Play
by George Orwell
Adapted and Directed by
Robert Icke & Duncan Macmillan
A Headlong, Almeida Theatre,
and Nottingham Playhouse Production
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 14 – March 6, 2016
A brief but pungent adaptation of the notorious futuristic Orwell novel about the horrors of an autocratic dystopia.
Where To Invade Next
Film (2015)
Directed by Michael Moore
A terrific travelogue with incisive commentary about social welfare practices abroad that Moore rightly argues should be implemented in the United States.
An Octoroon
Play (2014)
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Company One Theatre
in conjunction with
Arts Emerson
Paramount Center, Theater District, Boston
January 29 – February 27, 2016
A contextualized, mostly comedic, recasting of a popular nineteenth century American play set in the South, involving anti-miscegenation laws and land inheritance.
The Testament of Mary
Play (2013)
by Colm Tóibín
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
January 30 – February 28, 2016
Featuring Paula Langton
A very human interpretation of the death of Jesus, as imagined through an account given by his mother.
The Convert
Play (2012)
by Danai Gurira
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge
January 28 – February 28, 2016
A superb production of a superbly written play about Africans under the influence of Christianity in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) at the end of the nineteenth century.