Every week, WGBH Arts Editor Jared Bowen sums up the exhibitions, theater, movies and music you should check out in and around Boston.
BOSTON THEATER CHANGES CONTINUE
Synopsis: The Boston Lyric Opera is ending its contract with the Citi Shubert Theatre after this season, citing financial constraints. That makes it the city’s third performing-arts organization soon to be without a home, after the Huntington Theatre Company broke with BU to find a more modern site and Emerson College’s plans to split its Colonial Theatre into a dining hall and smaller performance space leaked.
Jared says: “I think what we’re finding here is that the one true line is that theater and performing arts have changed in 2015.”
AN AUDIENCE WITH MEOW MEOW, playing at ArtsEmerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre through Oct. 24
Synopsis: Cabaret cat Meow Meow has traveled the world, performing—and sometimes staggering, albeit with style—across the world’s most vaunted stages. Her new show at ArtsEmerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre has her singing, dancing, and depending on her audience to get to the big finish.
Jared says: “She dismantles this notion of art and theater before your eyes without you even realizing that it’s happening.”
CLASS DISTINCTIONS, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through Jan. 18
Synopsis: The Dutch masters took on the class divide long before we ever did. It was the topic du jour of Rembrandt, Vermeer and a host of other 17th-century painters, who depicted everyone from the well-fed and well-healed to the poverty-stricken.
Jared says: “It’s amazing how resonant these pieces are to today...This is a show you do not want to miss.”
STEVE JOBS, in theaters Friday
Synopsis: The biopic about the difficult-to-deal-with genius who brought Apple to life hits the pivotal moments in the company’s history and in Jobs’ personal and professional relationships.
Jared says: “Danny Boyle, the filmmaker, has done an extraordinary job of painting this picture—whether or not it’s true.”
Looking for more arts coverage? This weekend on Open Studio, Jared features the ICA’s exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 and sits down with the Gamm Theatre’s ”A Streetcar Named Desire“ star Marianna Bassham and director Tony Estrella to discuss Tennessee Williams’ classic.
