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.
Hail, Caesar!
Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand
A hilarious send-up of Hollywood in the 1950s, with, though they’re a bit hard to find, some serious overtones.