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Merrimack Repertory Theatre celebrates its rebirth with world premiere of Massachusetts playwright William Donnelly's HOMESTEAD CROSSING in co-production with Berkshire Theatre Group and Portland Stage Company.

When the Huntington Theatre Company brings David Cromer's landmark production of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town home to New England this winter, local residents will have the opportunity to become Honorary Mayor of Grover's Corners for a day.

Berkshire Theatre Group and Artistic Director/CEO Kate Maguire has announced a full Fall line-up for The Colonial Theatre, The Garage and The Unicorn Theatre.

From September 27 through October 21, The Nora Theatre Company will proudly present the New England Premiere of Sarah Treem's THE HOW AND THE WHY at Central Square Theater.

ImprovBoston is giving people a chance to experience the scenes, stories, and monologues of Ira Glass' This American Life with the return of This Improvised Life, only this will be real life with an improv spin.

Veteran television comedienne Sally Struthers is working overtime to bring much needed laughs to an otherwise hit or miss production of Dolly Parton's '9 to 5: The Musical' at Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine

The Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) will hold an Open House for prospective students and families today, September 8 from 10:00 a.

Judy Kuhn has been nominated for three Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards for her work on Broadway in She Loves Me, the American premieres of Chess and Les Misérables, and Rags.

Jackie Hoffman, the Broadway star of The Addams Family, Xanadu and Hairspray, and of TV's new series The New Normal, from Glee creator Ryan Murphy, will appear in a new show on September 22nd and 23rd at 7:30 pm, when she brings a hilarious close to this summer's star-studded Broadway at The Art Hou

The award-winning North Shore Theatre (NSMT) is pleased to welcome Broadway star Dee Hoty to the cast of 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL.

At The Colonial Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group presents Oliver! with music, lyrics and book by Lionel Bart.

Theater scholar, artist, educator, curator, social activist and arts leader John Bell has been named Boston College's Rev.

From September 14 through October 13, 2012, SpeakEasy Stage Company will present the Boston premiere of the recent Broadway hit comedy THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University announces the programming lineup for its fall 2012 season, featuring pioneering new performances, classic cinema, stimulating conversation, and penetrating analysis of the 2012 election season.

The 4th Annual Boston Comedy Arts Festival will feature comedy acts from all over North America, however, one of the center pieces of the festival will be very local.

Gloucester Stage Company concludes its season of plays about our need for home and community with 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winner by Beth Henley.

The Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) welcomes two new faculty members to the Dance Department for the 2012-2013 school year.

The Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) will hold an Open House for prospective students and families on Saturday, September 8 from 10:00 a.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre presents its 31st season of new plays in Boston starting with a collaboration with Company One, Underground Railway Theater and Central Square Theater.

Stoneham Theatre is opening season 13 with a statement of who they are.

WAM Theatre's October 12-28 World Premiere production of The Old Mezzo by Berkshire based playwright Susan Dworkin will feature professional actors from Berkshire County and the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, the Capital Region of Upstate NY and beyond.

A Labor Day weekend celebration of extraordinary new songs, Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn (Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) narrated this fresh, fun introduction to new voices in musical theatre and shared with the audience what makes a good lyric, why s

Alice Ripley won a Tony Award for her leading role in the recent Pulitzer Prize winning musical Next to Normal, and was a Tony-nominee for Sideshow on Broadway.

Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab (under the direction of Artistic Producer of the MTL William Finn, Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson) presents the seventh edition of Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don't Know But S

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in the Berkshires has announced its Fall 2012 lineup of events, including 'An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin' in October and more.