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BWW Review: The Wonderful WINTER PANTO 2016 Journeys to Oz
Chase the post-holiday blues and January blahs away with a trip to Oz, courtesy of the imaginary beasts' annual WINTER PANTO 2016: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ.
BWW Review: We ALL Want Some More of OLIVER! at CCTC
Formerly the Harwich Junior Theater, CCTC may have changed its name but it has hardly lost its niche for bringing the Cape Cod community productions of the utmost quality, and its most recent production of Oliver! has done much more than provide a wonderfully entertaining time for children and adult
BWW Review: VIA DOLOROSA: On the Road With David Hare
New Repertory Theatre's 3rd Annual Next Rep Black Box Festival presents British playwright David Hare's VIA DOLOROSA as the first of its three shows.
BWW REVIEW: A.R.T. Preps NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET for Broadway
If the thought of seeing a contemporary opera based on Tolstoy's War and Peace sends Siberian shivers down your spine, fear not.
BWW Review: Current ONCE Tour Ends in Boston December 27
People have been 'Falling Slowly' in love with ONCE ever since composers Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova first enchanted audiences in 2007 with their tender, surprise hit indie romance.
BWW Review: Make Merry With Tir Na's RETURN OF THE WINEMAKER
RETURN OF THE WINEMAKER: AN IRISH CHRISTMAS COMEDY is a gift of the season from Tir Na Productions.
BWW Review: Gold Dust Orphans Wish You A LITTLE ORPHAN TRANNY CHRISTMAS
Ryan Landry taps into political and cultural hot topics for the Gold Dust Orphans' new holiday extravaganza.
BWW Review: Laura Nyro's Music Carries On
ONE CHILD BORN: THE MUSIC OF LAURA NYRO is a one-woman cabaret style show that can only be called a labor of love.
BWW Review: Tune in to Christmas on the Radio at Stoneham and Merrimack Rep
In a departure from traditional seasonal fare, two local theater companies are bringing us back to the simpler days of yesteryear, staging live radio productions of Christmas shows set in the 1940s.
BWW Review: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Dazzles at Cape Rep
With a book by Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and under the direction of Maura Hanlon (who must also be recognized and praised for her work on this summer's Failure: A Love Story), Cape Rep's of La Cage Aux Folles allows audiences the privilege of understanding why the original B
BWW Review: A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES Weighs in at Boston's Huntington Theatre
Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A CONFERERACY OF DUNCES, now in its world premiere at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, feels like a lost opportunity.
BWW Review: STEVEN ISSERLIS & ROBERT LEVIN Entrance at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
In the memory of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin proved faultless, performing the first of two all-Beethoven programs at Boston's prestigious Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
BWW REVIEW: NSMT Presents Joyful SISTER ACT
Even though Whoopi Goldberg was the lead producer of SISTER ACT on Broadway, the "Divine Musical" raising the roof at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Mass.
BWW Review: Quill Conquers with AN ILIAD at Buzzards Play Productions
Whatever the past is, it is immortal to the person reliving it, and acknowledging the truth of this statement and thus questioning its relevance in the life of Homer's Poet is something the audience is faced with throughout An Iliad.
BWW REVIEW: Holzman's CHOICE Receives World Premiere at Boston's Huntington Theatre
This Fall two of Boston's finest theater companies have taken the discussion on abortion out of the public arena and made it much more personal.
BWW Review: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION Lacks Sizzle
Bad Habit Productions continues Season 9: To Face Ourselves with John Guare's 1990 play about the interconnectedness of everyone in the world by a chain of no more than six people.
BWW Review: SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING: Women's War Stories
Playwright Katori Hall's lively play about seven African-American women awaiting the end of World War II in a Memphis beauty parlor/boarding house shows a slice of life with authenticity, empathy, and humor.
BWW Review: CASA VALENTINA: High-heeled Politics
SpeakEasy Stage Company presents the New England premiere of Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Tony Award nominee for Best Play.
BWW Review: Freely Sounds the Mockingbird's Song in CCTC's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Now brought to the stage, thus making the message of a shared humanity that much more profound, the Cape Cod Theatre Company has given us a production that is worthy of more than just the audience's time and consideration: it is a lesson that must be carefully taught to each of us again and again, a
BWW REVIEWS: DRY LAND and I AND YOU Delve Deeply into Teen Anguish
Unwanted pregnancy and terminal illness haunt the flinty girls at the center of two gritty new plays by playwrights Ruby Rae Spiegel and Lauren Gunderson now receiving their New England premieres at Company One in Boston and Merrimack Rep in Lowell.
BWW Review: David Sedaris Brings a Little Night Mirth to Symphony Hall
David Sedaris makes his 11th appearance with the Celebrity Series of Boston, performing before a packed audience at Symphony Hall.
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD Makes the Cut at Academy Playhouse
With score and lyrics by the [in]famous Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler, Director Peter Earle brings Sweeney Todd to the town of Orleans, enshrouding the Academy Playhouse's intimate black-box theater in darkness as black as the hearts of many of the characters that make this show of suc
BWW Review: ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME: High Tech Musical Adventure
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage opens its sixth season with ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME, a time-traveling musical adventure that takes a modern-day woman out of her Brooklyn apartment and way out of her comfort zone to join the polar explorer on his harrowing expedition a century ago.
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Valerie June Payomet Performing Arts Center (8/30-8/30) |
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Moon Over Buffalo- Cackeling Comical Cabaret - August 22, 2026 Starline Room Dinner Theater (8/22-8/22) |
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE The Cape Playhouse (9/02-9/19) |
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A Christmas Carol North Shore Music Theatre (12/03-12/23) |
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Larry McCray Payomet Performing Arts Center (8/12-8/12) |
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Alchemy: Classical Meets Jazz Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (8/13-8/13) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Emerson Colonial Theatre (11/10-11/14) |
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Frozen The Company Theatre (11/27-12/20) |
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Summer, 1976 The Unicorn Theatre (10/07-10/31) |
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Margo Price - Wild At Heart Tour Payomet Performing Arts Center (9/03-9/03) |