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.
Plays
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.
Here All Night
Concert, Performance, Play
Conceived and Created by
Judy Hegarty Lovett,
Paul Clark, Conor Lovett and
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Includes texts by
Samuel Beckett
Director: Judy Hegarty Lovett
Composer/Musical Director:
Paul Clark
Gare St. Lazare Ireland
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Washington Street
Theater District, Boston
October 5 – 9, 2016
A wonderfully performed piece – a kind of existentialist chamber oratorio – using words by Samuel Beckett with music by Paul Clark.
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Musical (2006)
Book by Stephan Elliott and
Allan Scott
Adapted from the film
The Adventures of Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert (1994)
Directed by Stacy Stephens
Fiddlehead Theatre Company
Citi Shubert Theater
Theater District, Boston
September 30 – October 9, 2016
A silly, fun musical about female impersonators traveling through Australia.
The Plough And The Stars
Play (1926)
by Sean O’Casey
Directed by Sean Holmes
Abbey Theatre
Dublin, Ireland
in conjunction with
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
September 24 – October 9, 2016
A modernist take on the Irish classic about the complexities of the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin.