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.
Plays
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.
Constellations
Play (2012)
by Nick Payne
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Central Square Theater
September 7 – October 8, 2017
With Marianna Bassham, Nael Nacer
A play about the cosmic possibility of multiple outcomes, featuring a romance between a cosmologist and a beekeeper, brought to life by two of Boston’s most compelling actors.
Ragtime
Musical (1996)
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit, ME
August 2-26, 2017
A superlative production of the musical based on the semi-historical novel by E.L. Doctorow about race relations at the turn of the twentieth century.
Romeo and Juliet
Play (1597)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Allegra Libonati
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common, Boston
July 19 – August 6, 2017
A colorful, scintillating, and wonderfully acted account of the classic tale of a searingly unexpected passion and its attendant woes.