Play (1996)
Adapted by Joe Landry
from Frank Capra’s film
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
November 25 – December 20, 2015
With Nael Nacer, Celeste Oliva, Joel Colodner, Jason Bowen, Veronika Duerr
A beautifully produced adaptation of the popular film, reset as a radio drama performed in 1946.
It’s A Wonderful Life:
Buyer and Cellar
Play (2013)
by Jonathan Tolins
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
December 4, 2015 – January 3, 2016
With Phil Tayler
A terrifically funny and well-acted fantasy about a guy who gets hired to work in Barbra Streisand’s personal basement mall.
Theeb
Film (2014)
in Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by Naji Abu Nowar
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
Set in 1916 in Arabia, a film about a young boy who tags along behind his brother on a mission to guide a British soldier to a railway line and gets embroiled in military and tribal conflicts.
Trumbo
Film (2015)
Directed by Jay Roach
With Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K. John Goodman
A very well done account of the life and career of Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for years in the 1950s during the Red Scare.
The Love of the Nightingale
Play (1989)
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
66 Marlborough Street, Boston
November 6-21, 2015
A beautifully acted and directed account of a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of the rape of Philomela.