Play (2008) by Christopher Shinn
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
October 12 – November 10, 2012
Controversial actions by the strong-willed son of a Presidential candidate raise concerns on election night, posing political problems with personal reverberations.
Plays
The How And The Why
Play (2011)
by Sarah Treem
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
September 27 – November 4, 2012
A beautifully written and produced account of two women scientists who connect on theoretical terms, and on far more.
Hamlet
Play (1603)
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London
ArtsEmerson
A thoughtful, but lively and spirited, framing of the tragic tale, artfully trimmed and rendered.
Macbeth
Play by William Shakespeare
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Chevalier Theater
Medford, MA
October 3 – November 4, 2012
The darkest of dark Shakespearean tragedies lit up by an inventive production and a vivid embodiment of the play’s problematic king by ASP’s artistic director Allyn Burrows.
Good People
Play (2011)
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Huntington Theatre Company
September 14 – October 14, 2012
A beautifully written and produced account of people, now middle-aged, who were teenagers together in South Boston in the early 1970s.