Play (1904)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Pine Manor College
Chestnut Hill, MA
February 12 – March 9, 2014
The last of Chekhov’s plays, about an aristocracy in decline, done in a regal setting.
No Place To Go
Concert-Play-Performance
by Ethan Lipton
Music composed and performed by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box, Paramount Theater
February 20 – 22, 2014
A wry, witty, poignant, powerful, fun and musically superb theatre-concert piece about the travails of unemployment.
Witness Uganda
Musical (2014)
by Matt Gould and
Griffin Matthews
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 4 – March 16, 2014
A vividly honest and vibrant musical about the life and aspirations of a young American relief worker, and the people he encounters in Africa.
The Monuments Men
Film (2014)
Directed by George Clooney
With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban
Near the end of World War II, a group of experts try to save great works of art from destruction: intentional, by the Nazis, and inadvertent, from Allied bombings.
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)
In Memoriam
The noted film and stage actor died in New York on February 2nd at the age of 46 from an apparent drug overdose.