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.
What Makes It Great: with Rob Kapilow
Copland’s Appalachian Spring
Concert, Lecture
Copland’s Appalachian Spring:
Rob Kapilow, commentary
Celebrity Series of Boston
A Far Cry, chamber orchestra
February 5, 2023, 3pm
Jordan Hall
Symphony Hall area, Boston
A fascinating analysis, with live illustrations, of the great twentieth century composition, followed by a superb execution of the original chamber version by the inimitable A Far Cry.
Preludes
Musical (2015)
Music, Lyrics, Book and Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square Area, Boston
January 6 – February 5, 2023An interesting, semi-historical, psychologically-oriented exploration of a difficult period in the great nineteenth century Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s life and career.