Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Weitz
With Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rudd, Wallace Shawn,Lily Tomlin
An entertaining-enough romantic comedy about parents, children and the stresses of college admissions, featuring a quartet of great comic actors.
Octet In The Key of Red Purple
Paintings in Oil (2013)
by Jeffrey Fine
Newton Open Studios
Newton, MA
April 6-7, 2013
A vivid and dynamic series of works done over a period of two months, inspired by a gift of a tube of Cadmium Red paint and by Mendelssohn’s great Octet in E Flat.
Operation Epsilon
Play (2013)
by Alan Brody
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
March 7 – April 28, 2013
At the end of World War II, the Allies captured ten of the top German nuclear physicists and sequestered them at a hidden location in England in order to acquire information about how close they had come to producing controlled nuclear fission. The British bugged their conversations and created a transcript which was released in the 1990s. The play is based on those transcripts.
Master Class
Play (1995)
by Terrence McNally
Directed by
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
March 31 – April 21, 2013
Maria Callas, the noted Greek-American soprano, gives a master class to several vocal students, none of whom is particularly prepared for the intensity of her instruction.
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
Play (2012)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
March 29 – April 27, 2013
A dramatic reflection on the careers of black actresses in Hollywood as they took shape in the 1930s.