Boston Arts Diary

Aesthetic encounters in the Boston area and sometimes beyond

Her Portmanteau

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Play (2017)
by Mfoniso Udofia
Directed by Tasia A. Jones
Central Square Theater
Co-produced with Front Porch Arts Collective
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
March 27 – April 20, 2025

With Patrice Jean-Baptiste (Abasiama Ufot), Jade A. Guerra (Iniabasi Ekpeyong), Lorraine Victoria Kanyike (Adiaha Ufot)
The Ufot family saga continues, with two daughters of a Nigerian-born mother meeting for the first time as adults.

My Dinner With André

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Play (2024)
Based on the film (1981) by
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory
Adapted and Developed by
Jonathan Fielding and Robert Kropf
Harbor Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 13 – March 30, 2025
An intimate and lovely take on the now-classic film featuring a long discussion about theater and life.

The Triumph of Love

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Play (1732)
by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Adapted by Stephen Wadsworth (1992)
Directed by Loretta Greco
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Avenue Theatre
Symphony Hall area, Boston
March 7 – April 6, 2025
An update of the eighteenth century farce about deception, power and the longing for love.

Parade

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Musical (1998)
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and Lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Michael Arden
Colonial Theater
Theater District, Boston
March 11-23, 2025
An excellently staged and moving production of the musical based on the 1913 case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man from New York wrongly convicted of murdering a young woman who worked for him, and his wife Lucille who resolutely stood beside him.