Musical (1964)
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Robert W. Schneider
North Shore Music Theatre
Beverly, MA
June 4-16, 2024
A lively and beautifully staged version of the now classic musical about Jewish life in a small village in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.
Toni Stone
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.