Play
by Kate Hamill
Based on the novel (1811) by
Jane Austen
Staging and direction by Eric Tucker
Bedlam
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 10 – January 14, 2017
A beautifully staged and choreographed takeoff, by New York’s innovative Bedlam theatre company, on the early Jane Austen novel about two sisters navigating the seas of love.
Darkest Hour
Film (2017)
Directed by Joe Wright
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Music by Dario Marianelli
With Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas
A very good dramatization of Churchill’s transition to power during the early phases of World War II at a time when Britain, and Europe, were on the brink of conquest by the Nazis.
Just One Drop: The Story Behind the Homeopathy Controversy
Film (2017)
Documentary
by Laurel Chiten
Upcoming Boston area screening:
December 14, 2017, 7:30pm
Regent Theatre, Arlington, MA
A dense, interesting and informative film about the history, the benefits of, and the challenges to, the alternative medical practice of homeopathy.
Death of a Salesman
Play (1949)
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Brian McEleney
Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
September 28 – November 26, 2017
An earnest and evocative interpretation of the modern American classic.
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri
Film (2017)
Written and directed by
Martin McDonagh
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Frances McDormand,
Sam Rockwell,
Woody Harrelson
A gritty melodrama about a woman who demands local police seriously investigate the murder of her daughter.