Play (2001)
by Tony Kushner
Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner
Featuring Debra Wise
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
April 20 – May 7, 2017
A stupendous rendering of the wordy but excellently written one person play about a woman in London reading an old guidebook to Afghanistan.
The Who And The What
Play (2014)
by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by M. Bevan O’Gara
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 31 – May 7, 2017
A comedic drama about a Pakistani-American Muslim family living in Atlanta.
The Marriage of Figaro
Opera (1786)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor: David Angus
Boston Lyric Opera
John Hancock Hall at the Back Bay Events Center
Boston, MA
April 28 – May 7, 2017
A stupendous production of the Mozart masterpiece, inventively staged, with excellent singing, playing, acting.
No Exit
Play (1944)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Adapted from the French
by Paul Bowles
Directed by Katharine Jordan
Exiled Theatre
Auspicious Phoenix:
The Space Studio
438 Somerville Avenue
Somerville, MA
April 14-30, 2017
A delightfully intimate production of the existential classic.
Beckett in Brief
Three Short Plays
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by James Seymour
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Presented by BabsonArts
Sorenson Center for the Arts
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
April 27 – May 7, 2017
With Will Lyman, Ken Baltin, Ashley Risteen
A varied and interesting presentation of three Beckett works, two relatively abstract and one very down to earth.