Plays
By Gregory Maguire and
Oscar Wilde
Directed by Debra Wise
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 27, 2015 –
January 3, 2016
A pair of delightful interpretations of two tales: Matchless by the great contemporary Boston-area writer Gregory Maguire and The Happy Prince by the great Oscar Wilde, done simply and elegantly with live actors and inspired puppetry.
Matchless and
Up and Coming: KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities
Circus
Cirque du Soleil
Suffolk Downs, Boston
May 26 – July 10, 2016
Tickets go on sale 12/17/2015
The circus is coming to town again, this time under the big top with a great new show by the indomitable Cirque du Soleil, asking What if you could alter reality at will?
Natasha, Pierre &
The Great Comet of 1812
Musical (2015)
Book, Music and Lyrics by
Dave Malloy
Adapted from War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2015 – January 3, 2016
A wild, woolly, fun ride through the existential landscapes of Tolstoy’s War and Peace: operatic, rockified and rollicking.
Beowulf
Play (2015)
based on Seamus Heaney’s translation
Adapted for the stage by
David Gullette
Directed by Benjamin Evett
The Poet’s Theatre
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
December 10-20, 2015
A passionately delivered and interestingly conceived theatrical rendition of the Scandinavian epic in a translation by the great contemporary Irish poet.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film (2015)
Documentary
in English and French with subtitles
Directed by Kent Jones
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Paul Schrader
An informative and touching account of the collaborative engagement between the two great film directors, when Hitchcock was in his sixties and Truffaut was in his thirties, with running commentary by some of today’s great directors.