It's a glorious FALL onstage everywhere in Boston right now with BOSTON BALLET and the BSO with fantastic programs for everyone! The Seasons' Canon Head over to The OPERA HOUSE where BOSTON BALLET has just kicked off its season with FALL EXPERIENCE which left me speechless. You don't have to know anything about [...]
It is always magical. Since 1937, Tanglewood has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra when the Berkshires are alive with the sound of music! Picture 500 acres of rolling green ringed with the most beautiful hemlock hedgerows I've ever seen! Tanglewood is not only the site of a world-renowned summer music festival, [...]
This is a tough weekend. MINNEAPOLIS looms large and soul searching goes deep as we come to grips with the festering wound that is racism in this country. And so I begin my round-up of virtual diversions with a magnificent piece of theater that gets right to the point and has gone from STAGE TO [...]
Cyberspace is blowing up as the artists among us create virtual offerings for "Entertainment in the time of pandemic." Here's an uplifting lineup: Check out Meryl Streep, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald and many more to celebrate Sondheim in Concert! This musical special celebrates Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday. Hosted by Raul Esparza, the show [...]
Am hunkered down with lists of things to do that I just can't make myself DO. Cleaning...organizing (too listless). Reading (glued to online and TV coronavirus updates). Writing. OK. The next few weeks are going to be rough so "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Here are some tips to help [...]
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has taken a crack at an all new production of Tchaikovsky's Christmas Ballet Classic: THE NUTCRACKER! All new sets, costumes, staging, and choreography marked this radiant world premiere production at Boston's Opera House on Friday November 23rd -opening night! I was among the very first people on the planet [...]
BOSTON BALLET’S THE NUTCRACKER TAKES THE STAGE FOR ONE FINAL SEASON WITH CURRENT SETS AND COSTUMES New England’s Favorite Tradition Presented November 25 – December 31, 2011 Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker Returns in 2012 with New Sets and Costumes BOSTON, MA – Monday, November 7 – Boston Ballet presents Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker, voted in [...]
