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.
Plays
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.
The Mikado
Operetta
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
September 7 – October 13, 2012
The Gilbert and Sullivan hit based on Japanese themes, colorfully done in an intimate setting, with lots of topical lyrics inserted into the original.
The Kite Runner
Play (2007)
by Matthew Spangler
based on the novel
by Khaled Hosseini
New Repertory Theater
Watertown, MA
September 9 – 30
An intelligent and moving adaptation of the acclaimed novel about growing up in Afghanistan.
Marie Antoinette
Play (2012)
by David Adjmi
American Repertory Theatre
September 1-29, 2012
A dramatization of the decline and fall of the famously indulgent French queen.