on the poem by Pushkin and the opera by Tchaikovsky
U.S. Premiere
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
March 14-31, 2019
A lightened, musicalized version of the dramatic Pushkin poem and Tchaikovsky opera based on it.
Winter Panto: Paul Bunyan and the Winter of the Blue Snow
Play, Musical (2019)
by Matthew Woods and the Ensemble
Director: Matthew Woods
Imaginary Beasts
Charlestown Working Theater
Charlestown, MA
January 17 – February 10, 2019
A wonderfully rambunctious romp, full of endless gags, word play, and a high degree of energetic fun.