Concert
From Russia to Riverside Drive:
Rachmaninoff & Friends
Songs by Rachmaninoff, Ellington,
Gershwin, Schillinger
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier, Artistic Director
Michael Barrett,
Associate Artistic Director
with
Dina Kuznetsova, soprano
Shea Owens, baritone
Dalit Warshaw, theremin
Steven Blier and
Michael Barrett, pianists
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
A soprano, a baritone, a theremin, two pianos, Rachmaninoff, Ellington and Gershwin – what more could one ask for?
From Russia to Riverside Drive:
Casa Valentina
Play (2014)
by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 24 – November 28, 2015
A meeting, in 1962, of heterosexual male transvestites at a bungalow colony in the Catskills.
Up and Coming:
New York Festival of Song
From Russia to
Riverside Drive:
Rachmaninoff & Friends
Concert
From Russia to Riverside Drive:
Rachmaninoff & Friends
Rachmaninoff’s ravishing romanticism and
his American contemporaries
Songs by Rachmaninoff, Ellington, Gershwin, Schillinger
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier, Artistic Director
Michael Barrett,
Associate Artistic Director
with
Dina Kuznetsova, soprano
Shea Owens, baritone
Dalti Warshaw, theremin
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
Another fascinating offering from the brilliant, distinguished and totally fun group of musicians from New York who bring classical and popular vocal music together in inventive ways.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Musical (2013)
Book by Doug McGrath
Words and Music by
Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
The Boston Opera House
Washington Street, Boston
Through November 15, 2015
An entertaining and well-staged account of the early life and career of the singer/songwriter.
Copenhagen
Play (1998)
by Michael Frayn
Directed by Eric Tucker
Central Square Theater
October 1 – November 15, 2015
With Steven Barkhimer, Robert_Najarian, Debra Wise, Han Nah Son
A superbly good rendition of the dense, thoughtful and deeply interesting play about the mysterious and celebrated meeting between the fathers of quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, in 1941.