Play (1987)
by August Wilson
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Hibernian Hall, Roxbury, Boston
January 23 – February 23, 2025
An excellent and vibrant production of a play about a group of black family and friends in Pittsburgh coming to grips with the ghostly and personal echoes of slavery.
The Life and Times of Michael K.
Play (2022)
A Baxter Theatre Centre Production
Adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage, Theater District, Boston
January 31 – February 9, 2025
A beautifully lilting, dance-like account of the odyssey of a South African boy and his mother during a time of war, told through magically inspired puppets interacting with live actors.
Ain’t No Mo’
Play (2019)
by Jordan E. Cooper
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 10 – February 8, 2025
An intertwined series of wild, funny and unsettling sketches about identity, race and blackness, fused by an underlying dramatic motive.
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy
Play (1995)
by Lynn Nottage
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 10 – February 2, 2025
A family drama set in the 1950s in which a widowed black father, raising two teenage daughters, deals with multiple issues across family, racial and religious boundaries.
Diary of a Tap Dancer
Play, Performance, Dance
Written and Choreographed by Ayodele Casel
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 12, 2024 – January 4, 2025
An outstandingly conceived autobiographical show about a Black-Hispanic female tap dancer, exquisitely performed by the author and a troupe of women tap dancers.