| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Troilus & Cressida Presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project April 25-May 20, 2012 In the midst of the Trojan War, Shakespeare guides us through the minds of these ravaged warriors who become symbols of human character for better or worse. Love and misunderstanding lead to longing, and how one copes with adversity can resonate through time.
 Buy Now | Actors' Shakespeare Project | 04/25/12-
05/20/12 | Boston |
Indiscreet DiscretionPresented by Fort Point Theatre Channel June 15-June 23, 2012 "Where there was id, there shall be ego." - Freud
Fort Point Theatre Channel's playwright and co-artistic director Silvia Graziano's new play takes a deep, dark look at the battle between our human and animal impulses. This premiere production is a chilling story of a trio of characters whose paths cross with surreal results. A big city writer is holed up with his lover in the country and as they discuss his upcoming murder story, a stranger comes upon their...
Buy Now | Fort Point Theatre Channel | 06/15/12-
06/23/12 | Boston |
Mike Dorval's Trials of LovePresented by Charles Playhouse April 17-May 26, 2012 Come to Boston's best date night! Mike Dorval, a.k.a. The Love Judge, brings some of life's love lessons to a beautiful conclusion every Saturday night at the Charles Playhouse! One very lucky couple--or maybe a few--will have their domestic differences settled in a Trial of Love with the help of friends, witnesses, and the audience (who may or may not come with their own partnership particulars). Finally, a show...
Buy Now | Charles Playhouse | 04/17/12-
05/26/12 | Boston |
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin AlonePresented by ArtsEmerson May 30-June 10, 2012 This celebrated one-man play about the legendary American composer who "made a lady out of jazz" returns to Boston! An evening packed with Gershwin’s most famous pieces and a glimpse into his early years, his personal life and his artistic genius.
Buy Now | ArtsEmerson | 05/30/12-
06/10/12 | Boston |
Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time TravelPresented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS July 30-August 1, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
Buy Now | CIRCUS SMIRKUS | 07/30/12-
08/01/12 | Sandwich |
Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time TravelPresented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS August 3-August 4, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
Buy Now | CIRCUS SMIRKUS | 08/03/12-
08/04/12 | Newbury |
Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time TravelPresented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS August 12-August 13, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
Buy Now | CIRCUS SMIRKUS | 08/12/12-
08/13/12 | Revere |
The Love NotePresented by Regent Theatre, Arlington at Regent Theatre June 7-June 17, 2012 The Boston Theatre Mirror raves - “This spirited musical has the exuberance of HAIRSPRAY and the sweet innocence of BYE BYE BIRDIE.” How far would you go to make friends at a new school? Even when those friends are ruthless bullies? In a world of outrageous tweens, we watch Jessie and her trusty imaginary friend Airy try to answer that question. The Love Note is a courageous and colorful journey that evokes the humor and hardships of modern adolescence, and the timeless survival...
Buy Now | Regent Theatre, Arlington | 06/07/12-
06/17/12 | Arlington |
Love PersonPresented by Company One at BCA Plaza Theatre May 25-June 23, 2012 Love Person is a transcendent four-part love story told in Sanskrit, American Sign Language, English and email. Two couples are rocked to their cores when love unexpectedly transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structures. Free, a Deaf woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally strikes up a correspondence with Ram, a B.U. professor of Sanskrit and love-interest of Free’s sister Vic. The four find themselves inextricably bound by technology, translation,...
Buy Now | Company One | 05/25/12-
06/23/12 | 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 |
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 |
Out of the BoxPresented by Company One at BCA Plaza Theatre 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 | 08/14/12 | Boston |
Billy Elliot the MusicalPresented by Broadway In Boston at Boston Opera House July 24-August 19, 2012 Billy Elliot the Musical is the joyous celebration of one boy's journey to make his dreams come true. Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising passion that inspires his family and his whole community. A big musical with an even bigger heart, Billy Elliot will enchant the dreamer in all of us. Based on the international smash-hit film, Billy Elliot is brought to life by a phenomenal cast and the Tony...
Buy Now | Broadway In Boston | 07/24/12-
08/19/12 | Boston |
CUPCAKEPresented by Club Cafe at Club Cafe May 10-June 24, 2012 CUPCAKE is a flirty love-letter to Summertown, a free-spirited seaside resort where every mouth waters for Tom (Grant MacDermott) and his irresistible cupcakes. But rookie Officer Stone (Mark Linehan), looking hot in his spotless uniform, is on the prowl: the law clearly states that street sales of food are taboo. The locals, especially the hunky Lifeguard (Max Sangerman) and the sexy-nerdy Librarian (Hallie Brevetti), relish Tom’s contraband cupcakes and help their adored...
Buy Now | Club Cafe | 05/10/12-
06/24/12 | Boston |
Two-Headed by Julie JensenPresented by Gan-e-meed Theatre Project at Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA May 10-May 19, 2012 Utah, 1857: 127 West-bound pioneers die in the Mountain Meadow Massacre. The mass murder haunts Mormon daughters Lavinia and Hettie over the next forty years. Tethered to their polygamous doctrine and to the men who killed in its name, can the women reconcile their faith with the truth?
Directed by Becky Webber
Featuring Kara Manson and SerahRose Roth
Special Events
Friday, May 11, following the 8pm performance:
Twelfth-generation Mormon Janika Dillon...
Buy Now | Gan-e-meed Theatre Project | 05/10/12-
05/19/12 | Boston |
R-Rated Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr.Presented by The Wilbur Theatre at Wilbur Theatre July 7, 2012 Frank Santos Jr. has been amazing audiences for over a decade. His spectacular display of mind-bending antics can turn any skeptic into a fan. His act is always fresh, energetic, and unique and no two shows are ever the same!
When Frank Santos Jr. performs the audience becomes the stars, you are not merely an idle bystander vicariously absorbing an out-of-date comedy routine. You, your friends, and strangers across the room are all fair game awaiting the possibility of instant...
Buy Now | The Wilbur Theatre | 07/07/12 | Boston |
The Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical
Buy Now | The Boston Conservatory | 06/07/12-
06/10/12 | 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 |
CAR TALK: THE MUSICAL!!!Presented by Central Square Theater at Central Square Theater June 14-July 15, 2012 A new musical comedy inspired by the legendary NPR Radio show, performed only blocks from where Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, opened their Good News Garage in Central Square, Cambridge, MA. Rusty Fenders, a hapless middle-aged owner of a terminally ill ‘93 Kia, falls in love with Miata C. LaChassis, who guides him to the Emerald Garage, home of the Wizard of Cahs. Exploring our romantic obsession with the automobile, ultimately, the world of Car Talk: The Musical!!! is just...
Buy Now | Central Square Theater | 06/14/12-
07/15/12 | Cambridge |
Round and Round the GardenPresented by Gloucester Stage Company at Gloucester Stage June 14-July 1, 2012 by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Eric C. Engel
A command presentation. The loving, laughing and lurking spills into the garden in this final installment of "The Norman Conquests" trilogy. Adrianne Krstansky joins returning cast members Academy Award-nominee Lindsay Crouse, Barlow Adamson, Steve Barkhimer, Sarah Newhouse, and Richard Snee. Talk Back following Sunday, June 17 performance.
Buy Now | Gloucester Stage Company | 06/14/12-
07/01/12 | Gloucester |
CarnivalPresented by Gloucester Stage Company at Gloucester Stage July 5-July 22, 2012 Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Book by Michael Stewart
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Music Direction by Todd C. Gordon
Join Carrot Top the puppet, Marco the Magnificent, and the rest of the 'Carnival' cast as they reveal that, indeed, "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." Alternating between the dark and the delightful, this rarely performed musical reacquaints us with a host of spirit-lifting melodies and soul-searching ballads. Ideal for all ages. Talk...
Buy Now | Gloucester Stage Company | 07/05/12-
07/22/12 | Gloucester |
Master Harold and the BoysPresented by Gloucester Stage Company at Gloucester Stage July 26-August 12, 2012 by Athol Fugard
Directed by Benny Ambush
A political and personal coming of age story in which a deeply rooted racism poisons the tender and humorous relationship between a white teenager and his family's black servants. Hope prevails in this masterwork by a legendary playwright. Johnny Lee Davenport, recipient of the 2011 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actor is among the cast. Talk back following Sunday, July 29 performance.
Buy Now | Gloucester Stage Company | 07/26/12-
08/12/12 | Gloucester |
Nine CirclesPresented by Gloucester Stage Company at Gloucester Stage August 16-August 26, 2012 by Bill Cain
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Two Weeks Only!
Winner of the prestigious Mimi and Harold Steinberg Playwriting Award, '9 Circles' is a raw, emotionally charged quest for salvation set against the backdrop of war. Jimi Stanton, Amanda Collins, and Will McGarrahan all recreate their critically acclaimed roles in a production originally presented by Boston's Publick Theatre. Talk Back following Sunday, August 19 performance.
Contains...
Buy Now | Gloucester Stage Company | 08/16/12-
08/26/12 | Gloucester |
Crimes of the HeartPresented by Gloucester Stage Company at Gloucester Stage August 30-September 13, 2012 by Beth Henley
Directed by Carmel O'Reilly
No holds are barred as three southern sisters confront life head onn in this hilarious and heartbreaking family drama. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award, 'Crimes' has joined the canon great American plays. Guest director Carmel O'Reilly returns to Gloucester Stage after her triumphant staging of 'Trad.' Talk Back following Sunday, September 2 performance.
Buy Now | Gloucester Stage Company | 08/30/12-
09/13/12 | Gloucester |
Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time TravelPresented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS at Gore Place July 26-July 29, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
Buy Now | CIRCUS SMIRKUS | 07/26/12-
07/29/12 | Waltham |
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 |
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