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.
Plays
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.
Eugene Onegin
Play
based on the poem Eugene Onegin (1833) by Alexander Pushkin
Directed by Rimas Tuminas
Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia
Cherry Orchard Festival
ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
June 6-7, 2014
A dramatized version of the poem by Pushkin, with some innovative staging.
Smart People
Play (2014)
by Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Peter DuBois
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
May 23 – July 6, 2014
A comic reflection on ideas about racism, set among a racially diverse group of academic friends in 2008 on the cusp of Obama’s presidential victory.