Film (2017)
Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein
With Menashe Lustig (Menashe)
A poignant, artfully done, film, almost entirely in Yiddish (with subtitles), about a young widower in a Brooklyn Hasidic community who attempts to raise his young son in spite of strong challenges from within it.
Ragtime
Musical (1996)
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit, ME
August 2-26, 2017
A superlative production of the musical based on the semi-historical novel by E.L. Doctorow about race relations at the turn of the twentieth century.
Joshua Weinstein (Director), Menashe Lustig (Star) of “Menashe”
Interview
Josh Weinstein (Director), Menashe Lustig (Star) of the film Menashe (2017)
I met with Joshua Weinstein, director, and Menashe Lustig, actor, in early May when they were in Boston to screen Menashe, one of the very few full-length narrative films in Yiddish to appear in recent years, at the Boston International Film Festival. This edited transcript is based on that interview.
An Inconvenient Sequel:
Truth To Power
Film (2017)
Directed by Jon Shenk and
Bonni Cohen
Featuring Al Gore
A chilling follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 documentary featuring former Vice President Al Gore on the global warming crisis.
Romeo and Juliet
Play (1597)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Allegra Libonati
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common, Boston
July 19 – August 6, 2017
A colorful, scintillating, and wonderfully acted account of the classic tale of a searingly unexpected passion and its attendant woes.