Concert
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto/shamisen/voice
Hikaru Tamaki, cello
Pierce Hall
New England Conservatory
of Music
Boston, MA
A remarkably interesting selection of pieces for koto, cello, shamisen and voice – in various combinations – played expertly by a husband and wife duo.
Lightweb
Sculpture (1991)
by Alexander Liberman
Painted welded steel
Yale University Campus
Sponsored by
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT
A miasma of interlocked zeroes forming an airy obelisk rises up next to Ezra Stiles College at Yale University.
12 Years A Slave
Film (2013)
Directed by Steve McQueen
Screenplay by John Ridley
based on Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A devastating and penetrating account of the abduction and subjection of a Northern free black man in the South during the decades before the Civil War.
The Power of Duff
Play (2013)
by Stephen Belber
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
South End, Boston, MA
October 11 – November 9, 2013
A delightful comedic fable about a newscaster who goes authentic all of a sudden.
Water by the Spoonful
Play (2011)
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
October 18 – November 16, 2013
An online, international, support group repeatedly addresses the vulnerabilities of its participants as they gradually open up to one another, and an Iraq War veteran deals with his adjustment as a civilian.