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The red velvet curtain rises on about a dozen pairs of feet tapping up a storm, but there are a few hundred more dancing their way out of the Umbrella Community Arts Center after they pay a visit to 42ND STREET, the blockbuster grand opening production of the Umbrella Stage Company, Greater Boston's
At it's core, WHAT THE JEWS BELIEVE is a poignant story about the loss of faith and the journey to find it.
In the annals of musical theater, Norma Desmond is one of those larger than life characters, like Mame Dennis, Dolly Levi, and Eva Peron, who cries out for an actor with a specific and rare combination of skills to play the role.
While the Earth didn't exactly move during the national tour stop of BEAUTIFUL at the Hanover Theater in Worcester this week, this more successful than most biographical jukebox musical did set off an occasional temblor.
Over the span of two hours, TIME STANDS STILL explores the relationship between the individuals and the two couples at a crucial juncture in each of their lives.
Just as the centuries-old spirituals sung by American slaves created community and gave voice to the thoughts and emotions they were forced to repress, so too the music in CHOIR BOY serves to give hope and healing to the young men struggling to find and express their true identities at a boarding sc
There's more gray than black and white in the scintillating new play THE PURISTS written by Dan McCabe and directed by Billy Porter.
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS is a play that will make you laugh, tug at your heartstrings, teach you to appreciate little things while not sweating the small stuff, and, ultimately, make you glad you decided to spend 85 minutes at the theater.
Playwright Patrick Gabridge, the 2018-2019 Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-In-Residence, is presenting THE AMERICA PLAYS, the second series of site-specific plays, following THE NATURE PLAYS produced in June.
LAST NIGHT AT BOWL-MOR LANES is a nostalgia piece in more ways than one.
Rachel Bertone has set the bar high for the 45th anniversary season of the Lyric Stage Company with her pitch perfect production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
Gloucester Stage Company is the first theater in the country to produce THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT following its SRO limited run on Broadway.
Director-choreographer Kyle Pleasant is back with Peregrine Theatre Ensemble's main stage summer show – and he has not come to play.
Whether you know 'whodunnit' or not, you're bound to enjoy this rollicking MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS adapted by Ken Ludwig at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
Felder's performance is sublime.
Sometimes all you need to lift your spirits is a good old-fashioned star-driven musical comedy, and, boy, does the national tour of HELLO, DOLLY! with Betty Buckley deliver.
One should plant their tongue firmly in cheek for this one.
The brothers reflect on their lives revealing bad parenting, neglect, abandonment and a series of life events that have left the two relatively young men badly broken.
The cast includes Martin Jason Asprey (Mr.
Directed by Gregg Edelman, this production features Carla Duren (Colleen Haran), Carson Elrod (Glen Geer), Penny Fuller (Lucinda Royal Scott), Samantha Hill (Summer Oliver), Dee Hoty (Joan Stern), and Count Stoval (Hal Polick).
In the summer of 1983, Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein put on a show that was light years ahead of the zeitgeist, vis-a-vis the awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ people in America, and about twenty years before the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Yes, the setting and backdrop for the events that play out is recovery.
This production with the new translation is notably fresh and remarkably relevant.
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Bat Boy: The Musical Umbrella Arts (9/25-11/08) |
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Covenant SpeakEasy Stage Company (9/25-10/17) |
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The Sound of Music Boch Center Wang Theatre (11/17-11/22) |
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An evening with LaChanze Berklee Performance Center (11/01-11/01) |
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BOUNCERS by John Godber Modern Theatre At Suffolk University (10/01-10/24) |
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Cheyenne Jackson Shalin Liu Performance Center (10/18-10/18) |
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Rocky Horror Show The Company Theatre (10/02-10/18) |
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By Any Other Name SpeakEasy Stage Company (5/07-5/29) |
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Mexodus American Repertory Theater (12/04-1/10) |
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Adia & Clora Snatch Joy Huntington Theatre (11/24-12/13) |
