April 16, 2010 Rehearsing The MIT Symphony Orchestra and April 17, 2010 In discussion with composers John Harbison and Tod Machover (moderated by journalist Maria Hinojosa) Kresge Auditorium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Gustavo Dudamel, new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the longer-time director of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in […]
Opus
Play by Michael Hollinger Directed by Jim Petosa With Shelley Bolman, Benjamin Evett, Michael Kaye, Becky Webber, Bates Wilder New Repertory Theatre Arsenal Center for the Arts Watertown, MA ” When Ben Evett walks on stage with his violin at the opening of this wonderful drama about the life of a string quartet, he looks […]
Becky Shaw
Play by Gina Gionfriddo Directed by Peter DuBois With Maureen Anderman, Seth Fisher, Wendy Hoopes, Eli James, Keira Naughton Huntington Theatre Company at Boston University Theatre, Boston, MA What a wonderful comedy of terrible, caustic manners this is. The stage of the Boston University Theatre comes bitterly alive under the auspices of this tight and […]
Paradise Lost
by Clifford Odets Directed by Daniel Fish American Repertory Theatre Cambridge, MA This is a big and long play, in three acts, and each of the first two runs almost an hour. The first act is heavily populated by characters, and decentered in action in not a particularly anticipatory way. The setting is the home […]
Celebrating Lukas Foss
Alea III Contemporary Music Ensemble in Residence at Boston University Tsai Performance Center Boston University Boston, MA Lukas Foss was a celebrated professor of music at Boston University for many years, and a composer of international renown, who died last year at the age of 86. In 1967, when Mstislav Rostropovich, the late great Russian […]