Film (2019)
Documentary
Directed by Stanley Nelson
Released: August 23, 2019
Reviewed by Alfred Clemente, Ph.D.
A recent documentary about one of the greatest masters of the jazz trumpet who, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, gave the instrument a whole new sound.
the smuggler
Play (2019)
Written and directed by
Ronan Noone
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
at Boston University
949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
November 7-24, 2019
With Billy Meleady
A searingly intense, yet comedic, solo Irish-American rant about the experience of trying to make it in America.
Object.
Dance, Performance Art
Choreographed by DeAnna Pellechia
KAIROS Dance Theater
Boston Center for the Arts
November 15-17, 2019
A dance theater piece on the subject of the objectification of women.
Fellow Travelers
Opera (2016)
Music by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the novel Fellow Travelers (2007) by Thomas Mallon
Conductor: Emily Senturia
Stage Director: Peter Rothstein
Boston Lyric Opera
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District
November 13-17, 2019
A superb production of a beautifully written opera about the Lavender Scare of the early 1950’s, an anti-gay program sanctioned by the United States government.
Frankie
Film (2019)
Directed by Ira Sachs
Screenplay by Ira Sachs and
Mauricio Zacharias
With Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei , Greg Kinnear
A brooding and thoughtful meditation on family, aging, vulnerability and loss.