Play (1994)
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company
Copley Square area, Boston
February 21 – March 16, 2025
An excellent account of the great play about three middle-aged French friends who argue over an almost all-white painting one of them has bought and which challenges their relationships to the core.
Plays
A Man Of No Importance
Musical, Play (2002)
by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
February 21 – March 22, 2025
A superb account of a bus conductor in Dublin who raises up a production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome and a lot of intense emotion along the way.
Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Musical, Play (2014)
by Lanie Robertson
Music Arrangement by Danny Holgate
Directed by Candice Handy
Merrimack Repertory Theater
Lowell, MA
February 5-23, 2025
A beautifully done, moving account of the life of jazz great Billie Holiday told through narrative and song.
Space
Play
by LM Feldman
Directed by Larissa Lury
A Catalyst Collaboriative@MIT Production
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
January 30 – February 23, 2025
An interesting amalgam of history, speculation and poetry about space travel, women’s rights and racism centering around the role of women in the United States space program.
The Piano Lesson
Play (1987)
by August Wilson
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Hibernian Hall, Roxbury, Boston
January 23 – February 23, 2025
An excellent and vibrant production of a play about a group of black family and friends in Pittsburgh coming to grips with the ghostly and personal echoes of slavery.