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Eight revolutionary music programs will join forces for The First Annual El Sistema Greater Boston Showcase on June 1st at the Franklin Institute in the South End.

The American Repertory Theater/ Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training ends its 2012-13 Season with The Boston Abolitionists Project, devised by the Class of 2013 and Steven Bogart, and directed by Bogart.

Audra McDonald will perform her only Berkshire solo performance on June 15 at 8pm at The Colonial Theatre accompanied by pianist Andy Einhorn.

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.

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, presents the world premiere production of Muckrakers, a new play by Zayd Dohrn, directed by Giovanna Sardelli (BSC's The

Brindsley Miller, a young sculptor, and his debutante fiancee Carol Melkett have borrowed some expensive, antique furniture from his neighbor Harold's flat without his permission in order to impress an elderly millionaire art collector coming to view Brindsley's work, and Carol's father Colonel Melk

Broadway star Megan Hilty makes her debut with the Boston Pops this week.

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WAM Theatre is delighted to announce Claiming Her Place, a benefit for WAM to be held Sunday, June 30 at 7pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.

Matt Cusson will play a show at The Garage on June 13 at 7pm.

For the third year in a row, WAM Theatre and The Mop & Bucket Improv Company (MopCo) will bring together over 50 theatre artists from the Berkshire and Capital Region areas to produce the 24hr Theatre Project.

Does your dog dream of a life on the stage, performing for tens of thousands of people? Does your pup have what it takes to tackle Shakespeare? Is s/he easy-going, able to take direction, and comfortable around strangers? Bring your pooch out to Bark Place today, May 18th to audition with Larry Coen

Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) presents its annual Spring Concert today, May 18 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.

Berkshire Theatre Group will hold the 8th Annual Richie duPont Award Event on June 8 at 8pm at Firefly Restaurant in Lenox.

A show about how complicated raising a child now seems to be with the constant presence of technology, the media, new learning disabilities and disorders, and the fact that everyone is always on the move.

PIRATES OF PENZANCE at the American Repertory Theater's Loeb Drama Center is tantamount to a three-ring circus being held at a beach volleyball tournament.

Greek mythology meets burlesque, puppetry, and a modern Americana score in the latest original piece from acclaimed ensemble Liars & Believers, creators of last year's gritty hit, 28 Seeds.

Maurice Hines puts his passion for tap, his late brother Gregory, and classic Big Band music on display in TAPPIN' THRU LIFE: AN EVENING WITH MAURICE HINES.

Life is good, the Boston-based lifestyle brand committed to spreading the power of optimism and helping kids in need, today announced YO GABBA GABBA! will headline the kids' lineup at the 2013 Life is good Festival on Sept.

Fort Point Theatre Channel presents The Land, a new play written by Jessica Litwak, with Amir al-Azraki.

The award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT), under the leadership of owner and producer Bill Hanney, has announced an exciting schedule of popular musicals, celebrity concerts and entertaining children's shows.

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From stem to stern, the crew of Lyric Stage Company's ON THE TOWN serves up a boatload of thrills.

Berkshire Theatre Group will celebrate its 85th Summer Theatre Season this year, making it the third oldest regional theatre in the country.

Massachusetts State Representative Sarah Peake, who represents Cape Cod's 4th Barnstable District, from Harwich to Provincetown, has been a leader in the fight for tourism funds for many years, most recently as Chair of the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.