Play
by Ryan Landry
Inspired by the film by Fritz Lang
Directed by Caitlin Lowens
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
March 29 – April 27, 2013
A comedic takeoff off on Fritz Lang’s classic film with lots of self-referential talk about plays, characters and authors.
Trojan Women [After Euripides]
Play (2011)
Created and Performed
by Siti Company
Adapted by Jocelyn Clarke
Directed by Anne Bogart
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Theater District, Boston, MA
April 17-21, 2013
A tautly cathartic adaptation of the Euripides classic about the fate of the women who figure centrally in the Trojan War.
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
A Songplay by
Banana Bag & Bodice
Text and Lyrics by Jason Craig
Music by Dave Malloy
American Repertory Theater
Oberon Theater
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
April 16 – May 5, 2013
A short and entertaining telling and enactment, in very rough outline, of the Norse classic.
42 – The True Story Of
An American Legend
Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Brian Helgeland
With Chadwick Boseman,
Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie
An astoundingly good telling of the story of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, and Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed him.
Lady In The Dark
Play with Music (1941)
by Moss Hart
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Produced by Anneke Reich
Directed by Abby Armstrong
Brandeis Theater Company
Senior Thesis Festival 2013
Spingold Theater Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
April 10, 12, 2013
A delightful and adept rendition of a wonderful, somewhat obscure, musical play – about a powerful magazine editor in a state of personal transition – crafted by a trio of theatrical greats — Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.