Play (2017)
by Selina Fillinger
Directed by David Miller
Zeitgeist Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 15 – October 7, 2017
A powerful production of an ingeniously constructed play that pits a young American Muslim prosecutor of French-Iranian extraction against a young American Anglo woman who has fallen in with ISIS online and suddenly identified as Muslim.
Plays
The Royale
Play (2013)
by Marco Ramirez
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
September 13 – October 8, 2017
A superlative production of an interestingly crafted play inspired by the career of famed early twentieth century African-American boxer Jack Johnson.
Kol’s Last Call
Play
by Joshua Sobol
Staged Reading
Israeli Stage
Hibernian Hall
Roxbury, Boston
September 24, 2017
With Jeremiah Kissel
A single person drama about a lawyer seeking final justice before he is condemned to jail, given a tour de force performance by Jeremiah Kissel.
Merrily We Roll Along
Musical (1981)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Based on the original play by George S, Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Maria Friedman
Music Director and Conductor: Matthew Stern
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 8 – October 15, 2017
A stunningly good production of the Sondheim musical from the early 1980s which flopped originally on Broadway but found new life in London in the early 1990s.
Gypsy
Musical (1959)
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by memoirs of
Gypsy Rose Lee
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 1 – October 8, 2017
A robust revival of the classic Broadway musical about the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her forceful stage mother.