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What did our critic think of GEM OF THE OCEAN at Actors' Shakespeare Project?

Actors’ Shakespeare Project will present Gem of the Ocean in Boston as part of its American Century Cycle programming. The August Wilson play will run at Hibernian Hall and conclude the company’s 2025–26 season.

Wheelock Family Theatre will conclude its 2025/2026 season with Charlotte's Web, based on the classic novel by E.B. White and adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette.

Orange County School of the Arts will present their rendition of the Tony Award-winning play, 'Peter and the Starcatcher.' Learn more about the performances here!

The Boston Theater Critics Association announced nominations for the 42nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards, honoring outstanding theater in Greater Boston. Kathy St. George will receive the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.

Moonbox Productions, winner of numerous IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards, will present the award-winning gospel musical Crowns by Regina Taylor adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry. 

Moonbox Productions will present the award-winning gospel musical Crowns by Regina Taylor adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry. 

With its magnificent mounting of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” at Hibernian Hall in Nubian Square, Roxbury, through February 23, Actors’ Shakespeare Project has given Boston theatergoers the first must-see production of 2025.

CAMP BROADWAY, the award-winning New York-based theater arts enrichment company, will feature 50 young singers, ages 12-16, in Radio City's Sounds of Christmas on Friday, November 29 and Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 7:30 PM. The Camp Broadway Kids Ensemble will perform a 5-minute a cappella medley of songs about Santa during the pre-show of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular on stage at the world-famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This performance follows a day-long intensive of vocal rehearsals with Camp Broadway's creative team of Broadway professionals including Music Directors Christine Riley and Julianne Merrill, supported by Line Producer, Isaak Olson and Featured Player, Anna Raful.

CAMP BROADWAY, the award-winning New York-based theater arts enrichment company is heading to Tinseltown to celebrate Hollywood on Broadway with a special performance of "A Christmas Song" from the hit film-inspired Elf the Musical in the 87th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade on Sunday, November 25, 2018. Presented and produced by Associated Television International, the Hollywood Christmas Parade is the largest Christmas celebration in America and a true Hollywood tradition that attracts more than one million in attendance each year.

Not every show is going to have an introspective look on political climate like Ibsen, or open up difficult topics such as the AIDS epidemic like Kushner, but not every show has to: Some shows are just there to make you laugh and sing and have a merry time doing it!

Tony Award Winner John Rubinstein will star in an AEA staged reading of the new musical The Sycamore Street Kite Flying Club, with a score by veteran theater composer and conductor, Roy M. Rogosin, and a libretto by Juliana Jones, which will be presented at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater on Thursday, January 25th at 7pm. Eric Paul Vitale will direct with musical direction by Stephen Purdy.

Sierra Rep ushers in the holidays with faith, family and fun in Sanders Family Christmas, set for November and December at the Fallon House Theater in Columbia State Historic Park. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!

The Palace Theatre presents Monty Python's SPAMALOT, part of The Citizens Bank Performing Arts Series, opening Friday Nov 1st at 7:30 PM through Nov 16th. With 14 Tony Award nominations, MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT tells the legendary story of King Arthur and his Knight of the Round Table as they set out on their quest to find the Holy Grail. Lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail, stalwart Eric Idle and composer John Du Prez adapt the classic film while adding swipes at Vegas glitz and Broadway conventions to the film's anarchic spirit. MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT "raises silliness to an artform!" (The Sunday Times).

The Color Cabaret series is a unique experience, with each monthly cabaret centering around a color theme. The cast of performers choose songs lending themselves to the theme creating an evening both thought provoking and wildly fun.

The Color Cabaret series is a unique experience, with each monthly cabaret centering around a color theme. The cast of performers choose songs lending themselves to the theme creating an evening both thought provoking and wildly fun.

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our February 16th SIP round-up. Yesterday evening's photos featured more photo bombs from the NEWSIES (The Sound of Music, Tangled, Mrs. Doubtfire, Sex in the City and more), a last SIP from NEWSIES' Mike Faist, and images from ONCE, FLASHDANCE, CINDERELLA, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, MARY POPPINS in Mexico, and regional productions of CAROUSEL, [title of show], NEXT TO NORMAL and more!

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up. Today's photos feature last SIPs from the cast of EVITA, which closes on Broadway today, plus well-wishers from the casts of the LES MISERABLES 25th Anniversary Tour, NEWSIES, HAIRSPRAY in Concert and THE FANTASTICKS. THE BOOK OF MORMON also says goodbye to Rory O'Malley today, and THE LITTLE MERMAID closes its doors at SPAC. In addition, check out, photos from ANNIE, MARY POPPINS, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, SPIDER-MAN, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, WEST SIDE STORY, FLASHDANCE, THE WIZARD OF OZ in Toronto, and much more!

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up! Today's photos feature the casts of NEWSIES and EVITA reaching out to the families of the Newtown, Conn., shooting victims, plus SantaCon-themed photos from A CHRISTMAS STORY, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, SPIDER-MAN, WICKED, and FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, as well as images from THE BOOK OF MORMON, MARY POPPINS, CHAPLIN, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, BRING IT ON, GOLDEN BOY, ELF, the UK tour of AMERICAN IDIOT and the US tours of JERSEY BOYS, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and ANYTHING GOES.

Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities and Executive Producer James A. Blackman III proudly opens their 20th Anniversary Season with Bock & Harnick's beautiful love story, She Loves Me. Performances begin on Wednesday February 16 (with a gala press opening on Saturday February 19) and will run through Sunday March 6 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.