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.
Henry VIII
Play (1613)
by William Shakespeare
with the likely collaboration of
John Fletcher
Directed by Tina Packer
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Modern Theatre at
Suffolk University
Boston, MA
12/11/2013 – 1/5/2014
A lively, entertaining and evocative rendition of the little produced late Shakespeare play.
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Film (2013)
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Based on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography,
Long Walk to Freedom
With Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
An historically comprehensive biopic – somewhat short on poetry – detailing the life and career of the great South African freedom fighter.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Film (2013)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Screenplay by Terence Winter
Based on a book by Jordan Belfort
With Leonardo DiCaprio,
Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie,
Matthew McConaughey,
Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner
A raw, crude, racy, and very funny telling of the rise and fall of a crooked 1990s Wall Street phenom.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
A portrait of a talented but not very successful folk singer in New York City in the early 1960s – loosely based on a memoir by Dave Van Ronk – with a touch of drama and lots of great songs.