Plays

Play (2023)
by David Auburn
Directed by Paula Plum
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 6-30, 2025
A beautifully acted account of an unlikely friendship between two women neighbors who became close during a fraught period in their lives.

Play (2016)
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany
A New Play by Jack Thorne
Directed by John Tiffany
Emerson Colonial Theatre
Theater District, Boston
November 9 – December 20, 2025
A beautifully staged production of the theatrical extension to the seven volume saga about the heroic young wizard who now has become a father, with attendant paternal worries.

Play (2009)
by Katori Hall
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Front Porch Arts Collective
The Modern Theatre, Suffolk University
Washington Street, Boston
September 19 – October 12, 2025
A movingly imagined account of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night before his assassination.

Play (2024)
by Eboni Booth
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 12 – October 11, 2025
A heartfelt drama about a man who suffers a childhood loss and has challenges finding significant connections in the real world.

Play (2011)
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Sarah Shin
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 11 – October 5, 2025
A dramatized account of the life and remarkable discoveries of early twentieth century Harvard astronomer Henrietta Leavitt.