Plays

Play (1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Fran Weinberg
Arts After Hours
Lynn Arts
25 Exchange Street, Lynn, MA
March 4 – 19, 2016
An excellent production of the witty and moving dramatic comedy about three middle-aged men who argue about the merits of an almost all-white painting that one of them has just purchased at extravagant cost.

Play (1597)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Allyn Burrows
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Cambridge YMCA
Central Square, Cambridge
February 17 – March 13, 2016
A very good rendition of the history play – rich with poetry – about the reign of Richard II and the succession of Henry IV.

Play
by Melinda Lopez
Directed by Daniela Varon
Boston Playwrights’ Theater
Boston University, Boston
February 4- 28, 2016
An artfully written play, overtly about sex and violence on campus, but subliminally about ends, means, trust, and social change.

Play
by George Orwell
Adapted and Directed by
Robert Icke & Duncan Macmillan
A Headlong, Almeida Theatre,
and Nottingham Playhouse Production
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 14 – March 6, 2016
A brief but pungent adaptation of the notorious futuristic Orwell novel about the horrors of an autocratic dystopia.

Play (2014)
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Company One Theatre
in conjunction with
Arts Emerson
Paramount Center, Theater District, Boston
January 29 – February 27, 2016
A contextualized, mostly comedic, recasting of a popular nineteenth century American play set in the South, involving anti-miscegenation laws and land inheritance.