Play (1995)
by Terrence McNally
Directed by
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
March 31 – April 21, 2013
Maria Callas, the noted Greek-American soprano, gives a master class to several vocal students, none of whom is particularly prepared for the intensity of her instruction.
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
Play (2012)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
March 29 – April 27, 2013
A dramatic reflection on the careers of black actresses in Hollywood as they took shape in the 1930s.
Clybourne Park
Play (2010)
by Bruce Norris
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
March 1 – April 6, 2013
A superb production of a superb play, set in the same house in Chicago alluded to in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, and taking place in two acts, one in 1959, the other in 2009.
No
Film (2012)
Directed by Pablo Larraín
With Gael García Bernal
In 1988, fifteen years into the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, as a result of international pressure, a public referendum was held to determine whether the regime should be reinstated for another eight years or yield to the political opposition. This film is the story of the people involved in the advertising campaign for the opposition camp, the “NO” side, in the period leading up to the vote.
Così fan tutte
Opera (1790)
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
English Translation by Marmaduke E. Browne,
revised by John Cox
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Performing Arts Center / Shubert Theatre
Boston, MA
March 15, 17m, 20, 22, 24m, 2013
A stunningly good production of the Mozart classic, with excellent singing, acting and staging; extremely funny and entertaining to boot.