Play (2014)
by Melinda Lopez
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, South End, Boston, MA
March 28 – May 3, 2014
A period piece set at the turn of the twentieth century in Cuba, with the Spanish-American War looming.
Under The Skin
Film (2013)
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Starring Scarlett Johansson
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A long, quiet, dreary exploration of seductively supranormal appropriation, with a protagonist who teeters near the edge of human feeling.
Watermark
Film (2013)
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky
A beautifully photographed documentary about water, in its various forms and locales, that travels as widely and loosely as its subject-matter.
Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion
Concert
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Niladri Kumar, sitar
Dilshad Khan, sarangi
V. Selvaganesh, ghatam
Vijay S Chavan, dholki
Deepak Bhatt, dhol
Steve Smith, drums
World Music/CRASHarts
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
April 6, 2014
One of the world’s premier tabla player blows the roof off Symphony Hall with a band of world-class Indian musicians, mostly percussionists, and an out of this world American drummer.
When Things Go Wrong – Robin Lane’s Story
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Tim Jackson
Film Editing by Laura Colwell
Additional Music by John Kusiak
Regent Theater, Arlington, MA
April 4, 2014
A delightful, broad-ranging treatment of the varied life and career of a female leader of a punk rock band in the late 1970s.