Play (2019)
Written and directed by Lydia R. Diamond
Choreographed by Ebony Williams
Inspired by the book Curveball: The Remarkable True Story of Toni Stone (2010) by Martha Ackmann
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 17 – June 16, 2024
A nicely staged dramatization of the life and career of a talented female player in the Negro professional baseball leagues in the early 1950s.
Touching The Void
Play (2018)
Based on the book by Joe Simpson
Adapted by David Greig
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theatre Company
Chelsea, MA
April 19 – May 19, 2024
An inventive and riveting production based on an account of a mountaineering misadventure on the Siula Grande peak high in the Peruvian Andes.
Perception: Gubaildulina, Mozart, Bartók
Concert
A Far Cry
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area
May 10, 2024
Hanneke Cassel Band
Hanneke Cassel Band
Hanneke Cassel (fiddle), Keith Murphy (guitar, vocals), Jenna Moynihan (fiddle, vocals)
Club Passim
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
May 9, 2024, 8pm
Some wonderfully hot, Cape Breton style fiddling, with some more contemporary variations on the style.
The Drowsy Chaperone
Musical (1998)
Music and Lyrics by
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Directed and Choreographed by Larry Sousa
Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
April 5 – May 12, 2024
A brilliantly staged production of a musical about a guy who brings an imaginary classic musical to life in his mind’s eye.