Film Directed by Tom Hooper Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter, Jennifer Ehle A great little film about a speech problem and its repair. Of course, the one with the defect was about to become a king, amplifying its significance considerably. Who knew that King George VI had a speech problem? I didn’t, but […]
Don Carlo
Opera by Giuseppi Verdi Based on a play by Friedrich Schiller Metropolitan Opera, New York Can the production really be as good as they say it is? Apparently so. Marina Poplavskaya, in the female lead, steals the show. Before seeing this production, I had read such a glowing review in Time magazine that I was […]
The Social Network
Film (2010) Directed by David Fincher Written by Aaron Sorkin Based on The Accidental Billionaires by Mark Mezrich With Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg), Rooney Mara (Erica Albright), Andrew Garfield (Eduardo Saverin), Armie Hammer (Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss), Justin Timberlake (Sean Parker) Is this what Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is really like? And did […]
Boston Marriage
Play by David Mamet Directed by David Zoffoli New Repertory Theatre Watertown, MA With Melissa Baroni (Catherine), Jennie Israel (Claire), Debra Wise (Anna) A Mamet play set in turn of the century Boston? Don’t worry – it’s about lesbians in an age when homosexuality was under the social hood, it still has enough off-color language […]
A Little Night Music
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Suggested by a film by Ingmar Bergman Directed by Trevor Nunn Starring Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch With Kevin David Thomas (Henrik Egerman), Stephen R. Buntrock (Mr. Lindquist), Jayne Paterson (Mrs. Nordstrom), Sara Jean Ford (Mrs. Anderssen), Kevin Vortmann (Mr. Erlanson), Betsy Morgan (Mrs. Segstrom), […]