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.
Performance Art
American Utopias
Created and performed
by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
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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.
The Residents
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.
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
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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
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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.