Play (2003)
by William Gibson
Directed by Judy Braha
Featuring Bobbie Steinbach as Golda Meir
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
March 25 – April 16, 2017
A compelling production with a starring performance by Bobbie Steinbach as the famed Israeli Prime Minister.
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Film (2017)
Directed by Niki Caro
With Jessica Chastain
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
Under the Nazis in Warsaw in the 1940s, a zookeeper and his wife seek to protect members of the threatened population.
The Real Inspector Hound
Play (1962)
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Bad Habit Productions
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 18 – April 2, 2017
A hilarious production of the early Tom Stoppard faux-mystery drama involving theater critics and their subjects.
Mrs. Packard
Play (2007)
by Emily Mann
Directed by Emily Ranii
Bridge Repertory Theater
Multicultural Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
March 15 – April 9, 2017
A shocking and heartrending account of an historic case from Illinois in the 1860s of a minister who had his wife committed to an insane asylum for challenging his theology.
Our American Hamlet
Play (2017)
by Jake Broder
World Premiere
Directed by Steven Maler
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Presented by BabsonArts
Sorenson Center for the Arts
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
March 24 – April 2, 2017
A suggestive new play about the thespian Booth brothers – Edwin and Guy Wilkes – and their celebrated actor father Junius Brutus Booth who lorded over them.