Musical (2022)
Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Music Direction by David Freeman Coleman
Speakeasy Stage Company and
Front Porch Arts Collective
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
April 26 – May 25, 2024
A heartbreakingly funny account of a character who wants to write a musical called A Strange Loop and who engages with all of the challenging thoughts he encounters while trying to do so.
Plays
Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
Musical (2023)
Music and Lyrics by
Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez
Book by Lisa Loomer
Based on the play by Josefina Lopez and
HBO’s Real Women Have Curves
Directed and Choreographed by Sergio Trujillo
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2023 – January 21, 2024
An exuberant celebration of the lives and ambitions of a group of Latino women working at a dressmaking business in Los Angeles.
The Band’s Visit
Musical (2017)
Huntington Theatre Company
In co-production with Speakeasy Stage Company
Huntington Avenue Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
November 10 – December 17, 2023
Music and lyrics by David Yazbek
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Music Direction by
José Delgado
A wonderful rendition of the musical based on the 2007 film about an Egyptian police band on a misdirected visit to Israel in 1996.
Prayer for the French Republic
Play (2022)
by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Loretta Greco
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 7 – October 8, 2023
A play about French anti-Semitism, with settings in Paris in 2016 and the mid-1940s.
Assassins
Musical (1990)
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Music Direction by Dan Rodriguez
Select Choreography by Ilyse Robbins
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 15 – October 15, 2023
An excellent rendition of the very weird musical about a passel of assassins of American political figures.