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.
Space
Play
by LM Feldman
Directed by Larissa Lury
A Catalyst Collaboriative@MIT Production
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
January 30 – February 23, 2025
An interesting amalgam of history, speculation and poetry about space travel, women’s rights and racism centering around the role of women in the United States space program.
The Piano Lesson
Play (1987)
by August Wilson
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Hibernian Hall, Roxbury, Boston
January 23 – February 23, 2025
An excellent and vibrant production of a play about a group of black family and friends in Pittsburgh coming to grips with the ghostly and personal echoes of slavery.
The Life and Times of Michael K.
Play (2022)
A Baxter Theatre Centre Production
Adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage, Theater District, Boston
January 31 – February 9, 2025
A beautifully lilting, dance-like account of the odyssey of a South African boy and his mother during a time of war, told through magically inspired puppets interacting with live actors.
Ain’t No Mo’
Play (2019)
by Jordan E. Cooper
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 10 – February 8, 2025
An intertwined series of wild, funny and unsettling sketches about identity, race and blackness, fused by an underlying dramatic motive.