Musical, Performance (2009)
Lyrics by Valerie Vigoda
Music by Brendan Milburn
Book by Joe DiPietro
Directed by Lisa Peterson
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theater
Theater District, Boston
September 20 – October 4, 2015
A terrific takeoff on the story of Antarctic adventurer-hero Ernest Shackleton from the perspective of a present day out of work single mother.
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Play
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 12 – October 11, 2015
A tragicomedy set in Arkansas about a family going through their packrat father’s possessions after he dies.
The Strawberry Girl
Play
by Savyon Liebrecht
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
Israeli Stage
Goethe-Institut
Back Bay, Boston
September 20, 2015
With Nancy E. Carroll
A dramatic reading of a one-woman play about the wives of Nazi supervisors at an extermination camp in Poland at the end of World War II.
Black Mass
Film (2015)
Directed by Scott Cooper
With Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton
Captivating portrayals of the famed Boston Bulger brothers, gangster Whitey and politican Billy, with an account of Whitey’s corrupt relationship with the FBI agent who handled him.
A Little Night Music
Musical (1973)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Suggested by a film by
Ingmar Bergman
Directed by Peter DuBois
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 11 – October 11, 2015
A stunningly good production of what many consider to be Sondheim’s masterwork.