Opera (1968)
by Benjamin Britten
A Parable for Church Performance
Enigma Chamber Opera
Live October 21-22, 2022 7pm
The Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston
Streaming 28 October 2022 7pm ET through 4 November 2022
Intimately staged, a beautifully sung and wonderfully played account of one of the three so-called church parables of Benjamin Britten.
On Beckett
Performance (2022)
Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
October 28-30, 2022
A stupendous performance by the brilliant mime and actor Bill Irwin who leads a scintillating tour through works of Samuel Beckett, illuminating them with incisive commentary and hysterically funny clowning.
Triangle of Sadness
Film (2022)
Written and directed by Ruben Östlund
AMC Boston Common, Boston
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A dark satire on power and social relationships, winner of the 2022 Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Reviewed by Tim Jackson
Tár
Film (2022)
Written and directed by Todd Field
With Cate Blanchett
A film about an acclaimed woman orchestra conductor who is suffering from stress and other psychological ailments.
Ada and the Engine
Play (2015)
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Debra Wise
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 22 – October 23, 2022
An excellent production of a very good play, set in the mid-nineteenth century, about Ada Lovelace, frequently regarded as the inventor of computer programming, and Charles Babbage who envisioned and designed the first computer.