Musical (2005)
Music and lyrics by
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
May 10 – June 16, 2013
A lively and engaging rendition of the Tony winning Broadway musical about Washington Heights, a dominantly Hispanic neighborhood in northern Manhattan.
Plays
Pericles
Play (1608)
by William Shakespeare
(and George Wilkins?)
Directed by Allyn Burrows
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Modern Theatre
at Suffolk University
Boston, MA
April 17 – May 12, 2013
An energetic account of the little performed Shakespearean et al collaboration, the subject of which is a different Pericles than the famous 5th century Athenian one.
Ryan Landry’s “M”
Play
by Ryan Landry
Inspired by the film by Fritz Lang
Directed by Caitlin Lowens
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
March 29 – April 27, 2013
A comedic takeoff off on Fritz Lang’s classic film with lots of self-referential talk about plays, characters and authors.
Trojan Women [After Euripides]
Play (2011)
Created and Performed
by Siti Company
Adapted by Jocelyn Clarke
Directed by Anne Bogart
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Theater District, Boston, MA
April 17-21, 2013
A tautly cathartic adaptation of the Euripides classic about the fate of the women who figure centrally in the Trojan War.
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
A Songplay by
Banana Bag & Bodice
Text and Lyrics by Jason Craig
Music by Dave Malloy
American Repertory Theater
Oberon Theater
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
April 16 – May 5, 2013
A short and entertaining telling and enactment, in very rough outline, of the Norse classic.