Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
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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.
Performance Art
Sontag: Reborn
Play, Performance Piece with Film
By The Builders Association
Directed by Marianne Weems
Adapted and Performed by
Moe Angelos
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theatre, Boston, MA
May 6 – 18, 2014
An exquisitely designed piece based on Susan Sontag’s journals.
Up and Coming:
Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna
Circus, Performance
Directed by Diane Paulus
Cirque du Soleil
Boston Marine Industrial Park on the Waterfront, Boston, MA
5/29/2014 –
Tickets to the general public go on sale on 2/28/2014. Presale tickets to Cirque Club members available beforehand. (Please check Amaluna event website to confirm details.)
A show directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus – which sounds like an interesting feminist adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – featuring a mysterious island, its queen, Prospera, her daughter, and some shipwrecked suitors.
Man In A Case
Play, Performance, Dance
Adapted from two short stories
by Anton Chekhov
Baryshnikov Productions
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Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston
February 25 – March 2, 2014
With Mikhail Baryshnikov
Two short pieces about lost love comprise this multimedia evening made particularly festive by the presence of the great ballet dancer turned actor.
American Utopias
Created and performed
by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Center Main Stage
Boston, MA
The raconteur and performance artist, made famous last year for his piece about the manufacturing of Apple devices in China, in an amalgamation of tales, about Burning Man, Disney World, and Zucchotti Park, the site of Occupy New York.