Play (1997)
by Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by Emily Ranii
Next Rep Black Box Festival
New Repertory Theater
Watertown, MA
March 8 – 30, 2014
The story of a lost child, her mother, a pilot who searches for her, and the pilot’s mother and grandmother.
Plays
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Play (1595)
by William Shakespeare
Bristol Old Vic
in association with
Handspring Puppet Company
Co-commissioned by
Spoleto Festival USA
Directed by Tom Morris
ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
March 6 – 15, 2014
An interestingly staged and lively production of the Shakespearean romance using puppets, multifunction planks, contraptions of various sorts, and a Puck configured out of a paint can, saw, play rake and a few other things.
The Seagull
Play (1896)
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Maria Aitken
Huntington Theatre Company
March 7 – April 6, 2014
A top notch production of the Chekhov classic: funny, tragic, nuanced, complex. Not to be missed.
Brundibar and But The Giraffe!
Play (1938)
Music by Hans Krása
Libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister
Adapted by Tony Kushner (2005)
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
March 6 – April 6, 2014
An adaptation of Brundibar, the imaginative musical written and performed at the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, with the contextual tale written by Tony Kushner, But The Giraffe!, set in a household on the verge of deportation.
Death of a Salesman
Play (1949)
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company
Boston, MA
February 14 – March 15, 2014
A very moving rendition of the classic modern tragedy about work, family and desperation in late middle age, with stellar performances by Ken Baltin and Paula Plum as Willy and Linda Loman.