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Direct from New York's Apollo Theatre, Dreamgirls is a new staging of the Tony and Academy Award-winning hit musical which follows the rags-to-riches story of a 1960s Motown girl group and the backstage drama that comes with fame and fortune. Dreamgirls features the unforgettable hits: "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," "One Night Only" and "Listen." Learn more...

From the creators of last season's A Year with Frog and Toad comes a family-friendly musical that even fossils will adore. Quincy, a 14-year old Tyrannosaurus, is finding it hard to follow in the shadow of his father, King Marcus. When the dinosaur kingdom comes together to fight its extinction, Quincy forms an unlikely friendship with a Parasaurolophus, who teaches him the power of working together. Learn more...

Commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez's From Orchids to Octipi is a take on what we understand and what we don't understand about the theory of evolution. Surprises erupt as a muralist's work is derailed by hallucinations, pregnancy and dinosaurs as Charles Darwin comments on it all. Learn more...

Sparks fly and long-hidden secrets tumble into the open when the LeVay brothers bring their new girlfriends home to Martha's Vineyard's world of privilege. This smart, moving, and funny portrait of a complex African-American family from acclaimed Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lydia R. Diamond (Voyeurs de Venus) is an of-the-moment look at sibling rivalry and the weight of parental expectations. Learn more...

SpeakEasy Stage presents [title of show], a love letter to musical theater in which two struggling young writers are writing a new musical about two struggling young writers writing a new musical. In the span of 90 minutes, the pair, along with the help of two friends, write and perform their show-within-a-show at a musical theater festival, and along the way learn lessons about themselves as people, friends and artists. Learn more...

The footlight club presents the timeless Oscar Wilde comedy, An Ideal Husband. Robert Chilton has the perfect life--a beautiful wife, a bright political future, a promising family, and engaging friends. All he has is threatened when he is blackmailed with a past indiscretion. All of this may sound like an all-too-familiar story. Though the play premiered in 1895, the story is just as fresh and identifiable today as it ever was. Learn more...

The Comedy Club at Cheers presents top stand-up comics. The Boston Comedy Festival has teamed up with Faneuil Hall's iconic Cheers Restaurant to present Boston's funniest stand-up comics, plus top headliners from across America. Learn more...

One of the biggest theatrical hits of the last two decades, Blue Man Group presents their unique and wildly imaginative stage show at the Charles Playhouse. Audiences worldwide have experienced and loved their exuberant, blissful combination of hilarious performances, fabulous visual effects, and Grammy-nominated music. Learn more...

Mottley's Comedy Club, voted Best Comedy Club by the Boston Phoenix in 2009, presents top stand-up comics from New England and beyond. Located next to Faneuil Hall, their lineups feature hilarious comics, from bona fide Boston comedy legends to the funniest up-and-coming talent in America. Learn more...

The Regent Theatre hosts In Love With Parris!, the Rebecca Parris Trio's annual Valentine's Day concert. For over 25 years, local jazz legend Parris has sung romantic standards on Valentine's Day, backed by her trio. Learn more...

The Gardner Museum presents After Hours on the third Thursday of each month, offering live music, art, conversation, cocktails and more in an inviting atmosphere, plus a chance to stroll the museum's galleries after normal closing time. Each month's event features a different theme and special guest speakers and performers. The museum's Gardner Café and Courtside Bar are also open. Learn more...

The Man of La Mancha retells the timeless story of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes in musical form. The Man of La Mancha is a play-within-a-play: Cervantes re-enacts his story of the mad knight who lives in a world of his imagination as he awaits his hearing in the Spanish Inquisition. His fellow prisoners take part in the re-enactment. The musical features the song "The Impossible Dream," which has become a show tune standard. Learn more...

Mother duck Ida is finally hatching her five eggs. When egg number five -- the big one -- cracks open it reveals something altogether different. It doesn't look like a duckling and it honks when the others quack. Named "Ugly," the misfit child wanders off into danger and adventure. Brimming with fun and a rollicking score, HONK! is a tender story of love and the meaning of being different. Learn more...

From the creators of Broadway's Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy comes the all new Cirque Dreams: Illumination. Cirque Dreams' dazzling costumes come alive to an original score of jazz, ballroom, pop and more as city dwellers reinvent familiar objects, balance on wires, leap tall buildings and redefine the risks of flight while telling an astounding story. Learn more...

The Awesome '80s Prom is a hilarious interactive show and dance party in the style of Tony 'n Tina's Wedding, set at Wanaget High's Senior Prom...in 1989. All your favorite characters from your favorite '80s movies are at the prom, from the captain of the football team to the Asian exchange student, from the geek to the hottie head cheerleader, they're all competing for Prom King and Queen. Learn more...

Orfeo Group presets French playwright Pierre Marivaux's The Island of Slaves, a delightful and disturbing mix of comedy and cruelty following the fates of four shipwreck survivors -- two masters, two servants -- who wash up on a strange island where their societal roles are reversed and they discover what it's like when the boot is on the other foot. Learn more...

Private Fears in Public Places moves among the interconnected lives of six Londoners as they search for connections in a congested, cosmopolitan city -- in 54 scenes in 100 minutes. The stories include various subjects such as apartment-hunting, solitary boozing, dating agency disappointments, VCR porn viewing and a sour, bedridden patient getting more than he expects from a caregiver. Learn more...

Boston Baroque celebrates the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's Vespers Of 1610. This titanic work for orchestra and chorus is one of the grandest and most moving compositions in musical history. Boston Baroque's recording of the Vespers, conducted by Martin Pearlman, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Learn more...

The Morgans (Irish-Southie) and the Grappas (Italians-North End), separated by the Big Dig, come together for their children's wedding for the first time. At this interactive comedy dinner show, you not only watch the show -- you're part of the show. You'll be the friends and relatives of Gino Grappa and Gillianne Morgan. Witness them exchange wedding vows, join in dancing the Tarantella, enjoy an Italian-style buffet, and look out for some unexpected guests and family feuding. Learn more...

Makeshift Theatre Co. presents The Emperor's New Clothes at the Regent Theatre. A delight for the whole family, Noah Smith's play tells the story of Johnny and Susie, two scheming siblings whose plans to swindle the Emperor are threatened by Pennyloaf, the kingdom's resident fashion designer, and by Susie's love for the Prince. Learn more...

Sayat Nova Dances of Armenia presents Journey to the Regions. North America's premier Armenian dance company presents the beautiful traditional dances of Armenia with lavish costumes and a cast of over 60 dancers. Learn more...

Join Boston's largest Valentine's Day party for young professionals -- Flirt Fest 2010 at The Estate. Festivities include a cocktail reception with hors d'oeuvres, a DJ spinning dance tunes, a contest for best and worst pick-up lines, and the crowning of Boston's Biggest Flirts for 2010. Learn more...

Boston's historic Faneuil Hall provides the setting as the acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet, the Boston Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, Chia-Jung Tsay (piano), and Steven Lipsitt (clarinet) present works by Mozart and Mendelssohn. The BCO's 2009-2010 season celebrates both its 30th anniversary and Felix Mendelssohn's birthday (1809). Learn more...

Boston Lyric Opera presents the U.S. premiere of the Welsh National Opera's acclaimed production of Richard Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos. An unseen producer makes drastic changes to an opera just before the curtain, resulting in a work that is half Greek tragedy and half farce. Classical heroines and clowns collide in masterfully orchestrated chaos. Learn more...

Mottley's Comedy Club, voted "Best Comedy Club 2009" by the Boston Phoenix, presents Mottley's Comedy Bailout. Hosted by Jon Lincoln and Chris Coxen, the show features an assortment of top talent from Boston's famous stand-up comedy scene. Learn more...

The Nora Theatre Company presents the East Coast Premiere of Masha Oblensky's Not Enough Air, the story of journalist/playwright Sophie Treadwell. Treadwell is drawn in by the case of Ruth Snyder, who is on trial for murder. She becomes fascinated with the story and transforms the story into Machinal, a groundbreaking expressionist play.Not Enough Air explores the media sensationalism of the murder trial along with Treadwell's creative process in turning Snyder's story into a revolutionary work of art. Learn more...

The Boston Civic Symphony, the city's second oldest symphony, presents Civic Goes Around the World. Conductor Max Hobart will lead the orchestra in Rossini's Overture to L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) and Tchaikovsky's monumental Symphony No. 5, along with works by Paganini and Thomas Oboe Lee. Learn more...

In 1964, Adrienne Kennedy's first play established her as a revolutionary voice for the struggle of race and identity. Sarah is young, black and obsessed with whiteness and loses herself in her "funnyhouse" with various versions of herself including Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg and Jesus. Learn more...

The Hanover Theatre presents Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway. This long-running and popular revue features Broadway and national touring stars re-creating the greatest moments from some of Broadway's most famous musicals. The evening's program ranges from The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables to today's biggest Broadway hits. Learn more...

Boston Conservatory Dance Theater presents Celebrating Anna, a program commemorating the centennial of renowned choreographer Anna Sokolow's birth. They'll be performing her works From the Diaries of Franz Kafka and Rooms, plus a world premiere by Viktor Plotnikov. Learn more...

This concert, part of Boston Classical's 30th anniversary season, features Music Director Steven Lipsitt conducting Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" Overture, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Yuri Mazurkevich (protégé of the legendary David Oistrakh) and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4. Learn more...

In this regional premiere of Black Pearl Sings!, the search for lost African-American folk music leads Susannah, an ambitious "song collector," to Pearl, a prisoner with a soulful voice, steely spirit, and an incredible history. Tracing the roots of many beloved American songs, the legacy of the past clashes with hopes for the future, as the two women journey to find their way out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Learn more...

The winners of NBC's Superstars of Dance, hip-hop dance sensations the Groovaloos bring their high-energy, autobiographical show to the Hanover Theatre. Based on the true experiences of the award-winning 14-member troupe, Groovaloo combines incredible freestyle dance moves, a vibrant score and powerful spoken-word storytelling in a celebration of the artistry of modern hip-hop dance. Learn more...

For the seventeenth year running, Shaun Wolf Wortis' Mardi Gras Ball will turn a Boston area club into a New Orleans house party. Shaun Wolf Wortis leads a sprawling band of some of Boston's best musicians--the Vudu Krewe All-Star Mardi Gras Band--through a high-energy set of old New Orleans rhythm & blues music, jazz-era torch songs and sing-along "Mardi Gras Indian" romps. Learn more...

Neighborhood 3: Requisition on Doom is a bizarre horror story and biting social commentary. The subject matter is particularly timely. The teenagers of a cookie cutter subdivision all become addicted to an online game in which they fight off zombies who are attacking a cookie cutter subdivision in an attempt to escape to freedom. As the line between reality and game becomes increasingly blurred, both parents and teens realize that fear takes on a life of its own. Learn more...

Idomeneo, King of Crete, makes a promise to Neptune, God of the Sea. When the king realizes the terrible price it will exact, vows and hearts are broken. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco after Antoine Danchet's Idomenée. Learn more...

Join the band Callithumpian Consort in the Gardner Museum's intimate Tapestry Room for the world premiere of a work written for the ensemble by Christian Wolff, Songs from Brecht: The Exception and the Rule, along with music by Ives, Cardew, and Cowell. Following the concert, audience members are invited to join Christian Wolff and the performers for an informal reception around the museum's courtyard. Admission includes access to the museum's After Hours activities. Learn more...

In violinist-turned-playwright Michael Hollinger's, drama Opus, the gifted but volatile violist of Lazara String Quartet mysteriously disappears as the group struggles to prepare for the highest-profile performance of their careers. When a new member is brought in to replace the wayward violinist, tempers flare, egos clash and secrets are revealed in this play that combines drama with rich, powerful music. Learn more...

Boston Classical Orchestra presents a concert featuring Herschel Garfein's music from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, based on the play by Tom Stoppard, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2. Music Director Steven Lipsitt conducts. Learn more...

Celebrated Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen delivers a riveting performance of Messiaen's epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus. Concert tickets include admission to the museum's three floors of galleries, including the special exhibition gallery. Learn more...

Mottley's Comedy Club presents The Dress-Up Show. Erin Judge (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham) and Bethany van Delft present a stylish twist on the traditional comedy showcase. Boston's funniest comics perform wearing their most stylish apparel, and the audience is invited to dress up as well. Learn more...