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.
Plays
Into The Woods
Musical (1986)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Catherine Stornetta
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
May 9 – June 29, 2014
A lively production of the celebrated quasi-Jungian Sondheim-Lapine fairy-tale extravaganza.
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
Emerson-Majestic Theater, Boston
May 20 – 31, 2014
A touchingly evocative, musically enhanced account of the life and death of Lincoln, told mainly through the character of the young doctor who attended to him at his death.
The Tempest
Play (1611)
by William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Aaron Posner and Teller
Choreography by Matt Kent, Pilobolus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
May 11 – June 15, 2014
An extremely entertaining version of the late, great romance, with real magic and real Shakespeare.
On the Verge
Play (1987)
by Eric Overmyer
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
May 3 – 25, 2014
A play about three Victorian women who travel forward through time and encounter a lot of commercial products from the 1950s along the way.