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.
Plays
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.
Coriolanus
Play by William Shakespeare
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common
July 27 – August 12, 2012
A brash, and sonically and emotionally amplified, rendition of the political tragedy about a Roman general, and the mother who drives his ambitions.
A Class Act
Music and Lyrics by
Edward Kleban
Book by
Linda Kline and Lonny Price
Berkshire Theatre Group
Unicorn Theatre
Stockbridge, MA
July 14 – August 4, 2012
The story of Edward Kleban, lyricist for A Chorus Line, told through his own clever words and distinctive music.