2/10/2024 0 Comments Things to do in boston april 2022The play furnishes a reminder that family life is something we experience singly, as well as together it’s a story we tell in the first-person singular, not just in the plural. E-mail questions to DAUGHTERS, LIKE PILLARS Kirsten Greenidge dives deep into matters of home and family in her emotionally complex, ambitious, and frequently absorbing group portrait of a Black family from Boston spending an eventful vacation together in New Hampshire. Company One Theatre in collaboration with American Repertory Theater, Boston Public Library, and Boston Comics in Color Festival. Skillfully directed by Monica White Ndounou. The ineradicable ache of a mother’s loss comes through with devastating force, and so, too, does playwright Inda Craig-Galván’s anger at the conditions that allow such losses to keep happening. Tickets at BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA Ramona Lisa Alexander excels as a Black mother whose grief propels her on a journey into comic-book-style fantasy after her 14-year-old son is killed by police. Directed with panache by Des McAnuff, from a sharply focused script by Dominique Morisseau, with sizzling choreography by Sergio Trujillo. Lane as Paul Williams, and Harrell Holmes Jr. And the cast is brimming with charisma and talent, especially Marcus Paul James as narrator Otis Williams, Elijah Ahmad Lewis as David Ruffin, Jalen Harris as Eddie Kendricks, James T. MADONNAĪIN’T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS The songs made famous by the Temptations are hard - make that impossible - to beat, and they live again in this diamond-sharp, frequently electrifying jukebox musical. 61, NEW GALLERY CONCERT SERIES From the mind of impresario/pianist Sarah Bob and several local musical and visual artists comes “Adopt and Adapt,” an immersive musical event that will take over the rooms and corridors of Longy School of Music’s main building with art that reflects its creators’ diverse experiences of both being adopted and adopting their own true selves. 61, HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY It’s the end of an era for this storied musical society as Harry Christophers marks the end of his tenure as music director with Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation,” featuring soloists Joelle Harvey, Robert Murray, and Matthew Brook with the Handel and Haydn Orchestra and Chorus. Andris Nelsons also conducts the orchestra in Strauss’s “Dreaming by the Fireside” interlude and “An Alpine Symphony.” April 30, 8 p.m. 1, pinch-hitting for soprano Marlis Petersen after she could not travel due to COVID restrictions. KEVIN LOWENTHALīOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Symphony Hall season concludes this weekend with the concerto debut of BSO principal cellist Blaise Déjardin in Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No. Global Jazz Club at Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St., Boston. ANASTASSIYA PETROVA Global Jazz Club presents the brilliant Kazakh pianist whose fresh, sparkling, virtuosic music incorporates influences from Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, the Kazakhstani folk music of her youth, and much more. 97, NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET The Jazz All Ways Sunday Series continues with protean and prolific tenor saxophonist and bandleader Preminger, who has performed and recorded everything from music inspired by Delta bluesman Bukka White to jazz interpretations of the compositions of Frederic Chopin to projects incorporating samples, electronics, and backbeats. The Larcom Theatre, 13 Wallis St., Beverly. VERONICA LEWIS The young Billboard chart-topping blues and roots star, a New England native, plays rocking, boogie-woogie piano with the velocity and panache of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, writes her own songs, and tops it all off with her sugar and spice vocals. Jimmy’s Jazz and Blues Club, 135 Congress St., Portsmouth, N.H. ORQUESTRA AKOKÁN It’s a good day for dance music after taking in some western swing in the afternoon (see above), head directly to Portsmouth for some mambo from the fine Cuban big band Orquestra Akokán, touring in support of their sophomore Daptone Records release, “16 Rayos.” May 1, 9:30 p.m.
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