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.
Plays
The Cherry Orchard
Play (1904)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Pine Manor College
Chestnut Hill, MA
February 12 – March 9, 2014
The last of Chekhov’s plays, about an aristocracy in decline, done in a regal setting.
No Place To Go
Concert-Play-Performance
by Ethan Lipton
Music composed and performed by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
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Liebergott Black Box, Paramount Theater
February 20 – 22, 2014
A wry, witty, poignant, powerful, fun and musically superb theatre-concert piece about the travails of unemployment.
Witness Uganda
Musical (2014)
by Matt Gould and
Griffin Matthews
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 4 – March 16, 2014
A vividly honest and vibrant musical about the life and aspirations of a young American relief worker, and the people he encounters in Africa.
The Whipping Man
Play (2006)
by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 25 – February 15, 2014
A play about a Jewish Confederate soldier who returns home after the Civil War to encounter two former slaves of his family.