Play (2026)
by Mfoniso Udofia
Play 8 of The Ufot Family Cycle
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
ArtsEmerson
In Collaboration with Front Porch Arts Collective
Emerson Paramount Center
Washington Street, Boston
June 13-28, 2026
The penultimate play in the nine play series about the Ufot family, featuring Abasiama Ufot as a widow, and a churchgoing carpenter who is hired to do updates on her house.
Bad Books
Play (2025)
by Sharyn Rothstein
Directed by M. Bevan O’Gara
Gloucester Stage
Gloucester, MA
June 4-27, 2026
A sparkling production of a cleverly written script about a confrontation between a librarian and a mother who takes issue with a book recommended to her son by the librarian.
Black Swan
Musical (2026)
Book by Jen Silverman
Music, Lyrics, and Orchestrations
by Dave Malloy
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 26 – July 12, 2026
A musical adaptation of the film melodrama about a psychologically challenged ballet star who strives to embody the double-edged lead role in Swan Lake.
Les Misérables
Musical (1985)
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Broadway in Boston
Citizens Opera House, Washington Street, Boston
June 9-28, 2026
A nicely staged rendition of the long-running epic about a noble man, his foster child, and the police inspector who obsessively pursues him amid political upheaval in France in the early nineteenth century.
Daughter of the Regiment
Opera (1840)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
New English Dialogue by Kirsten Greenidge
Boston Lyric Opera
Emerson Colonial Theatre
Theater District, Boston
April 24 – May 3, 2026
A truly delightful and witty rendition, reset from the original to Revolutionary era Boston, with some terrific coloratura singing.