Play with Music (1941)
by Moss Hart
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Produced by Anneke Reich
Directed by Abby Armstrong
Brandeis Theater Company
Senior Thesis Festival 2013
Spingold Theater Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
April 10, 12, 2013
A delightful and adept rendition of a wonderful, somewhat obscure, musical play – about a powerful magazine editor in a state of personal transition – crafted by a trio of theatrical greats — Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.
Plays
Operation Epsilon
Play (2013)
by Alan Brody
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
March 7 – April 28, 2013
At the end of World War II, the Allies captured ten of the top German nuclear physicists and sequestered them at a hidden location in England in order to acquire information about how close they had come to producing controlled nuclear fission. The British bugged their conversations and created a transcript which was released in the 1990s. The play is based on those transcripts.
Master Class
Play (1995)
by Terrence McNally
Directed by
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
March 31 – April 21, 2013
Maria Callas, the noted Greek-American soprano, gives a master class to several vocal students, none of whom is particularly prepared for the intensity of her instruction.
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
Play (2012)
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
March 29 – April 27, 2013
A dramatic reflection on the careers of black actresses in Hollywood as they took shape in the 1930s.
Clybourne Park
Play (2010)
by Bruce Norris
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
March 1 – April 6, 2013
A superb production of a superb play, set in the same house in Chicago alluded to in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, and taking place in two acts, one in 1959, the other in 2009.