Play (2000)
by David Auburn
Directed by Michelle M. Aguillon
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
January 18 – February 18, 2018
An eloquent and moving account of the Pulitzer Prize winning play about a schizophrenic mathematician, his talented, devoted and somewhat odd daughter, and the graduate student who comes to investigate his work.
Plays
Three Sisters
Play (1901)
by Anton Chekhov
in a new version by Tracy Letts
Directed by
Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theatre Company
Chelsea Theatre Works, Chelsea, MA
December 22, 2017 – January 21, 2018
An intimate and beautifully produced version of the Chehkov classic about hope, despair and the will to go on.
Road Show
Musical (2008)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Co-Directed by Spiro Veloudos and Ilyse Robbins
Music Director: Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 12 – February 11, 2018
A thoroughly competent and sometimes rousing account of the latest Stephen Sondheim musical, now ten years old, based on the historic lives of the Mizner brothers who made their names as con artists in business during the first part of the twentieth century.
The Liar
Play (2013)
by David Ives
Adapted from the comedy (1644) by Pierre Corneille
Directed by Marta Rainer
Wellesley Repertory Theatre
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
January 11 – February 4, 2018
A wonderfully acted and beautifully written farce by contemporary playwright David Ives, based on a comedy by seventeenth century French playwright Pierre Corneille.
Hold These Truths
Play
by Jeanne Sakata
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
December 1-31, 2017
An incisive show about a Japanese-American man, Gordon Hirabayashi, who resisted domestic internment during World War II, was imprisoned as a result, and who subsequently fought for his exoneration in an extensive court battle.