Film (2013)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
With Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
A psychological thriller with psychiatrists, patients and lawyers doing such an elaborately choreographed narrative tango it is hard to see them go by.
Boston Philharmonic:
Mahler’s 6th Symphony
Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theatre
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 21, 2013, 7:30pm
Repeated:
February 23, 2013, 8:00pm
(pre-concert talk @ 6:45pm)
Jordan Hall
Boston, MA
February 24, 2013, 3:00pm
(pre-concert talk @ 1:45pm)
Sanders Theatre
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Mahler’s long, complicated, rarely played masterwork in a beautiful rendition by Zander and the BPO, with Zander’s trademark introductory narrative – illuminating and entertaining – to light the path.
Oscar Nominated Short Films (2013)
Film
The array of short subject films, in the categories of live action and animation, up for Academy Awards this year.
American Utopias
Created and performed
by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Center Main Stage
Boston, MA
The raconteur and performance artist, made famous last year for his piece about the manufacturing of Apple devices in China, in an amalgamation of tales, about Burning Man, Disney World, and Zucchotti Park, the site of Occupy New York.
Rigoletto
Opera (1851)
by Giuseppi Verdi
Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
Live in HD
A delightfully inventive and irreverent new production of the Verdi classic set in Las Vegas in the 1960s, replete with a male chorus dressed like the Rat Pack.