Concert
David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano
David Shifrin, clarinet
Works by Beethoven, Bruch, Brahms
Celebrity Series of Boston
Jordan Hall, Boston
January 15, 2016, 8pm
A delightfully nuanced account of an array of Romantic pieces for the somewhat unlikely combination of piano, cello and clarinet.
David Finckel, Wu Han,
Violet
Musical (1997)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Brian Crawley
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 9 – February 6, 2016
A lively and very well produced musical about a young woman on a bus journey through the South in 1964 to visit a faith healer.
Disgraced
Play (2012)
by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area
January 8 – February 7, 2016
A comedic melodrama featuring a Pakistani Muslim corporate attorney in New York, his Caucasian American artist wife, a female African-American lawyer colleague, and her white Jewish-American art-dealer husband. Sparks fly.
The Revenant
Film (2015)
Directed by Alejandro Iñárritu
With Leonardo DiCaprio
A violent and cathartic portrayal of attack, hard-won survival, and the settling of accounts, among fur-traders in 1823 in Montana and South Dakota.
Via Dolorosa
Play (1998)
by David Hare
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 2 -23, 2016
With David Bryan Jackson
A superb solo account of an articulate, witty and heartfelt autobiographical sketch of the playwright’s trip to Israel and Palestine in 1997.