Musical (2011)
By Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
The Boston Opera House, Boston
Through April 27, 2014
The wacky, wonderful, completely irreverent – and somehow also quite reverent – musical about Mormons, Ugandans, and religious creativity – by the duo who gained prominence as creators of television’s South Park.
Musicals
Hello, Again
Musical (2014)
Book. lyrics and music by
Michael John Lachiusa
Directed by Michael Bello
Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
March 12 – 29, 2014
A beautifully produced cabaret-style musical built around a string of poignant erotic vignettes.
Brundibar and But The Giraffe!
Play (1938)
Music by Hans Krása
Libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister
Adapted by Tony Kushner (2005)
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
March 6 – April 6, 2014
An adaptation of Brundibar, the imaginative musical written and performed at the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, with the contextual tale written by Tony Kushner, But The Giraffe!, set in a household on the verge of deportation.
No Place To Go
Concert-Play-Performance
by Ethan Lipton
Music composed and performed by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box, Paramount Theater
February 20 – 22, 2014
A wry, witty, poignant, powerful, fun and musically superb theatre-concert piece about the travails of unemployment.
Witness Uganda
Musical (2014)
by Matt Gould and
Griffin Matthews
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 4 – March 16, 2014
A vividly honest and vibrant musical about the life and aspirations of a young American relief worker, and the people he encounters in Africa.