Performance, Dance, Concert
Directed by Jakari Sherman
Step Afrika!
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
May 3-6, 2018
An exuberantly varied dance-performance inspired by the series of paintings commemorating the great northern African-American migration of 1910-1930 by noted African-American artist Jacob Lawrence.
Plays
True West
Play (1980)
by Sam Shepard
Directed by Daniel Bourque
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
Back Bay, Boston
April 13 – 28, 2018
An intimately riotous production of the noteworthy Sam Shepard play about two brothers pitted against one another in literary and visceral death-struggles.
Anna Christie
Play (1921)
by Eugene O’Neill
Adapted and directed by
Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
April 6 – May 6, 2018
A trio of excellent performances frame this sleekly adapted version of the early O’Neill drama about an estranged seafaring father, a discovered daughter, and an unexpected lover.
The Threepenny Opera
Play With Music (1928)
Music by Kurt Weill
Libretto by Bertolt Brecht
Boston Lyric Opera
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 16-25, 2018
A highly pantomimish staging, in English, of the darkly comic 1928 play with music by Brecht and Weill about low-life deceit, two-timing, and corruption based on John Gay’s eighteenth century ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera.
Ripe Frenzy
Play (2018)
by Jennifer Barclay
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
New Repertory Theatre
Boston Univeristy
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
February 24 – March 11, 2018
Woven into the setting of a production of Our Town at a high school is the account of a student’s mother, her two friends, their children, and an awful attack from within.