Film (2013)
Directed by James Gray
With Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner
Kendall Square Cinema
A melodramatic period piece about a Polish immigrant in New York in the 1920s.
The Double
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Richard Ayoade
With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn
An adeptly and cleverly done adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella of the same name, with deft performances by its two stars.
Into The Woods
Musical (1986)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Catherine Stornetta
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
May 9 – June 29, 2014
A lively production of the celebrated quasi-Jungian Sondheim-Lapine fairy-tale extravaganza.
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
Emerson-Majestic Theater, Boston
May 20 – 31, 2014
A touchingly evocative, musically enhanced account of the life and death of Lincoln, told mainly through the character of the young doctor who attended to him at his death.
Chef
Film (2014)
Written and directed by
Jon Favreau
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Jon Favreau, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sofía Vergara, Oliver Platt, Robert Downey Jr.
A harmlessly amusing story of a chef in a fancy restaurant who, too earnest to be constrained by his current job, takes to the road, literally and figuratively.