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SpeakEasy Stage Company’s next production, Allegiance, opens Friday, May 4th. The play is inspired by George Takei’s (Mr. Sulu on “Star Trek) childhood experience when his family’s lives were upended, when they and 120,000 other Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their homes following the events at Pearl Harbor in WWII. ALLEGIANCE  follows the family as they fight between duty and defiance, custom and change, family bonds and forbidden loves.

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SpeakEasy Stage’s production of Shakespeare in Love which opens on Friday, January 12th looks like a delightful stage adaptation of the late 1990s Academy Award winning movie.

Shakespeare in Love
January 12 – February 10, 2018
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Photo of George Olesky by Nile Hawver / Nile Scott Shots

The play portrays a young Shakespeare, who is suffering a severe case of writer’s block as the deadline approaches to deliver his new play, Romeo and Ethel, The Pirate’s Daughter. Like the movie, the play is fraught with mistaken identities, intrigue and backstage bickering in this raucous romantic comedy of errors.

Tickets for this play start at $25 (roughly the price of a movie ticket) so come down to the Calderwood Pavilion in the South End and support the local theater scene while at the same time enjoying a beautiful story unfold live on stage.

It is the final week to see The SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of Men on Boats, currently being performed at the Calderwood Pavilion in the South End.

If you are looking to make plans for later this week consider picking up tickets to see this gender-bending cast of performers who use carefully exaggerated theatrics to tell the story of an actual 1869 expedition led by John Wesley Powell to chart the Colorado River.

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SpeakEasy Stage production of Grand Concourse || Photo by Glenn Perry Photography.

This past week The SpeakEasy Stage Co. production of Grand Concourse opened. The one hour and forty minute drama addresses the mysteries of faith, forgiveness and compassion in a soup kitchen in the Bronx.

Despite the heavy sounding subject matter, the four member cast have several funny lines that guarantee periodic outbursts of laughter. For those who enjoy Latin men, Alejandro Simoes who plays the character of Oscar will make you smile whenever he is on stage (mas Alejandro por favor!) While I enjoyed the four member cast, and they worked well together, it was the slightly crazy character Emma played by Ally Dawson who I followed whenever she was on stage, wondering what she might say or do next.

This is the fourth production for the SpeakEasy Stage Co. 2016/2017 season, which has had one excellent show after another. Grand Concourse closes in approximately three weeks so make plans today and purchase tickets to go see this show. It will make for a fun night out or date option.

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AUDIENCE DISCUSSION
3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30 following 7:30 pm performances you can share your reactions in a special post-show forum hosted by a member of the SpeakEasy.

ARTISTS’ FORUM
3/12, 3/19, 3/26 following 3:00 pm performances you can participate in a talkback with artists from the show.

I’m unsure if you have heard, but The SpeakEasy Stage production of The Scottsboro Boys has been extended and will run from January 1-22, 2017. SpeakEasy is waving any handling fees if you purchase tickets to these shows by phone or online through Monday, November 28th.

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About The Scottsboro Boys: Songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) bring to light one of the most infamous events in American history: the shocking true story of nine African American boys jailed in Alabama in 1931 for a crime they did not commit. The musical features a mix of gospel, jazz, and vaudeville, and uses the construct of a minstrel show to tell the harrowing true story that provoked a national outrage and helped launch the American civil rights movement.

Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage opens their 2016 / 2017 season with a new play from Joshua Harmon, author of the hit play Bad Jews. 

Significant Other is Harmon’s latest comedy. It centers around Jordan, a gay 20-something, coming to grips with the challenges of finding love through a series of romantic misadventures on his quest to find Mr. Right.

SpeakEasy Stage “OUT & ABOUT” night is Friday, September 16th. Following the performance join the cast and crew.  For more information and to purchase tickets visit speakeasystage.com/significant-other.

SpeakEasy Stage presents Dogfight at the Calderwood through June 4, 2016

SpeakEasy Stage is concluding their 25th season with the musical, Dogfight. The two act musical tells the story of three young Marines on their last night in San Francisco before they are shipped off to Vietnam.

The story centers around a contest the marine platoon hosts for each man to find and bring the homeliest girl to a party (shown above). The main character, Eddie Birdlace, unexpectedly develops feelings for his date and what follows will touch the romantic in you; at least it did with me.  The cast does the musical justice and this was probably my favorite production of their entire season. While the lead characters did a fine job I was especially taken by the crass and sassy supporting character, Marcy, who made me laugh every time she was on stage.

I’d love to get the thoughts of any women who may be familiar with the story or those who go to the SpeakEasy Stage production. This makes for a great date night option or evening spent with friends. Get your tickets, (they start at just $25) and tell me what you think.

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The SpeakEasy Stage concludes their 25th season with their production, Dogfight, a powerful musical about an unlikely love story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

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Dogfight: It’s November 21, 1963; and on the eve of their deployment to a small but growing conflict in Southeast Asia, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of debauchery, partying, and maybe a little trouble. But when Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, an awkward and idealistic waitress he enlists to win a cruel bet with his fellow recruits, she rewrites the rules of the game and teaches him the power of love and compassion.

Earlier this week Sergio and I attended the SpeakEasy Stage production of Casa Valentina at the Calderwood Pavilion on Tremont Street in the South End.

The play is set in 1962 at a Catskills resort that has seen better days and centers around a group of heterosexual men who secretly gather to dress and behave like women. The funny play – and it is really very funny – gets a bit serious when they are challenged to publicly reveal their female alter-egos in the pursuit of greater political acceptance. Harvey Fierstein wrote this play and his wit is evident throughout. The SpeakEasy Stage cast does a good job delivering his sometimes caustic comments and many hilarious Oscar Wilde quotes. Sergio and I found ourselves laughing along with the audience regularly and thought this was one of the funnier performances we’ve seen this year. Tickets remain available and will run through Saturday, November 28th.

Photo by Glenn Perry

Casa Valentina Tickets and Show Information

The Welcoming Committee is hosting a takeover on Thursday, November 12th and tickets are discounted! Get them while they last here.

Casa Valentina runs for approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with an intermission and is based on actual events.   Tickets start at $25.