Coming Up for Air is based on Stan Strickland’s near death experience when his life and career flash before his eyes after being overtaken by rogue waves in Hawaii. He explores many instruments, musical forms and dance movements searching for the sources of his music.
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An Evening With Richard Feynman Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, brilliant and controversial theorist, accomplished juggler, prankster, safecraker, and lover of Tuvan Throat Singing.
Cravings
Join local-favorite cabaret artist Belle Linda Halpern as she takes a funny, intriguing and profound look at our constant cravings: food, sex, acceptance, fame – and true nourishment. Enjoy this show in our intimate Studio Theater with table seating and refreshments.
Silver Spoon
Set in the late 1960s, Silver Spoon, the new romantic musical comedy by Cambridge’s Amy Merrill (book) and Si Kahn (music and lyrics), is a love story about the dividing lines of personal convictions and class. Polly Bullock is leading a double life, working by day in her family’s Wall Street brokerage firm while editing a radical underground newspaper by night and falling for Dan, a passionate organizer for the national grape boycott. At the heart of Silver Spoon is the age-old struggle between family commitments and discovering your true identity.
Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code, Hugh Whitemore’s elegant and deeply moving play about British mathematician Alan Turing, reveals connections between his cracking of the Nazi’s unbreakable Enigma code and his refusal to live a closeted life. Turing’s expansive spirit embraced seeming contradictions: gay man and war hero, marathon runner and Disney film fan. He envisioned a universal machine and set the stage for modern computer technology.
Breaking the Code is presented as part of MIT’s 150th Anniversary and the 2011 Cambridge Science Festival.