Play (1978)
by Harold Pinter
Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA
November 9 – December 9, 2012
A snappy revival of the mid-era Pinter play about infidelity, tracing it backwards through time.
Lincoln
Film (2012)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by Tony Kushner
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A touching, wordy, account of the political maneuverings engineered by Lincoln to secure passage of the thirteenth amendment, which ended slavery in the United States.
A Late Quartet
Film (2012)
Directed by Yaron Zilberman
Kendall Square Cinema
A melodramatic treatment of the relationship dynamics in a long-lived and highly respected string quartet.
The Chiara Quartet: Mozart, Lutosławski, Dvořák
Concert
Paine Hall, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
A precise and disciplined, but youthfully exuberant, string quartet with some classic yet offbeat offerings.
The Sessions
Film (2012)
Written and directed by Ben Lewin
A man seriously afflicted by polio seeks the aid of a sex therapist. Based on a true story.