Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Screenplay by Billy Ray
With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi
A suspenseful dramatization of the 2009 kidnapping of Richard Phillips, a captain of a civilian container ship, by Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa.
We Are What We Are
Film (2013)
Directed by Jim Mickle
A horror-suspense film in a somewhat different mode – darkly restrained, then plenty grisly – about a family with odd and extreme practices carried out and handed on with religious fervor.
The Magic Flute
Opera (1791)
Music by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
World Premier
New English Adaptation
by Kelley Rourke, Leon Major
and John Conklin
Boston Lyric Opera
Shubert Theatre
Boston, MA
October 4-13, 2013
A delightful adaptation of the original with a wonderfully appealing libretto in English, great staging and a young, capable roster of singers.
Interview with Jim Mickle
Interview
I recently met with Jim Mickle, director and co-author of the soon to be released We Are What We Are, a horror film with some interesting touches.
We Are What We Are is slated to open this Friday, October 11th at Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge.
Romeo and Juliet
Play (1595)
by William Shakespeare
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Strand Theater, Dorchester, MA
October 2 – November 3, 2013
The classic love story in a classic Dorchester venue.