Musical (2013)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the graphic novel by
Alison Bechdel
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 19 – November 24, 2018
A nicely produced version of the Broadway hit based on a graphic novel about growing up gay in a household with a gay father who is in a heterosexual marriage.
Macbeth
Play (1606)
by William Shakespeare
In a Modern Verse Translation
by Migdalia Cruz
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The United Parish in Brookline
Brookline, MA
September 26 – November 11, 2018
With Nael Nacer as Macbeth
An excellent production of a nicely “translated” version of the great Scottish tragedy about a leader who just could not keep his ego in check.
The Barber of Seville
Opera (1816)
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Cutler-Majestic Theater
Theater district, Boston
October 12-21, 2018
A lively, nicely designed, very entertaining rendition of the opera buffa about the clever barber Figaro and his clientele.
Equivocation
Play (2009)
by Bill Cain
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Sanctuary at The United Parish in Brookline
210 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
October 11 – November 10, 2018
A dramatically detailed speculation on the genesis of the writing of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, playing in repertory with the Scottish tragedy itself, making use of much of the same masterful cast.
Colette
Film (2018)
Directed by Wash Westmoreland
With Keira Knightley, Dominic West
A pointed, well-crafted, and persuasive biopic about the talented late nineteenth-century French novelist.