Television
10 part series documentary
Directed by Steve James
America To Me
Screening at Boston Public Library
September 13, 2018
Series premieres on the Starz network
on August 26, 2018
An incisive multipart documentary about implicit racism set in the Oak Park River Forest High School in suburban Chicago.
Alex McAleer of
Champions of Magic
Interview
Performance, Magic Show
Champions of Magic
Boch Center
September 20-23, 2018
Talking with Alex McAleer, the mind-reader of Champions of Magic, a group of five wizards with very different astounding talents, coming to Boston – for the first time – soon.
The Black Clown
Musical, Play, Performance (2018)
Adapted from
Langston Hughes’ poem
by Davóne Tines and
Michael Schachter
Music by Michael Schachter
Directed by Zack Winokur
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
August 31 – September 23, 2018
Featuring Davóne Tines
An exceedingly well crafted and composed, inventively staged, beautifully sung, and brilliantly choreographed adaptation of the poem by Langston Hughes.
The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
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.