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Voting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January.

Voting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.

Voting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.

Voting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the latest standings below.

Voting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below!

Israeli Stage and Producing Artistic Director Guy Ben-Aharon celebrated the company's second birthday on Sunday, November 18, with a staged reading of Gilad Evron's powerful ULYSSES ON BOTTLES at Goethe-Institut in Boston.

Voting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings here!

It's your last chance to catch scintillating Boston area premieres of two recent Broadway hits about hope in the midst of hardscrabble lives - 'The Motherf**ker with the Hat' at SpeakEasy Stage and 'Good People' at the Huntington. Both end this weekend.

In conjunction with the Huntington Theatre Company's hit production of South Boston native and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, Boston Globe reporter and South Boston native Billy Baker will speak about the vibrant and evolving neighborhood that plays a central role in the play at the post-show Humanities Forum tonight, September 30 immediately following the 2pm performance.

In conjunction with the Huntington Theatre Company's hit production of South Boston native and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, Boston Globe reporter and South Boston native Billy Baker will speak about the vibrant and evolving neighborhood that plays a central role in the play at the post-show Humanities Forum on Sunday, September 30 immediately following the 2pm performance.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston celebrates South Boston Club alumnus, the award-winning David Lindsay-Abaire, at tonight's, September 20 performance of the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Good People, Lindsay-Abaire's compelling Southie story.

Theater scholar, artist, educator, curator, social activist and arts leader John Bell has been named Boston College's Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. Professor in Theatre Arts for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston celebrates South Boston Club alumnus, the award-winning David Lindsay-Abaire, at the Thursday, September 20 performance of the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Good People, Lindsay-Abaire's compelling Southie story.

Underground Railway Theater and Suffolk University present the World Premiere of Car Talk: The Musical!!! with books, lyrics, and direction by Wesley Savick, and original music by Michael Wartofsky. The production opened last night, June 14, and runs through August 12, 2012. Check out photos of the cast on stage below!

Beginning June 14, Underground Railway Theater and Suffolk University present the World Premiere of Car Talk: The Musical!!! with books, lyrics, and direction by Wesley Savick, and original music by Michael Wartofsky. The production runs from June 14 through August 12, 2012. The press performance for Car Talk: The Musical!!! is Monday, June 18 at 7:30PM.

Inspired by a headline in the Provincetown Banner, Boston-based trio collaborates on world premiere musical about a baker who sells his irresistible cupcakes on the streets of "Summertown," his adoring customers, and the Keystone Cop who tracks his scent.

Central Square Theater and its resident companies, The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater, have announced their 2012-2013, and 5th anniversary, season.

CUPCAKE, described as 'a sexy, subversive, silly and sweet love letter to Summertown,' will make its world premiere at Boston's Club Cafe May 10 - June 24, 2012. Book by Bradley Seeman, music by Michael Wartofsky (Car Talk: The Musical!!), and lyrics by David Reiffel, and directed and produced by Guy Ben-Aharon (GBA Productions, Israeli Stage).

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards recognize the extraordinary wealth of talent in the Boston theatre community, and this year's nominations have just been announced. IRNE Reviewers include among others David Brooks Andrews, Sheila Barth, Jules Becker, Kay Bourne, Beverly Creasey, Shirley Esthimer, Richard Fahey, Guy Giampapa, Norm Gross, Nancy Grossman, Bryce Lambert, Beatrice Lee, Kilian Melloy and Larry Stark.

Israeli Stage will host award-winning playwright Motti Lerner for a workshop of his latest play, At Night's End, today at the Goethe Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston.