Play (2012)
Adapted for the stage
by Oren Jacoby
Based on the novel
by Ralph Ellison
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
January 4 – February 3, 2013
A heartfelt and dutiful recapitulation of the numerous episodes from the novel, with ten actors playing twenty-five characters, surrounded by many videos projected on a background of multiple screens.
Plays
Pippin
Musical (1972)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
December 5, 2012 –
January 20, 2013
A revival of the 70s musical, putatively about Charlemagne’s son, but mostly about growing up, enhanced by the wonderful circus arts of Les 7 Doigts de la Main from Montreal.
Fully Committed
Play (1999)
by Becky Mode
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
December 19-30, 2012
Sam, a reservations manager for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, tries to manage calls, intercoms and all kinds of things on Christmas Day. The play has a raft of characters, all done in superbly believable voice and gesture, in a one person dramatic fiesta starring Gabriel Kuttner.
Chesapeake
Play (1999)
by Lee Blessing
Directed by Doug Lockwood
With Georgia Lyman
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
November 25 – December 16, 2012
A solo acting tour de force in an inventive exploration of the social and psychological interactions between an avant-garde performance artist and a conservative legislator.
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Play (1591)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Robert Walsh
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Davis Square Theatre
Somerville, MA
December 12, 2012 –
January 6, 2013
A spectacularly lively and intelligent interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s great comedies (though early, yes!) in an intimate setting by one of greatest Boston Shakespearean troupes.