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It’s a Motherfu**king Pleasure

April 2, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Mehrabani Brewer Palmer Its a Motherfing Pleasure

Play, Performance (2023)
Written and performed by FlawBored, an award-winning, disability led, theater company
Directed by Josh Roche
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Washington Street, Boston
April 2-13, 2025

A humorous and self-referential takeoff on the issue of identity as related to disability – and how it can be mismanaged.

Space

February 8, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Hui Ying Wen and Valencia Proctor Photo Nile Scott Studios.

Play
by LM Feldman
Directed by Larissa Lury
A Catalyst Collaboriative@MIT Production
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
January 30 – February 23, 2025

An interesting amalgam of history, speculation and poetry about space travel, women’s rights and racism centering around the role of women in the United States space program.

The Half-Life of Marie Curie

November 15, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Marie Curie

Play (2019)
by Lauren Gunderson
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 11 – December 12, 2021

Set in 1912, a drama about the friendship between Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie and British mechanical engineer Bertha Aryton during a particularly difficult time in Curie’s life.

My Name is Pauli Murray

October 1, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Pauli Murray

Documentary Film (2021)
Directed by Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Amazon Studios

A superbly done documentary about the pathbreaking civil and gender rights activist.

Parade

December 12, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Leo Lucille

Musical (1998)
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry

An excellent production of the musical based on a true story about Leo Frank, a Jew who was unjustly indicted for a murder in Atlanta in 1914.

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