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The city of Lee, Massachusetts presents a winter Berkshire festival featuring food, music, movies and comedy February 17-24.

Boston Actors Theater today announced that it will present Noah Tobin's EXPECTING from March 30 through April 5.

A new production of the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, comes to the Boston area this spring as The Fiddlehead Theatre Company presents the romantic comedy about a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall.

NETworks Presentations, LLC brings the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical to the Boston Opera House for a four week engagement July 24 - August 19.

The annual ImprovBoston Beanpot Tournament has grown this year.

As part of its 30th Anniversary Season celebration, the Huntington Theatre Company brings the cast of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to Roxbury's Hibernian Hall to perform a reading of the play on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7pm.

Counter Productions will present the area premiere of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Next to Normal.

The Tony Winning Broadway Sensation Passing Strange begins previews Thursday, February 23 with an official press opening set for Friday, February 24.

Winter heats up every year at this time with the poetry and chili fest, 'guaranteed to sate your belly and fill your senses with great chili and cornbread, terrific local poets and more.

Paradise Theatre presents SWEET CHARITY March 2-18, 2012.

The Boston College Theatre Department continues the 30th anniversary season of the University's Robsham Theater Arts Center with its second workshop production: Aristophanes's classic comedy Lysistrata, in a new translation by Sarah Ruden.

American Repertory Theater (A.

The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training continues its 2011-2012 Season with Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's BOB: A Life in Five Acts,directed by Shira Milikowsky, and performed by the Institute Class of 2012.

Berkshire Theatre Group will welcome country legend, Travis Tritt, to The Colonial stage on March 10 at 8pm with up and comer Lyndsey Highlander as a special guest.

Broadway musical theater stars Rachel York, a Drama Desk and two-time IRNE Award winner, and Brent Barrett, an LA Drama Critics Award winner and Olivier Award nominee, performed their favorite love songs from stage and screen as part of the Celebrity Concert Series to kick off the 44th season of Rea

The sight and smell of smoke, the surrounding walls draped in sheets of white fabric, and a brew of eerie sounds and lights combine to set the mood for Boston Center for American Performance's MONSTER, a rendering of the oft-told FRANKENSTEIN tale that is not likely to be confused with earlier film

Broadway musical theater stars Rachel York and Brent Barrett, critically acclaimed co-stars in the West End production of the Tony Award-winning revival of "Kiss Me, Kate" filmed for PBS, reunite for an exclusive two-act concert "Isn't It Romantic?" on Sunday, February 19 at 1 p.

METG-Award winner, Jack Serio will direct the Boston Teen Acting Troupe in the Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

RAIN - A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES and CATS, the musical that revolutionized American theater, have been added to the 2011-2012 Broadway series presented by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America.

The Nominating Committee of the Independent Reviewers of New England has honored the F.

Happy Medium Theatre, Inc.

The city of Lee, Massachusetts presents a winter Berkshire festival featuring food, music, movies and comedy February 17-24.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, musical theater stars Rachel York and Brent Barrett, reunite for an exclusive two-act concert ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? on Sunday, February 19 at The Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston.

The Boston Youth Moves' Producers' Circle announces the 2012 Swellegance Gala Benefit will present two-time Tony Award winner CHITA RIVERA performing songs from her legendary Broadway career in her own concert CHITA RIVERA: MY BROADWAY at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont