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.
Plays
Via Dolorosa
Play (1998)
by David Hare
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 2 -23, 2016
With David Bryan Jackson
A superb solo account of an articulate, witty and heartfelt autobiographical sketch of the playwright’s trip to Israel and Palestine in 1997.
The Winter’s Tale
Play (1623)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Willet Hall at United Parish
Coolidge Corner area
Brookline, MA
December 10, 2015 –
January 3, 2016
A delightful production of the great late Shakespearean treatment of a jealous king who learns to repent.
Matchless and
The Happy Prince
Plays
By Gregory Maguire and
Oscar Wilde
Directed by Debra Wise
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
November 27, 2015 –
January 3, 2016
A pair of delightful interpretations of two tales: Matchless by the great contemporary Boston-area writer Gregory Maguire and The Happy Prince by the great Oscar Wilde, done simply and elegantly with live actors and inspired puppetry.
Beowulf
Play (2015)
based on Seamus Heaney’s translation
Adapted for the stage by
David Gullette
Directed by Benjamin Evett
The Poet’s Theatre
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
December 10-20, 2015
A passionately delivered and interestingly conceived theatrical rendition of the Scandinavian epic in a translation by the great contemporary Irish poet.