Play
Written by Paul Lucas
Directed by Jo Bonney
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
January 19 – February 5, 2017
A compelling performance piece based on interviews with transgender women.
Trans Scripts, Part I:
Thurgood
Play (2006)
by George Stevens, Jr.
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 7 – February 9, 2017
Featuring Johnny Lee Davenport as
Thurgood Marshall
A gripping portrait of the late great Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, with a tour de force solo performance by Johnny Lee Davenport.
Intimate Exchanges
Play (1983)
by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Olivia D’Ambrosio
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge
January 12 – February 12, 2017
A terrific production of a brilliantly witty play in which two actors play at least five characters and in which the action changes from performance to performance.
Prokoviev, Weinberg, Tchaikovsky
Concert
Conductor: Juanjo Mena
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
January 21, 2017
An evening featuring celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer playing a little known concerto by a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, sandwiched between two great works by Prokoviev and Tchaikovsky.
Our Secrets
Play (2013)
BÉLA PINTÉR AND COMPANY
from Hungary
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theater
Theater District, Boston
January 19-22, 2017
A drama about state surveillance in Hungary in the 1980s.