| Utility Monster May 25 - Jun 22, 2013 |
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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater - Julie Harris Stage |
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| Sadie's young life is transformed when her new friend Claude discovers that an African child's life can be saved for the mere price of his lunch at Taco Bell. |
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| Tuck Everlasting May 26 - Jun 15, 2013 |
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Citi Colonial Theatre |
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| If you could live forever, would you? That’s the eternal question of Tuck Everlasting. In a small New England town, a young girl dreaming of adventure meets a family with a fabulous secret. Their chance encounter will change them all forever… Take an exhilarating journey you’ll never forget in this new musical about everlasting love, never-ending life and discovering what it means to truly feel alive.
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| Garden May 26 - Jul 30, 2013 |
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Trinity Repertory Company |
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| Two interconnected plays performed simultaneously in both theaters. A masterfully constructed duo of plays, House & Garden are like two opposite sides of a theatrical puzzle - the picture gets clearer, funnier and more profound, when you return to see the second side of the story. Teddy and Trish are hosting a big garden party for the town. Friends, family, a London writer, and a French movie star… what could go wrong? Fans of Ayckbourn will know the answer: anything and everything. While the actors race from House (in the upstairs theater) to Garden (yes, all the way back down the stairs to the first floor theater), the lucky audience stays put, seeing each production one at a time, in either order.
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| Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody May 30 - Jun 1, 2013 |
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Wilbur Theatre |
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| Oh my! The risque book series was a runaway success; now the hilariously naughty parody of Fifty Shades of Grey prepares to dominate willing audiences at Boston's Wilbur Theatre. Written and directed by Jim Millan, whose credits include The Kids in the Hall, Larry King Standing Up, Marijuanalogues With Tommy Chong and Mythbusters Live, this fun show captures all the silly absurdity of the novel, with characters brought to life via sexy musical numbers. Think part SNL, part Chippendales -- and you don't need to have read the book to get the jokes. |
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| The Magic Mirror May 30 - Jun 1, 2013 |
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Boston Center for the Arts |
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| Juventas New Music Ensemble is proud to present our Opera Project 2013: Polina Nazaykinskaya's The Magic Mirror, a new interpretation of Snow White. Based on Pushkin's version of the fairy tale, The Magic Mirror is a youthful and contemporary adaptation that remains faithful to the timeless classic. |
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| Steel Magnolias May 31 - Jun 15, 2013 |
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The Footlight Club at Eliot Hall |
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| Alternately hilarious and touching, Steel Magnolias is the story of the outspoken clientele of Truvy's Beauty Salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana. Any lady who is "anybody" in the town comes to get their hair done by the wise-cracking Truvy and her eager new assistant, Annelle. The group of women is very eclectic, made up of the town curmudgeon, an eccentric millionaire, the queen bee of the social set and her beautiful, diabetic daughter. When a sudden tragedy befalls the close-knit group of women, their inner strength and love for each other pulls them through. Filled with sharp banter, thoughtful moments and big hair, Steel Magnolias transports us into a charming world whose characters are great company in good times and bad. |
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| My Dear Muddu Palani May 31 - Jun 1, 2013 |
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Boston Center for the Arts |
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| Boston Center for the Arts Dance Residency features Navarasa Dance Theater in My Dear Muddu Palani and other New Works by Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda. My Dear Muddu Palani will explore sensuality through literature and performance based on work written by Muddu Palani in the 18th century. The piece will challenge the way women's bodies are viewed in modern societies both in the east and the west. |
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| Merchant Jun 6 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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Zero Point Theatre at
Arsenal Center for the Arts |
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| This highly imaginative take on The Merchant of Venice sets Shakespeare's brilliant drama against the background of Prohibition-era New Orleans. While grounded to Shakespeare's richly poetic text, Zero Point Theater's thrilling new adaptation takes liberties with the source material, casting Shylock as a black woman who owns a speakeasy jazz club, struggling to keep her business afloat against her white Christian competitors and haunted by the compromises she's had to make to get where she is. Zero Point Theater's production entertains as it challenges preconceived notions on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and personal identity. |
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| Shelter Jun 6 - Jun 9, 2013 |
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The Boston Conservatory |
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| Shelter is a new musical by Brittany Bullen that explores the struggles experienced by homeless women in our society. Inspired by true stories, Shelter gives a voice to women unheard and demonstrates that no matter how limited resources may be, society can be part of a solution. |
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| These Shining Lives Jun 6 - Jun 22, 2013 |
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Stoneham Theatre |
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| Even as the young women working at The Radium Dial Corporation forged friendships and built self esteem, their health was secretly being destroyed. This is the central paradox behind These Shining Lives, the celebrated play by Melanie Marnich (HBO's Big Love), now at the Stoneham Theatre. During the 1920's, some 4,000 women painted watch-faces for The Radium Dial Corporation. For many, it was a rare shot at decent employment in a male-dominated business world. Little did the women know, however, that that the radioactive paint they were using would undermine their health for decades to come. These Shining Lives follows four women who, bonded by their workplace experience and mounting health problems, find the courage to stand up to their employers and demand change. Caitlin Lowans directs a limited engagement of this important and moving play. |
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| The Adams Family Jun 7 - Jun 9, 2013 |
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The Hanover Theatre |
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| THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story and it's every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren't upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents. |
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| The Phantom of the Opera Jun 11 - Jun 20, 2013 |
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Boston Opera House |
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| Following an acclaimed sell-out tour of the United Kingdom, Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's phenomenal musical success, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, will make its premiere in Boston as part of a brand new US National Tour. Hailed as "Stunning, intense and spectacular" by the Sunday Express, this production features a brilliant new design by Paul Brown, costumes by the much missed Maria Björnson, a new staging by Laurence Connor - director of the recent acclaimed 25th anniversary celebration at the Royal Albert Hall - and new choreography by Scott Ambler. The production is overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh.
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| Chicago Jun 13 - Jun 23, 2013 |
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Reagle Music Theatre |
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| CHICAGO, with a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. The winner of six Tony Awards including Best Revival, it is a smart, sassy, sharp-edge satire in which “merry murderesses” Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly vie for headlines and the services of the slickest defense attorney in Chicago, Billy Flynn, during the madcap Roaring Twenties. Knockout musical numbers include “All That Jazz,” “Razzle Dazzle,” “Nowadays,” and “Class.” McIntyre will be creating all new staging while choreographing in the style of the immortal Bob Fosse.
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| Black Comedy Jun 14 - Jun 22, 2013 |
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Happy Medium Theatre at
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| In this wild comic farce by renowned British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus), a desperate sculptor hopes to impress his fiancee's father and a potential patron by "borrowing" a few antiques from his absent neighbor. But his best laid plans go up in smoke after a fuse blows in his apartment, plunging them all into darkness just as the neighbor arrives home. What follows is a hilarious race against time to set things right before the lights come back on. |
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| Spring Awakening Jun 20 - Jul 14, 2013 |
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Gloucester Stage (a.k.a. Gorton Theatre) |
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| Gloucester Stage's 2013 season kicks off with the award winning landmark Broadway musical Spring Awakening directed by Gloucester Stage Artistic Director Eric C. Engel. Winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical on Broadway in 2007, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's energetic reimagining of Frank Wedekind's 1891 German drama by the same name, is not your grandparents' musical theater. With its electrifying and hauntingly beautiful score, Spring Awakening traces the sexual awakening of several youths in an atmosphere of repression. Their journey from adolescence to adulthood is explored with poignancy and passion. |
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| Polishing Stone Jun 27 - Jun 29, 2013 |
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Boston Center for the Arts |
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| Premiered works include In Reverse, a company work that explores concepts of transformation, and Polishing Stone, an intergenerational dance work that investigates the cycle of creation, destruction and rebuilding through collaboration with performers ages 10-76. In addition to creating new works during their residency, Kelley Donovan & Dancers will host a series of open rehearsals and workshops on the BCA campus in partnership with local senior centers. |
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| Six Characters in Search of An Author Jun 29 - Jul 20, 2013 |
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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater - Julie Harris Stage |
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| This purely WHAT adaptation of a masterpiece of 20th century theater shifts the focus to the character of the "Mother." Forced by circumstances to return to her first husband after the death of her second, the Mother navigates a lively, absurd world where lullabies turn into wild tarantellas and the characters' fate depends on an unseen author to complete their story. |
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