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.
Art
Play(1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Daniel Bourque
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
Marlborough Street, Back Bay
April 8-23, 2016
A great, intimate, production of the modern classic about three middle-aged friends who come to blows over the purchase of an all-white painting.
Oh, God
Play (2008)
by Anat Gov
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
Israeli Stage
Arsenal Center for the Arts,
Watertown, MA
April 14-30, 2016
With Will Lyman, Maureen Keiller
A very funny and moving account of a psychotherapist’s therapeutic encounter with the Almighty.