Film: Mr. Gaga

Director: Tomer Heymann
2015Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands English and Hebrew with English subtitles
100 minutes

Enter the world of Ohad Naharin, renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, and creator of an innovative and exciting movement language known as Gaga. Eight years in the making, this high-energy documentary immerses the audience in the creative process behind Batsheva’s unique performances. Using intimate rehearsal footage, extensive unseen archival materials, and stunning dance sequences, acclaimed director Tomer Heymann (Paper Dolls, The Queen Has No Crown, I Shot My Love) tells the fascinating story of an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.

Film: Kedi

2016 / 80min / DCP

DIRECTOR: CEYDA TORUN
In this sumptuously-shot documentary tribute to the street cats of Istanbul, the people of the city warmly reflect on these collective pets who are neither stray nor domestic, and the role that they play in the life of the dynamic megalopolis. A movie of enormous, playful charm, with keen insights into this rapidly changing city trying to hang on to its felines, and its soul. Cat lovers, meet the best movie you will ever see.

An Oscilloscope Laboratories release

Theater: The Tempest by the Donmar Warehouse, St. Ann’s, Brooklyn

The Donmar Warehouse (London) returns to St. Ann’s with The Tempest, the finale to Phyllida Lloyd’s thrilling all-female Shakespeare Trilogy. Led by the great Harriet Walter as Prospero, and with songs by the legendary Joan Armatrading, The Tempest takes place in a women’s prison, where Lloyd’s intrepid “inmates” play the roles Shakespeare originally wrote for men. The Tempest proves a moving metaphor, conjuring Prospero’s magical island from the stark prison setting. The result “…is a multilayered act of liberation.” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times)  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/theater/review-in-the-tempest-liberation-and-exhilaration.html?_r=0

Theater: Kunstler at 59E59

The Creative Place International in Association with AND Theatre Company presents

Jeff McCarthy in:

KUNSTLER

by Jeffrey Sweet

Directed by Meagen Fay

With Nambi E. Kelley

Broadway star Jeff McCarthy brings William Kunstler back to life in Jeffrey Sweet's fascinating play, which revisits Kunstler's timely message of Constitutional civil rights under rule of law in an exciting theatrical event.

Theater: THE DRESSMAKER'S SECRET at 59E59 Theater

By Sarah Levine Simon and Mihai Grunfeld

Directed by Roger Hendricks Simon

Featuring Bryan Burton, Robert S. Gregory, Caralyn Kozlowski, Tracy Sallows

Nineteen-year-old Robi is eager to escape the oppression of Communist Romania to forge a new life in the west. The unexpected return of his mother's estranged fiance after a 20 year absence, may hold a key to his freedom. However, when his mother reveals that Robi's father was not killed in action as he'd believed, but is either a Jewish teacher his mother hid during the war or the Hungarian soldier who persecuted him, Robi must decide whether to embrace his ancestry or run from it.

The Simon Studio in association with Amanagion LLC.