Play (2016)
by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
September 9 – October 8, 2016
A sweet and very funny play about a thirtyish gay man in New York who faces increasing solitude as his female college friends marry and withdraw from a formerly tight circle.
Plays
Company
Musical (1970)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Director: Catherine Sfornetta
Choreography and Musical Staging: Rachel Bertone
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 2 – October 9, 2016
An often delightful and lively account of the earlyish Sondheim meditation on marriage and solitude.
Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education
Performance, Play (2016)
Created, Written and Performed by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Leonard Foglia
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
August 20 – September 17, 2016
A superbly conceived and delivered, and very moving, inquiry into racism, schools and incarceration.
Dog Paddle
Play
by Reto Finger
Translated by Lily Sykes
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
Bridge Repertory Theater
Studio Theater at
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
United States Premiere
August 4-20, 2016
A beautifully directed and acted morsel of absurdist drama with a millennial twist.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Play (1597)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Steven Maler
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common, Boston
July 20 – August 7, 2016
A terrific and very fun production of Shakespeare’s early comedy, very high on language play and relatively low on plot.