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.
Plays
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.
Twelfth Night
Play (1602)
by William Shakespeare
The Nora Theatre Company
in association with Bedlam
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
June 9 – July 10, 2016
The more informal, less abstract, and easier to access of Bedlam’s two improvisational takes on Shakespeare’s early comedic classic running in alternation in Central Square.