Concert-Play-Performance
by Ethan Lipton
Music composed and performed by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box, Paramount Theater
February 20 – 22, 2014
A wry, witty, poignant, powerful, fun and musically superb theatre-concert piece about the travails of unemployment.
Musicals
Witness Uganda
Musical (2014)
by Matt Gould and
Griffin Matthews
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 4 – March 16, 2014
A vividly honest and vibrant musical about the life and aspirations of a young American relief worker, and the people he encounters in Africa.
Working
Musical (1977)
From the book by Studs Terkel
Adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
Directed and Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
Music Direction by
Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
January 3 – February 1, 2014
An unexpectedly lively show with no plot, but with a lot of short, entertaining profiles about people working in all sorts of different contexts.
Pacific Overtures
Musical (1976)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Stage Direction by Jim Petosa
Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Boston University College of
Fine Arts
School of Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts
12/13 – 12/19/2013
An imaginatively staged version of the rarely performed Sondheim musical about the opening of Japan to the West in the mid-nineteenth century.
Camelot
Musical (1960)
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Directed and choreographed by Russell Garrett
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
November 23 – December 22, 2013
A lively, beautifully acted and sung, rendition of the musical (now over 50 years old) about King Arthur, Guenevere, Lancelot, knightly glories and benighted destinies.