Concert
Conductor: Juanjo Mena
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
January 21, 2017
An evening featuring celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer playing a little known concerto by a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, sandwiched between two great works by Prokoviev and Tchaikovsky.
Our Secrets
Play (2013)
BÉLA PINTÉR AND COMPANY
from Hungary
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Paramount Theater
Theater District, Boston
January 19-22, 2017
A drama about state surveillance in Hungary in the 1980s.
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Play (1962)
by Edward Albee
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area
With Steven Barkhimer, Paula Plum
January 13 – February 12, 2017
A riveting production of the modern tragedy about an embittered middle-aged academic couple and two young visitors.
A Doll’s House
Play (1879)
by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area
January 6 – February 5, 2017
A tautly directed and powerfully staged rendition of the Ibsen classic, in a recent translation and adaptation by a British feminist playwright.
Hand To God
Play (2011)
by Robert Askins
Directed by David R. Gammons
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 6 – February 4, 2017
A wackily unleashed improvisation on what happens when, as part of what is meant to be a disciplined church puppet program in central Texas, the puppets begin to think and speak for themselves.