Performance, Play
by Manual Cinema
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
January 16-27, 2019
A wild, wonderfully bizarre, and entertaining combination of puppetry, film, live acting, and music with a moving underlying story.
A Doll’s House, Part 2
Play (2017)
by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Les Waters
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall Area, Boston
January 4 – February 3, 2019
A sequel to the Ibsen classic, set fifteen years later.
Small Mouth Sounds
Play (2016)
by Bess Wohl
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 4 – February 2, 2019
With Marianna Bassham, Nael Nacer, Celeste Oliva
A terrific production of a funny but moving play, largely wordless, set in a silent meditation retreat.
The Favourite
Film (2018)
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
With Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone
A bawdy, wonderfully nasty period piece about two power-seeking women who stop at nothing to go up against one another.
Man In The Ring
Play (2018)
by Michael Cristofer
Directed by Michael Greif
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
November 16 – December 22, 2018
A superb production of a play about the life of Emile Griffith, a middleweight boxing champion who was, among other things, gay.