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Ada and the Engine

October 6, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Mishy Jacobson as Ada Byron Lovelace

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

July 27, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

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.

Much Ado About Nothing

July 10, 2022 by admin 1 Comment

Play (1599)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Emma Rosa Went

Opera House Arts
Mariners Memorial Park, Deer Isle, ME
June 29 – July 17, 2022

A wonderfully vital, energetic and beautifully produced performance of the great comedy about challenged love.

1776

June 24, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

1776, Cast

Musical (1969)
Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
Directed by Jeffrey L. Page, Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
May 17 – July 24, 2022

An energetic and spirited production – with a cast of women, trans, and non-binary actors – of the 1969 musical about the drama leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Inheritance – Parts I and II

May 14, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Toby Eric

Play (2018)
by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
April 22 – June 11, 2022

A very long but very well-acted adaptation of E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End set in New York in a gay male community between 2015-2017.

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