Plays

Play (2024)
Based on the film (1981) by
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory
Adapted and Developed by
Jonathan Fielding and Robert Knopf
Harbor Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 13 – March 30, 2025
An intimate and lovely take on the now-classic film featuring a long discussion about theater and life.

Play (1732)
by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Adapted by Stephen Wadsworth (1992)
Directed by Loretta Greco
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 7 – April 6, 2025
An update of the eighteenth century farce about deception, power and the longing for love.

Play (2025)
by Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens
Directed by Nikta Sabouri
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Spring Repertory Festival
February 20 – March 9, 2025
A semi-mythological, semi-realistic account of the experience of two children in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.

Play (1891)
by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theater Company
Chelsea, MA
February 21 – March 16, 2025
A beautifully acted, somewhat condensed, version of the play about a network of deceits surrounding a self-destructive woman.