Concert Performance
Wonder of Weird
The 40th Anniversary Tour
by The Residents
Co-presented by
World Music/CRASHarts
and ICA/Boston
at the ICA
(Institute of Contemporary Art)
Boston, MA
A stop on the 40th anniversary tour for this idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, prankster-punk band, a masked trio that blends incantation and recollection within an evocative framework of electronic buzz, rhythmic beats and narrative performance.
Performance Art
La Belle et La Bête (Beauty and the Beast)
Theater Performance (2012)
Created and Directed by
Michel Lemieux & Victor Pilon
Created and Written by
Pierre Yves Lemieux
Lemieux Pilon 4D Art
ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
December 5 – 9, 2012
A psychological, and contemporary, version of the traditional tale rendered with spectacular technical stagecraft, involving striking video projections and holograms.
The Pianist of Willesden Lane
Play, with music (2012)
Adapted and directed by
Hershey Felder
With Mona Golabek
ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
November 23 – December 16, 2012
A riveting account of the real-life experience of the talented pianist Lisa Jura – the mother of the performer, Mona Golabek – who grew up in Vienna and was saved from the Nazis in 1938 by means of the kindertransport which at the eleventh hour spirited 10,000 Jewish children abroad.
George Gershwin Alone
Pianist and actor Hershey Felder returns with his show about George Gershwin to the Boston stage. I saw it, and was enthralled, ten (or so) years ago when he first performed it in the Boston area, at the American Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has taken it on the road, and has done it 3500 (or so) times – a long road.
69 Degrees S. (The Shackelton Project)
Performance by Phantom Limb Arts Emerson Paramount Center Mainstage Boston, MA February 7 – 12, 2012 Directed by Sophie Hunter Choreographed by Andrea Miller Video Design by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty Music Composed by Erik Sanko Conceived in Collaboration with David Harrington/Kronos Quartet Recorded Performance by Kronos Quartet Live Performance and Additional Music by […]