Concert, Performance, Play
Conceived and Created by
Judy Hegarty Lovett,
Paul Clark, Conor Lovett and
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Includes texts by
Samuel Beckett
Director: Judy Hegarty Lovett
Composer/Musical Director:
Paul Clark
Gare St. Lazare Ireland
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Washington Street
Theater District, Boston
October 5 – 9, 2016
A wonderfully performed piece – a kind of existentialist chamber oratorio – using words by Samuel Beckett with music by Paul Clark.
Performance Art
Machine de Cirque
Circus, Performance
Machine de Cirque
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Mainstage
Theater District, Boston
September 21 – October 2, 2016
A terrific, fun, entertaining show of circus acts, some unconventional, with five or so relaxed, hip circus artists and a brilliant musician.
Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education
Performance, Play (2016)
Created, Written and Performed by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Leonard Foglia
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
August 20 – September 17, 2016
A superbly conceived and delivered, and very moving, inquiry into racism, schools and incarceration.
Cuisine & Confessions
Circus, Performance
Creation and staging by
Shana Carroll and
Sebastien Soldevila
Les 7 Doigts de la Main
(The 7 Fingers)
in conjunction with ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Theater District, Boston
July 12 – August 7, 2016
The small, imaginative, Montreal-based circus is back with some great moments stitched together loosely with a theme based on cooking.
In The Body Of The World
Play, Performance Piece (2016)
Written and performed by
Eve Ensler
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University,
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 10-29, 2016
A moving and evocative solo performance piece about illness, environmental disaster, human violence, and hope written and performed Eve Ensler, best known as the author of the highly successful and influential play The Vagina Monologues (1996).