Play (2013), with music
by Daniel Beaty
Directed by David Dower
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theater Mainstage, Boston
January 27 – February 8, 2015
An informative and charming musical introduction to the life and career of Roland Hayes, one of America’s first African-American classical singers.
Plays
Father Comes Home From the Wars: Parts 1,2,3
Play (2014)
by Suzan Lori-Parks
Directed by Jo Bonney
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, MA
January 23 – March 1, 2015
A drama about a slave in the South during the Civil War who goes to fight for the Confederacy in exchange for his freedom.
Bedlam’s Saint Joan
Play (1924)
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Eric Tucker
Produced by
Bedlam Theatre Company
Presented by
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
January 15 – February 8, 2015
A superbly acted, and simply, but very interestingly, staged adaptation of the Shaw classic about the influential and iconoclastic French visionary.
A Future Perfect
Play (2015)
By Ken Urban
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
World Premiere
January 9 – February 7, 2015
An interestingly constructed and heartfelt comedic drama about thirty-somethings hesitantly transitioning towards parenthood.
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
Play (2000)
by Charles Busch
Directed by Larry Coen
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
November 21 – December 20, 2014
An entertaining production about an upscale New York neurotic who, with her husband, becomes an unlikely adventurer in lifestyle when an old friend appears on the scene.