Upcoming Operas, Musicals, and Stage Plays
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Mass Arts Center - "Broadway Bound" (2)
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Marianne Phinney
Brothers Eugene and Stanley are living with their parents in 1949 New York and trying to break into comedy writing for radio. Their mother Kate takes care of her father, Ben, a passionate socialist, while putting up with the indiscretions of her husband Jack. Eugene and Stanley finally get a break with a comedy sketch based on the family. The sketch outrages Jack, who sees the thinly disguised characters as an attack on him. The last chapter in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy, Broadway Bound shows a family overcoming emotional conflicts with Simon’s trademark humor and wit. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Mass Arts Center - "Broadway Bound" (7)
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Marianne Phinney
Brothers Eugene and Stanley are living with their parents in 1949 New York and trying to break into comedy writing for radio. Their mother Kate takes care of her father, Ben, a passionate socialist, while putting up with the indiscretions of her husband Jack. Eugene and Stanley finally get a break with a comedy sketch based on the family. The sketch outrages Jack, who sees the thinly disguised characters as an attack on him. The last chapter in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy, Broadway Bound shows a family overcoming emotional conflicts with Simon’s trademark humor and wit. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Chess
CHESS
The collaborators on Chess are giants of rock music and rock musicals, and here they have created a complex rock opera that played to full Broadway houses and standing ovations. In this musical, the ancient game becomes a metaphor for romantic rivalries, competitive gamesmanship, super-power politics, and international intrigue.
The pawns in this drama form a love triangle: the loutish American chess star, the earnest Russian champion, and a Hungarian American female assistant who arrives at the international chess match in Bangkok with the American, but falls for the Russian. From Bangkok to Budapest, the players, lovers, politicians and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental rock score that includes “One Night in Bangkok” and “Heaven Help My Heart.”
Mass Arts Center - "Broadway Bound" (8)
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Marianne Phinney
Brothers Eugene and Stanley are living with their parents in 1949 New York and trying to break into comedy writing for radio. Their mother Kate takes care of her father, Ben, a passionate socialist, while putting up with the indiscretions of her husband Jack. Eugene and Stanley finally get a break with a comedy sketch based on the family. The sketch outrages Jack, who sees the thinly disguised characters as an attack on him. The last chapter in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy, Broadway Bound shows a family overcoming emotional conflicts with Simon’s trademark humor and wit. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Mass Arts Center - "Broadway Bound" (11)
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Marianne Phinney
Brothers Eugene and Stanley are living with their parents in 1949 New York and trying to break into comedy writing for radio. Their mother Kate takes care of her father, Ben, a passionate socialist, while putting up with the indiscretions of her husband Jack. Eugene and Stanley finally get a break with a comedy sketch based on the family. The sketch outrages Jack, who sees the thinly disguised characters as an attack on him. The last chapter in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy, Broadway Bound shows a family overcoming emotional conflicts with Simon’s trademark humor and wit. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Merrimack Rep - Kween
By Vichet Chum
Hometown Heroine
MRT Commission and World Premiere
“Step in to your legacy”
Set in Lowell, this joyful journey follows Soma, a queer Cambodian American teenager, finding her voice and stepping into her legacy. When Soma posts a video performing her own poetry about the struggles she’s facing including her father’s deportation, it quickly goes viral. Now, Lowell High School’s spoken word contest approaches, and Soma must decide if she’s brave enough to step up to the mic. Told with humor, heart-forward characters, and culminating in the biggest Khmer cultural event of the season, Kween explores all the ways we author our path home.
Merrimack Rep - Kween (2)
By Vichet Chum
Hometown Heroine
MRT Commission and World Premiere
“Step in to your legacy”
Set in Lowell, this joyful journey follows Soma, a queer Cambodian American teenager, finding her voice and stepping into her legacy. When Soma posts a video performing her own poetry about the struggles she’s facing including her father’s deportation, it quickly goes viral. Now, Lowell High School’s spoken word contest approaches, and Soma must decide if she’s brave enough to step up to the mic. Told with humor, heart-forward characters, and culminating in the biggest Khmer cultural event of the season, Kween explores all the ways we author our path home.
Merrimack Rep - Kween (3)
By Vichet Chum
Hometown Heroine
MRT Commission and World Premiere
“Step in to your legacy”
Set in Lowell, this joyful journey follows Soma, a queer Cambodian American teenager, finding her voice and stepping into her legacy. When Soma posts a video performing her own poetry about the struggles she’s facing including her father’s deportation, it quickly goes viral. Now, Lowell High School’s spoken word contest approaches, and Soma must decide if she’s brave enough to step up to the mic. Told with humor, heart-forward characters, and culminating in the biggest Khmer cultural event of the season, Kween explores all the ways we author our path home.
Merrimack Rep - Kween (4)
Kween
By Vichet Chum
Hometown Heroine
MRT Commission and World Premiere
“Step in to your legacy”
Set in Lowell, this joyful journey follows Soma, a queer Cambodian American teenager, finding her voice and stepping into her legacy. When Soma posts a video performing her own poetry about the struggles she’s facing including her father’s deportation, it quickly goes viral. Now, Lowell High School’s spoken word contest approaches, and Soma must decide if she’s brave enough to step up to the mic. Told with humor, heart-forward characters, and culminating in the biggest Khmer cultural event of the season, Kween explores all the ways we author our path home.