Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Brian Helgeland
With Chadwick Boseman,
Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie
An astoundingly good telling of the story of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, and Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed him.
42 – The True Story Of
Lady In The Dark
Play with Music (1941)
by Moss Hart
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Produced by Anneke Reich
Directed by Abby Armstrong
Brandeis Theater Company
Senior Thesis Festival 2013
Spingold Theater Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
April 10, 12, 2013
A delightful and adept rendition of a wonderful, somewhat obscure, musical play – about a powerful magazine editor in a state of personal transition – crafted by a trio of theatrical greats — Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.
Admission
Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Weitz
With Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rudd, Wallace Shawn,Lily Tomlin
An entertaining-enough romantic comedy about parents, children and the stresses of college admissions, featuring a quartet of great comic actors.
Octet In The Key of Red Purple
Paintings in Oil (2013)
by Jeffrey Fine
Newton Open Studios
Newton, MA
April 6-7, 2013
A vivid and dynamic series of works done over a period of two months, inspired by a gift of a tube of Cadmium Red paint and by Mendelssohn’s great Octet in E Flat.
Operation Epsilon
Play (2013)
by Alan Brody
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
March 7 – April 28, 2013
At the end of World War II, the Allies captured ten of the top German nuclear physicists and sequestered them at a hidden location in England in order to acquire information about how close they had come to producing controlled nuclear fission. The British bugged their conversations and created a transcript which was released in the 1990s. The play is based on those transcripts.