Play (1987)
by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
Gloucester Stage Company, Gloucester, MA
May 19 – June 11, 2016
With Lindsay Crouse, Marya Lowry
An exquisitely acted production of a funny and touching play putatively about a tour guide and her boss, but really about taking risks and opening to life.
Mud Blue Sky
Play (2016)
by Marisa Wegrzyn
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Boston Center for The Arts
South End, Boston
May 15 – June 5, 2016
A beautifully acted comedy about three middle-aged female flight attendants congregating after work in an in-transit hotel room, and the young student who crosses paths with them.
Peter And The Starcatcher
Play with music (2011)
by Rick Elice
Based on the novel
Peter and the Starcatcher (2006)
by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music by Wayne Barker
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
May 20 – June 26, 2016
A dramatized version of a prequel to Peter Pan, with music.
Weiner
Film (2016)
Documentary
Directed by Josh Kriegman and
Elyse Steinberg
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A scrappy, strangely fun, documentary about political tragedy, tracing once rising star Anthony Weiner through his desperate mayoral campaign in 2013 in the wake of a sexting scandal which forced his resignation in 2011 from the U.S. Congress after serving six terms as a Representative from New York City.
Baba Joon
Film (2015)
Written and directed by
Yuval Delshad
National Center for Jewish Film
19th Annual Film Festival
West Newton Cinema, Newton, MA
May 4-22, 2016
An affecting drama about an Israeli-Iranian family in which a father’s expectations that his young son will follow him into business lead to complications.