| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Execution of JusticePresented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at Virginia Wimberly Theatre February 17-February 23, 2012 Emily Mann, playwright; Elaine Vaan Hogue, director. A brilliant portrayal of the Dan White trial after the 1978 assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and gay city supervisor Harvey Milk of San Francisco. Mann tells the story in a provocative and multilayered way, offering as many questions as answers about a tragic chapter in the city's transition to its current political and social climate. Execution of Justice runs February 17-24. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts....
 Buy Now | Boston University College of Fine Arts | 02/17/12-
02/23/12 | Boston |
Celebrity Autobiography featuring Mario CantonePresented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company February 27, 2012 As seen on Bravo TV, enjoy a night of non-stop laughter as you experience a variety of jaw-dropping vignettes inspired and torn straight from the pages of the most unforgettable celebrity tell-alls: from the "he-said, she-said" accounts of Burt and Loni...Mr. T's acting tips...the Britney Spears Diary...Justin Bieber's backstage confessions...the re-enactment of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's courtship, to the most famous love triangle in Hollywood history - Elizabeth Taylor,...
Buy Now | The Lyric Stage Company of Boston | 02/27/12 | Boston |
Celebrity Autobiography Featuring Mario CantonePresented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company February 27, 2012 As seen on Bravo TV, enjoy a night of non-stop laughter as you experience a variety of jaw-dropping vignettes inspired and torn straight from the pages of the most unforgettable celebrity tell-alls: from the "he-said, she-said" accounts of Burt and Loni...Mr. T's acting tips...the Britney Spears Diary...Justin Bieber's backstage confessions...the re-enactment of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's courtship, to the most famous love triangle in Hollywood history - Elizabeth Taylor,...
Buy Now | The Lyric Stage Company of Boston | 02/27/12 | Boston |
Monsters: A Midlife Musical Meltdown!Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre February 25-March 10, 2012 “Enormously Entertaining!” - Boston Globe
Samantha thinks turning 40 is the scariest thing to happen to her. See what happens when a mysterious package arrives in this hilarious look at a full- blown mid life crisis. After all…everybody’s got MONSTERS!... don’t they?
More information at www.monstersthemusical.com
Buy Now | Regent Theatre | 02/25/12-
03/10/12 | Arlington |
Reflections of a Rock LobsterPresented by Boston Children's Theatre March 3-March 11, 2012 The true story of a 17 year-old gay student from Cumberland, Rhode Island who sued his high school in 1980 for the right to escort his boyfriend to his high school prom, is the basis for this groundbreaking World Premiere of the play REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK LOBSTER. Adapted by Burgess Clark from the autobiographical book by Aaron Fricke, the play makes a powerful statement about bullying, intolerance and hope. “BCT is extremely proud to be the first children’s theatre to address...
Buy Now | Boston Children's Theatre | 03/03/12-
03/11/12 | Boston |
A Little Bit of IrelandPresented by Reagle Music Theatre at Robinson Theatre March 16, 2012 Now in its second decade! Enjoy one of the largest Irish shows in New England. A pinch of Irish tenors! A wee touch of Riverdance! A peek at Irish cottage life. A rousing Irish pub visit! The lilt of laughter with a master Irish comic. The grand rhythms of Irish step dancing. The ever insistent charms of Irish bands. Hundreds of bewitching...
Buy Now | Reagle Music Theatre | 03/16/12 | Waltham |
Bakersfield MistPresented by New Repertory Theatre at The Arsenal Center For The Arts February 26-March 18, 2012 A National New Play Network
Rolling World Premiere by Stephen Sachs
Directed by Jeff Zinn featuring Ken Cheeseman* and Paula Langton*
A co-production with Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Maude Gutman has bought the ugliest thrift store painting she could get her hands on as a gag gift. After the painting is rejected, Maude tries to offload it at a yard sale where she learns it might be much more than junk—it just might be the “find of the...
Buy Now | New Repertory Theatre | 02/26/12-
03/18/12 | Watertown |
Romeo & Juliet Presented by Stoneham Theatre at Stoneham Theatre March 1-March 18, 2012 Two households both alike in dignity. Two families in conflict. When children act on their parents' grievances, and teens flame with the passion of first love, unintended consequences can devastate. Ten professional actors will team up with ten members of our young company to explore this timeless story of love and conflict not only between families but within them.
Buy Now | Stoneham Theatre | 03/01/12-
03/18/12 | Stoneham |
AmerivillePresented by ArtsEmerson March 13-March 18, 2012 The energetic and diverse Universes put the state of the Union under the microscope and into the microphone, as they spin harmonies and beatboxing around race, poverty, politics and more, examining our country through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Buy Now | ArtsEmerson | 03/13/12-
03/18/12 | Boston |
Circumcise Me - A New Comedy on the Cutting EdgePresented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC March 17-March 18, 2012 He's just your average Irish, Italian Catholic kid from Philly, comic actor, sober alcoholic, recovering drug addict, husband, father, Reform, Conservative, unorthodox, Orthodox Jew. His name is Yisrael Campbell, (the artist formerly known as Christopher), and this is his story.
Circumcise Me is a spiritual journey stretching across four decades, two continents, and three circumcisions. It's that rare collision of comedy and theater that will have women howling with laughter,...
Buy Now | Leventhal-Sidman JCC | 03/17/12-
03/18/12 | Newton Centre |
Saint John the Divine in Iowa by Lyralen KayePresented by Another Country Productions at Boston Playwrights' Theatre March 2-March 18, 2012 Reverend Alexandra McCartney is a progressive Episcopal priest who has fought for social justice throughout her career. But when gay marriage passes in Iowa and her daughter comes home demanding to be married to her way out, butch girlfriend in the conservative church Reverend Alexandra loves, the Reverend learns it's easier to live up to your values when you're just the minister, not the mother.
Buy Now | Another Country Productions | 03/02/12-
03/18/12 | Boston |
TAO: The Martial Arts of DrummingPresented by World Music/CRASHarts at Berklee Performance Center March 21, 2012 "Powerful, dynamic and unique."—Time Out
"Extraordinarily talented . . . incomparable muscular zeal."—Chicago Tribune
With explosive taiko drumming and innovative, acrobatic choreography, TAO: The Martial Art of Drumming offers a breathtaking, vibrantly modern twist on a traditional art form—and a visual and sonic tour de force! This all-new production captures the best of TAO’s extraordinary precision, energy and...
Buy Now | World Music/CRASHarts | 03/21/12 | Boston |
Oliver!Presented by Wellesley Players at Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College March 16-March 23, 2012 Nothing is as thrilling on the stage as a well-crafted tale, and Oliver! is just such a show. TONY award winning musical with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, and based upon the Charles Dickens book of the same name. Oliver! explores the trials and tribulations of an orphan who is banished from his orphanage for daring to ask for more food. The title character falls in with a group of petty thieves led by Fagin, who teaches Oliver the ways of the pickpocket.
Buy Now | Wellesley Players | 03/16/12-
03/23/12 | Wellesley |
Into the WoodsPresented by NextDoor Theater at NextDoor Theater March 9-March 24, 2012 music & lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
book by JAMES LAPINE
directed by BRIAN MILAUSKAS
music directed by BRETT HINKEL
The plot of Into the Woods intertwines the stories of various familiar fairy tales with an original story of a childless Baker and his Wife who are attempting to reverse a curse on their family in order to have a child, thus creating a single even bigger fairy tale. In the first act, the characters set out to achieve their goal of living...
Buy Now | NextDoor Theater | 03/09/12-
03/24/12 | Winchester |
James and the Giant PeachPresented by Boston Children's Theatre at BCA Plaza Theatre March 17-March 25, 2012 A magical peach! An incredible journey! Insect friends! In JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, Roald Dahl’s story comes hilariously to life in this family show that reveals the wickedness of some and the goodness of others. Follow James, the wise Old-Green-Grasshopper and the pessimistic Earthworm on their wild adventure. And, don’t forget James’ mean Aunt Spiker and cruel Aunt Sponge!
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH runs March 17 – March 25.
The Plaza Theatre at the...
Buy Now | Boston Children's Theatre | 03/17/12-
03/25/12 | Boston |
The Andersen ProjectPresented by ArtsEmerson at Cutler Majestic Theatre March 24-April 1, 2012 This off-the-wall masterpiece by Robert Lepage was freely inspired by fables written by Hans Christian Andersen (who didn't really like children) and explores unraveling relationships, personal demons and compromise that comes too late.
Buy Now | ArtsEmerson | 03/24/12-
04/01/12 | Boston |
Deported / a dream playPresented by Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston Playwrights' Theatre March 8-April 1, 2012 Boston Playwrights' Theatre's 30th Anniversary season comes to a close with Joyce Van Dyke's riveting story of the Armenian genocide in Deported / a dream play. Memories and dreams interweave in this tale of enduring friendship incorporating music and dance. Directed by Judy Braha, Deported - celebrates the playwright's own family history and that of many Armenian families forever changed.
Buy Now | Boston Playwrights' Theatre | 03/08/12-
04/01/12 | Boston |
Ma Rainey's Black BottomPresented by Huntington Theatre Company at Boston University Theatre, Mainstage March 9-April 7, 2012 Legendary 1920s blues singer Ma Rainey and her musicians gather in a run-down Chicago studio to record new sides of old favorites when generational and racial tensions suddenly explode. The Huntington completes Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson's Century Cycle with this searing drama, Wilson's first Broadway hit.
"EXTRAORDINARY! Ma Rainey rides on the exultant notes of the blues." — Newsweek
Buy Now | Huntington Theatre Company | 03/09/12-
04/07/12 | Boston |
Next to NormalPresented by SpeakEasy Stage Company at Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA March 9-April 7, 2012 Featuring a compelling and surging pop rock score, Next to Normal shatters through the façade of a suburban family dealing with the direct and indirect effects of mental illness. Winner of 3 Tony Awards and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this intense, emotional and ultimately hopeful musical makes a direct grab for the heart with its story of a family coming to terms with its past and bravely facing its future.
Music by Tom...
Buy Now | SpeakEasy Stage Company | 03/09/12-
04/07/12 | Boston |
Mrs. WhitneyPresented by Merrimack Repertory Theatre at Merrimack Repertory Theatre March 15-April 8, 2012 By John Kolvenbach
A candid portrait of a 60-year old woman with an idiosyncratic sense of romance. Mrs. Whitney seeks a cure for loneliness by tracking down her ne’er-do-well ex-husband, an irresponsible mess she kicked out over 20 years ago, sending her on an odyssey of surprising and sharply-funny encounters. (Adult Language, Suggestive Dialogue)
Buy Now | Merrimack Repertory Theatre | 03/15/12-
04/08/12 | Lowell |
HookmanPresented by Company One at Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA March 23-April 14, 2012 Being a freshman in college is hard when your roommate is weird, home is far away, and Hookman is everywhere! What's Lexi to do when her old high school friend, Jess, gets killed...I mean - has an accident, a car accident, I think? Not even Facebook stalking the dead can calm the creepy feelings spilling out of the shadows in this existential comic horror slasher - a new play by Lauren Yee.
Buy Now | Company One | 03/23/12-
04/14/12 | Boston |
An American wifePresented by Wellesley Summer Theatre Company at Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre April 12-April 15, 2012 New England premiere.
When Frank Flynn returns to rural Pennsylvania after his service in World War II, he doesn't get quite the welcome he, or his Polish war bride, Stella, had been expecting. Jobs in the coalmine are scarce and the small-minded Irish Catholic community does not know what to make of them. Stella's painful past binds her new family together in a heartfelt story of perseverance in the face of bitter tragedy.
Buy Now | Wellesley Summer Theatre Company | 04/12/12-
04/15/12 | Wellesley |
Long Day's Journey Into NightPresented by New Repertory Theatre at The Arsenal Center For The Arts April 1-April 22, 2012 Directed by Scott Edmiston
A drama by Eugene O’Neill
Featuring Will Lyman* and
Karen MacDonald*
In the Charles Mosesian Theater
April 1, 2012 - April 22, 2012
Join New Rep as we explore this 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic by one of America’s most renowned playwrights, Eugene O’Neill. This semi-autobiographical masterpiece intimately examines the addictions, regrets, and deceits of the tormented Tyrone family. Through...
Buy Now | New Repertory Theatre | 04/01/12-
04/22/12 | Watertown |
The Apple TreePresented by The Boston Conservatory April 20-April 22, 2012 From the songwriting team of Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me comes a unique evening of three one-act musicals about men, women and a little thing called temptation.
Book by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith.
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.
Based on trues stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton and Jules Feiffer.
Directed by Paul Melone.
Conducted by F. Wade Russo.
Choreographed by Lillian...
Buy Now | The Boston Conservatory | 04/20/12-
04/22/12 | Boston |
Café VariationsPresented by ArtsEmerson at Cutler Majestic Theatre April 13-April 22, 2012 Incorporating Charles Mee’s Café Plays, music from the American musical songbook and dance, SITI Company joins young artists from Emerson to render romantic and philosophical stories from the café world. A coproduction with Emerson Stage and SITI Company.
Buy Now | ArtsEmerson | 04/13/12-
04/22/12 | Boston |
An Evening with GrouchoPresented by CenterStage at Fitchburg State College at Weston Auditorium April 28, 2012 Picture Groucho Marx: his greasepaint mustache, hand-in-the-crook-of-his-back swagger, ever-present cigar and rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter in full force on the Weston stage. In this fast-paced 90-minutes of hilarity, award-winning actor/director/playwright Frank Ferrante recreates his PBS, New York and London acclaimed portrayal of the youngest Marx brother whose legendary career spanned vaudeville, radio, television and film.
Buy Now | CenterStage at Fitchburg State College | 04/28/12 | Fitchburg |
The TemperamentalsPresented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company March 30-April 28, 2012 By Jon Marans
Directed by Jeremy Johnson
This hit off-Broadway play tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and fashion designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while forming the first gay-rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States. "Temperamental" was a necessary code word in the early 1950s - danger was always an underlying presence but with it, a heady, intoxicating secrecy also hung in the air. Backstage raved...
Buy Now | The Lyric Stage Company of Boston | 03/30/12-
04/28/12 | Boston |
From Tel Aviv to Ramallah - a Beatbox JourneyPresented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC April 28-April 29, 2012 "Yuri Lane celebrates the subconscious soundtrack that thrums in our heads...astonishing...leaving his audience vastly entertained."
-Chicago Magazine
From Tel Aviv to Ramallah is a hip-hop play that tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while emphasizing the humanity, suffering and joy of Israelis and Palestinians. From Tel Aviv to Ramallah has played at theaters in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. Talk-back discussion with...
Buy Now | Leventhal-Sidman JCC | 04/28/12-
04/29/12 | Newton Centre |
28 SeedsPresented by Liars & Believers at BCA Plaza Theatre April 19-May 12, 2012 What happens when experimental theatre company, Liars & Believers, plunges headlong into a lustful, gluttonous, greedy, slothful, wrath-ridden, envious, prideful collaboration with texture-core steampunk phenomenon, Walter Sickert & The ARmy of BRoken TOys? Let’s just say it’s not the end of the world. Oh wait. It is.
Buy Now | Liars & Believers | 04/19/12-
05/12/12 | Boston |
Ghost-WriterPresented by Merrimack Repertory Theatre at Merrimack Repertory Theatre April 19-May 13, 2012 By Michael Hollinger
When a famous novelist dies before finishing his masterwork, his devoted secretary completes the story on her own. Is she perpetrating a fraud, or does her insistent claim that she continues to receive his dictation after his passing hold some truth?
Buy Now | Merrimack Repertory Theatre | 04/19/12-
05/13/12 | Lowell |
Little Shop of HorrorsPresented by New Repertory Theatre at The Arsenal Center For The Arts April 29-May 20, 2012 Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
In the Charles Mosesian Theater
In this Award-Winning musical with the melodious styles of 1960’s rock and roll, doo-wop, and early Motown, a hapless florist shop worker, Seymour, finds a mysterious plant. As the plant begins to flourish and thrive, so does the flower shop’s business. Seymour quickly develops the confidence needed to successfully court the woman he desires, his co-worker Audrey, and...
Buy Now | New Repertory Theatre | 04/29/12-
05/20/12 | Watertown |
Three ViewingsPresented by New Repertory Theatre at The Arsenal Center For The Arts May 18-June 3, 2012 By Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Jim Petosa**
In the Black Box Theater
In Three Viewings, award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher explores love, money, and loss in a trio of mordantly witty narratives. An infatuated man goes to extraordinary lengths in order to win a woman’s heart; a jewelry thief with a hidden secret reclaims a family heirloom; and a widow confronts the repercussions of her late husband’s wheeling and dealing. Hatcher weaves these three...
Buy Now | New Repertory Theatre | 05/18/12-
06/03/12 | Watertown |
Avenue QPresented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company May 11-June 9, 2012 Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Book by Jeff Whitty
Part flesh (humans), part felt (puppets), and packed with heart (universal), Avenue Q is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets the girl next door, a Republican, an internet sexpert, and Gary Coleman (need we say more?), along with other colorful types who help Princeton...
Buy Now | The Lyric Stage Company of Boston | 05/11/12-
06/09/12 | Boston |
And a Nightingale SangPresented by Wellesley Summer Theatre Company at Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre May 24-June 24, 2012 A British family struggles to hold together in the midst of the chaos of World War II in this bittersweet comedy. The play is a nostalgic romp through life on the home front with a quirky cast of lovable characters. Touching and funny in equal measure, the story revels in the universal truth of the strength of family.
Buy Now | Wellesley Summer Theatre Company | 05/24/12-
06/24/12 | Wellesley |
Out of the BoxPresented by Company One at BCA Plaza Theatre November 28, 2011-August 14, 2012 A competitive multimedia event of extravagant, show stopping brilliance spanning over three nights, Out-of-the-Box brings performance to the next level. Using a theme for each evening, local performers from all backgrounds — actors, musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers and everything in between — will converge in a multimedia cabaret, the likes of which the Boston theatre scene has never seen. A winner will arise from the dust, judged completely by you, the audience.
Buy Now | Company One | 11/28/11-
08/14/12 | Boston |
All the Single LadiesPresented by Improv Asylum February 11-October 20, 2012 "All the Single Ladies" is the latest production from Boston's award-winning Improv Asylum, offering Bachelorette Parties and Girls Nights Out groups a wild night of comedy, dancing and a whole lot of naughtiness.
Over the course of the show, four friends set out for one last wild night out before one of them gets married. After a few drinks, old feuds and new secrets threaten their good time, and only some songs and dancing can help them work through it. The...
Buy Now | Improv Asylum | 02/11/12-
10/20/12 | Boston |
Improv Asylum - Afternoon Delight
Avg. Event Rating(4.0 Stars): Presented by Improv Asylum at Improv Asylum Theater May 11, 2011 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (4.0 Stars): Featured on HBO and named Boston’s Best Comedy Club, Improv Asylum’s Main Stage Show features a cast of actors who bring together improvisation and sketch material in front of a live audience. The show has been described as a “hilarious mix of Whose Line is it Anyway? meets Saturday Night Live!.” The cast takes suggestions from the audience and creates comedic scenes on the spot – nothing is predictable, anything can happen and it’s never the same show...
Buy Now | Improv Asylum | 05/11/11-
Ongoing | Boston |
Shear Madness
Avg. Event Rating(4.9 Stars): Presented by Shear Madness at The Charles Playhouse May 1, 2010 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (4.9 Stars): Set in a local hair salon and with lines as up-to-date as the morning's news, Shear Madness is theatre with the audience as a central character. In this Boston institution, ongoing at the Charles Playhouse since 1980, the audience gets to help solve a murder mystery in a laugh-a-minute blend of whodunit and improvisational theater. The clues change every night and the laughs come fast and funny. This worldwide phenomenon is filled with up to the minute spontaneous humor and quicksilver...
Buy Now | Shear Madness | 05/01/10-
Ongoing | Boston |
Blue Man Group
Avg. Event Rating(4.7 Stars): Presented by Blue Man Group at The Charles Playhouse May 14, 2002 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (4.7 Stars): It’s new. It’s cool. BLUE MAN GROUP has updated the wildly popular theatrical show in Boston! Taking a closer look at the technology that both surrounds and isolates us, BLUE MAN GROUP showcases technogeek ingenuity while uniting the audience in primal, collective exhilaration. Signature BLUE MAN GROUP moments combine with breathtakingly fun new pieces for an explosive evening of entertainment.
*Blue Man Group is on an open run at the Charles Playhouse.
Buy Now | Blue Man Group | 05/14/02-
Ongoing | Boston |
MainstagePresented by Improv Boston at ImprovBoston Theatre February 19, 2009 - Ongoing ImprovBoston Mainstage is the ever-evolving show that is the cornerstone of ImprovBoston. Blending skillful storytelling, memorable music, audience participation, and joyful chaos, an elite cast of Boston's best improvisers creates a show that redefines itself with every performance. No rules. No boundaries. Just spectacular comedy and incredible improvisation.
Buy Now | Improv Boston | 02/19/09-
Ongoing | Cambridge |
