Play (1606)
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Globe
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theatre
Boston, MA
October 15-23, 2014
A lively and ultimately poignant take on the great tragedy about a deluded and befuddled monarch who finally comes to realize the truth about love and devotion.
Plays
Far From Heaven
Musical (2014)
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Book by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
September 12 – October 11, 2014
A surprisingly good musical adaptation of the eponymous 2002 film set in the 1950s about a woman, trapped in a marriage with a closeted gay man, who falls in love with her black gardener.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Play (2012)
by Todd Kreidler
based on the screenplay of the 1967 film of the same name
by William Rose
Directed by David Esbjornson
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 5 – October 5, 2014
A beautifully executed and moving account of the original film drama, now adapted to the stage, about an impending marriage between a black man and a white woman, set in the late 1960s in San Francisco.
Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight
Play
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Judy Braha
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
September 4 – October 5, 2014
A sometimes lively, impressionistic account of a unique woman physicist in eighteenth century France who spurns convention in various ways. She was also Voltaire’s long-time lover.
Astro Boy & The God of Comics
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.