Film (2021)
Written and directed by
Adam McKay
Netflix
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep , Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet
A rollicking farce about a comet headed for earth, the two astronomers who discover it, and the completely ineffective government which responds to it.
The Last Five Years
Musical (2001)
Written and composed by Jason Robert Brown
Lyric Stage
Copley Square area, Boston
November 12 – December 12, 2021
With Jared Troilo and Kira Troilo
Jamie and Cathy are getting divorced, or maybe they are getting married, or both. That’s the way it is in this poignant two-person musical in which one character goes forward and the other backward in time.
Eurydice
Opera (2020)
Music by Matthew Aucoin
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Metropolitan Opera, Live in HD
December 4, 2021
A lushly orchestrated opera based on a contemporary stage play based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
The Half-Life of Marie Curie
Play (2019)
by Lauren Gunderson
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 11 – December 12, 2021
Set in 1912, a drama about the friendship between Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie and British mechanical engineer Bertha Aryton during a particularly difficult time in Curie’s life.
Belfast
Film (2021)
Written and Directed by Kenneth Branagh
A beautifully written, directed, and produced film set in the late 1960s in Belfast in the middle of the troubles between Protestants and Catholics.