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.
Plays
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.
Little Women: The Broadway Musical
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.
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.