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Theatre Workshop of Nantucket proudly launches its landmark 70th season with the Nantucket premiere of Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector’s razor-sharp, Tony Award-winning comedy that took home the...
Saturday, June 13 at 11amSaturday, June 13 at 2pmSaturday, June 13, 5pmSunday, June 14 at 11amSunday, June 14 at 2pmBLUEY'S BIG PLAY The Stage Show...
When a concerned mother finds her son with an “inappropriate” book, an attempt to reason with the local librarian erupts into an explosive, town-wide confrontation....
A story of hope and love as two characters, over the course of one night, find their way past the challenges that have blocked them...
Regional PremiereWritten by Chess Jakobs, The American Five explores pivotal moments in the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison...
Puppet Showplace Theater Presents: Judy Saves the Day by Sarah Nolen of Puppet MotionShowtimes & Tickets Summer is Pay-What-You-Can! We invite you to choose the...
From the author of Enchanted April, retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister lives alone in tiny Groverdell, Texas, settled into her routines and secure in her standing...
A family drama by Jillian Blevins and directed by Peter Sampieri, Morphology is the story of Nico, a nonverbal Autistic teenager who loves creatures of the...
Shipwrecks, disguises, and mistaken identities spark the joyful chaos of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s most playful romantic comedy. Love runs amok, wit flies, and nothing is...
After Jerry and Emma collide for the last time, their final encounter unfolds into a seven year long, torrid love triangle entangled with secrets, deception,...
The Legend of Georgia McBride is a hilarious, high-energy theatrical event packed with iconic music, outrageous comedy and showstopping performances audiences will be talking about...
Shakespeare & Company Presents: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de LuneBy Terrence McNally, Directed by Nicole RicciardiJuly 30-August 23 at 2 pm and 7...
Lovesong is a tender and quietly powerful play by Abi Morgan that traces a marriage across decades, revealing how love evolves, deepens and endures over time....
From the playwright behind last season’s The Garbologists comes an unlikely world premiere of feminine proportions. Clarissa Perry is a tree climbing, combat boot wearing goth with...
Shakespeare & Company Presents: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Directed by Ariel Bock August 13-30 at 2 pm and 7 pm at the Tina Packer Playhouse Hamlet is...
Shakespeare & Company Presents: Midsummer Dreamers, Created by Kirsten Peacock and Nick Nudler of Cosmic Mirth September 1-3 at 7 pm at the Tina Packer Playhouse Two...
Travel to the moon and back as Spencer revisits his childhood home in Philadelphia following his mother’s passing. With the help of the unfettered Petrushka,...
WINNER! Tony Award for Best Play WINNER! Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize and a smash hit on Broadway,Purposeis the explosive and wildly...
Summer, 1976 is a deeply affecting two-hander by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Auburn, whose celebrated body of work includes Proof and other acclaimed plays that examine intellect, memory...
Harper Lee’s enduring classicTo Kill a Mockingbirdis adapted anew asAaron Sorkin, the brilliant and beautifully idealistic creator ofThe West WingandA Few Good Men, returns to...
The Golden Girls are back in an all-new show! 2026 finds Sophia out on bail, after being busted by the DEA for running a drug...
The Golden Girls are back in an all-new show! 2026 finds Sophia out on bail, after being busted by the DEA for running a drug...
Theatre legend Emma Rice helms a high-velocity take on the Alfred Hitchcock classic North by Northwest in an acclaimed production hailed as “glorious” (The Times...
In this superb, funny, and deeply moving adaptation, Peruvian directorChela De Ferrariintertwines Shakespeare’sHamletwith the lived experiences of a vibrant ensemble of eight actors with Down...
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Latest Boston Reviews
by R. Scott Reedy - June 10, 2026
Whether autobiographical like “Jersey Boys,” “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” and “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” or fictionalized like “Mamma Mia!,” jukebox musicals often rely on the drama of their source material as much as their familiar scores for success....
by R. Scott Reedy - June 09, 2026
But in playwright Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day” – now being given a cleverly funny production by The Huntington at the Huntington Avenue Theatre through June 28 – they are also comic fodder for a trenchant story about a tempest over vaccination in a hyper-woke teacup....
by Marc Savitt - June 07, 2026
Cast and Crew deliver a high-quality production that is both simple and sublime; historically accurate, topically relevant; and well worth seeing. BSC Artistic Director, Alan Paul said: 'It's fair to say that Daisy has become an American classic, and when you watch the show, you will see how contemp...
by Marc Savitt - June 09, 2026
Cast and Crew deliver a high-quality production that is both simple and sublime; historically accurate, topically relevant; and well worth seeing. 'It's fair to say that Daisy has become an American classic, and when you watch the show, you will see how contemporary and relevant its themes still are...
by R. Scott Reedy - June 03, 2026
What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH DARREN CRISS at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...
by Marc Savitt - June 03, 2026
Listening to SELECTED STORIES is a delight. The actors bring energy, nuance, intonation, inflection, and character to every aspect of the story they are telling. Having them do so live, in-person to a room full of enthusiastic audience member reactions made it even more so....
by Marc Savitt - May 31, 2026
As BTG's Artistic Director, CEO Kate Maguire stated: 'Through moments of joy, heartbreak, humor and healing, JOHN & JEN explores the enduring connections between siblings, parents and children- the people who remain part of us across a lifetime. With Andrew Lippa's moving score and a story filled ...
by R. Scott Reedy - May 20, 2026
Playwright Luis Alfaro aimed high when he decided to bring Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” from 429 BC into the 21st century with “Oedipus El Rey,” his contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy set in a Los Angeles barrio....
by R. Scott Reedy - May 17, 2026
What did our critic think of JON BATISTE BRINGS HIS MUSICAL GENIUS TO BOSTON POPS at Symphony Hall?...
by R. Scott Reedy - May 14, 2026
When it comes to playwrights and poets, William Shakespeare towers above everyone else who has ever put pen to paper. After all, he is the greatest writer ever in the English language, and his 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and three long narrative poems have been translated into virtually every living lang...
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Summer in the City: the Circus that Never Sleeps Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (6/25-9/06) |
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John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour Boch Center (10/01-10/01) |
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Frozen The Company Theatre (11/27-12/20) |
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FORTUNE FEIMSTER: TAKIN' CARE OF BISCUITS TOUR! Provincetown Town Hall (8/15-8/15) |
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Honey Honey Moon Moon Huntington Theatre, Maso Studio (6/27-6/28) |
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Harlem Quartet: Pushing Boundaries Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (8/10-8/10) |
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