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The Half-Life of Marie Curie

November 15, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Marie Curie

Play (2019)
by Lauren Gunderson
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 11 – December 12, 2021

Set in 1912, a drama about the friendship between Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie and British mechanical engineer Bertha Aryton during a particularly difficult time in Curie’s life.

My Name is Pauli Murray

October 1, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Pauli Murray

Documentary Film (2021)
Directed by Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Amazon Studios

A superbly done documentary about the pathbreaking civil and gender rights activist.

Parade

December 12, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Leo Lucille

Musical (1998)
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry

An excellent production of the musical based on a true story about Leo Frank, a Jew who was unjustly indicted for a murder in Atlanta in 1914.

On The Town in Concert

June 1, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

On The Town graphic

Musical (1944)
in semi-staged concert format
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Betty Comden and
Adolph Green
Conductor: Keith Lockhart
The Boston Pops Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston
June 1, 2018, 8pm

A superbly rendered semi-staged version of the early Bernstein musical about three sailors on leave in New York City.

Steven Blier, Artistic Director, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS)

October 31, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Steven Blier

Interview
October 31, 2017

A discussion with the noted accompanist, voice teacher, and artistic director of the eminent vocal music series, New York Festival of Song, now celebrating its thirtieth season, about their upcoming Bernstein centennial celebration concert in New York featuring Songfest (1977), Bernstein’s acclaimed work based on poems by thirteen noted American authors.

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