'Queens,' by Randolph, Massachusetts native Kai Clifton, follows four queer Black men - Sky, Bobbi, Alex and Adrienne - as they discover what being an adult means, from careers to love and friendship. 'Queens' is one of more than a half-dozen new plays chosen to come to the stage for Moonbox Production's inaugural Boston New Works Festival, running June 23-26. Moonbox Productions | Boston New Works Festival June 24-26 The accomplished Kimille Howard, the assistant stage director at the Metropolitan Opera and cofounder of the Black Classical Music Archive, directs. The play received the Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The narrative focuses on a lawyer reeling from a tremendous loss who takes a pro-bono murder case that leaves her questioning who she is and what she wants. Switching' is a 'story of race and identity, of promise and purpose… but perhaps more importantly, it is the story of the potency of being seen,'' writes playwright Tara L. Will Swenson in a promo photo for 'A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical.' (Courtesy Emilio Madrid) Neil Diamond fans will see some of his most memorable music onstage in the production 'A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical,' with Tony Award nominee Will Swenson leading the cast. There's an almost two-hour YouTube collection featuring some of his greatest hits from 'America' to 'Song Sung Blue' to prove it.

There's one song by Neil Diamond, who is battling Parkinson's disease, that pulses through the speakers at every sporting event and at bars in the Boston area that gets everyone to sing: 'Sweet Caroline.' But Diamond's catalog - built over nearly 50 years in the business - offers much more than crooning about Caroline. ' A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical' Robin Bloodworth, Allison Zanolli, D'Arcy Dersham and David Fraioli in Harbor Stage Company's production of 'Buried Child.' (Courtesy Joe Kenahan) Over time, the family's frightening secret becomes clear in this three-act Pulitzer prize-winning play by Sam Shepard with direction from Robert Kropf, staged in Wellfleet. The girlfriend meets Vince's grandparents Dodge and Halie and their two sons, Tilden and Bradley, who lost a leg due to a chainsaw accident. 'Revitalized' is directed by Armando Rivera with performances at Chelsea Theatre Works.Ī dark secret gets uncovered when Vince brings his new girlfriend to meet his charming-at-first Midwestern family to the farmhouse they own. The story explores the human price for revitalization and if it's worth the risk.

The world premiere of his bilingual play, 'Revitalized,' focuses on a community of immigrants struggling with high rents, immigration and other socioeconomic challenges and the battle of one family, particularly Esmeralda and her mom for their home. While those might not seem like the most likely majors for storytelling, Ulloa's work in these areas has nevertheless informed his writing. Playwright Joel Ulloa, who grew up in East Los Angeles, studied urban planning and business administration in college. Maurice Emmanuel Parent (foreground) and members of the cast of 'Common Ground Revisited 'at The Huntington Theatre Company's Wimberly Theatre. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize-winning book centering on the lives of three different families in Boston in the 1960s and ‘70s is the inspiration behind playwright Kirsten Greenidge's new play 'Common Ground Revisited.' With excellent direction by Melia Bensussen, the show features a talented local cast that expertly moves audiences from past to present to take a closer look and dissect race relations through the lens of the desegregation of Boston Public Schools. Here's a list of 16 productions, some of which explore considerable change, to see this summer. This summer theater season, venues near (and sort of) far are offering a variety of productions that explore love, music and more. In the Boston area, there are Actors' Shakespeare Project's long-delayed ' Bomb-itty of Errors,' Moonbox Production's first annual Boston New Works Festival with several new plays by local artists and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 'Much Ado About Nothing.' What's most noticeable, though, is that many stories coming to the stage this summer are about significant change, from life-altering diagnoses to secrets, gentrification and displacement. Facebook Email An audience watches the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 2021 performance of 'The Tempest.' (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

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