Play (2012)
Written and directed by
Natsu Onoda Power
Company One Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
July 18 – August 16, 2014
A surprisingly dramatic entertainment that begins with comic-book fantasy and moves backward in time towards evocative biography.
Plays
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf
Play (1976)
by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Tara Brooke Watkins
The Pariah Theatre Company
At various locations around Boston
June 19-29, 2014
An energetic and evocative production of the choreopoem which made its debut on Broadway almost forty years ago.
Cassandra Speaks
Play (2012)
by Norman Plotkin
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi
Starring Tod Randolph
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
June 5 – 29, 2014
A tour de force solo performance depicting the life of Dorothy Thompson, noted and outspoken journalist active in the decades leading up to and during the Second World War.
Pattern of Life
Play (2014)
by Walt McGough
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
New Repertory Theatre
Boston University Theater, Boston
June 14 – 29, 2014
A riveting production of a beautifully written drama about an American drone pilot and a Pakistani man in his virtual line of sight.
Gidion’s Knot
Play
by Johnna Adams
Directed by Karen MacDonald
Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
June 5 – 22, 2014
If Harold Pinter had written a Greek tragedy about a fifth grade parent-teacher conference and fit it into an intense eighty minutes, it would be something like this.