Musical (2008)
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed and choreographed by Pascale Florestal
Music direction by Katie Bickford
Central Square Theater
The Front Porch Arts Collective
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
May 30 – June 20, 2024
A superlative production of the musical about a family in which personal loss and mental illness take severe tolls.
Gatsby
Musical (2024)
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett
Lyrics by Florence Welch
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 26 – August 3, 2024
A new musical based on the novel about distressed loves and fatefully complicated lives.
The Dybbuk
Play (2024)
Written by Roy Chen
Based on the play (2016) by S. Ansky
Directed by Igor Golyak
Arlekin Players Theatre
The Vilna Shul
Beacon Hill, Boston
May 30 – June 30, 2024
An inventively staged, wonderfully acted, and strikingly evocative production of the Russian-Yiddish classic about a ghost who comes to visit his old lover.
Fiddler on the Roof
Musical (1964)
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Robert W. Schneider
North Shore Music Theatre
Beverly, MA
June 4-16, 2024
A lively and beautifully staged version of the now classic musical about Jewish life in a small village in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.
Toni Stone
Play (2019)
Written and directed by Lydia R. Diamond
Choreographed by Ebony Williams
Inspired by the book Curveball: The Remarkable True Story of Toni Stone (2010) by Martha Ackmann
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
May 17 – June 16, 2024
A nicely staged dramatization of the life and career of a talented female player in the Negro professional baseball leagues in the early 1950s.