Play (2013)
by Colm Tóibín
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
January 30 – February 28, 2016
Featuring Paula Langton
A very human interpretation of the death of Jesus, as imagined through an account given by his mother.
Plays
The Convert
Play (2012)
by Danai Gurira
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge
January 28 – February 28, 2016
A superb production of a superbly written play about Africans under the influence of Christianity in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) at the end of the nineteenth century.
Nice Fish
Play
by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins
Drawn from the words of
Louis Jenkins
Directed by Claire Van Kampen
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge
January 17 – February 7, 2016
With Kayli Carter, Bob Davis,
Louis Jenkins, Jim Lichtscheidl,
Mark Rylance
A wonderful, comedic reverie set at an ice-fishing camp on a frozen lake in Minnesota, making use of Louis Jenkins’ delightful prose poetry, with existential overtones lurking around every hilarious corner.
Citizens of the Empire
Play (2016)
A Space Opera by
Kevin Mullins
Directed by Lindsay Eagle
Boston Public Works
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 8 – 23, 2016
A space epic set eight hundred years in the future.
Disgraced
Play (2012)
by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area
January 8 – February 7, 2016
A comedic melodrama featuring a Pakistani Muslim corporate attorney in New York, his Caucasian American artist wife, a female African-American lawyer colleague, and her white Jewish-American art-dealer husband. Sparks fly.