Circus
Cirque du Soleil
Founder: Guy Laliberte
Chief Creative Officer and Creative Guide: Jean-Francois Bouchard
Writer and director: Daniele Finzi Pasca
Director of creation: Patricia Ruel
Suffolk Downs Racetrack
Revere, MA
June 27 – August 12, 2018
An exquisitely designed and performed production, this time on a Mexican theme, with astounding juggling, acrobatics, clowning, contortionism, and much more.
Billy Novick and Guy Van Duser
Concert
Billy Novick, clarinet
Guy Van Duser, guitar
Club Passim
Cambridge, MA
August 4, 2018, 8:00pm
An astonishingly good pair of musicians, now celebrating an astonishing 42 years of musical collaboration.
Moulin Rouge! (The Musical)
Musical (2018)
Book by John Logan based on the 2001 Twentieth Century Fox motion picture directed by Baz Luhrmann
Directed by Alex Timbers
Emerson Colonial Theatre
Boston
Through August 19, 2018
With Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein
An over-the-top staged musical extravaganza based on the over-the-top 2001 cinematic extravaganza by Baz Luhrmann.
Richard III
Play (1593)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Steven Maler
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common, Boston
July 18 – August 5, 2018
With Faran Tahir as Richard
An excellent production of the classic Shakespearean drama about a megalomaniac chief executive and all the damage he manages to do.
An American in Paris
Musical (2015)
Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Book by Craig Lucas
Inspired by the film
An American in Paris (1951)
Director and Choreographer:
Jeffry Denman
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit, Maine
July 11 – August 4, 2018
A superlative production of the newly adapted musical based on the classic 1951 film inspired by George Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral piece inspired by his time in Paris in the late 1920s.