61, THE INHERITANCE Last year Matthew López won the Tony Award for best play with this epic, two-part drama. At Charlestown Working Theater, Charlestown. THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS A remixing of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” into a “hip-hop opera” that features a live DJ (DJ WhySham) and a cast of four: Malik Mitchell as Dromio of Syracuse, Henry Morehouse as Dromio of Ephesus, Victoria Omoregie as Antipholus of Ephesus, and Anderson Stinson III, as Antipholus of Syracuse. Music and libretto by Beth Wiemann Cara Consilvio directs.
I GIVE YOU MY HOME Guerilla Opera takes over the Nichols House Museum for a site-specific operatic monodrama inspired by the life of the museum’s founder: suffrage advocate and garden architecture enthusiast Rose Standish Nichols. Virtual broadcast available May 27-June 30. The new pieces are presented side by side with earlier works from each composer’s career. 97, KEVIN LOWENTHALĬALLIOPE’S CALL Boston-based art song boosters Calliope’s Call liven up the usually-quiet Memorial Day weekend with a virtual broadcast of “Evolution: The Composer’s Voice,” featuring several new art songs commissioned by soprano Laura Strickling from composers such as Reinaldo Moya, Lori Laitman, and Felix Jarrar. Bull Run Restaurant, 215 Great Road, Shirley. Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club, 135 Congress St., Portsmouth, N.H. RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS This dynamic multiple Blues Award-winning act is led by veteran Estrin, a superb songwriter, soulful singer, and scorching harmonica player. Global Jazz Club at Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St.
The program will include originals and arrangements of pieces by female musicians worldwide. 61, GLOBAL JAZZ WOMXN Global Jazz Club presents an all-female ensemble from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, led by alto saxophonist, composer, and educator Patricia Zarate Perez, the first Chilean woman to graduate from Berklee. Featuring pianist Tim Ray, bassist Marshall Wood, and drummer Steve Langone. 61, STUART MUNROĭONNA BYRNE QUARTET The singer’s singer (Tony Bennett’s a fan!) is admired for her deft touch with lyrics and unfussy way with melody. Singer-songwriter Jarrod Dickenson opens. 61, GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS Phillips has always been capable of introspection, and recent events only intensified that capacity, which resulted in a new home recording, “All That You Can Dream.” He’s currently on tour in support of the record, and plays solo Thursday. The Plough and Stars, 912 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge.
Look at their website and you’ll see they’ve already garnered plaudits from the likes of Mike Block, Mike Marshall, and Tony Trischka.
61, NOAH Y MAURIZIO’S ACOUSTIC NOMADS The aim of this young Berklee-College-birthed outfit is to “reimagine the stringband” by bringing together a range of musical traditions, from jazz to Appalachian and Celtic to Brazilian, Peruvian, and other South American strains. Like just about everything else, it’s back after a forced hiatus for four days of performances and “campfire collaborations” from an engaging variety of local performers, both well-known and just starting out.
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