Opera, with additional songs
Opera by Béla Bartók
Libretto by Béla Balázs
Arranged by Eberhard Kloke
Songs By Alma Mahler
Conductor: David Angus
Stage Director: Anne Bogart
Boston Lyric Opera
The Terminal @ Flynn Cruiseport Boston
South Boston, MA
March 22-26, 2023
A stupendously staged and beautifully produced account of the only opera Bartók wrote, with several compelling songs by the legendary Alma Mahler.
Inside
Film (2023)
Directed by Vasilis Katsoupis
Screenplay by Ben Hopkins
Based on an idea by Vasilis Katsoupis
With Willem Dafoe
Reviewed by Tim Jackson
A high class art thief gets inadvertently locked inside in a fancy New York apartment after things go awry and is put to the test in order to survive.
The Wife of Willesden
Play (2023)
Adapted by Zadie Smith
From The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham
A Kiln Theatre Production
American Repertory Theater
February 25 – March 17, 2023
A plausible, sometimes lively, adaptation of the famous Chaucer tale transposed into the modern era, with the internal tale itself moved from England to Jamaica.
Fairview
Play (2019)
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 17 – March 11, 2023
More of a theater event than a play per se, an unsettling reflection on racism that starts with a domestic comedy and takes off from there.
Jonathan Wilson, author of the new novel “The Red Balcony”
Interview
A recent interview with the author of a new novel, set in Palestine under the British Mandate in 1933, about the assassination of Haim Arlosoroff, a young Jew who worked out a deal with the Nazis to release Jews from Germany to Palestine.