Play with music (2011)
by Rick Elice
Based on the novel
Peter and the Starcatcher (2006)
by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music by Wayne Barker
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
May 20 – June 26, 2016
A dramatized version of a prequel to Peter Pan, with music.
Plays
In The Body Of The World
Play, Performance Piece (2016)
Written and performed by
Eve Ensler
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University,
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 10-29, 2016
A moving and evocative solo performance piece about illness, environmental disaster, human violence, and hope written and performed Eve Ensler, best known as the author of the highly successful and influential play The Vagina Monologues (1996).
Dogfight
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.
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.