Boston Arts Diary

Play
Presented by Imaginary Beasts
Story by Matthew Woods
Written by the Ensemble
Charlestown Working Theater
Charlestown, MA
January 13 – February 4, 2018
A terrific romp through a wild world inspired, but not bound, by the famous Jules Verne tale, full of hysterical antics and lots of audience engagement, done in the fantastical and histrionic style of the British holiday panto(mime).

Play
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 12 – February 10, 2018
A sweet, and slightly varied, adaptation of the celebrated film.

Play (2000)
by David Auburn
Directed by Michelle M. Aguillon
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
January 18 – February 18, 2018
An eloquent and moving account of the Pulitzer Prize winning play about a schizophrenic mathematician, his talented, devoted and somewhat odd daughter, and the graduate student who comes to investigate his work.

Play (1901)
by Anton Chekhov
in a new version by Tracy Letts
Directed by
Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Apollinaire Theatre Company
Chelsea Theatre Works, Chelsea, MA
December 22, 2017 – January 21, 2018
An intimate and beautifully produced version of the Chehkov classic about hope, despair and the will to go on.