Play (2012)
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Performed by CompanyOne
Through ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
January 10 – February 1, 2014
A stirring production about the production of a play about a tribal genocide by German imperialists in Namibia in 1915.
Plays
Insignificance
Play (1982)
by Terry Johnson
Directed by Daniel Gidron
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
January 9 – February 9, 2014
A spoofy reflection on the early fifties, relativity, political intolerance and celebrity, with four characters who seem to be Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Joe McCarthy.
Working
Musical (1977)
From the book by Studs Terkel
Adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
Directed and Choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
Music Direction by
Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
January 3 – February 1, 2014
An unexpectedly lively show with no plot, but with a lot of short, entertaining profiles about people working in all sorts of different contexts.
Venus in Fur
Play (2010)
by David Ives
Directed by Daniel Goldstein
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre
Boston, MA
January 3 – February 2, 2014
An amusing production of a play about a play based on the nineteenth century erotic novella, Venus in Furs, written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who gave masochism its name.
Imagining Madoff
Play (2010)
by Deborah Margolin
Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 4-26, 2014
An incisive and touching production of a beautifully written play about an imagined encounter between Bernard Madoff and an older Jewish poet and scholar who is also a Holocaust survivor.