Concert
Songs by Wolf, Mahler, Schoenberg, Strauss, and others.
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, Artistic Directors
Calderwood Hall
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Sunday, November 9, 2014, 1:30 PM
An exploration of Romantic-era art songs from a psychological perspective, brought to Boston by the pianistic and vocal masters of The New York Festival of Song.
Up, and Coming:
Assassins
Musical (1990)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
October 4 – 26, 2014
An unlikely musical about a gaggle of assassins – successful and attempted – of American presidents.
Traces
Circus Performance
Les 7 Doigts de la Main
Direction and Choreography by Shana Carroll
and Gypsy Snider
Acrobatic Coaching by
Sébastien Soldevila
ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
October 1 – 12, 2014
A first-rate acrobatic entertainment couched in a subtle narrative about survival, self-revelation and mutual interdependency.
Tracks
Film (2013)
Directed by John Curran
Screenplay by Marion Nelson
based on a memoir by
Robyn Davidson
With Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver
Based on a true story, a moving account of a woman who walks across the Australian outback accompanied by her dog and four camels.
The Green Prince
Film (2014)
Directed by Nadav Schirman
Based on the memoir
Son of Hamas (2010)
by Mosab Hassan Yousef
With Mosab Hassan Yousef,
Gonen Ben Itzhak
A moving documentary about the relationship between an operative in the Israeli Secret Service (the Shin Bet), and the so-called Green Prince, the son of a Hamas leader in the West Bank.