Plays

Play (2021)
by Mark St. Germain
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 10 – October 11, 2026
A beautifully written portrait of the distinguished American first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, with a virtuoso solo performance by celebrated Boston-area actor Paula Plum.

Play (2024)
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Josiah Davis
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 10 – October 11, 2026
A play told from the perspective of a young man from a dysfunctional family in which his pastor father was a noted black activist in the Civil Rights movement.

Play (2026)
by Lindsay Joelle
Based on characters from the novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
World Premiere
Gloucester Stage Company
Gloucester, MA
August 15-27, 2026
A nicely acted, interesting dramatic extrapolation as a prequel of the celebrated novel by Virginia Woolf.

Play (1959)
by Eugène Ionesco
With John Turturro and Paul Giamatti
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater Center
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
August 14 – September 27, 2026
A superb rendition of the absurdist political allegory from the late 1950s about a town in which almost everyone turns into a rhinoceros.

Play (2026)
by James Wilkinson
World Premiere
Exiled Theatre
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
July 31 – August 9, 2026
A mystery-thriller set in a Paris hotel, with unfortunate doings for an American visitor.