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Film
Extraordinary Measures
A film adapted from a book by Geeta Anand, a biotechnology executive whose two youngest children are afflicted with disease raises money for a research scientist to develop a drug to save his children's lives.
Film
Crazy Heart
In Crazy Heart, Bad Blake, a down-and-out country music singer and songwriter attempts to turn his life around soon after starting a new relationship with Jean, a young journalist. Now playing.
Theatre
The Four of Us
The Four of Us is a comic drama about two aspiring writers in pursuit of money, fame and success, and the stress put on their friendship. At the Theater J through February 21, 2010.
Film
The Lovely Bones
Based on the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, “The Lovely Bones” centers on Susie Salmon who was murdered and now watches over her family from heaven.
Art
Terra Cotta Warriors
Nearly 2,000 years ago, thousands of life-size clay figures were buried in massive underground pits to accompany China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, into the afterlife. Their discovery outside the city of Xi'an in 1974 is one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.
Theatre
Last Cargo Cult
Trey Graham reviews Mike Daisey's latest show at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which weaves a meditation on last year's financial crisis and the global financial system together with the tale of his trip to "a place beyond the reach of money."
Theatre
Stick Fly
Jane Horwitz reviews this Arena Stage production, directed by Kenny Leon, which explores the complex dynamics of an upper-class African American family summering on Martha’s Vineyard -- a rarely explored slice of American life.
Theatre
Show Boat
Trey Graham and Paul Bachmann discuss a new production in which Signature Theater reinvents the classic 1927 musical about three decades on the Mississippi River.
Theatre
The Fantasticks
Trey Graham and Jane Horwitz review this new Arena Stage production in which an abandoned amusement park comes alive with love and magic.
Theatre
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Trey Graham gives an enthusiastic review of this production at Woolly Mammoth in which the cast tries to perform 30 short plays in an hour.
Film
Holiday Film Guide
Tim Gordon and Joe Barber roundup the films playing in the theaters this holiday season.
Film
The Young Victoria
Jane Horwitz discusses this an old-fashioned costume drama about Britain’s Queen Victoria in her earliest days as sovereign.
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