Poetry Reading
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room
Houghton Library, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
A reading done to celebrate, among other things, the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Blues People, which Amiri Baraka published under his former name, LeRoi Jones.
Rancho Mirage
Play (2013)
by Steven Dietz
Directed by Robert Walsh
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
New Repertory Theatre
Watertown, MA
October 12 – November 3, 2013
Three couples, a few major life struggles, and a lot of laughs.
Gravity
Film (2013)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
A white-knuckle film about problems in space and the will and ingenuity to overcome them.
Captain Phillips
Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Screenplay by Billy Ray
With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi
A suspenseful dramatization of the 2009 kidnapping of Richard Phillips, a captain of a civilian container ship, by Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa.
We Are What We Are
Film (2013)
Directed by Jim Mickle
A horror-suspense film in a somewhat different mode – darkly restrained, then plenty grisly – about a family with odd and extreme practices carried out and handed on with religious fervor.