not Jenny

December 9, 2013
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Play (2013)
by MJ Halberstadt
Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
December 6 – 15, 2013
An intense, intimate and beautifully acted production about two twin sisters and their brother who reunite, after many years, in the wake of a family tragedy.

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The Punk Singer

December 6, 2013
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Film (2013)
Directed by Sini Anderson
Brattle Theater
Cambridge, MA
A portrait of Kathleen Hanna, who emerged as a feminist punk rocker, leader of the band Bikini Kill, and voice of the riot grrrl movement in the early 1990s in the Pacific Northwest.

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The Poet’s Voice: Katie Peterson and Louise Glück

December 4, 2013
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Poetry Reading
Woodberry Poetry Room
Reading Series
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Poems of grief, disorientation and reconstitution, in ambulatory, geologic and elegiac modes.

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Becky’s New Car

December 1, 2013
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Play (2008)
by Steven Dietz
Directed by Larry Coen
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Boston, MA
November 29 – December 22, 2013
An amusing farce about marriage, temptation and serendipity, in a well acted production.

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The Cocktail Hour

November 26, 2013
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Play (1988)
by A. R. Gurney
Directed by Maria Aitken
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre
Boston, MA
November 15 – December 15, 2013
A play about a playwright and his family interacting over his new play – The Cocktail Hour – during their own cocktail hour.

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Camelot

November 25, 2013
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Musical (1960)
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Directed and choreographed by Russell Garrett
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
November 23 – December 22, 2013
A lively, beautifully acted and sung, rendition of the musical (now over 50 years old) about King Arthur, Guenevere, Lancelot, knightly glories and benighted destinies.

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Windowmen

November 22, 2013
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Play (2012)
by Steven Barkhimer
Directed by Brett Marks
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Boston, MA
October 31 – November 24, 2013
Set in the early 1980s and inspired by some of the playwright’s early employment experiences, a comedic drama about men who work a hectic sales office at New York City’s Fulton Fish Market.

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Kill Your Darlings

November 1, 2013
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Film (2013)
Directed by John Krokidas
A thoughtful, suspenseful and well-constructed account of the dramatic life of noted American poet Allen Ginsberg during his time as a student at Columbia University.

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