Performance (2022)
Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Theater District, Boston
October 28-30, 2022
A stupendous performance by the brilliant mime and actor Bill Irwin who leads a scintillating tour through works of Samuel Beckett, illuminating them with incisive commentary and hysterically funny clowning.
Plays
Ada and the Engine
Play (2015)
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Debra Wise
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
September 22 – October 23, 2022
An excellent production of a very good play, set in the mid-nineteenth century, about Ada Lovelace, frequently regarded as the inventor of computer programming, and Charles Babbage who envisioned and designed the first computer.
Much Ado About Nothing
Play (1599)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common
Boston, MA
July 20 – August 7, 2022
A lively and entertaining interpretation of the comedy about love, with a woman playing a female version of Benedick, Beatrice’s oppositional paramour.
Much Ado About Nothing
Play (1599)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Emma Rosa Went
Opera House Arts
Mariners Memorial Park, Deer Isle, ME
June 29 – July 17, 2022
A wonderfully vital, energetic and beautifully produced performance of the great comedy about challenged love.
1776
Musical (1969)
Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
Directed by Jeffrey L. Page, Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
May 17 – July 24, 2022
An energetic and spirited production – with a cast of women, trans, and non-binary actors – of the 1969 musical about the drama leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.