Play, Performance
by Nassim Soleimanpour
Directed by Omar Elerian
Huntington Theatre Company
October 4-27, 2024
A very entertaining and cleverly conceived performance piece by an Iranian playwright living in Berlin, and featuring a different celebrity guest actor at each performance.
Leopoldstadt
Play (2020)
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
Huntington Theater Company
Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 12 – October 13, 2024
A superlative production of the saga about a Viennese Jewish family from 1899 to 1955.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Play (2007)
by Steven Canny and John Nicholson
Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner
Central Square Theater
September 12 – October 6, 2024
A very fun adaptation of the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes mystery story with three women actors playing many roles with verve and gusto.
Mitridate, re di Ponto
Opera (1770)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi
Boston Lyric Opera
September 13-15, 2024
A superlative production, in every regard, of the amazingly accomplished opera by the fourteen year old musical prodigy.
Romeo and Juliet
Play (1597)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
August 31 – October 6, 2024
The early Shakespearean tale of passion and woe featuring a fabulous Juliet.