Plays

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.

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.

Play (1959)
by Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Liesl Tommy
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre
Boston, MA
March 8 – April 7, 2013
The 1950s classic about African-Americans on Chicago’s South Side facing housing discrimination during the postwar era.

Play (2011)
A comedy by Duncan Macmillan
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
February 17 – March 10, 2013
A comedic-dramatic account of the world of a relationship in a teacup – a lifetime in an hour and a half – that begins with the question “Baby?”

Play (2010)
by Will Eno
Directed by Doug Lockwood
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
YMCA Theatre (Central Square)
Cambridge, MA
February 13 – March 10, 2013
A beautifully acted and directed piece about a small town, with the charm of Wilder’s Our Town and the absurdist echoes of Pinter’s early plays.