Plays
by Stephanie K. Brownell, Kirsten Greenidge, David Valdes Greenwood, MJ Halberstadt, Manuel Aquiles López Torres, Jaymes Sanchez and Livian Yeh
Directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden,
Artists’ Theater of Boston
in collaboration with the
Department of Creativity, Arts and Social Transformation
Brandeis University
The Merrick Theater
at Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
May 2-4, 2019
A remounting of a production about housing justice which was done in the city (at Charlestown Working Theater) last summer and which now, in collaboration with Brandeis, is bringing its potent urban message to those in suburbia and exurbia.
Heads Up:
black odyssey boston
Play (2019)
by Marcus Gardley
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
The Front Porch Arts Collective
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
April 25 – May 19, 2019
A robustly moving and exquisitely conceived and directed evocation of African-American experience with a particular tilt towards Boston, told through the mythic lens of Homer’s Odyssey.
Becoming Dr. Ruth
Play (2013)
by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Stephen Nachamie
With Anne O’Sullivan as
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
New Repertory Theater
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
April 27 – May 19, 2019
A one-woman show about the life and career of sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
The Return
Play
by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
Israeli Stage
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
April 26 – May 19, 2019
A superbly written and enacted drama about the relationship between an Arab-Palestinian man and a Jewish-Israeli woman.
Ramen Shop
Film (2018)
Directed by Eric Khoo
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A drama about a young man who seeks reconciliation with his past through a food connection.