Play
A Non-Fiction Invention
From the words of Truman Capote
and Andy Warhol
Adapted by Bob Roth
Directed by Michael Mayer
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
September 10 – October 13, 2017
With Stephen Spinella, Dan Butler
A surfacy, though beautifully acted, portrayal of the relationship between artist Andy Warhol and writer Truman Capote based on Warhol’s tapes of their conversations.
Plays
Faceless
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.
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.