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'Four Places' East Coast Premiere at Merrimack Rep
One-act four-hander is a compact serio-comic character study about the perils of dealing with aging parents and meddling adult children. It may be a road map or a cautionary tale, depending on your point of view....
'Cherry Docs' at New Rep: a Kick in the Gut
Didja hear the one about the skinhead and the Jewish lawyer? The impact of the play is like being virtually kicked with a pair of steel toe Doc Martens. You won't be bruised, but you'll feel the after-effects for days. ...
Leslie Uggams at Reagle Music Theatre
'Uptown, Downtown' is a polished autobiographical stroll down a musical memory lane with a genuine Broadway star...
'Once On This Island' - Come Away, Come Away
A story of love and longing told with great charm and energy by Blue Spruce Theatre. You'll leave the theatre with a smile on your face, humming the songs of Ahrens and Flaherty from this 8-time Tony nominee....
'Scoundrels' Guilty of Grand Theft Laughter at NSMT
Broadway's Brent Barrett leads a stellar cast in North Shore Music Theatre's slick and savvy production of 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'...
'Enron' Spins Financial Tragedy Into Theatrical Gold
If you've ever wondered what the Enron scandal was all about, now's your chance to have an entertaining history lesson at the Zeitgeist Stage Company. Hold onto your wallet!...
'Chicago' Ends Ogunquit Season with a Bang
Smart and sexy cast makes an autumn drive to Ogunquit worth the trip as the Playhouse extends its 2010 season with a six-week run of crowd favorite 'Chicago'...
Nicholas Martin-Directed 'Bus Stop' at Huntington Theatre Company
William Inge's 1955 classic comedy bogs down in an era of supersonic planes, hi-speed trains, and hybrid automobiles...
'Boston Marriage' Not Wedded Bliss
David Mamet's play is right for the times and the place, but doesn't live up to its promise...
Reduced Shakespeare Company Takes On A New Gauntlet
Sweat suits are optional, but your groan and laughter muscles will get quite a workout at the East Coast Premiere of 'The Complete World of Sports (abridged)' at Merrimack Repertory Theatre...
A.R.T.'s 'Cabaret' Is An Event
The much-ballyhooed collaboration of Amanda Palmer and Director Steven Bogart results in a very dark, psychologically complex creation that is best described as devastatingly good...
'Wicked' Tour Takes Boston by Storm
Jackie Burns and Chandra Lee Schwartz deserve top billing in the latest touring company of the beloved Broadway smash hit musical. See it for the first time or the umpteenth time and you'll be enchanted by this production....
Get Spammed at the Ogunquit Playhouse!
How I spent my summer vacation: search for your grail with Charles Shaughnessy, Rachel York, and the Knights of the Round Table in 'Monty Python's Spamalot.' You'll find it at the Ogunquit Playhouse....
NSMT Returns to Form with Fun 'Joseph'
American Idol finalist Anthony Fedorov stars in the North Shore Music Theatre's family-friendly favorite 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'...
Powers Drives Ogunquit's 'Sunset Boulevard'
Stefanie Powers, starring as fictional silent screen legend Norma Desmond, ably navigates the twists and turns of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical homage to Hollywood's film noir classic...
'Trying:' How to Succeed in Aging
'Trying' hits the trifecta with excellent writing, acting, and directing as it examines the final days of an aging jurist working with his determined young secretary in Georgetown, Washington, DC from 1967 to 1968...
Inspect This 'Hound' For Laughs
Central Square Theater and Remo Airaldi parlay Sherlock Holmes into shakes of laughter and shivers of horror...just the thing for a steamy summer night....
NSMT Reopens with Lots of Fanfare but a Lackluster "Gypsy"
A miscast Vicki Lewis as Mama Rose and awkward staging in-the-round rob this mother of all musicals of its bite and brilliance...
Recession Hits Home in 'Tender'
The Gloucester Stage Company presents world premiere as second offering of 31st season focusing on themes of love, laughter, and redemption...
Actors Sizzle, But 'Cherry Smoke' Fizzles
Gurnet Theatre Project presents New England premiere of James McManus play about explosive club fighter, his runaway fortune teller girlfriend, and their struggle to make a life for themselves in the real world....
'Sophie Tucker:' They Don't Make 'em Like That Anymore
Mary Callanan brings many talents to the cabaret style musical revue on the New Rep stage, but lacks the 'it' factor to bring Sophie to life...
Alan Ayckbourn's 'Table Manners' at Gloucester Stage
Emily Post would be horrified at the goings-on at this dining table, but you'll find it hilarious and ask for a second helping...
'Into the Woods:' Grimm Tales Well Told
Reagle Music Theatre joins the Sondheim 80th birthday celebration with IRNE Award winner Rachel York and Boston TV personality Scott Wahle at the head of a topnotch cast of fairy tale characters...
An Evening With Cole Porter at Boston Pops
Broadway stars Kelli O'Hara and Jason Danieley are the featured performers, along with Vocal Fellows of The Tanglewood Music Center and dancers from The Boston Conservatory, in a Cole Porter tribute....
Ann Landers Gives Good Advice at Nora Theatre
'The Lady With All the Answers' is a walk down memory lane with Stephanie Clayman as your down-to-earth, advice-dispensing
tour guide...
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