BOSTON THEATER REVIEWS

'The Duck Variations' and 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' are paired at the Zero Arrow Theater as the third leg of 'Sex, Satire, Romance, and Ducks'...

Tony Award Winner Victoria Clark and Vocal Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center perform 'A Richard Rodgers Celebration' with the Boston Pops...

Kathy St. George presents her popular tribute 'Dear Miss Garland' at the Stoneham Theatre through June 28...

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Gloucester Stage Company opens the 30th anniversary season with everyone's favorite blockhead and the rest of the Peanuts gang ...

Local favorites propel colorful and diverse outings as Boston area theaters wind down their 2008-2009 seasons in style...

Sharpen your saber, guard the virgins and the family jewels, and prepare for histrionics! He is the Pirate King! ...

The sad exploitation of people in desperate search of celebrity is hilariously but also cleverly skewered in SpeakEasy Stage's controversial season-ending shocker that gilds our basest behaviors with operatic grandeur...

National tour of Tony Award-winning musical about the emergence of teenage sexuality may not fully satisfy an older audience but unquestionably sings to today's younger generation by injecting a contemporary pop/rock sensibility into a repressed Victorian Era story...

Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops open 124th season festivities with the consummate cabaret and concert star Barbara Cook and her trio ...

New Rep's beautifully designed and perfectly acted production of Steve Martin's mercurial comedy looks at the future from different perspectives, rendering art and science as two sides of the same humorous coin...

Eugene O'Neill classic, part comedy, part drama, deals with love and forgiveness ...

Huntington Theatre Company's world premiere of David Grimm's ribald sex comedy gets mired in ugly language despite game performances...

For one night only, the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester played host to Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual with Paul Ford on Piano ...

Sincerity and sizzle are missing from Stoneham Theatre revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama...

Diego Arciniegas and the Publick Theatre bring the outdoors in to start the 39th season at the Boston Center for the Arts with an intimate look at family relationships under the microscope ...

Lyric Stage presents Boston premiere of Stephen Karam's dark comedy about adolescent self-discovery in the cyber-Zeitgeist ...

Chazz Palminteri's acclaimed one-man show about his life on the mean streets of Mafiadom pays homage to the two men who influenced him most: his father and the Capo who 'adopted' him...

SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, and FortyMagnolias Productions collaborate on World Premiere inspired by the life and writings of Etty Hillesum. In the face of Nazi persecution, a young Dutch Jewish woman shows the world that a 'virus of compassion' is a powerful antidote to re...

Downstage @ New Rep tightens the noose on Sam Shepard's dark exploration into the volatile tug of war between abandonment and intimacy...

Theresa Rebeck's play posits that finding the right shoe is almost as hard as finding Mr. Right ...

Twyla Tharp's pulsating rock ballet set to the music of Billy Joel tells a stirring tale of love, loss, war and coming home through a cleverly staged blend of dance and song...

The touring production of the Broadway musical, based on the 1968 film, is part of Kid's Night on Broadway and plays through Sunday, March 22. ...

Written by Mick Gordon and A.C. Grayling and directed by Tony Estrella, 'Grace' is a well written and poignant exploration of intangibles: Faith, Love and Memories....

Company One presents the Boston premiere of Bruce Norris' controversial satirical play, featuring Nancy E. Carroll as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family, the Thanksgiving dinner from Hell, and an avocado-munching intruder ...