Film (2013)
Directed by John Wells
Screenplay by Tracy Letts
based on his play of the same name
With Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard, Benedict Cumberbatch
A film treatment of the award winning play about a complex and distressed family from Oklahoma that comes together unexpectedly.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet: Vincent van Gogh’s Only Etching
Etching (1890)
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
in Holland on Paper:
The Age of Art Nouveau
Through February 23, 2014
Vincent van Gogh’s only etching is on view as a part of a show on Art Nouveau era graphics from the Netherlands.
Working
Musical (1977)
From the book by Studs Terkel
Adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
Directed and Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
Music Direction by
Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
January 3 – February 1, 2014
An unexpectedly lively show with no plot, but with a lot of short, entertaining profiles about people working in all sorts of different contexts.
Venus in Fur
Play (2010)
by David Ives
Directed by Daniel Goldstein
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre
Boston, MA
January 3 – February 2, 2014
An amusing production of a play about a play based on the nineteenth century erotic novella, Venus in Furs, written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who gave masochism its name.
Imagining Madoff
Play (2010)
by Deborah Margolin
Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 4-26, 2014
An incisive and touching production of a beautifully written play about an imagined encounter between Bernard Madoff and an older Jewish poet and scholar who is also a Holocaust survivor.