Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand
A hilarious send-up of Hollywood in the 1950s, with, though they’re a bit hard to find, some serious overtones.
Nice Fish
Play
by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins
Drawn from the words of
Louis Jenkins
Directed by Claire Van Kampen
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge
January 17 – February 7, 2016
With Kayli Carter, Bob Davis,
Louis Jenkins, Jim Lichtscheidl,
Mark Rylance
A wonderful, comedic reverie set at an ice-fishing camp on a frozen lake in Minnesota, making use of Louis Jenkins’ delightful prose poetry, with existential overtones lurking around every hilarious corner.
Sondheim on Sondheim
Musical (2010)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Conceived by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 15 – February 21, 2016
An exquisitely good film-enhanced musical production exhibiting the work and life of one of musical theater’s greatest lyricists and composers.
Citizens of the Empire
Play (2016)
A Space Opera by
Kevin Mullins
Directed by Lindsay Eagle
Boston Public Works
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 8 – 23, 2016
A space epic set eight hundred years in the future.
David Finckel, Wu Han,
David Shifrin
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.