Play (1983)
by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Olivia D’Ambrosio
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge
January 12 – February 12, 2017
A terrific production of a brilliantly witty play in which two actors play at least five characters and in which the action changes from performance to performance.
Prokoviev, Weinberg, Tchaikovsky
Concert
Conductor: Juanjo Mena
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
January 21, 2017
An evening featuring celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer playing a little known concerto by a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, sandwiched between two great works by Prokoviev and Tchaikovsky.
Our Secrets
Play (2013)
BÉLA PINTÉR AND COMPANY
from Hungary
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theater
Theater District, Boston
January 19-22, 2017
A drama about state surveillance in Hungary in the 1980s.
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Play (1962)
by Edward Albee
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area
With Steven Barkhimer, Paula Plum
January 13 – February 12, 2017
A riveting production of the modern tragedy about an embittered middle-aged academic couple and two young visitors.
A Doll’s House
Play (1879)
by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area
January 6 – February 5, 2017
A tautly directed and powerfully staged rendition of the Ibsen classic, in a recent translation and adaptation by a British feminist playwright.