Play (2024)
Based on the film (1981) by
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory
Adapted and Developed by
Jonathan Fielding and Robert Kropf
Harbor Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 13 – March 30, 2025
An intimate and lovely take on the now-classic film featuring a long discussion about theater and life.
The Triumph of Love
Play (1732)
by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Adapted by Stephen Wadsworth (1992)
Directed by Loretta Greco
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 7 – April 6, 2025
An update of the eighteenth century farce about deception, power and the longing for love.
Parade
Musical (1998)
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and Lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Michael Arden
Colonial Theater
Theater District, Boston
March 11-23, 2025
An excellently staged and moving production of the musical based on the 1913 case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man from New York wrongly convicted of murdering a young woman who worked for him, and his wife Lucille who resolutely stood beside him.
The Fig Tree, and the Phoenix, and the Desire To Be Reborn
Play (2025)
by Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens
Directed by Nikta Sabouri
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Spring Repertory Festival
February 20 – March 9, 2025
A semi-mythological, semi-realistic account of the experience of two children in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
Hedda Gabler
Play (1891)
by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theater Company
Chelsea, MA
February 21 – March 16, 2025
A beautifully acted, somewhat condensed, version of the play about a network of deceits surrounding a self-destructive woman.