Play, Performance, Dance
Written and Choreographed by Ayodele Casel
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 12, 2024 – January 4, 2025
An outstandingly conceived autobiographical show about a Black-Hispanic female tap dancer, exquisitely performed by the author and a troupe of women tap dancers.
Performance Art
Nassim
Play, Performance
by Nassim Soleimanpour
Directed by Omar Elerian
Huntington Theatre Company
October 4-27, 2024
A very entertaining and cleverly conceived performance piece by an Iranian playwright living in Berlin, and featuring a different celebrity guest actor at each performance.
And So We Walked
Play (2017)
An Artist’s Journey Along The Trail of Tears
Written and performed by DeLanna Studi
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
April 26-30, 2023
A one-woman autobiographical account of coming to terms with her Cherokee background.
Shadows Cast
Performance
Direction and Choreography by Raphaëlle Boitel
Arts Emerson
Emerson Paramount Theater
Washington Street, Boston
March 30 – April 2, 2023
A compelling tragicomic exploration of familial psychology through the medium of acrobatic dance, enhanced by magical lighting design.
Fairview
Play (2019)
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 17 – March 11, 2023
More of a theater event than a play per se, an unsettling reflection on racism that starts with a domestic comedy and takes off from there.