Play by Play: January 1, 2010

Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 5:25 p.m.
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Boston's weekly theater listings: January 1, 2010

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ALL MY SONS The Huntington Theatre Company starts off the new year with Arthur Miller's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award–winning 1947 drama about a businessman who prospered in World War II by selling plane-engine parts to the armed forces but harbors an ugly secret. Will Lyman plays the troubled Joe Keller; Karen MacDonald is his adamant wife, Kate; Lee Aaron Rosen plays their younger son, Chris; and Diane Davis is the woman Chris is planning to marry — a woman who was formerly engaged to the Kellers' elder son, Larry, who's MIA. David Esbjornson directs...Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston 617.266.0800 January 8–February 7 Curtain 7:30 pm [no January 19] Tues 2 pm [January 20, February 3] + 7:30 pm [7 pm January 13] Wed 7:30 pm Thurs 8 pm Fri 2 pm [no January 9] + 8 pm Sat 2 pm [no January 10] + 7 pm [January 10, 24] Sun $20-$82.50

FABULOSO John Kolvenbach's play is about what happens to a vaguely disappointing marriage when a couple of maniacs show up at the door insisting they're family. Once the light dawns that this wild ride is in fact a comic metaphor for the bedlam that comes with having children, the play seems both clever and rather sweet. It got its world premiere from Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theater last year; now it turns up at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, with Jeremiah Wiggins and Rebecca Harris as Teddy and Kate, the couple in the one-bedroom apartment, and Ed Jewett and Amy Kim Waschke as Arthur and Samantha; Kyle Fabel directs...Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 132 Warren St, Lowell 978.654.4MRT January 7-31 Curtain 2 pm [January 13] + 7:30 pm Wed 7:30 pm Thurs 8 pm Fri 4 pm [no January 9] + 8 pm Sat 2 + 7 pm [no evening January 31] Sun $26-$56

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