Musical (2014)
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Book by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
September 12 – October 11, 2014
A surprisingly good musical adaptation of the eponymous 2002 film set in the 1950s about a woman, trapped in a marriage with a closeted gay man, who falls in love with her black gardener.
This Is Where I Leave You
Film (2014)
Directed by Shawn Levy
With Jason Bateman, Tina Fey,
Jane Fonda, Adam Driver
An unexpectedly funny film about a Jewish family which comes together to sit shiva, to spend a week in mourning at home.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Musical (1979)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Directed and staged by
Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
September 5 – October 11, 2014
An earthy interpretation of the macabre Sondheim classic about a barber driven to mass murder.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Play (2012)
by Todd Kreidler
based on the screenplay of the 1967 film of the same name
by William Rose
Directed by David Esbjornson
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 5 – October 5, 2014
A beautifully executed and moving account of the original film drama, now adapted to the stage, about an impending marriage between a black man and a white woman, set in the late 1960s in San Francisco.
Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight
Play
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Judy Braha
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
September 4 – October 5, 2014
A sometimes lively, impressionistic account of a unique woman physicist in eighteenth century France who spurns convention in various ways. She was also Voltaire’s long-time lover.