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Harriet Ann Jacobs shocking, autobiographical 19th century tale of life as a slave, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, comes to life in a new drama by Lydia R. Diamond. This sophisticated coming of age story illuminates both human oppression and how certain people rise above it, providing a fresh look at American history in the process. Learn more...

In Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, cabaret artist Belle Linda Halpern takes a funny, intriguing and profound Jewish-American look at our constant cravings: food, sex, acceptance, fame and true nourishment. Learn more...

Unexpected Theatre presents Gioia De Cari's solo show about her experiences in the exotic boys club of higher mathematics at M.I.T., including being pawed by nerds, being asked to serve cookies at a seminar and retaliating with fashion experiments. Playing more than 30 roles herself, De Cari not only taps into the comic absurdity of her experiences, but she also seriously explores the world of elite mathematics and the role of women in science. Learn more...

Three fiercely independent Victorian women explorers spin through time from 1888 to 1955. Through their encounters with a kaleidoscope of unlikely characters, they satisfy their need for adventure in a journey of wildly unpredictable discovery. Full of pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to the mid 1950s and comic insight into nineteenth century women and culture. Learn more...

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo first turned his telescope upward and changed the way human beings thought of their place in the cosmos, Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT and Underground Railway Theater present Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo. This acclaimed piece of science theater stars Boston area favorite Richard McElvain in the title role. Learn more...

How Do You Spell Hope? is a theatrical experience for the whole family based on true stories of people who overcame great obstacles to learn to read. It tells the stories of the road to literacy for a Cambridge high school athlete with severe dyslexia, Frederick Douglass and a Latina immigrant who learns to read English - all woven together by puppets and actors in a world of giant pop-up books. Learn more...

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...

Underground Railway Theater presents Alice's Adventures Underground: an award-winning adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice books, featuring outrageous puppets, sets of hand-painted silk and performances by an intergenerational ensemble of actors. Learn more...

Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT presents Einstein's Dreams, the wry, wild, funny and surprisingly moving adaptation of Alan Lightman's bestselling novel. Einstein's Dreams imagines Einstein's dream-world as he re-conceives time. Learn more...

Martha Mitchell Calling takes audiences back to a point in history when an administration was hindered with political corruption and the misuse of power, and one extraordinary woman didn't want to keep it under wraps. With style and wit, the play tells the story of larger-than-life Southern socialite Martha Mitchell, wife of President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell. Learn more...

The Nora Theatre Company presents We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Nobel laureate Dario Fo's satirical comedy about poverty. The play blends farce and pointed social commentary to tell the story of the aftermath of a a protest against rising food prices, which escalates to rioting and theft. Learn more...

Central Square Theater presents What the Hell Are You Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??, a unique music-theater experience. Deborah Henson-Conant, a Grammy-nominated jazz musician known as "the Hip Harpist", blurs the line between concert and theater as she plays an angelic coach instructing auditioners for the Heavenly Choir -- as represented by the audience. Learn more...

Eight instruments, twelve characters, one man! Conceived and performed by Boston's favorite jazzman, Stan Strickland, Coming Up For Air is based on Strickland's near-death experience when his life and career flash before his eyes after being overtaken by rogue waves in Hawaii. This riff about life and art takes the audience on a musical odyssey of soulful discovery. Learn more...

In the play QED, the audience will see an intimate portrait of Richard Feynman -- Nobel Prize-winning physicist, brilliant and controversial theorist, prankster, safecracker, and lover of Tuvan throat singing. A series of post-performance discussions will be led by scientists of the MIT and Harvard communities, many of whom knew Feynman personally. Learn more...