Looking to escape from the hot sun? Why not check out one of the many intriguing offerings at greater Boston venues where this summer’s vibrant theater scene boasts pre-Broadway productions, national tours, and summer-stock productions of everything from Shakespeare to classic and contemporary plays, musicals, and concerts. Bay State audiences have much to look forward to, including:
The Remainders is a touching theatrical love letter to public libraries and to any patron who has ever found a sense of belonging through public libraries.
All In Productions will present the Wisconsin premiere of Rachel Bublitz's RED DAYS, a coming-of-age drama set in Salt Lake City, at Pink's Accessible Theater House in Milwaukee.
Jeff award-winning director Nick Bowling and this cast have created a work that reminds us of why Sondheim’s music is special. The orchestra under the direction of Brad Haak fills the theater with the intricate melodies of this musical. Sally Dolembo’s costumes are gorgeous and showcase the turn of the century style.
Iain Heggie's Fringe First-winning play WIPING MY MOTHER'S ARSE is set for its first revival in 25 years at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, with a cast including Johnny McKnight, Anne Kidd, Lisa Livingstone, and David Rankine.
The new season on Broadway (2026-2027) at the Vivian Beaumont Theater brings the first-ever Broadway revival of Aaron Sorkin’s seminal work, A Few Good Men, starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth, with direction by Tony Award winner Michael Arden. In the spring, Artistic Director Lear deBessonet returns to the Beaumont with the first Broadway revival of The Sound of Music in nearly 30 years, starring Tony Award nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and producer Michael Maso are set to lead Bards on the Cape, a new writers retreat opening on Cape Cod. Learn more here!
Lincoln Center Theater's four-time Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of RAGTIME announced a final two-week extension at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, with a new block of tickets now on sale.
52 Hertz Productions will present the New England premiere of MORPHOLOGY, a family drama about Autism and caregiving written in verse and prose, featuring AEA actors at Boston Playwrights Theatre.
The stars truly aligned this season for Shoshana Bean, who won a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her performance in The Lost Boys.
The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will present a season of performances and conversations, including Pride Week hosted by Gavin Crawford, TALES OF AN URBAN INDIAN performed on a moving city bus, and a talk with former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.
Diversionary Theatre has unveiled its 41st season. This season will feature a total of four productions that will continue to honor the theatre's legacy of bringing LGBTQIA+ audiences new and exciting stories for, by, and about the community.
Aadyam Theatre's BELLY OF THE BEAST, written by Kalki Koechlin and Sheena Khalid, follows five women transforming into mythical creatures across stages of motherhood, blending shadow puppetry, live music, and movement.
New York City-based comedian and storyteller Michael John Ciszewski will bring his comedy show Mother, Superior to Caveat in NYC before heading to London and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Manhattan Theatre Club will produce a new production of Clifford Odets’ landmark 1935 drama Awake and Sing!, led by Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, and Jeremy Shamos. Learn more here!
MAN OR BEAR, a darkly comic play about fear, friendship and survival inspired by a viral question, will head to the Edinburgh Fringe featuring co-creator Katie Hurley and Amaia Naima Aguinaga.
Funny, warm, and painfully relatable, Austin Playhouse’s Erma Bombeck: at wit's end transforms domestic chaos into razor-sharp comedy. Sarah Fleming Walker commands the stage in a captivating solo performance that captures the exhaustion, wit, ambition, and quiet resilience behind Bombeck’s iconic voice.
Anne Tolpegin steps into two pivotal roles as The Notebook opens tonight at the Straz Center, portraying both Allie’s protective mother and the no‑nonsense Nurse Lori. “Her mother really is only looking after Allie’s best interests,” she says, while Nurse Lori is “just a very busy, very sort of can’t catch up nurse” doing her best inside a care facility where love and memory collide.
The sold-out show featured the premiere of BABE: ELABORATIO, a symphony dedicated to Connick's mother, whose lifelong dream was for her son to perform at Carnegie Hall
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