Play (2021)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Huntington Theatre Company
In a Co-Production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
The Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 24 – April 23, 2023
A beautifully directed, acted and produced dramatic comedy about a group of workers in the kitchen of a sandwich shop.
Plays
The Wife of Willesden
Play (2023)
Adapted by Zadie Smith
From The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham
A Kiln Theatre Production
American Repertory Theater
February 25 – March 17, 2023
A plausible, sometimes lively, adaptation of the famous Chaucer tale transposed into the modern era, with the internal tale itself moved from England to Jamaica.
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.
Preludes
Musical (2015)
Music, Lyrics, Book and Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square Area, Boston
January 6 – February 5, 2023An interesting, semi-historical, psychologically-oriented exploration of a difficult period in the great nineteenth century Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s life and career.
Life of Pi
Play (2022)
Based on the novel by Yann Martel
Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by Max Webster
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2022 – January 29, 2023 A beautifully executed rendering of the popular philosophical novel about a survivor of a shipwreck and the fanciful account of how he lasted at sea for 227 days accompanied by a tiger named Richard Parker.