French playwright Marc Camoletti’s Boeing Boeing has landed at Attleboro Community Theatre with all the speed, chaos, and comic turbulence audiences could hope for! This 1960s classic farce features Parisian philanderer Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful air hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down, and one […]
At Wilbury Theatre Group, Girl from the North Country settles in Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota, hauntingly restless and unexpectedly tender. It’s 1934. A group of wayward travelers’ gritty lives intersect in a rundown guesthouse filled with music, misery, life’s trials, and hope. Disparate transients gather here, each bearing the baggage of their own personal burdens. Financial […]
Theatre By The Sea has unleashed the hysterically campy cult classic Little Shop of Horrors on the unsuspecting public. This deviously delicious sci-fi smash musical, with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for decades. Set in the rundown flower shop of Mushnik’s Skid Row Florists, […]
Shakespeare is in the air, and that’s just one reason to check out the Idle Hands Theater Collective! They are currently launching ‘Idle Shakes,’ its inaugural Shakespeare series that’s kicking off with a vibrant, fast-paced, interdisciplinary production of Much Ado About Nothing. This spirited production introduces a fresh model for Shakespeare, one powered by collaboration […]
“Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1). This is the core theme behind William Shakespeare’s darkest comedy, Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare’s most exciting, underperformed and underappreciated plays, currently presented by Burbage Theatre Co. Although it’s often dismissed as a “problem play,” it contains some of the most compelling drama and bawdy […]
Shrek the Musical is a hilarious and heartwarming adventure celebrating friendship, love, and the beauty of being uniquely yourself. Featuring a lively score by Jeanine Tesori, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, this spectacle full of heart, humor, and show-stopping musical numbers is presented by The Community Players, adeptly directed by Marianne Lonati, who […]
Trinity Repertory Company’s production of Primary Trust, Eboni Booth’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize–winning play, is a comedy regarding the courage to begin again. The most widely run production today, this heartwarming story about one man’s leap of faith and the friends he makes along the way is an exquisite portrait of loneliness, connection, and revamping a […]
At The Arctic Playhouse, where the proximity of actors to audience is personal, Noël Coward’s cheeky wit and havoc seemingly places you right into the conspiracy. Private Lives has been called one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Divorced couple Elyot and Amanda, now honeymooning with their new spouses, have a chance meeting […]
From the boundary-pushing, Tony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins comes this electrifying comedy meditation on impermanence, nostalgia, and isolation. Directed by Don Mays, The Comeuppance starts innocently enough as five former classmates from a Catholic academy gather on the eve of their 20-year high school reunion. Fueled by cocktails and weed, they reminisce at a suburban porch pre-party […]
Burbage Theatre Co premieres Lynn Nottage’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clyde’s, directed by Burbage’s founding artistic director, Jeff Church. A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, […]