When: Thu., Jan. 5, 7 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 8, 2 p.m. 2012
Price: $8.50-$6.50
Best known for his early collaborations with director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor (
Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary), Glaswegian screenwriter John Hodge makes his first foray into theater with the dark comedy
Collaborators at the National Theatre of London. The play imagines a meeting in 1938 between Josef Stalin and Mikhail Bulgakov, a Faustian arrangement by which the latter reluctantly agrees to write a play about Stalin as a young man, and Stalin promises not to have Bulgakov's new production shuttered and his wife detained. High jinks ensue when the dictator takes over the writing duties and delegates some of his administrative tasks to the playwright. This high-definition presentation of the National Theatre Live series screens at 7 p.m. and again Sunday at 2 p.m. at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222). Regular adult admission costs $15. See
tivolikc.com for details.
— Brent Shepherd
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