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‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’ Friday through April 27 Lyric Stage Company 140 Clarendon St., Boston $27-$58, 617-585-5678 www.lyricstage.com
In this new satirical comedy by Lynn Nottage, our titular heroine is an African-American maid with dreams of becoming an actress. She works for a successful white actress, and when the two of them land the respective roles you’d expect in an epic drama set in the antebellum South, well — the plot pretty much writes itself from there, doesn’t it? Following the show on April 7, the Lyric will screen the film that inspired Lynn Nottage’s search for Vera Stark, “Baby Face,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Theresa Harris.
You will love to hate Erica Cornejo in the Boston Ballet’s latest. / ROSALIE O’CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Awakening ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Arts. Boston Ballet brings a lot of personality to a classic story.
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‘The Sleeping Beauty ’
“The Sleeping Beauty” is a familiar fairy tale, but Boston Ballet has found a way to make it feel new. Set to a Tchaivosky score and choreography by ballet master Petipa, Fairy Carabosse (Erica Cornejo) is annoyed that she has been left out of the christening
Through April 7 The Opera House 539 Washington St. $39-$142, 617-695-6950
celebration of Princess Aurora (Misa Kuranaga). She gives the child a spindle as a gift, announcing that she will prick her finger on it
and die. But not so fast — the good Lilac Fairy’s (Lia Cirio) gift to the princess is that she not die, but fall into a deep sleep until she is awakened by a Prince’s (Jeffrey Cirio) kiss. This show has a lot of personality. The Lilac Fairy is a bold, fearless leader; the Songbird Fairy (Sylvia Deaton) shows a lighter, funny side, while the Golden Vine Fairy (Dalay Parrondo) means business. Carabosse is wickedly wicked — a character you love to hate. Kuranaga did her homework
and captures all things pure and innocent about Aurora. For a grandiose, romantic story ballet, the staging and music is delicate and inviting, as opposed to the Wang Theatre performances from several years back. An entire cast is bouncing and floating onstage, but all you can feel is the tremendous energy of the dancers and the silence around them. It’s as if Boston Ballet is putting on a private showing for your eyes only. And that is the way a ballet should be experienced.
No sleeping
The climax of the story (the kiss) is at the end of Act II. Act III moves quickly but is more of a celebratory section with other fairy tale characters and a grand pas de deux.
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12:30 PM - 2:30 PM · Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy) 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM · Chelsea Public Library (Chelsea)
Friday, April 12 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM · Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell) 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM · West Manchester Library (Manchester, NH)
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KATRINA T. LALLIER
katrina.lallier@metro.lu
‘Master Class’ Sunday through April 21 Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown $20-$58, 617-923-8487 www.newrep.org
This Tony-winning play by Terrence McNally examines opera star Maria Callas as she nears the end of her distinguished career. Over the course of a series of master classes she’s teaching, she reflects on her life, successes and failures. The cost of fame takes center stage, focusing on the exaltation bestowed by achievement and taken away again by age. MATTHEW DINARO