Play (2015)
by Jeffrey Hatcher
based on the novel by
John Kennedy Toole
Directed by David Esbjornson
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater, Huntington Avenue, Boston
Symphony Hall area
November 11 – December 20, 2015
With Nick Offerman
as Ignatius J. Reilly
An adaptation of the unexpectedly successful novel by Toole whose mother, eleven years after his death by suicide, saw to its publication.
Yo Yo Ma
Concert
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Kathryn Stott, piano
Celebrity Series of Boston
Symphony Hall, Boston
The great Boston-based cellist and his long-time piannistic collaborator drive one in for the home team.
Brooklyn
Film (2015)
Directed by John Crowley
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
based on the novel Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín
A beautiful adaptation of the novel about a young Irish girl who comes to New York in the early 1950s and gets involved with an Italian-American guy.
uCarmen
Opera
Based on the opera Carmen
by Georges Bizet
Adapted and directed by
Mark Dornford-May
Music Arranged by Mandisi Dyantiyis
Isango Ensemble
Arts Emerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Theater district, Boston
November 10-22, 2015
A lively integration of Bizet’s opera with South African motifs, supported by marimba orchestra.
The Pearl Button
Film (2015)
Poetic documentary
Written and directed by
Patricio Guzmán
In Spanish, with subtitles
Kendall Square Cinema,
Cambridge, MA
An outstandingly conceived and executed treatment of nature, culture, devastation and survival in Chile.