Play (2007)
by Moisés Kaufman
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Boston, MA
January 4 – February 2, 2013
An ingeniously interwoven narrative about Beethoven and his authoring of the Diabelli Variations, and a contemporary musicologist who tries to uncover their secrets, in a beautifully tuned production.
Invisible Man
Play (2012)
Adapted for the stage
by Oren Jacoby
Based on the novel
by Ralph Ellison
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
January 4 – February 3, 2013
A heartfelt and dutiful recapitulation of the numerous episodes from the novel, with ten actors playing twenty-five characters, surrounded by many videos projected on a background of multiple screens.
Pippin
Musical (1972)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
December 5, 2012 –
January 20, 2013
A revival of the 70s musical, putatively about Charlemagne’s son, but mostly about growing up, enhanced by the wonderful circus arts of Les 7 Doigts de la Main from Montreal.
Looking Up!
Copper Sculptures by John M. Field
Inspired by the Art of the Weathervane
The Somerville Armory
Somerville, MA
December 1 -31, 2012
To be shown again at:
The Quaker Meeting
Cambridge, MA
March – April 2013
An exhibit of about ten different pieces done in hammered and shaped copper – whimsical, touching and graceful – all functional as weathervanes.
Django Unchained
Film (2012)
Written and Directed by
Quentin Tarantino
A brutally violent takeoff on a shoot ’em up Western, with the notable and distinctive enhancements of a German bounty hunter and a freed African-American slave.