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Life of Pi

January 19, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Richard Parker

Play (2022)
Based on the novel by Yann Martel
Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by Max Webster
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023
A beautifully executed rendering of the popular philosophical novel about a survivor of a shipwreck and the fanciful account of how he lasted at sea for 227 days accompanied by a tiger named Richard Parker.

Little Women: The Broadway Musical

December 9, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Alcott

Musical (2001)
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Book by Allan Knee
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed and Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern

A radiant production of a nicely written musical based on the famous book about four sisters from Concord, Massachusetts, set during the Civil War, superbly directed and choreographed.

The Orchard

November 4, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Play (2022)
Based on The Cherry Orchard (1903)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Igor Golyak
Emerson Paramount Theater, Boston
November 4-13, 2022 (& streaming)
With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jessica Hecht, Nael Nacer

An inventively interpreted and staged version of the classic about the loss of home and the vagaries of love.

On Beckett

October 27, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Bill Irwin

Performance (2022)
Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
October 28-30, 2022

A stupendous performance by the brilliant mime and actor Bill Irwin who leads a scintillating tour through works of Samuel Beckett, illuminating them with incisive commentary and hysterically funny clowning.

Ada and the Engine

October 6, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Mishy Jacobson as Ada Byron Lovelace

Play (2015)
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Debra Wise
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 22 – October 23, 2022

An excellent production of a very good play, set in the mid-nineteenth century, about Ada Lovelace, frequently regarded as the inventor of computer programming, and Charles Babbage who envisioned and designed the first computer.

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