Plays

Play (2017)
by Jake Broder
World Premiere
Directed by Steven Maler
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Presented by BabsonArts
Sorenson Center for the Arts
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
March 24 – April 2, 2017
A suggestive new play about the thespian Booth brothers – Edwin and Guy Wilkes – and their celebrated actor father Junius Brutus Booth who lorded over them.

Play (2001)
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Billy Porter
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 10 – April 9, 2017
A searing poetic drama about two African-American brothers in collusion and contest with one another.

Play (2014)
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
February 24 – March 26, 2017
A serio-comedy about theater, romance, marriage and the useful but frequently unsettling intoxication of drama.

Play (1593)
by Christopher Marlowe
Directed by David R. Gammons
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Charlestown Working Theater
Charlestown, MA
February 22 – March 19, 2017
An historic tragedy about a king whose attachment to a male lover inspires rebellion in the ranks.

Play (2013)
by Madeleine George
Directed by Melia Bensussen
The Nora Theatre Company
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
March 2 – 26, 2017
A beautifully acted and cleverly written takeoff about a lesbian linguistics professor having genetic counseling during pregnancy.