Plays

Play (2026)
by Mfoniso Udofia
Play 8 of The Ufot Family Cycle
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
ArtsEmerson
In Collaboration with Front Porch Arts Collective
Emerson Paramount Center
Washington Street, Boston
June 13-28, 2026
The penultimate play in the nine play series about the Ufot family, featuring Abasiama Ufot as a widow, and a churchgoing carpenter who is hired to do updates on her house.

Play (2025)
by Sharyn Rothstein
Directed by M. Bevan O’Gara
Gloucester Stage
Gloucester, MA
June 4-27, 2026
A sparkling production of a cleverly written script about a confrontation between a librarian and a mother who takes issue with a book recommended to her son by the librarian.

Play (2026)
World Premiere
by Matthew Lombardo
Directed by Noah Himmelstein
The Huntington Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
April 3-18, 2026
A light comedy about an aging star who cannot rise to the occasion of a new play.

Play (1986)
by Hugh Whitemore
Directed by Scott Edmiston
With Eddie Shields as Alan Turing
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
April 2-26, 2026
A masterful production of the play, written forty years ago, about Alan Turing, largely credited as the inventor of the modern computer.

Play (1983)
Adapted by Joseph Robinette
Based on the book Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E.B. White
Directed by Ilyse Robbins
Wheelock Family Theatre
The Riverway, Boston
April 3-26, 2026
A sweet rendition of the tale about a pig who survives and a spider who celebrates him.