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.
Interview with Joshua Sobol
A conversation with one of Israel’s leading playwrights who is in residency in Boston March 20-31 under the auspices of Israeli Stage.
The Sense of an Ending
Film (2017)
Directed by Ritesh Batra
With Jim Broadbent , Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter,
Michelle Dockery
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A psychological drama about an older divorced man who reflects on the penetrating effects of his earlier life on his current one.