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.
Plays
Toni Stone
Play (2019)
Written and directed by Lydia R. Diamond
Choreographed by Ebony Williams
Inspired by the book Curveball: The Remarkable True Story of Toni Stone (2010) by Martha Ackmann
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 17 – June 16, 2024
A nicely staged dramatization of the life and career of a talented female player in the Negro professional baseball leagues in the early 1950s.
Touching The Void
Play (2018)
Based on the book by Joe Simpson
Adapted by David Greig
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theatre Company
Chelsea, MA
April 19 – May 19, 2024
An inventive and riveting production based on an account of a mountaineering misadventure on the Siula Grande peak high in the Peruvian Andes.
The Drowsy Chaperone
Musical (1998)
Music and Lyrics by
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Directed and Choreographed by Larry Sousa
Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
April 5 – May 12, 2024
A brilliantly staged production of a musical about a guy who brings an imaginary classic musical to life in his mind’s eye.
A Strange Loop
Musical (2022)
Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Music Direction by David Freeman Coleman
Speakeasy Stage Company and
Front Porch Arts Collective
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
April 26 – May 25, 2024
A heartbreakingly funny account of a character who wants to write a musical called A Strange Loop and who engages with all of the challenging thoughts he encounters while trying to do so.