Film (2013)
Directed by Fred Schepisi
With Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A romantic comedy about two middle-aged prep school teachers, a writer and a painter, both compromised by illness, who passionately challenge their students about the relative merits of their chosen media.
Smart People
Play (2014)
by Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Peter DuBois
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
May 23 – July 6, 2014
A comic reflection on ideas about racism, set among a racially diverse group of academic friends in 2008 on the cusp of Obama’s presidential victory.
Gauguin: Metamorphoses
Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
March 8 – June 8, 2014
An extremely well curated and interesting treatment of relationships between Gauguin’s prints, woodcuts and oils.
Chinese Puzzle
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Cédric Klapisch
With Romain Duris and
Audrey Tautou
A charmingly chaotic tale about a devoted forty year old French father who follows the American wife who abandons him to New York to be near their children.
Amaluna
Circus, Performance
by Cirque du Soleil
Directed by Diane Paulus
Marine Industrial Park
South Boston, MA
May 30 – July 6, 2014
A beautifully stylized circus performance loosely modeled on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.