Play (2007)
by Lisa Loomer
Underground Railway Theater and
Catalyst Collaborative@MIT
Central Square Theater
Central Square
Cambridge, MA
May 9 – June 9, 2013,
A mostly comedic, frenetic treatment of attention deficit disorder, told from the perspective of a harried and fraught mother of a nine year old son who exhibits symptoms.
Plays
Rapture, Blister, Burn
Play (2012)
by Gina Gionfriddo
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 24 – June 30, 2013
A searing comedy about lifestyle, ambition and relationship, featuring two women friends from graduate school, an aging mother, a feckless husband and a scarily insightful babysitter.
The Pirates of Penzance
Operetta (1879)
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Libretto by W. S. Gilbert
New adaptation by Sean Graney, Kevin O’Donnell
A production by The Hypocrites
American Repertory Theatre
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
May 10 – June 2, 2013
A infectiously rambunctious version of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, abbreviated, but still seeming full, and done with musicality and stageworthiness by a troupe wielding guitars, banjos, ukeleles, spoons, washboards, and lots of beach balls.
On The Town
Musical (1944)
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square, Boston, MA
May 10 – June 8, 2013
The classic early Bernstein-Robbins-Comden-Green World War II musical about three sailors on a 24 hour leave in New York City, done with energy and style.
Amadeus
Play (1979)
by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Jim Petosa
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
April 28 – May 26, 2013
An engaging account of the drama about Mozart and his fellow composer and jealous nemesis, Antonio Salieri, depicted with sardonic abandon by noted Boston actor, director and impresario Benjamin Evett.