Play (2025)
by Kate Hamill
Based on the epic poem by Homer
Directed by Shana Cooper
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
February 9 – March 16, 2025
A dramatized version of a somewhat modified version of the Homeric epic.
The Grove
Play (2016)
by Mfoniso Udofia
Ufot Family Cycle, #2/9
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 7 – March 9, 2025
A play about a young gay woman writer who is the daughter of traditional Nigerian parents and who faces the challenges of coming out to them.
Art
Play (1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company
Copley Square area, Boston
February 21 – March 16, 2025
An excellent account of the great play about three middle-aged French friends who argue over an almost all-white painting one of them has bought and which challenges their relationships to the core.
A Man Of No Importance
Musical, Play (2002)
by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 21 – March 22, 2025
A superb account of a bus conductor in Dublin who raises up a production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome and a lot of intense emotion along the way.
Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Musical, Play (2014)
by Lanie Robertson
Music Arrangement by Danny Holgate
Directed by Candice Handy
Merrimack Repertory Theater
Lowell, MA
February 5-23, 2025
A beautifully done, moving account of the life of jazz great Billie Holiday told through narrative and song.