Play (2011)
by Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
January 11 – February 9, 2013
After a long separation, a liberal, young writer from the East returns to the West Coast and her conservative parents, revealing that she is publishing a memoir about a difficult episode in her family’s history.
Les Misérables
Film (2012)
Directed by Tom Hooper
Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter,
A long, but entertaining and quite moving, cinematic reproduction of the blockbuster musical based on the Victor Hugo novel of 1862, starring a lot of lot of big names singing on their own steam, some surprisingly well.
Zero Dark Thirty
Film (2012)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Screenplay by Mark Boal
A superbly produced thriller about tracking and assassinating Osama bin Laden.
The Mountaintop
Play (2009)
by Katori Hall
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theatre
Cambridge, MA
January 10 – February 3, 2013
An imaginatively and mythically inspired look at the end of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life.
The Impossible
Film (2012)
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
Screenplay by Sergio G. Sánchez
Story by María Belón
An account of a Spanish family in Thailand during the tsunami of December, 2004, based on a true story.