Concert
Ave Verum Corpus, KV 618
Requiem, KV 626
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Spectrum Singers
John W. Ehrlich, Music Director
First Church Congregational
Cambridge, MA
March 7, 2015
An excellent account of the evocative religious work written by Mozart near the end of his life.
Tristan and Iseult
Play
Directed and adapted by Emma Rice
Written by Carl Grose and
Anna Maria Murphy
Produced by Kneehigh
at ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Theater District, Boston, MA
March 5-15, 2015
A lively and offbeat entertainment based on the myth, and the Wagnerian opera, about the ill-fated lovers.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Film (2015)
Directed by John Madden
With Maggie Smith, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A second installment in the aging-but-not-dead-yet set finding personal and romantic renewal in India.
Intimate Apparel
Play (2003)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Lyric Stage Company
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
February 13 – March 14, 2015
A great production of a wonderful play about an African-American seamstress in New York in 1905.
St. John’s Passion
Concert
Oratorio
by Johann Sesbastian Bach
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman, Conductor
Jordan Hall, Boston
February 27-28, 2015
A beautiful rendition of the famed and controversial oratorio.