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January 27, 2006 Preview Performance of Hamlet is Pay What You Can

Black Nativity completes its 36th season

A cold, snowy Sunday provided the ideal backdrop for the opening of 'A Christmas Carol'

The Lyric Stage Company presents the Boston premiere of 'Crowns' and it sparkles

World premiere at Merrimack Rep pits father against son in an unending game of familial chess

You can love a Chekhov play or hate it, but like a fine wine or a particularly poor 'American Idol' contestant, you just can't tear yourself away.

Intimacy is emphasized over glitz in a quietly stirring production of Kander and Ebb's award-winning musical, 'Kiss of the Spider Woman,' at the SpeakEasy Stage

Huntington Theatre Offering Warm and 'Funsy' Drama

Heart, humor, fun and flesh get a rise out of the women - and some men - at the grand re-opening of the renowned Massachusetts theater-in-the-round

New Rep production finds pathos and humor in Sam Shepard's penetrating depiction of sibling rivalry

From the moment of entering the auditorium at the Foothills Theatre, the playgoer has the feel of being in the English country manor of Andrew Wyke, the protagonist of Anthony Shaffer's British thriller 'Sleuth.

It's only fitting that a production of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' is nothing short of an extravaganza, and in that respect, this production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice collaboration does not disappoint.

Sometimes, a great actor-or even a great group of actors-can't revive a lifeless script.

Neither bloody good nor bloody awful, Stoneham Theatre's new adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic needs an infusion of chills, clarity and climax

North Shore Music Theatre's one night only benefit performance of Jason Robert Brown's 'Songs For A New World'--Monday, October 24 at 8 PM at the John Hancock Hall (180 Berkley Street in Boston--For tickets, call 978-232-7200 or visit www.

The ensemble of this touring production is on the right track since getting its act together and taking it on the road, but the central love story is still off course

Talent abounds, but a few too many spritzes of megahold have made this stylish do a bit stiff

New Rep inaugurates its new Watertown performing space with equal parts testosterone and rosewater

Gabriel Barre's earthy vision for North Shore Music Theatre's classic offering shakes some cobwebs off this dusty relic

Trinity Rep hammers home the clues in this non-stop musical melodrama

'Beehive' offers two hours of total enjoyment

SpeakEasy Stage Company opens its 15th anniversary season with the East Coast Premiere of Richard Kramer's 'Theatre District.

'The Real Thing' as presented by the Huntington Theatre Company is a first rate production of Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning play.

Stoneham Theatre kicks off their 2005-2006 season with 'Pal Joey,' the ground-breaking Rodgers and Hart musical that centers around a roguish nightclub emcee who ditches his naïve girlfriend to romance a rich older woman, who subsequently finances his lifestyle and business pursuits, until a blackm