Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Music Director
Conductors: Andris Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Williams
Host: Audra McDonald
With Midori, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kian Soltani, cello; Jessica Zhou, harp; Nadine Sierra, soprano; Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Hampson, baritone; James Darrah, stage direction; Joshua Bergasse, choreography
Additional vocalists: Isabel Leonard, Jessica Vosk, Tony Yazbeck, Clyde Alves, DJ Petrosino, Ryan Ghysels, Christopher Rice, Alex Ringler, Clay Thomson, Mikey Winslow
Tanglewood Festival Chorus: James Burton, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center
Lenox, MA
Saturday, August 25, 2018, 8pm
An embarrassment of musical riches offered in tribute to Leonard Bernstein on the exact occasion of his hundredth birthday.
True West
Play (1983)
by Sam Shepard
Directed by Joe Short
Gloucester Stage Company
Gloucester, MA
August 17 – September 8, 2018
With Nael Nacer, Alexander Platt
An intimate and energetic evocation of the modern American classic.
Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico
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.