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Huntington Theatre Company Has Announced Creative Team for WE ALL FALL DOWN
by BWW News Desk - October 29, 2019
Huntington Theatre Company has announced the creative team for We All Fall Down, a new comedy about a family trying out tradition for the first time, written by Boston area local playwright and Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lila Rose Kaplan. Directed by Obie Award winner and artistic director of Hartford Stage Melia Bensussen, We All Fall Down will begin performances at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (527 Tremont Street, Boston) on Friday, January 10, 2020 and run through Sunday, February 9, 2020. The official press opening night will be Wednesday, January 22, 2020. Tickets are on sale now.
Project31 Presents MOVEMENT THAT MOVES YOU
by BWW News Desk - October 29, 2019
Boston-based Project31 Dance Company will take the stage for its season opener, Movement That Moves You, Saturday, November 16th at 7:30 pm and Sunday, November 17th at 3:00 pm at Boston University Dance Theater.
Anthony Williams' URBAN NUTCRACKER Will Perform At The Boch Center Shubert Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 29, 2019
Anthony Williams' Urban Nutcracker, the modern Boston-centric holiday classic, celebrates its 19th season this December. The performances at the historic Boch Center Shubert Theatre allow theatregoers an opportunity to experience what The Boston Globe has deemed 'a holiday arts tradition reflecting the rich multicultural diversity of Boston.'
BPYO Opens Season With Violinist Stefan Jackiw And Verdi, Mendelssohn, And Mahler
by BWW News Desk - October 28, 2019
The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, led by conductor Benjamin Zander, opens its 2019-20 season on Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 3:00pm at Boston Symphony Hall. The program includes Verdi's La Forza Del Destino Overture, Mahler's Symphony No. 1, and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto featuring Harvard and New England Conservatory alumnus Stefan Jackiw.
BWW Review: SALTONSTALL'S TRIAL: THE SALEM WITCH TRIAL'S UNTOLD STORY at Larcom Theatre in Beverly
by Nancy Grossman - October 25, 2019
With the term a?oewitch hunta?? being bandied about ad nauseam in our national discourse, it seems an ideal moment to look back upon the actual witch hunt that occurred in Essex County, Massachusetts, at the end of the 17th century. SALTONSTALL'S TRIAL: THE SALEM WITH TRIAL'S UNTOLD STORY, a new play by Michael Cormier and Myriam Cyr at the Larcom Theatre in Beverly, does just that. It is a smart, ambitious production with a commanding performance by Elliot Norton and IRNE Award-winning actor Benjamin Evett in the title role and a 20-member ensemble representing the accused women, town residents, clergy, and officers of the Court.
U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo Will Share Her Life's Emotional Journey
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2019
U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is a storyteller, artist, musician, and a poet. Born in the U.S., to parents from what was then Rhodesia, U-Meleni spent much of her childhood in Zimbabwe and South Africa, before returning to the United States. Now she will share her life's story at the ICA Forum Suitcase Stories Unpacked along with 2 other story tellers. The forum is a partnership between the International Institute of New England and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The forum November 7th is part of the When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art exhibit. Her story is one of ten Suitcase Story videos included in the exhibit which can be viewed in the Poss Family Mediatheque. Tickets are free of charge and available at the door, or online 24 hours before the event at icaboston.org.
MRT Introduces Under 35 Discount Club
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2019
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) today introduced the UNDER 35 club a?" a new $20 ticket option for theatregoers between the ages of 18 and 34 in an effort to make live theatre more accessible to Millennials and Generation Z.
Final Week To Submit Nominations For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2019
This is the final week to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Don't miss your chance to make sure your favorite Boston Theatres are represented!
Special Events Announced for 43rd Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2019
The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair has announced special events and programs at this year's fair; kicking off with an Opening Night celebration on Friday, Nov. 15 from 4-8pm
Final Week To Submit Nominations For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2019
This is the final week to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Don't miss your chance to make sure your favorite Berkshires Theatres are represented!
August Wilson's FENCES Opens At New Umbrella Black Box Theater
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2019
Following the spectacular season opener 42nd Street in its mainstage, The Umbrella Stage Company will break in its newly constructed black box with an intimate and moving American classic, August Wilson's Fences. (Nov. 1-23). 
The School At Jacob's Pillow Announces 2020 Programs
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2019
The School at Jacob's Pillow, a world-renowned center for artistic growth and excellence, announces 2020 professional advancement programs in Contemporary Ballet, Street & Club Dances, Contemporary, and Musical Theatre Dance; and professional development programs in Choreography and Dance Photography. Situated in the heart of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the longest-running dance festival in the United States, The School has been instrumental in furthering the careers of dance artists for over 80 years and offers innovative programs each year with its roster of renowned and sought-after choreographers and dance leaders who serve as faculty. Dancers selected to attend The School at Jacob's Pillow join one of the most influential international dance networks in the field. 
BALAM Dance Theatre to Make Boston Debut
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2019
BALAM Dance Theatre (BALAM), a New York City based ensemble contemporary world dance company inspired by Balinese theatre, debuts in the Boston metropolitan area with the new creative, magical program, Fiesta: A Celebration of Dance and Music.  Carlos Fittante, a Salem native and Artistic Director of BALAM, brings the professional company to Marblehead, Massachusetts to present the company's eclectic dances of Ballet, Balinese, Baroque, and Peruvian Colonial with live Italian theorbo music and Spanish song. 
BWW Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND: Feel the Beat at Merrimack Repertory Theatre
by Nancy Grossman - October 23, 2019
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, in a co-production with Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago and City Theatre in Pittsburgh, presents Lauren Yee's CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, a play that fuses history, family legacy, and rock concert to illustrate the power and importance of music. It focuses on a daughter's attempt to unearth family history by journeying to Cambodia, her father's homeland, and searching for a survivor from a brutal Khmer Rouge prison whose testimony could seal the fate of its tyrannical overseer.
Donations Of Items And Volunteers Needed For North Shore Civic Ballet's Annual Holiday Auction
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2019
The fall season is underway and the North Shore Civic Ballet (NSCB) is already preparing for its annual online holiday auction.  This year, the nonprofit dance company celebrates its 45th season and invites the public to help train the next generation of dancers in the North Shore region.     
Boston Ballet School And Walnut Hill School For The Arts Announce Partnership For Pre-Professional Dance Students
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2019
Two leading arts education institutions, Boston Ballet School (BBS) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts, are proud to announce an industry-leading partnership.
MASTERCHEF JR LIVE! Comes To Boston In March
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2019
TCG Entertainment, leaders in live tour productions and EndemolShine North America, producers of the hit culinary competition series a?oeMASTERCHEF JUNIORa?? announce that after a successful initial 2019 tour, they are extending MasterChef Junior Live! to more than 40 new markets in 2020. The show is now coming to Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 7pm.
BWW Review: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Theatre Company
by Andrew Child - October 22, 2019
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is alive and well at the Huntington Theatrea?"resuscitated beyond the didactic philosophy with which the text is too often approached in academic settings and fully breathing as the comedic bacchanalia of narcissism and self-introspection that Stoppard engineered. The play obsessively examines the tribulations of two ill-fated, minor characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, taking the audience on a stroll through the minds of fictional men who seem to realize, not only that they exist within a play, but that they merely exist within that play so that something bad may happen to them. The audience joins the two as they pass the time, waiting for whatever is cominga?? to come.
BWW Review: KING LEAR at Actors' Shakespeare Project
by Andrew Child - October 22, 2019
Upon entering Chelsea Theatre Works for Actors' Shakespeare Project's King Lear, the audience is immediately immersed in a world that could be passed off as Laurie Anderson's riff on 'man cave'. An eclectic installation of vintage desk lamps and exposed light bulbs pulsate, casting shadows over a pile of radio transmitters, a neglected piano, and an assortment of discarded knick knacks that set designer Jon Savage has seamlessly incorporated into the deep-stained wood encircling the playing space. A vintage projector noisily clicks through slides edited by Cameron Willard showing images of monkeys in cages, minarets of mosques, and landscapes of deserts as David Reiffel's vapory soundscape throbs in the air. When Robert Walsh stumbles in barefoot as King Lear, it is apparent to whom this space belongs.
BWW Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Moonbox Productions Brings It Back to Harvard Square
by Nancy Grossman - October 21, 2019
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW was a staple of the Harvard Square entertainment scene from 1984 through 2012, enjoying an astounding 28-year run of Saturday midnight screenings at the late AMC Loews Theater. Just around the corner, Moonbox Productions returns to its Cambridge roots and blasts into its tenth season with THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, the live musical version at a pop-up venue at 25 Brattle Street. The venue, a once and future retail site, has a strangely appropriate ambience, an air of temporariness that is in sync with the secret of the creepy country estate where the story takes place. The cast is loaded with triple threats who can sing, dance, and act, but the number one reason to see the show is Peter Mill's performance as Frank N. Furter
Brett Eldredge Comes To The Boch Center Wang Theatre, December 14
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2019
The Boch Center and Live Nation announced today that Brett Eldredge will bring his critically acclaimed Glow LIVE holiday tour to the Boch Center Wang Theatre on Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 8:00PM. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 25, 2019 at 10:00AM.
The Best Deals During Weird and Wonderful Week in Boston
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2019
It's the weirdest and wonderful-est time of the year, and TodayTix is here with the best spooky, funky, and festive events and shows to complete your Halloween season. Weird and Wonderful Week is Oct. 22-31, and you can get tickets from $10 to some of the city's most unique offerings. So grab a pumpkin spice latte, throw on that costume (if that's your thing), and get ready to experience Boston in all of its autumnal glory.
HAMLET Opens At Gloucester Stage
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2019
Gloucester Stage Company wraps up its 40th Anniversary Season of professional theater with William Shakespeare's  Hamlet from October 25 through November 17 at Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA.. Hamlet's story begins when she meets her father's ghost, revealing that her uncle, Claudius, has murdered him and taken Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, for his queen.
BWW Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL: A Sunny Outlook Under the Sea
by Nancy Grossman - October 18, 2019
The National (non-equity) Tour of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL settled in at the Boch Center's Wang Theatre this week and brought out families and children raised on the beloved Nickelodeon series. Joining a long list of animated shows adapted into Broadway musicals, this one is set apart by the clever collaboration with a wide variety of popular artists who composed individual songs, seamlessly curated, orchestrated, and arranged by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Tom Kitt (of Next to Normal). Based on the television series by Stephen Hillenburg, it was conceived and directed by Tina Landau and features a book by Kyle Jarrow, but the eclectic score is the crème de la crème of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL.
Berkshire Mountain Guitar Summit Comes to The Colonial November 7
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2019
Berkshire Theatre Group presents the Berkshire Mountain Guitar Summit at The Colonial Theatre on Thursday, November 7 at 8pm. At 6:30pm, there will be a free Luthier's Expo in The Garage, with local and regional guitar builders showcasing their work, along with entertainment by Randy Cormier. Guitar Summit tickets are $25.

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