Plays

Play (1599)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Igor Golyak
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 23 – October 17, 2021
At first, a rambunctious take-off on the Shakespearean original, contextualizing the interior drama with a heavy dose of pantomime, but ultimately tonally complex and attentive to the problematic nature of the play.

Play (1611)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Steven Maler

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common, Boston
July 21 – August 8, 2021
A beautifully rendered, trim but energetic, version of the great late Shakespeare play, expertly tailored for an outdoor pandemic crowd on Boston Common.

Play (2015)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Kimberly Senior
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
January 31 – March 1, 2020
A fictionalized narrative drawn from interviews with factory workers in Reading, PA.

Play
by Will Power
World Premiere
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater district, Boston
February 1-16, 2020
A narratively collage-like, but intense and heartfelt, account of the early days of Malcolm X in Boston and New York.

Play (2020)
by Emily Mann
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
January 24 – March 1, 2020
Starring Patricia Kalember
An informative, entertaining and inspiring account of the life and career of the noted woman’s rights activist Gloria Steinem.