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This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning modern musical masterpiece is set in 1980s New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Part II will open in September.

In 1994, Rolling Stone magazine dismissed the underground band Green Day as, “Cheeky monkeys who came to raid the bar and disappear.” Raid they did, but disappear they did not. In 2004, the boys produced the Grammy Award-winning anti-hero concept album, American Idiot, which was turned into a 90-minute punk rock opera on Broadway in […]

Directed by Jeanne Smith: Based on Ben Jonson's Volpone, this sly farce was reset to 19th-Century San Francisco, and chronicles the misadventures of Foxwell Sly and his manservant as four heirs court the wealthy man’s favor with their eyes on inheritance.

Theatre Rats in Fall River, MA, are looking for actors ages 9 - 20 to take a youthful stab at the Scottish Play. Contact ladykcreative@gmail.com for details. 1641 Pleasant St, Fall River, MA. Auditions June 11 & 13

An alien meteor transforms a small town into singing,  dancing monsters, except for a rag-tag group of survivors who must become (non-musical) heros. Auditions June 12 at Swamp Meadow & June 14 at the Greenville Public Library Recital Room, 573 Putnam Pike, Greenville. Sign up at swampmeadow.org/audition

The final installment of the Friday the 13th film, Jason is back, and this time as a demonic ghost. Themed menu.

Tremors. You won’t want to look down for a week.

The ultimate British farce by Michael Frayn, this 1980s-set thespian outing follows the making of a play amidst a confused late-night rehearsal, a backstage backstabbing, and a performance where everything that can go wrong does.

Do you have what it takes to survive to the end of this Agatha Christie classic whodunnit? Cold reading, British accent optional.

Roundabout Productions, 99 Brown St, Attleboro, MA. roundaboutproductions.org/auditions. Attleboroian thespians will have to pick their Christie this season. Cold readings. Directed by Lori Beck. Auditions June 23 & 25, 7 - 9pm.

A traditional farce, this is the story of George, who quit betting on the ponies a year ago after squandering his wife's inheritance, nearly costing him their marriage. To make a fresh start, they open a funeral home and their first customer is the mother of a senator, so the pressure is on.

If life were only as simple as pie… Composed by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles (“Love Song,” “Brave”), this musical adaptation of the film by Adrienne Shelly follows Jenna, a talented pie-maker trapped in a troubled marriage, grappling with an unexpected pregnancy. Dreaming of a fresh start and her own pie shop, Jenna may have […]