艺术

The Voice of Hind Rajab is based on the true story of Hind, the five-year-old trapped for hours in a car in Gaza. She is there, next to her relatives who had just been killed by Israeli gunfire. She begs to be rescued, using her cousin’s cell phone to call for help.

This February the Galapagos Puppets will put on “The Fiery Mountain and Its Princess” with musician Jimmy Zhao and his daughter, Iris, who will perform at the Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline, Feb. 14 to 17.

The world premiere of the musical “Wonder” is a compelling, family-friendly production that tells the story of Auggie, a boy with a facial difference

There’s something profoundly beautiful about a carefully constructed evocation of failure, despair, togetherness, and survival. When it’s unveiled sensitively, as it’s done so brilliantly in Ocean Vuong’s second novel The Emperor of Gladness, we are assured that the rough ride from the opening pages to the heartbreaking finale is going to be worth our trouble.

《欢乐之家》（Fun Home）是一部优美而深刻的酷儿回忆录音乐剧，讲述了对个人过往的探寻，以及与记忆那令人抓狂、难以捉摸的特性进行角力的过程。本剧改编自艾莉森·贝克德尔（Alison Bechdel）屡获殊荣的同名图像回忆录（graphic memoir），故事围绕艾莉森的童年、成长与出柜经历展开，描绘了她作为一名中性气质女同性恋（butch lesbian）的自我认同历程，以及她试图理解一位深柜男同性恋父亲的努力。 在艾莉森大学一年级第一学期、于奥柏林学院（Oberlin College）就读期间向父亲出柜的几个月后，她的父亲跳到卡车前自杀身亡。这两件事是否有关联？成年的艾莉森试图拼凑自己的生命历史，与此同时，她童年与青少年时期的记忆化身为不同年龄阶段的“艾莉森”，与她一同出现在舞台之上。《欢乐之家》巧妙地融合了不同时间层次，展现记忆如何由当下的自我来回望、挣扎于一个不可避免地被扭曲且残缺的过去。 该剧荣获包括“最佳音乐剧”在内的五项托尼奖（Tony Awards），堪称真正的杰作。现场乐队演奏了由珍妮·泰索里（Jeanine...

Renee Inomata, a Boston-area attorney, who was highly active ­— oftentimes behind the scenes — in the civil rights and Asian American initiatives, died on Dec. 1.