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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the glam rock cult classic with text by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask will return to Boston on Sunday, July 14th at OBERON (2 Arrow St.

MERCHANT OF VENUS, a re-imagination of William Shakespeare's MERCHANT OF VENICE, adapted and directed by Mark Bourbeau will play the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA.

Joanna Gleason won the Tony Award for her leading role of the Baker's Wife in Into The Woods, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.

Maria Callas was one of the great prima donnas of Opera, and in Terrence McNally's Master Class she is played by the formidable actor, Annette Miller at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA.

THESE SHINING LIVES tells the important story of a 1928 groundbreaking case which established legal precedents for labor safety standards still in effect decades later.

Written by O'Neill in 1919 while living in Provincetown and performed at the Provincetown Playhouse in 1920, this autobiographical one-act about O'Neill's own attempted suicide was destroyed by the playwright following its premiere in New York.

Alastair Moock, one of Boston's folk luminaries and a gravelly-voiced, award-winning performer known as 'the Tom Waits of children's music,' will perform songs from his new album, Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids at his New York City's Madison Square Park on Tuesday, July

THE ADDAMS FAMILY comes to The Hanover Theatre in Worcester, June 7-9.

Berkshire Theatre Group presents James Goldman's The Lion in Winter at The Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge opening on June 29 at 8pm.

Cape Rep Theatre presents 9-Ball, by local playwright, Art Devine (author of Winter Wheat and last season's hit new play, The Bottom of the Sky).

MERCHANT OF VENUS, a re-imagination of William Shakespeare's MERCHANT OF VENICE, Adapted and Directed by Mark Bourbeau will play the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA.

Mad Horse closes its 27th Season on a grand scale with one of Shakespeare's most sweeping and controversial plays.

In the 1920s and early 1930s, female factory workers, later known as radium girls, contracted radium poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium Factory in Ottawa, Illinois.

Sleeping Weazel, whose mantra is "making different possible", is currently presenting their own abstract piece, Real Realism at the Factory Theatre.

Boston native and "Diva" impersonator Carly Sakolove will join forces with The Boston Gay Men's Chorus this week to present their annual Pride concert - Divas Unleashed.

The Boston Philharmonic and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra announce their schedule for the 2013-14 season

This September theater artists from around the globe will converge on the seaside village of Provincetown, where Williams worked over several summers, to celebrate America's great playwright with a program of plays, dance, film and performance art organized around the theme of Tennessee Williams and

The Company Theatre presents a regional premiere of the Tony Award winning musical Monty Python's Spamalot, from July 26 through August 18, at The Company Theatre Centre for the Arts, 30 Accord Park Drive, Norwell, MA.

Electric Youth (EY), the international touring ensemble of talented singer-dancers trained at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA), will take the stage at Showcase Live at Patriot Place in Foxboro on Sunday, June 16 at 6 p.

Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced further casting and additions to the 2013 summer season, which officially kicks off tomorrow, June 4, when the box office opens its doors.

The Circuit Theatre Company, a local, IRNE-nominated company run and operated by theatre artists ages 18-25 from across the country will kick off its 2013 summer season with the Boston premiere of The Amish Project by Jessica Dickey.

WAM Theatre, recently announced as a finalist in the Creativity/Innovation category of the Berkshire Trendsetter awards, is delighted to present Claiming Her Place, a benefit for WAM to be held Sunday, June 30 at 7pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.

Gloucester Stage's 2013 season kicks off on June 20 with the award winning landmark Broadway musical Spring Awakening with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik.

AVENUE Q is the smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent, Tony-winning book and score.

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's second stage and club theater venue, continues its mission to bring exciting and original programming.