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MRT Debuts World Premiere Commission: THE RISE AND FALL OF HOLLY FUDGE By Trista Baldwin
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2021
For the first time in 21 months, Merrimack Repertory Theatre will return to The Nancy L. Donahue Theatre for indoor performances when it presents a world premiere holiday comedy, The Rise and Fall of Holly Fudge by Trista Baldwin, from November 26 to December 12, according to Artistic Director Courtney Sale and Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas.
THE GOOD ADOPTEE to be Presented by Access Massachusetts and JMTC Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2021
Can you imagine not knowing your own identity? The Good Adoptee is the riveting, outrageous true story of award-winning playwright Suzanne Bachner's search for her birth/first parents in the face of New York State's sealed records. Once she opens Pandora's Box, can she find a way to integrate her dual identities and still remain 'the Good Adoptee'?
TCAN Players Return With the Heartwarming Tale HARVEY
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2021
The TCAN Players present Harvey by Mary Chase, November 5-14, 2021 at The Center for Arts in Natick, 14 Summer Street, Natick.
Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets Brings The Early Music Of Pink Floyd To Boston's Shubert Theatre January 2022
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2021
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets will bring The Echoes Tour to Boston's Boch Center Shubert Theatre on Friday, January 21, 2022. The rare live show will feature some of the early music of Pink Floyd.
Nominations Close Sunday For The 2021 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards
by BWW Staff - October 26, 2021
These are the final weeks to submit nominees for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. Nominations close Sunday, October 31st, 2021.
Nominations Close Sunday For The 2021 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards
by BWW Staff - October 26, 2021
These are the final weeks to submit nominees for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. Nominations close Sunday, October 31st, 2021.
Shakespeare & Company to Close Out 2021 Season With THE CHAIRS
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2021
Shakespeare & Company's production of The Chairs - written by Eugène Ionesco and directed by James Warwick - will close out its 2021 season with final performances October 28 through 31.
Beautiful, Brilliant Change
by Student Blogger: Lana Sage - October 26, 2021
Hi Friends! My name is Lana Sage (She/Her). I am currently attending Boston University for my BFA in Acting with a musical theatre concentration ('25). In my first blog, I contemplate my lack of homesickness and acceptance of the loneliness I've experienced my first two months of college. I hope to remind myself of the necessity that is change.
MOSSO Will Produce Additional Concerts Following The Success Of Musician-produced Event At Symphony Hall
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2021
MOSSO: Musicians of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra will continue to produce professional classical music concerts for the audiences of Western Massachusetts, following the success of their October 15 concert with Maestro Kevin Rhodes in Springfield Symphony Hall.
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is Coming to the Citizens Bank Opera House January 2022
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2021
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, is now on tour and coming to the Citizens Bank Opera House January 18 – 30, 2022 as part of the Lexus Broadway In Boston season. 
NEVERMORE—The Fantastic Terrors Of Edgar Allan Poe is Now Playing at Coggeshall Farm
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2021
The outdoor theatrical fence experience is created & directed by P.J. Griffith (Broadway's American Idiot, Sleep No More, Giant & Rock of Ages Off Broadway) and occurs throughout the structures of a cursed 19th century salt marsh farm along the New England coastline.
THE LAST FIVE YEARS Will Be Performed at Lyric Stage Company of Boston Next Month
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2021
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston presents its first musical since Little Shop of Horrors in October 2019 with Jason Robert Brown’s intimate portrait of young romance in The Last Five Years. Performances begin Friday, November 12 and run through Sunday, December 12.  Press Performance is Sunday, November 14 at 3pm.
Apollinaire Theatre Company Presents THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2021
Four actors take on 9 characters for 15 nights of high octane fun with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest! Join us for this meta-comedy as some of Apollinaire's favorite actors bring you on their wild ride through this Wilde production. 
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY to be Presented at Braintree High School This November
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2021
The Braintree High School Theatre Guild will perform the play Sense and Sensibility, a recent adaptation of Jane Austen's novel by Kate Hamill. Performances will take place on November 5th at 8:00 PM, November 6 at 2:00 PM, November 6th at 8:00 PM, and November 7th at 2:00 PM in the Grabosky Auditorium at Braintree High School.
Boston International Kids Film Festival Returns For The Ninth Year November 19
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
The Boston International Kids Film Festival is back with nearly 60 films. This year's selections feature a number of award-winning films including a documentary about a group of Massachusetts punk rockers that made it big on the Warp Tour before turning the age of 10, and a group of students that took the US Government to court in a fight over climate change.
Pianist Beatrice Rana Performs Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto With BSO and Guest Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, who made his BSO debut in 2018 at Tanglewood, leads a program including Tchaikovsky's towering Piano Concerto No. 1, with dynamic young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana as soloist, and Dvorák's Brahms-influenced Symphony No. 7, which reveals both the composer's love for his native Bohemia and the influence of his mentor, Johannes Brahms.
ArtsEmerson to Return to In-Person Performance With the World Premiere of IPHIGENIA
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
This premiere piece disrupts the traditional tale of the sacrificial daughter of Greece in a work that envelopes the classical with the contemporary with three performances only November 12 – 13, 2021 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, presented in association with New England Conservatory.
VIDEO: First Look at The World Premiere of MACBETH IN STRIDE in Rehearsal
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
A drum, a drum, Macbeth doth come. A behind-the-scenes peek at Macbeth In Stride rehearsals for the upcoming world premiere of the Shakespearean rock musical that examines what it means to be an ambitious Black woman through the lens of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters.
Last Chance To Submit Nominations For The 2021 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards
by BWW Staff - October 20, 2021
These are the final weeks to submit nominees for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
Last Chance To Submit Nominations For The 2021 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards
by BWW Staff - October 20, 2021
These are the final weeks to submit nominees for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
Cast and Dates Announced for 2021 National Tour of A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
Returning for the 2021 holiday season, Big League Productions, Inc. has announced the tour dates and cast of the critically acclaimed national tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical. The tour will open for preview performances in Waterbury, CT, followed by a two-week sit down in Boston, and engagements in Baltimore and Durham, NC.
Nominations Announced for the 5th Berkshire Theatre Awards
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
The Berkshire Theatre Critics Association has announced the nominees for the 5th Berkshire Theatre Awards, known colloquially as The Berkies.
Shakespeare & Company Will Premiere a New Documentary Film Next Month
by BWW News Desk - October 20, 2021
Shakespeare & Company will present in-person Benefit screenings of Speak What We Feel, a documentary by Patrick J. Toole about the Company's acclaimed Fall Festival of Shakespeare, Saturday, November 6, 2021, at 2:00PM EDT and at 7:00PM EDT in the Tina Packer Playhouse.
Handel And Haydn Society Will Present Handel's Messiah For The 168th Consecutive Year
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2021
A holiday tradition returns to Boston as the Handel and Haydn Society performs Handel's Messiah. The concert is a hallmark of the H+H season that dates to its first concert in 1815 which featured the famed “Hallelujah” chorus.
Conductor Roderick Cox Replaces Ton Koopman For November 11-13 BSO Concerts
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2021
Regrettably, conductor Ton Koopman has had to withdraw from his upcoming appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, November 11, 12, and 13, at Symphony Hall, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

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