Film (2013)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
With Matthew McConaughey,
Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto
A roughly textured, but beautifully constructed, account of a rodeo rider’s attempt to survive AIDS in the 1980s by bucking the medical system. Matthew McConaughey’s performance is a tour de force.
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Play (2012)
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Performed by CompanyOne
Through ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
January 10 – February 1, 2014
A stirring production about the production of a play about a tribal genocide by German imperialists in Namibia in 1915.
The Invisible Woman
Film (2013)
Directed by Ralph Fiennes
Screenplay by Abi Morgan
Based on a book by Claire Tomalin
With Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas
A well done portrait of Charles Dickens and the young mistress with whom he was associated in the last years of his life.
To Fencepost
Poem
by Gary L. Whited
A poem by Gary Whited, Boston area poet, philosopher and psychotherapist, who grew up on a ranch in Montana.
He reads from his new book,
Having Listened,
at the main branch of the Brookline Library
in Brookline Village
Sunday, January 19 at 2pm.
Insignificance
Play (1982)
by Terry Johnson
Directed by Daniel Gidron
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
January 9 – February 9, 2014
A spoofy reflection on the early fifties, relativity, political intolerance and celebrity, with four characters who seem to be Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Joe McCarthy.