Musical (1990)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
October 4 – 26, 2014
An unlikely musical about a gaggle of assassins – successful and attempted – of American presidents.
Musicals
Far From Heaven
Musical (2014)
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Book by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
September 12 – October 11, 2014
A surprisingly good musical adaptation of the eponymous 2002 film set in the 1950s about a woman, trapped in a marriage with a closeted gay man, who falls in love with her black gardener.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Musical (1979)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Directed and staged by
Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
September 5 – October 11, 2014
An earthy interpretation of the macabre Sondheim classic about a barber driven to mass murder.
Into The Woods
Musical (1986)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Catherine Stornetta
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
May 9 – June 29, 2014
A lively production of the celebrated quasi-Jungian Sondheim-Lapine fairy-tale extravaganza.
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
Emerson-Majestic Theater, Boston
May 20 – 31, 2014
A touchingly evocative, musically enhanced account of the life and death of Lincoln, told mainly through the character of the young doctor who attended to him at his death.