Plays

Play (2013)
by Jonathan Tolins
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
December 4, 2015 – January 3, 2016
With Phil Tayler
A terrifically funny and well-acted fantasy about a guy who gets hired to work in Barbra Streisand’s personal basement mall.

Play (1989)
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
66 Marlborough Street, Boston
November 6-21, 2015
A beautifully acted and directed account of a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of the rape of Philomela.

Play (2015)
by Jeffrey Hatcher
based on the novel by
John Kennedy Toole
Directed by David Esbjornson
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater, Huntington Avenue, Boston
Symphony Hall area
November 11 – December 20, 2015
With Nick Offerman
as Ignatius J. Reilly
An adaptation of the unexpectedly successful novel by Toole whose mother, eleven years after his death by suicide, saw to its publication.

Play (2014)
by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 24 – November 28, 2015
A meeting, in 1962, of heterosexual male transvestites at a bungalow colony in the Catskills.

Play (1998)
by Michael Frayn
Directed by Eric Tucker
Central Square Theater
October 1 – November 15, 2015
With Steven Barkhimer, Robert_Najarian, Debra Wise, Han Nah Son
A superbly good rendition of the dense, thoughtful and deeply interesting play about the mysterious and celebrated meeting between the fathers of quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, in 1941.