Play (1623)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bryn Boice
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common
July 16 – August 4, 2024
A terrific production of the very late play about a rabidly jealous husband who – over considerable time – mends his soul.
Plays
Wipeout
Play (2024)
by Aurora Real de Asua
Directed by Shana Gozansky
Gloucester Stage Company
July 5-28, 2024
A curiously moving comedic drama featuring three sixty-something women taking a surfing lesson from a young male teacher in California.
Next To Normal
Musical (2008)
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed and choreographed by Pascale Florestal
Music direction by Katie Bickford
Central Square Theater
The Front Porch Arts Collective
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
May 30 – June 20, 2024
A superlative production of the musical about a family in which personal loss and mental illness take severe tolls.
Gatsby
Musical (2024)
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett
Lyrics by Florence Welch
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 26 – August 3, 2024
A new musical based on the novel about distressed loves and fatefully complicated lives.
The Dybbuk
Play (2024)
Written by Roy Chen
Based on the play (2016) by S. Ansky
Directed by Igor Golyak
Arlekin Players Theatre
The Vilna Shul
Beacon Hill, Boston
May 30 – June 30, 2024
An inventively staged, wonderfully acted, and strikingly evocative production of the Russian-Yiddish classic about a ghost who comes to visit his old lover.