Musical (2001)
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Book by Allan Knee
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Directed and Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern
A radiant production of a nicely written musical based on the famous book about four sisters from Concord, Massachusetts, set during the Civil War, superbly directed and choreographed.
Plays
The Orchard
Play (2022)
Based on The Cherry Orchard (1903)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Igor Golyak
Emerson Paramount Theater, Boston
November 4-13, 2022 (& streaming)
With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jessica Hecht, Nael Nacer
An inventively interpreted and staged version of the classic about the loss of home and the vagaries of love.
On Beckett
Performance (2022)
Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
October 28-30, 2022
A stupendous performance by the brilliant mime and actor Bill Irwin who leads a scintillating tour through works of Samuel Beckett, illuminating them with incisive commentary and hysterically funny clowning.
Ada and the Engine
Play (2015)
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Debra Wise
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 22 – October 23, 2022
An excellent production of a very good play, set in the mid-nineteenth century, about Ada Lovelace, frequently regarded as the inventor of computer programming, and Charles Babbage who envisioned and designed the first computer.
Much Ado About Nothing
Play (1599)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common
Boston, MA
July 20 – August 7, 2022
A lively and entertaining interpretation of the comedy about love, with a woman playing a female version of Benedick, Beatrice’s oppositional paramour.