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This North American tour of The Sound of Music, produced by Concord Theatricals and NETworks Presentations, honors the 65th anniversary of the musical's original stage debut. Directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Danny Mefford, the production features the beloved story...
Hailed for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera-theater, White Snake Projects (WSP) presents the U.S. premiere of Brent Michael Davids’s monumental orchestral work Requiem for America : Singing for the Invisible People . This profoundly moving musical work brings an...
Flutist Jessi Rosinski performs a program of music crossing cultures, centuries, and points of view. Before playing each piece, she shares the story behind the work and her personal relationship to it. After the last note, she invites the audience to discuss what they heard and...
Boston Bhangra, now in its 23rd year, is an annual global dance competition celebrating northern Indian dance and culture. British-born Punjabi singer and producer PBN will perform live during the event. The competition is split into two divisions, one with musicians performing...
Boston Bhangra, North America's largest independent Indian dance competition, returns for its 23rd year, now featuring live bands for the first time. Bhangra is a folk dance style from Punjab, northern India, featuring colorful costumes and percussive music. The competition will...
North America's largest independent Indian dance competition returns with twelve teams of professional dancers traveling from across the United States and Canada. For the first time in its 23-year history, the celebration of northern Indian dance and culture is split into two...
A community concert rounding out The Dance Complex's 35th anniversary fall season programming.
Boston Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere of Creation, a new evening-length oratorio by Osvaldo Golijov, conceived as a contemporary response to Haydn's The Creation. The work explores the continual creation and renewal of the universe, weaving together stories of...
In this solo show, actor and playwright Peter Michael Marino recounts how he wrote a musical based on the film Desperately Seeking Susan featuring the music of Blondie, which opened on London's West End in 2007 and closed a month later. The high-octane comedic performance fills...
Welcome to Hadestown , where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony® Awards including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and original director Rachel...
This show charts the course of celebrity through the correspondence of luminaries like Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey, Elvis Presley, Emily Dickinson, Bruce Lee, Marilyn Monroe, and Tom Hanks. It explores fame, hard work, enjoyment, pride, and impact through personal letters...
Tutti Music Collective presents its fall concert exploring Latin music genres spanning the Caribbean Islands to the Andean Mountains. The concert features TMC's chorus in collaboration with four local bands, including a Merengue band, a tango quartet, the TMC Latin Band, and the...
The YellowHouse Blues Band, a nine-piece New England blues powerhouse with horns and multiple vocalists, headlines a benefit concert supporting the Plymouth Taskforce to End Homelessness. The band blends blues, rock, soul and Motown, covering artists from BB King and Etta James...
When the main act doesn't show up, hapless host Pete enlists the audience to create a comical storytelling show on the spot, choosing everything from plot to props, characters to costumes, and settings to sound. This 50-minute family show has been named a critic's pick by the...
Murray & Peter Present A Drag Queen Christmas hosted by Nina West . It’s the longest running drag tour in America. Get ready for your favorite queens performing live on stage. We’ve got Myki Meeks, Nini Coco, Darlene Mitchell, Juicy Love Dion, Discord Addams, Crystal Methyd and...
A Revolution of Her Own!™ , the inspirational story of America’s first professional female soldier Deborah Sampson, has been performed over 2,500 times across the country and virtually, receiving accolades from journalists, actors, CEOs, & historians, and earning a standing...
A look back at 10 years of productions
The Grammy-winning and four-time nominated wind quintet performs an adventurous chamber music program. The ensemble is renowned for blending classical masterworks with newly commissioned works and diverse musical influences.
Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe (CAST) kicks off its 2026-27 season with Laugh Out Loud. Shakespeare’s quote “Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.” aptly describes this feast of modern one-act comedies: Base Model Man and Who Ate the Cheetos? by Kevin Perrin of the...
By Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Ilene Beckerman.
The Lysander Piano Trio performs a wide-ranging program spanning from Swedish violinist and composer Amanda Maier to South African composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen.
Las Vegas headliner Jason Bird presents an intimate 90-minute evening of magic and mentalism, featuring sleight of hand, mind reading, psychological illusion and impossible predictions. Audiences sit just feet from the action and are invited to hold the magical objects and make...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is part of Lyric Stage Boston's 2026-2027 season. The press performance is scheduled for Sunday, November 15, 2026.
By Lucy Moss, Toby Marlow.
What did our critic think of THE WASH at Front Porch Arts Collective?…
The national tour of “The Bodyguard,” a musical based on the 1992 blockbuster movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner that spawned the bestselling soundtrack of all time, came to Worcester this past weekend at the Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts.…
What did our critic think of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Boston Lyric Opera?…
This might well be the perfect time for the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University to present the world premiere of the rock opera “1972,” at Farkas Hall in Harvard Square through December 6, if the post-midterms mood of relief of the recent press-night audience is any indication.…
What did our critic think of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE at Merrimack Repertory Theatre?…
Getting blood sucked out of your neck doesn’t sound like much fun, but with the always game Paul Melendy as the corpuscle-craving Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula, it provides just one of the many laugh-out-loud moments in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s devilishly funny “Dracula: A Comedy …
From multiple marriages and a neck broken mid-performance to the downsides of aging, nothing was off limits in “Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares,” the one-person comedy show that Tony Award winner Benanti brought to Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts recently as part of …
What did our critic think of BOUNCERS at The Modern Theatre At Suffolk University?…
When the Broadway musical “Operation Mincemeat” opened at New York’s Golden Theatre in March 2025, it was slated to have a 16-week run. A recent 11th extension, through April 2027, was just the latest confirmation that audiences have yet to get enough of the 2025 Tony Award nominee for Best Mu…
What did our critic think of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at The Huntington?…
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The Sound of Music Boch Center Wang Theatre (11/17-11/22) |
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Klea Blackhurst, Jim Caruso & Billy Stritch will star in “A Swinging Christmas” direct from NYC JM Productions at The Church of Presidents (11/28-11/28) |
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Mark Twain Tonight! Emerson Colonial Theatre (2/11-2/11) |
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A Christmas Carol North Shore Music Theater (12/03-12/23) |
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Clue Emerson Colonial Theater (3/12-3/14) |
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Lesley Ann Warren: In My Own Little Corner Emerson Colonial Theatre (4/01-4/01) |
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Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella Weston Friendly Society (12/05-12/13) |
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Leslie Odom Jr. Shalin Liu Performance Center (4/08-4/08) |
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THT Rep presents Hedwig and The Angry Inch The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (2/03-2/21) |
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Girl Crime Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater (12/11-12/20) |
