Film (2014)
in Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by Naji Abu Nowar
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
Set in 1916 in Arabia, a film about a young boy who tags along behind his brother on a mission to guide a British soldier to a railway line and gets embroiled in military and tribal conflicts.
Trumbo
Film (2015)
Directed by Jay Roach
With Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K. John Goodman
A very well done account of the life and career of Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for years in the 1950s during the Red Scare.
The Love of the Nightingale
Play (1989)
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
66 Marlborough Street, Boston
November 6-21, 2015
A beautifully acted and directed account of a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of the rape of Philomela.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Play (2015)
by Jeffrey Hatcher
based on the novel by
John Kennedy Toole
Directed by David Esbjornson
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater, Huntington Avenue, Boston
Symphony Hall area
November 11 – December 20, 2015
With Nick Offerman
as Ignatius J. Reilly
An adaptation of the unexpectedly successful novel by Toole whose mother, eleven years after his death by suicide, saw to its publication.
Yo Yo Ma
Concert
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Kathryn Stott, piano
Celebrity Series of Boston
Symphony Hall, Boston
The great Boston-based cellist and his long-time piannistic collaborator drive one in for the home team.