Gowns and Pajamas
Watching the 2021 Virtual Golden Globes

February 28, 2021
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Television, Film
NBC
February 28, 2021
By Tim Jackson
A wry look at this year’s pandemic virtual Golden Globes, strung together from a lot of different celebrity living rooms.

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Promising Young Woman

December 25, 2020
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Film (2021)
Written and directed by
Emerald Fennell
With Carey Mulligan
A feminist revenge thriller about a former medical student who has lost a dear friend because of sexual abuse. Particularly worth seeing because of Mulligan’s performance.

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Mank

December 4, 2020
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Film (2020)
Directed by David Fincher
Screenplay by Jack Fincher
Netflix
With Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried
A dramatized bit of interesting film history about the writing of the American film classic Citizen Kane

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The Rabbi Goes West

June 1, 2020
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Directed by
Amy Geller, Gerald Peary
Screenplay by Gerald Peary
Film site, with schedule of virtual screenings
A look into the activities of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and his wife who moved to Montana to help Jews there rediscover their faith.

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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

February 13, 2020
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Musical (1967)
Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
Music by Galt Macdermot
Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone
New Repertory Theatre
Mosesian Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 26 – February 23, 2020
A remounting of the original hippie musical which saw its release on Broadway fifty-two years ago.

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Sweat

February 11, 2020
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Play (2015)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Kimberly Senior
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
January 31 – March 1, 2020
A fictionalized narrative drawn from interviews with factory workers in Reading, PA.

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Truly, Madly, Deeply: Brahms, Bolcom, Lehár, Mozart, Rossini

February 9, 2020
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Concert
Mistral Music
St. Paul’s Church
Brookline, MA
February 9, 2020 5:00pm
A delightfully light-ish collection of love-inspired pieces in honor of Valentine’s Day.

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Detroit Red

February 6, 2020
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Play
by Will Power
World Premiere
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater district, Boston
February 1-16, 2020
A narratively collage-like, but intense and heartfelt, account of the early days of Malcolm X in Boston and New York.

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