Musical (2012)
Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Book by Peter Duchan
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 7 – June 5, 2016
A musical adaptation of the 1991 film of the same name about Marines about to go off to Vietnam in 1963 who engage in a heartless and hurtful stunt and a relationship which arises out of that.
Freud’s Last Session
Play (2009)
by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
April 30 – May 22, 2016
A dramatization of a hypothetical encounter between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis at the beginning of World War II and at the end of Freud’s life.
The Merry Widow
Opera (1905)
Music by Franz Lehár
Sung in German, English, French,
Italian, Russian and Serbian
with projected translations
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Performing Arts Center/
Shubert Theatre
April 29 – May 8, 2016
A multilingual account of the popular operetta and waltzathon, reset a bit forward from the original to just before World War I.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Film (2016)
Written and directed by Matt Brown
based on The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1992)
by Robert Kanigel
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel
A beautifully executed and moving biopic about the Indian mathematical genius S. Ramanujan, who wrote distinguished mathematician G.H. Hardy in 1913 from Madras, and wound up going to Cambridge, England and proving his mettle there.
The School For Scandal
Play (1777)
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Paula Plum
Adapted by Steven Barkhimer
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Lechmere area, Cambridge
April 13 – May 8, 2016
An entertaining and well-directed rendering of the great eighteenth century farce about undermined and rediscovered relationships.