Commonwealth Shakespeare Company announced the cast and creative team for its 30th anniversary production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, directed by Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common.
The Elliot Norton Awards announced its prize winner and nominations, recognizing outstanding achievements in Boston theater. See the full list of nominees and this year's Norton Prize recipient.
What did our critic think of WAIT UNTIL DARK at Greater Boston Stage Company?
Greater Boston Stage Company announces its production of WAIT UNTIL DARK, featuring a unique dual casting for the lead role. The show will run with an intermission, promising a thrilling theatrical experience.
In playwright Mark Shanahan’s clever “A Sherlock Carol,” now at Lyric Stage Boston through December 21, when self-described “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes hears a knock at his 221B Baker Street door, there’s not a band of Christmas carolers on the other side but rather a visitor seeking his help in investigating the unsolved death of Ebenezer Scrooge.
Lyric Stage Boston will present Mark Shanahan’s A Sherlock Carol from November 14 to December 21, 2025. Directed by Ilyse Robbins, the holiday mystery combines the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and A Christmas Carol in a witty, fast-paced production featuring Leigh Barrett, Christopher Chew, Paul Melendy, and more.
Paul Melendy doesn’t just walk out on stage at the start of “Featherbaby” – the riotous David Templeton play about a potty-mouthed parrot now being given its co-world premiere in conjunction with the Don Fulton New Works Project at Greater Boston Stage Company in Stoneham through September 28 – he pounces on it, and in the front row of the audience, like the Boston theater rock star that he is.
Greater Boston Stage Company will open its 26th season with Featherbaby, a new comedy by David Templeton, running September 12–28, 2025, in Stoneham, MA. Directed by Weylin Symes, the Co-World Premiere stars Paul Melendy, Liv Dumaine, and Gabriel Graetz.
Workplace relationships have provided the fodder for plays, movies, and television shows for generations. The production runs through July 26, 2025.
Because of its great cultural and intellectual influence, Boston has been known as the Athens of America for centuries. That sobriquet is as true today as ever thanks to the area’s vibrant theater scene featuring pre-Broadway productions and national tours, Tony Award-winning regional theaters, and a host of other theater companies presenting everything from Shakespeare to classic and contemporary plays, musicals and concerts.
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.
What did our critic think of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Greater Boston Stage Company?
A distant cousin of America’s New Year’s Eve Times Square ball-dropping tradition, “Dinner for One” is an iconic comedy sketch broadcast every New Year’s Eve in countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, and Estonia, and on other days of the year in Norway, Australia, and South Africa. British author Lauri Wylie wrote the original two-hander for the stage and it was subsequently recorded for television in 1962.
We’re Getting Ready for a Hilarious DINNER FOR ONE
Greater Boston Stage Company will opens its 25th anniversary season with the New England premiere of Dinner for One, running from November 1 to November 17, 2024.
Agatha Christie's “Go Back for Murder” is more than just a whodunit. It's a psychological exploration of memory, guilt, and the blurred lines between truth and perception currently playing at the Barnstormers Theatre in its historic venue in Tamworth.
Under Larry Sousa’s wonderfully imaginative direction and with his choreography, a 16-person company of some of Boston’s brightest, most versatile performers is bringing the Canadian musical, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Gregg Morrison and book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, to dazzling life with delightfully silly production numbers aplenty and a well-served soupçon of heart-tugging emotion.
Lyric Stage Boston will present the fun and fizzy musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone with Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar.
Greater Boston Stage Company will unveil the highly anticipated New England Premiere of TITANISH, an uproarious parody that promises to have audiences rolling in the aisles.
It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
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