Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show features a troupe of actors plus a musician who bring together improvisation and sketch material in front of a live audience. Their performers develop hilarious scenes based solely on the audience's suggestions. Because the shows are improvised on the spot, nothing is predictable and anything can happen — no two shows are ever the same. Learn More
Set on the North Shore, this homespun comedy follows the Labor Day preparations of three best friends as they bicker about Lawrence Welk, share recipes for potato salad, and swap stories about everything from Foxwoods senior bus trips to the President's affairs. Learn More
Sketch comedy troupe Bastards Inc. hosts a comedy show featuring sketch and improv groups, plus stand-up acts from around the city and beyond. Learn More
Huntington Theatre Company: Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA - Wimberly Theatre (Boston, MA)
Thursday, May. 29 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $50.00 Our Price: $27.00* Rated:
Ennio Marchetto is the original quick-change artist who turns origami into hilarious theatrical magic. Watch in amazement as a world of celebrity icons unfolds before your eyes, where Pavarotti becomes all three tenors, Eminem morphs into a disco diva, and an ancient mummy's unraveling reveals the secret to Cher's eternal youth. Don't miss this internationally acclaimed, family-friendly show, back in Boston for the first time in 14 years. Learn More
American Repertory Theatre - Loeb Drama Center (Cambridge, MA)
Thursday, May. 29 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $39.00 - $79.00 Our Price: $19.50 - $39.50* Rated:
Renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and playwright Charles Mee have joined forces to produce a midsummer comedy of love based on Cardenio, a play by Shakespeare that was lost soon after its first performance. Shakespeare's fingerprints are all over this sparkling new play, from the crisscrossing of suspicious lovers to a cunning Iago-like meddler, from soliloquies (reimagined as wedding toasts) to overheard conversations, from the dream of passion to the pleasures of music and dance. Learn More
Lyric Stage Company of Boston (Boston, MA)
Thursday, May. 29 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $37.00 Our Price: $19.50* Rated: No ratings yet
Lyric Stage Company of Boston presents Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. This stylish comedy of manners is the story of assumed names, mistaken lovers, and preposterous enchantment. This delightfully witty and light-hearted romp through Victorian society follows two young bachelors pretending to be earnest - and Ernest - as they aim to win their ladies' hearts. Filled with some of the most famous quips ever written for the stage, it's been beloved by audiences for over a century. Learn More