Musical
by Robert Brustein
Directed by Matthew ‘Motl’ Didner
Musical arrangements by
Hankus Netsky
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
February 9 – March 8, 2015
A very entertaining and musically exuberant confection about immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side of New York
Musicals
Into The Woods
Film (2014)
Based on the musical by
Stephen Sondheim
and James Lapine
Directed by Rob Marshall
A superb rendition of the celebrated Sondheim musical based on the unexpected interactions of traditional fairy tale characters.
Assassins
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.
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.