Musical (1976)
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
May 10 – June 16, 2019
A superb production of the offbeat Sondheim musical about the abrupt entry by the United States into Japan in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Opera (2019)
Music by Poul Ruders
Libretto by Paul Bentley
Based on the novel by
Margaret Atwood
Conductor: David Angus
Stage Director: Anne Bogart
Boston Lyric Opera
Ray Lavietes Pavilion
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
May 5-12, 2019
A compelling production of a contemporary opera based on the celebrated dystopian novel set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the near future, about sex slavery under a faith-based totalitarian regime.
Wild Nights With Emily
Film (2018)
Written and directed by
Madeleine Olnek
Guest review by
Alfred Clemente, Ph.D.
An outraged response to a recent film that purports to accurately depict Emily Dickinson’s private life.
Dogman
Film (2019)
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Screenplay by Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso
In Italian
A dark and troubling story about a nebbishy dog groomer in a small town in Italy who is tormented by the town bully.
Heads Up:
This Place/Displaced
Plays
by Stephanie K. Brownell, Kirsten Greenidge, David Valdes Greenwood, MJ Halberstadt, Manuel Aquiles López Torres, Jaymes Sanchez and Livian Yeh
Directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden,
Artists’ Theater of Boston
in collaboration with the
Department of Creativity, Arts and Social Transformation
Brandeis University
The Merrick Theater
at Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
May 2-4, 2019
A remounting of a production about housing justice which was done in the city (at Charlestown Working Theater) last summer and which now, in collaboration with Brandeis, is bringing its potent urban message to those in suburbia and exurbia.