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.
Plays
Gloria: A Life
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.
Vanity Fair
Play (2017)
by Kate Hamill
from the novel by
William Makepeace Thackeray
Directed by David R. Gammons
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
January 23 – February 23, 2020
A fun and pantomimish interpretation of the eighteenth century comedy of manners.
Pass Over
Play, Performance (2018)
by Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Monica White Ndounou
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 3 – February 2, 2020
A cathartic allegory about two young black men imprisoned within a racist society very much like our own.
Parade
Musical (1998)
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry
An excellent production of the musical based on a true story about Leo Frank, a Jew who was unjustly indicted for a murder in Atlanta in 1914.