Play (1996)
Adapted by Joe Landry
from Frank Capra’s film
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
November 25 – December 20, 2015
With Nael Nacer, Celeste Oliva, Joel Colodner, Jason Bowen, Veronika Duerr
A beautifully produced adaptation of the popular film, reset as a radio drama performed in 1946.
Plays
It’s A Wonderful Life:
Buyer and Cellar
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.
The Love of the Nightingale
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.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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.
Casa Valentina
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.