Play (1976)
by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Tara Brooke Watkins
The Pariah Theatre Company
At various locations around Boston
June 19-29, 2014
An energetic and evocative production of the choreopoem which made its debut on Broadway almost forty years ago.
Up, and Coming: The Roxbury International Film Festival
Films, Festivals
Museum of Fine Arts
Haley House
Boston
June 25 – 29, 2014
A local festival, now in its sixteenth year, devoted to films by, for, and about people of color.
Ida
Film (2013)
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A slow-moving, sometimes penetrating, account, set in Poland in the early 1960s, of a young nun-in-training who discovers she is Jewish.
Korengal
Film (2014)
Directed by Sebastian Junger
Cinematography by
Tim Hetherington,
Sebastian Junger
A moving and revealing documentary about a platoon of American soldiers in the Korengal Valley, one of the most deeply embattled regions in Afghanistan.
Cassandra Speaks
Play (2012)
by Norman Plotkin
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi
Starring Tod Randolph
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
June 5 – 29, 2014
A tour de force solo performance depicting the life of Dorothy Thompson, noted and outspoken journalist active in the decades leading up to and during the Second World War.