Musical (1964)
Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Music direction by F. Wade Russo
Choreography by Kelli Edwards
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
December 2, 2016 – January 11, 2017
A terrific, kick-ass production of the fifty-two year old classic based on stories by Sholem Aleichem.
Plays
Bedroom Farce
Play (1975)
by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Maria Aitken
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
November 11 – December 11, 2016
A delightfully silly British comedy set simultaneously in three bedrooms in different homes.
Mala
Play (2016)
Written and performed by
Melinda Lopez
Directed by David Dower
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box
Paramount Theater
Theater district, Boston
October 27 – November 20, 2016
A collage-like one-woman play inspired by the deaths of the playwright-actor’s parents.
The Scottsboro Boys
Musical (2010)
Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Book by David Thompson
Original direction and choreography by Susan Stroman
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Choreography by Ilyse Robbins
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 21 – November 26, 2016
A minstrel-show telling of the tragic story of nine black men unlawfully convicted of rape in Alabama in the 1930s.
Man in Snow
Play (2016)
Written and directed by
Israel Horovitz
Gloucester Stage Company
Gloucester, MA
September 29 – October 23, 2016
Set in a cabin on Denali (Mt. McKinley), the highest peak in the United States, an impressionistic family drama about loss, fracture, betrayal, forgiveness.