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Grapple goddesses
The true story of female pro wrestlers, plus a Harry Potter book party and more
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SUMMER STAGES DANCE. This prestigious annual three-week workshop at Concord Academy is renowned for bringing in top-notch contemporary dance figures to mentor young talent, and the payoff is an acclaimed series of lecture/performances. This year’s "Meet the Artist Performance Series" kicks off July 14 with David Dorfman Dance presenting Old Testaments. Also look for David Parker and the Bang Group presenting new work on July 16; Neil Greenberg in Partial View on July 21; and an evening with Dana Reitz, Sara Rudner, and Christine Uchida on July 28. All take place at 8 pm, followed by informal discussions with the artists, at Concord’s Performing Arts Academy, 166 Main St, Concord | $20 | 978.402.2339. THE SYRINGA TREE. "We’ve got no answers for this place," creaks an elderly black servant in The Syringa Tree, writer/performer Pamela Gien’s Obie-winning evocation/condemnation of South Africa. Gien, who fled the land of apartheid soon after taking her university degree and spent three years in the 1980s as a member of the American Repertory Theatre company, returns to both her shamed native land and her first theatrical home with this moving if unabashedly sentimental theater piece rooted in her personal history and vividly performed in a style that melds narrative and dance. A hit at the ART’s South African festival back in January, It’s back July 15 through August 7 at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge | $36-$72 | 617.547.8300. WRESTLEVANIA! WOMEN’S WRESTLING THEN AND NOW. Ruth Leitman’s documentary Lipstick and Dynamite rewinds the history of pro wrestling to take a peek at Gladys "Killem" Gillem, the Fabulous Moolah, midget sidekick Diamond Lil’, and the pioneering ladies who rassled alligators, bears, and humans of both genders back in the age before G.L.O.W. The film gets a midnight screening July 15, along with live combat from Allston’s own masked-lady wrestling troupe La Gata Negra, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | $9 | 617.734.2501. HARVARD SQUARE HARRY POTTER PARTY. Make that Hogwarts Square, at least for the evening of July 15, as the Charles Hotel and the Harvard Coop give in to Pottermania. There’ll be a screening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in the Charles’s lower courtyard beginning at 8, after which Muggles can make their way to the Coop for a party featuring trivia, games, and, at the stroke of midnight, the opportunity to get their mitts on a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. RSVP is required for the screening | Charles @ 1 Bennett St + Coop @ 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 617.661.5103.
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