Play (2013)
by Annie Baker
Directed by
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
Gloucester Stage Company
Gloucester, MA
August 20 – September 12, 2015
A first-rate production of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning play about three employees in a run down movie theater in the middle of Massachusetts.
Up, and Coming:
Tales From The Forgotten Kingdom
The Guy Mendilow Ensemble
Concert
Rockport Music
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Thursday, August 27, 2015, 8:00pm
An evening of traditional, but reinterpreted, music and storytelling – in Ladino, a Jewish-Sephardic language derived from Old Spanish.
Waitress
Musical (2015)
Book by Jessie Nelson
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
August 2 – September 27, 2015
An energetic and entertaining musical adaptation based on the 2007 film of the same name about a waitress with a confused personal life, a distinctive talent for baking memorable pies, and two devoted waitress friends.
Mother of the Maid
Play (2014)
by Jane Anderson
Directed by Matthew Penn
Shakespeare & Company
Lenox, MA
July 30 – September 6, 2015
With Tina Packer, Nigel Gore
A forceful and touching reflection on the relationship between Joan of Arc and her parents.
A Moon For The Misbegotten
Play (1943)
by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown, MA
August 5-23, 2015
With Audra McDonald,
Will Swenson
A culturally varied take on the original drama about intense and impossible love between two Irish-Americans from different classes facing similar existential challenges.