Play by William Shakespeare
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Chevalier Theater
Medford, MA
October 3 – November 4, 2012
The darkest of dark Shakespearean tragedies lit up by an inventive production and a vivid embodiment of the play’s problematic king by ASP’s artistic director Allyn Burrows.
Julie Holcombe
Photographic Compositions
Gallery Kayafas
Boston, MA
September 7 – October 13, 2012
Intricate photographic compositions, ingeniously inspired by Breughel’s Tower of Babel, by the Dutch masters, and by Chinese scroll paintings.
The Savoy King: Chick Webb And The Music That Changed America
Film (2012)
Written and Directed by Jeff Kaufman
New York Film Festival
A view into the life of Chick Webb, the amazingly talented, dwarfed and hunchbacked, drummer and bandleader who ran the show at The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early half of the twentieth century. It was with his band at The Savoy that Ella Fitzgerald got her start.
The Master
Film (2012)
Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
A masterfully done film in many ways that is, like its subject, missing something crucial in its narrative core.
Sleepwalk with Me
Film (2012)
Directed by Mike Birbiglia
Co-Director: Seth Barrish
Screenplay by
Mike Birbiglia, Joe Birbiglia,
Ira Glass, Seth Barrish
A sweetly amusing account of a a comedian’s emerging career, his relationship sailing upwind, and his susceptibility to sleepwalking, all to some peril.