Play (1944)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Adapted from the French
by Paul Bowles
Directed by Katharine Jordan
Exiled Theatre
Auspicious Phoenix:
The Space Studio
438 Somerville Avenue
Somerville, MA
April 14-30, 2017
A delightfully intimate production of the existential classic.
Plays
Beckett in Brief
Three Short Plays
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by James Seymour
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Presented by BabsonArts
Sorenson Center for the Arts
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
April 27 – May 7, 2017
With Will Lyman, Ken Baltin, Ashley Risteen
A varied and interesting presentation of three Beckett works, two relatively abstract and one very down to earth.
17 Border Crossings
Play, Performance
Creation, production design and performance
by Thaddeus Phillips
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Paramount Center
April 19-29, 2017
A brilliantly written and delivered, and very inventively staged, one-man show about going across international boundaries.
Indecent
Play (2017)
by Paula Vogel
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
Cort Theater, Broadway, New York
A contextualized treatment of the history and presentation of a theatrical production in Warsaw in 1920 of God of Vengeance, a play by Yiddish writer Sholem Asch featuring a lesbian relationship.
The Little Foxes
Play (1939)
by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Manhattan Theatre Club
Samuel J. Friedman Theater
New York, NY
Through 7/2/2017
With Laura Linney, Cynthia Nixon, Richard Thomas
An exceptionally good production of the Lillian Hellman classic, set in the South at the turn of the twentieth century, about marriage, family, and the financial shenanigans influencing them.