Film (2015)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg
A dramatic precis of the life and career of the great computer visionary and businessman told through three elongated vignettes.
Einstein’s Dreams
Play
Written and directed by
Wesley Savick
Based on the novel
Einstein’s Dreams (1993)
by Alan Lightman
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 24 – November 14, 2015
A compendium of brief vignettes based on Einstein’s imagined musings on the subject of time.
He Named Me Malala
Film (2015)
Documentary
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
With Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Khushal Yousafzai, Atal Yousafzai
A vivid and endearing portrait of the now eighteen year old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai, who in 2012 was a victim of Taliban aggression for her outspokenness regarding human rights, and who was the winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
Othello
Play (1603)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Modern Theater
at Suffolk University
Theater District, Boston
September 23 – October 25, 2015
A superb production of the great tragedy about jealousy gone wild.
La Bohème
Opera (1896)
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Shubert Theatre
Theater District, Boston
October 2-11, 2015
A version of the great classic set in Paris during the political uprisings of 1968.