Play (1991)
by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Fran Weinberg
Titanic Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 30 – June 15, 2019
A sweetly intimate production of a play about a Hollywood television celebrity who comes to New York to star in a live production of Hamlet.
Plays
School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play
Play (2017)
by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 3-25, 2019
A sweet and funny play about viciously competitive Ugandan school girls.
Indecent
Play (2015)
by Paula Vogel
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
Choreography by David Dorfman
Music Supervision by Lisa Gutkin
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area
April 26-May 25, 2019
A dramatization of the production history of the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch beginning a century ago, controversial because of its vivid depiction of a lesbian relationship.
Heads Up:
This Place/Displaced
Plays
by Stephanie K. Brownell, Kirsten Greenidge, David Valdes Greenwood, MJ Halberstadt, Manuel Aquiles López Torres, Jaymes Sanchez and Livian Yeh
Directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden,
Artists’ Theater of Boston
in collaboration with the
Department of Creativity, Arts and Social Transformation
Brandeis University
The Merrick Theater
at Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
May 2-4, 2019
A remounting of a production about housing justice which was done in the city (at Charlestown Working Theater) last summer and which now, in collaboration with Brandeis, is bringing its potent urban message to those in suburbia and exurbia.
black odyssey boston
Play (2019)
by Marcus Gardley
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
The Front Porch Arts Collective
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
April 25 – May 19, 2019
A robustly moving and exquisitely conceived and directed evocation of African-American experience with a particular tilt towards Boston, told through the mythic lens of Homer’s Odyssey.