Play (1921)
by Eugene O’Neill
Adapted and directed by
Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
April 6 – May 6, 2018
A trio of excellent performances frame this sleekly adapted version of the early O’Neill drama about an estranged seafaring father, a discovered daughter, and an unexpected lover.
Ramen Heads
Film (2017)
Directed by Koki Shigeno
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A paean to the Japanese culinary masters of what turns out can be the very fine art of producing the humble noodle soup known as Ramen.
The China Hustle
Film (2018)
Documentary
Directed by Jed Rothstein
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
An account of the financial chicanery related to American investment in Chinese businesses that began after the real-estate debacle of 2008.
Itzhak
Film (2018)
Documentary
Directed by Alison Chernick
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
An intimate portrait of the great contemporary Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman.
The Threepenny Opera
Play With Music (1928)
Music by Kurt Weill
Libretto by Bertolt Brecht
Boston Lyric Opera
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 16-25, 2018
A highly pantomimish staging, in English, of the darkly comic 1928 play with music by Brecht and Weill about low-life deceit, two-timing, and corruption based on John Gay’s eighteenth century ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera.