Opera (1786)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
John Hancock Hall at the Back Bay Events Center
Boston, MA
April 28 – May 7, 2017
A stupendous production of the Mozart masterpiece, inventively staged, with excellent singing, playing, acting.
No Exit
Play (1944)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Adapted from the French
by Paul Bowles
Directed by Katharine Jordan
Exiled Theatre
Auspicious Phoenix:
The Space Studio
438 Somerville Avenue
Somerville, MA
April 14-30, 2017
A delightfully intimate production of the existential classic.
Beckett in Brief
Three Short Plays
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by James Seymour
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Presented by BabsonArts
Sorenson Center for the Arts
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
April 27 – May 7, 2017
With Will Lyman, Ken Baltin, Ashley Risteen
A varied and interesting presentation of three Beckett works, two relatively abstract and one very down to earth.
17 Border Crossings
Play, Performance
Creation, production design and performance
by Thaddeus Phillips
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Paramount Center
April 19-29, 2017
A brilliantly written and delivered, and very inventively staged, one-man show about going across international boundaries.
New York Festival of Song Gala Honoring Stephen Sondheim
Concert
Composer, lyricist and honoree: Stephen Sondheim
Pianist and host: Steven Blier
New York Festival of Song
Artistic Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett
Gala event chairs: Hal Prince and Jamie Bernstein
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
April 19, 2017, 7pm
A wonderful array of Sondheim songs played and sung expertly, and introduced with brilliance, warmth and wit by pianist and artistic director Steven Blier.