Play (1603)
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London
ArtsEmerson
A thoughtful, but lively and spirited, framing of the tragic tale, artfully trimmed and rendered.
Honk
Festival of Activist Street Bands
Davis Square, Somerville, MA
October 5 – 7, 2012
A raucous multi-day celebration of all kinds of marching bands, mostly brass, mostly with liberal and progressive political associations.
Macbeth
Play by William Shakespeare
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Chevalier Theater
Medford, MA
October 3 – November 4, 2012
The darkest of dark Shakespearean tragedies lit up by an inventive production and a vivid embodiment of the play’s problematic king by ASP’s artistic director Allyn Burrows.
Julie Holcombe
Photographic Compositions
Gallery Kayafas
Boston, MA
September 7 – October 13, 2012
Intricate photographic compositions, ingeniously inspired by Breughel’s Tower of Babel, by the Dutch masters, and by Chinese scroll paintings.
The Savoy King: Chick Webb And The Music That Changed America
Film (2012)
Written and Directed by Jeff Kaufman
New York Film Festival
A view into the life of Chick Webb, the amazingly talented, dwarfed and hunchbacked, drummer and bandleader who ran the show at The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early half of the twentieth century. It was with his band at The Savoy that Ella Fitzgerald got her start.