Musical (2012)
Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Book by Peter Duchan
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 7 – June 5, 2016
A musical adaptation of the 1991 film of the same name about Marines about to go off to Vietnam in 1963 who engage in a heartless and hurtful stunt and a relationship which arises out of that.
Plays
Freud’s Last Session
Play (2009)
by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
April 30 – May 22, 2016
A dramatization of a hypothetical encounter between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis at the beginning of World War II and at the end of Freud’s life.
The School For Scandal
Play (1777)
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Paula Plum
Adapted by Steven Barkhimer
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Lechmere area, Cambridge
April 13 – May 8, 2016
An entertaining and well-directed rendering of the great eighteenth century farce about undermined and rediscovered relationships.
Art
Play(1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Daniel Bourque
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
Marlborough Street, Back Bay
April 8-23, 2016
A great, intimate, production of the modern classic about three middle-aged friends who come to blows over the purchase of an all-white painting.
Oh, God
Play (2008)
by Anat Gov
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
Israeli Stage
Arsenal Center for the Arts,
Watertown, MA
April 14-30, 2016
With Will Lyman, Maureen Keiller
A very funny and moving account of a psychotherapist’s therapeutic encounter with the Almighty.