Circus Performance
Les 7 Doigts de la Main
Direction and Choreography by Shana Carroll
and Gypsy Snider
Acrobatic Coaching by
Sébastien Soldevila
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Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
October 1 – 12, 2014
A first-rate acrobatic entertainment couched in a subtle narrative about survival, self-revelation and mutual interdependency.
Performance Art
Eugene Onegin
Play
based on the poem Eugene Onegin (1833) by Alexander Pushkin
Directed by Rimas Tuminas
Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia
Cherry Orchard Festival
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Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
June 6-7, 2014
A dramatized version of the poem by Pushkin, with some innovative staging.
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
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.
Sontag: Reborn
Play, Performance Piece with Film
By The Builders Association
Directed by Marianne Weems
Adapted and Performed by
Moe Angelos
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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.