Boston Arts Diary

Musical
Book by Joe Tracz
Music and Lyrics by Rob Rokicki
Adapted from the book
The Lightning Thief (2005)
by Rick Riordan
from the original TheaterWorks USA Production
Huntington Theatre Company
July 17-28, 2019
A musical set in a summer camp filled with the children of Greek gods.

Play (2017)
by Kate Hamill
Adapted from the novel by
Jane Austen
Actors Shakespeare Project
Balch Arena Theater
Tufts University, Medford, MA
June 5-28, 2019
A dramatized version of the famous satire, set in late eighteenth century England, about romantic fulfillment.

Play
Adapted and translated by
Melinda Lopez
Based on the play (1934) by Federico García Lorca
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 31 – June 30, 2019
A drama about marriage, procreation, community, temptation, jealousy, expectation and disappointment.

Play (1979)
by Caryl Churchill
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
June 6-30, 2019
A wild, surrealistic romp through the sexual mores of Victorian England and its contemporary reflection.

Play (1991)
by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Fran Weinberg
Titanic Theatre Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 30 – June 15, 2019
A sweetly intimate production of a play about a Hollywood television celebrity who comes to New York to star in a live production of Hamlet.