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In a phone conversation, Maestro Keith Lockhart talks about Billy Porter, Leonard Nimoy and the upcoming Pops season

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston announces a trio of Tony Award-winning musicals for its 46th consecutive summer season at the Robinson Theatre (617 Lexington St.

Film and stage actor Zachary Quinto, who recently starred as Tom Wingfield in the highly acclaimed Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, will be part of the festivities at this year's Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival's Annual Dinner.

America's Orchestra opened its 129th spring season with Keith Lockhart conducting and Jason Alexander as special guest artist.

Cape Rep Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth today, May 8th through June 1st Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm and Wednesday, May 21st & 29th at 7 pm.

The Boston Conservatory is announcing the establishment of its Conservatory College, a new academic division offering degree programs complementary to its core performance disciplines of music, dance and musical theater.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater opens its 30th anniversary summer season with The Trials of Gertrude Moody, a world premiere by Kimberly Burke.

Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, has announced casting for the company's 20th Anniversary Season opener - Kiss Me, Kate, to be presented June 11 through

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Artistic Director Tony Simotes kicks off a celebratory season in honor of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth with Shakespeare's Will, directed by Daniela Varon and featuring Kristin Wold.

Spectacular Broadway entertainment and more than 400 guests celebrated Wimberly Award recipients Huntington Trustee John D.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company finally tackles the subject of comedy, condensing the complete history (abridged) into a concise two-hour package that doesn't miss a trick.

After producing a large-scale period piece, a world premiere, and a musical in its first season, Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston will conclude the year with Gidion's Knot -- a suspenseful, contemporary two-hander by Johnna Adams.

WAM Theatre has announced the cast for a staged reading of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare.

Who says arts and academia cannot work hand in hand? Isn't theatre one of the best ways to reach large groups of people and enact change? So why not teach lessons about issues of science and environmental awareness within a theatrical piece?

Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber

New Repertory Theatre announces ON THE VERGE by Eric Overmyer.

From May 10 to June 7, 2014, SpeakEasy Stage Company will present the New England Premiere of one of the most talked-about shows in theatre history: CARRIE the musical.

The Longwood Players present Kiss Me, Kate at Cambridge YMCA Theater, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge.

The Milford Performing Arts Center's Full Circle Theatre Company presents The Diary of Anne Frank, a dramatization by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett based upon Anne's journal and which received the Tony Award for Best Play during its original Broadway run.

Underground Railway Theater presents the world premiere of Chantal Bilodeau's Sila, now through May 25, 2014.

Huntington Theatre Company leadership, staff, Board of Trustees, and Council of Overseers were saddened to learn that former Artistic Director Nicholas Martin died last night, April 30, at age 75 in New York after battling a long illness.

Berkshire Theatre Group presents Encore! An Evening to Celebrate High School Musicals at the Colonial Theatre tonight, May 2 at 7pm directed by Travis G.

GOOD TELEVISION proves that live theater makes everything better, even reality television.

After a successful launch in Cambridge, a capacity crowd at Boston's Outside the Box 2013 and an acclaimed run in New York last summer, ICARUS flies back to Boston for a two-week run at OBERON.