Image courtesy of Hermitage Piano Trio
BOSTON HERALD – Arts Scene – As summer winds down, let’s make sure it wasn’t only beaches and beer. Yes, the living is easy, but the arts are hard to miss. In August, between the mad dash to hit the Cape or Berkshires one last time, get your dose of theater and music (and hey, you can even get those on the Cape or in the Berkshires).
“Greater Good,” Company One Theatre at Commonwealth School, through Aug. 17
The Company’s Obie Award-winning playwright in residence, Kirsten Greenidge, has penned a piece set in the classrooms and halls of an actual Back Bay school. Follow the story (literally, you need to change classes just like in high school) of one private school trying to live up to its mission. companyone.org
Purely Romantic, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival at Simon Center for the Arts, Falmouth, Aug. 1
You can do beach, beer and classical music all in one day. Well, technically, it’s stuff from the romantic period but you get the idea. The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival’s 40th anniversary kicks off with a concert by the Hermitage Piano Trio. The Russian piano, violin and cello ensemble will play a range of great works including Rachmaninoff’s Trio elagiaque No. 1 in G minor. capecodchambermusic.org
“Hello, Dolly!,” Citizens Bank Opera House, Aug. 13-25
Matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi finds her greatest challenge in “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” and noted miser Horace Vandergelder. Broadway queen and Tony winner Betty Buckley stars in this blockbuster revival. boston.broadway.com
Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach suites for unaccompanied cello, Tanglewood, Lenox, Aug. 11
Ma is on a two-year mission called “The Bach Project” in which he will perform Bach’s cello suites on six continents to discover how sublime art can connect disparate cultures. The journey will range from the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to India, Lebanon and Chile. bach.yo-yoma.com
By Jedd Gotlieb
