Jeomil Tovar

Gloucester Stage Company continues its 40th Anniversary Season of professional theater with Karen Zacarías' Native Gardens from September 27 through October 20 at Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA. This contemporary comedy follows high-powered lawyer Pablo Del Valle, and his very pregnant wife, doctoral candidate Tania, who have just purchased a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank Butley. Soon a disagreement between the neighbors over a longstanding fence line derails their plans of realizing the American Dream.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre opens it 40th anniversary season with NATIVE GARDENS, #8 on American Theatre magazine's list of the top 10 most-produced plays of 2018-2019. With a dozen theaters mounting Karen Zacarias' delightful tale that pits a millennial, Latinx couple against a white, baby boomer couple, across a shared backyard fence, my prediction is that there will be lots of happy patrons debating the definition of good neighbors after seeing this show. To complicate matters, all four are basically good and decent people, just like us, but circumstances change. When they are tested and show new colors, are they a temporary aberration or their true ones?

Heart & Dagger Productions is proud to present HAIR, the tribal love-rock musical with direction by IRNE Nominee Joey C. Pelletier. Music Direction by James Sims. With fresh and sensual choreography by Pelletier, Peter DiMuro, Danielle Lucas, Vanessa White, and Michael Underhill, HAIR also features book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado with music by Galt MacDermot. The opening is September 29, 2017 at Club Caf 's Moonshine Room in Boston, MA.