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Hedda Gabler

March 7, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Hedda Lovborg

Play (1891)
by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theater Company
Chelsea, MA
February 21 – March 16, 2025

A beautifully acted, somewhat condensed, version of the play about a network of deceits surrounding a self-destructive woman.

The Irish And How They Got That Way

March 6, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Four singers

Play, Performance (1997)
by Frank McCourt
Original Music Arrangements by
Rusty Magee
Additional arrangements by
Kirsten Salpini
Director A. Nora Long
Music Director Kirsten Salpini
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
February 28 – March 16, 2025

A delightful song-filled tribute to Irish and Irish-American culture.

The Odyssey

March 1, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Circe Odysseus in The Odyssey Nile Scott Studios Maggie Hall

Play (2025)
by Kate Hamill
Based on the epic poem by Homer
Directed by Shana Cooper
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
February 9 – March 16, 2025

A dramatized version of a somewhat modified version of the Homeric epic.

The Grove

February 27, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Abigail C Onwunali and Valyn Lyric Turner The Grove photo by Marc J Franklin

Play (2016)
by Mfoniso Udofia
Ufot Family Cycle, #2/9
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 7 – March 9, 2025

A play about a young gay woman writer who is the daughter of traditional Nigerian parents and who faces the challenges of coming out to them.

Art

February 26, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Michael Kaye Remo Airaldi John Kuntz in Art Lyric Stage Photo Mark S Howard

Play (1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company
Copley Square area, Boston
February 21 – March 16, 2025

An excellent account of the great play about three middle-aged French friends who argue over an almost all-white painting one of them has bought and which challenges their relationships to the core.

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