Vermont-based performance troupe Bread & Puppet Company returns to the Cyclorama in Boston for a third consecutive year with Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle, a politically-charged adult puppet show. Live music, masked actors, towering papier-mâché puppets, and local volunteer performers combine for an allegorical story about the creation of apple cider and government suppression of free throught. Learn more...
Bread and Puppet Theater's Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle: Political Puppetry for Adults
Boston Center for the Arts- Cyclorama (Boston, MA)
The New Century: Four Short Plays By Paul Rudnick
Boston Center for the Arts - Calderwood Pavilion (Boston, MA)
SpeakEasy Stage presents the New England premiere of The New Century, a collection of four hilarious short plays by Paul Rudnick. Featuring an array of wacky and outrageous characters, these provocative comic one-acts explore the direction of gay culture and society as a whole in the new millennium. Learn more...
The Corn Is Green: Kate Burton Stars in Heartwarming Classic Drama
Huntington Theatre Company: Boston University Theatre - Main Stage (Boston, MA)
Kate Burton stars in The Corn Is Green, presented by Huntington Theatre Company. Emlyn Williams' classic drama tells the heartwarming story of a determined schoolteacher who creates the first school in an impoverished Welsh mining town. Nicholas Martin directs. Learn more...
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard from Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
In Chekhov's most famous play, a Russian family returns to their estate to find their family fortune has dwindled to nothing, and a dark farcical comedy ensues as they are unwilling or unable to act to save their beloved cherry orchard. From a new translation by George Malko, written expressly for the Nora Theatre Company. Learn more...
Tranced: New England Premiere of Psychological Thriller
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Lowell, MA)
Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents the regional premiere of Bob Clyman's Tranced. This gripping and inventive psychological thriller concerns a hypnotherapist whose sessions with an African graduate student uncover a tale of international deceit with deadly consequences for thousands. What is the truth in the shocking memories of his patient, and will anyone listen? Learn more...
Cabaret
Arsenal Center for the Arts (Watertown, MA)
Welcome to the decadence of 1920's Berlin where Cliff, a lost American writer, enters the Kit Kat Club and gets caught in a sea of painted lips and rouged cheeks. He meets Sally Bowles, a burlesque star, who ensnares him with her wiles. This popular musical includes such favorites as "If You Could See Her," "Married," "Don't Tell Mama" and "So what?" Learn more...
Marriage Comedy Late Nite Catechism 3: 'Til Death Do Us Part
Stoneham Theatre (Stoneham, MA)
In the latest of the sinfully funny Late Nite Catechism series, Sister is now offering hilarious lessons on the Sacraments of Marriage and Last Rites, including her own wacky version of The Newlywed Game. Classroom participation is a must so bring along your sweetie and your sense of humor for a session with the country's feistiest couples counselor. Learn more...
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Broadway Musical Comedy
Turtle Lane Playhouse (Newton, MA)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a happy-go-lucky view of small town vice and politics in the story of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in Texas. Governors, senators, mayors and college football teams visit Miss Mona's cozy bordello until puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his TV cameras and righteous indignation on the institution. Learn more...
Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Eliot Hall
Eliot Hall (Jamaica Plain, MA)
The Footlight Club presents Lynn Nottage's award-winning drama Intimate Apparel. In 1905 Manhattan, an African-American seamstress creates custom lingerie for women of the boudoir and the brothel. She longs to break free and be herself in a society where she cannot quite fit into the set patterns that are stitched for African-American women. Learn more...
Family Friendly Musical A Year With Frog and Toad
Stoneham Theatre (Stoneham, MA)
First produced on Broadway, this charming musical's jazzy score lovingly captures the spirit of Arnold Lobel's whimsical stories. Follow the adventures of best friends Frog and Toad as they navigate through an adventure-filled year, joined by some colorful companions along the way. Learn more...
Regional Premiere of A View of the Harbor from Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Lowell, MA)
An idealist running from a legacy of wealth and privilege attempts to find happiness in the most unlikely of places. When he and his new girlfriend visit his eccentric family's ramshackle Maine home, each one's quest for happiness unearths surprising revelations and long-buried family secrets that make it hard to escape the twisted orbit of the Townsend family. Learn more...