![]() ![]() 61, YOUNG NERDS OF COLOR After more than 60 interviews with scientists of color about their challenges and dreams, playwright Melinda Lopez assembled their stories into a theater piece directed by Dawn M. The script was written by D’Amour, with music by Sxip Shirey, and it is directed by Pearl. Featuring a six-member onstage choir, “Ocean Filibuster” was created by PearlDamour, which is the team of Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour. Majority” (Jennifer Kidwell) introduces a bill within an august governing body to shrink the world’s oceans to a collection of inland seas, the Ocean itself (Kidwell again) enters the body’s chamber to argue on its own behalf. Tickets for in-person and digital performances available at 61 or OCEAN FILIBUSTER After “Mr. At Wimberly Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts. Digital recording of performance available through April 9. The rest of the cast is equally strong they make the stakes for each character wrenchingly clear at all times. Pecola feels lost in the world at the very moment she should be finding her place in it, and the ache of that coming-of-age quandary is legible on Busia-Singleton’s face. The title refers to a young Black girl named Pecola Breedlove (Hadar Busia-Singleton) who believes her life would be wonderful if she only had blue eyes. Diamond’s play, adapted from Toni Morrison’s debut novel and skillfully directed by Awoye Timpo, will stay with you long after you see it. 61, THE BLUEST EYE This profoundly moving production of Lydia R. At Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts. ![]() Gammons keeps the emotional temperature high - and the coming-apart-at-the-seams vibe constant. While the to-and-through-rehab trajectory of Duncan Macmillan’s play is a much-traveled one, there’s a trenchancy to his writing, and director David R. PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS Marianna Bassham brings her gift for intensely individualized portraiture to the role of Emma, an actress who’s battling herself almost as much as her addiction to drugs and alcohol. STILE ANTICO This sterling 12-person vocal ensemble from the United Kingdom charts a course from twilight to dawn with this program, featuring abundant sacred and secular music from Renaissance Europe. Music by Bach, Stephen Paulus, Messiaen, and Joseph Jongen. 61, BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT Dedicated to performing and recording 20th- and 21st-century music for the past 25 years, BMOP celebrates its silver anniversary with “Pulling Out all the Stops,” featuring organist Paul Jacobs putting the Symphony Hall organ through its paces. 25 Casual Friday omits the Saariaho.) Symphony Hall. 1, Kaija Saariaho’s “Saarikoski Songs” (a BSO co-commission), and more. Next week, music director Andris Nelsons returns to Symphony Hall with violinist Baiba Skride and soprano Anu Komsi in tow: program to feature Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 50, KEVIN LOWENTHALīOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA This week at the BSO, the seemingly unstoppable nonagenarian maestro Herbert Blomstedt joins the orchestra for a Mozart piano concerto (featuring Martin Helmchen) and Bruckner’s Symphony No. The Center for Arts in Natick, 14 Summer St., Natick. ![]() Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River. 61, MARCIA BALL The rollicking pianist and soulful singer-songwriter is a master of her native Lone Star State’s Gulf Coast blues and the New Orleans R&B of her youth. Featuring acclaimed guest vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and Berklee faculty and students honoring Ellington and Vaughan, and faculty and students of Boston Conservatory at Berklee saluting concert violinist Douglass (grandson of Frederick) and dancing a tribute to de Lavallade, among the first African Americans to dance with the Metropolitan Opera. BERKLEE LEGACY AWARD CONCERT Berklee celebrates four legendary artists: Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Joseph Douglass, and Carmen de Lavallade. Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville. RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA’S HERO TRIO The eminent altoist salutes his greatest influences, from Charlie Parker to Stevie Wonder, with longtime collaborators bassist François Moutin and drummer Rudy Royston. HAILEY WHITTERS This rising Nashville singer, who moves comfortably in the country lane occupied by the likes of Brandy Clark and Lori McKenna, sang about where’s she’s been and what she’s chasing on her last record, “Living the Dream.” On her upcoming “Raised,” she looks further back, to where she came from. ![]()
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