Theatre
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Fall Festival of Shakespeare
Student Productions
By: - Nov 04th, 2026Annual event brings together nearly 500 high school students to mount full productions of Shakespeare plays
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The Marriage of Figaro
To Many, The Greatest Comic Opera Ever
By: - Nov 02nd, 2026Figaro, valet to the Count, and Susanna, maid to the Countess, are to be married, but the Count invokes the droit du seigneur, his right to have a carnal episode with the maid before the nuptials. Ploys to avoid the event lead to a number of humorous complications.
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Sarasota Opera's Hansel and Gretel
Season Opener is Family Friendly
By: - Nov 02nd, 2026Enchanting and whimsical, the Sarasota Opera’s Hansel and Gretel is a delightful experience, reminding us that even in our most hopeless of times, youthful innocence and optimism can light the way forward.
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World Premiere of Jenny Stafford’s Ahoy-Hoy
Who Invented the Telephone
By: - Nov 02nd, 2026The play is ostensibly about the invention of the telephone in 1876, which has long been credited to Alexander Graham Bell. Stafford’s script reminds us of the contributions of another inventor, Elisha Gray, a co-founder of Western Electric, who challenged Bell’s credit in court, claiming Bell stole his idea of the liquid transmitter required to make the phone work. Bell filed his patent application just three hours before Gray.
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Sonya Youncheva Returns to the Met
McVikar's Production is Grand Opera
By: - Nov 01st, 2026The Metropolitan Opera mounted the season premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. In the title role, Sonya Yoncheva returned in fine form. Her dark, rich tones suggested both the sorceress’s pain at betrayal and her dastardly plans for vengeance. Her notes are threaded with a silvery filament like the knives and swords she wields. One voice becomes two.
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Betrayal
Marin Theatre's Incisive Take on Pinter
By: - Oct 29th, 2026Two men and a woman that we meet have successful professional and family lives, but hidden from view is a long-standing affair that could strain marriages and friendships. In Harold Pinter's masterpiece, the action moves backward so that we know the outcome but still want to know how it got there.
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Young Frankenstein
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Fla.
By: - Oct 29th, 2026The Wick Theatre in South Florida has mounted a playful and spooky production of the stage musical, "Young Frankenstein." The musical's basis is the classic 1974 comic film of the same title by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.
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Julia Bulloock at Jordan Hall
Boston Modern Opera Project Brings Us an Intoxicating Mix
By: - Oct 28th, 2026Julia Bullock is one of the foremost sopranos of our time. She will perform at Jordan Hall with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on November 6th.
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Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberly
Westport Country PLayhouse
By: - Oct 28th, 2026Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberly by Ken Ludwig presents us with an Elizabeth Bennett Darcy who is unlike any other Elizabeth I’ve ever seen. As a fan of the novel and Austen, this rendition of her was both irritating and disconcerting. The Elizabeth who I saw on the stage was more life her flighty sister, Lydia than the thinking and intelligent woman Austen wrote about. In fact, Lydia was more like Austen’s Elizabeth.
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Dracula at Hartford Stage
Hit or Miss
By: - Oct 27th, 2026At the performance I saw, the audience’s response was decidedly mixed, as I was. I could appreciate the stage craft but felt the play was misguided.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival
Plans for 2027
By: - Oct 26th, 2026Throughout this year, the Board of Trustees has remained focused on moving Williamstown Theatre Festival forward, working closely with staff to plan for the Festival’s future, including the intention to return to programming in Williamstown in 2027.
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The Lion in Winter - the Play
A Gripping Real-Life Battle Royal
By: - Oct 25th, 2026Henry may be king, but he still has to deal with his wife, Queen Eleanor's power, despite her being his prisoner for 10 years. Their battle concerns not just her freedom but succession, she being for Richard, and he for John.
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Manon
Jules Massenet as His Lyrical Best
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026Committed to a convent as an adolescent, Manon escapes to a relationship that will be compromised by the interference of her lover's father. The complex femme fatale undergoes a roller coaster of changing fortune performed to beautiful Romantic music.
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Tony Winner Dear Even Hansen
Manatee Performing Arts Center
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026The characters in the Tony Award-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” are all troubled in some way, struggling to fit in, trying to make connections or understand problems with loved ones they somehow missed.
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Women + on the Edge of Democracy
Shakespeare & Company
By: - Oct 22nd, 2026Shakespeare & Company will present nine readings of 10-minute plays, selected from Women+ On The Edge Of Democracy anthology of 34 woman-identifying playwrights. The titles were chosen by a committee of Company Artists, and will be presented in two acts with talkbacks at the end of each act.
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Streetcar Named Desire
At Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Next up in its 50th Season, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents André Previn’s acclaimed opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, STREETCAR plays three performances November 5-8.
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Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Once “Sophisticated Ladies” takes off, it rarely slows down. In the first act, it’s about 30 minutes before the tempo softens briefly for a tender version of “Solitude.” But it doesn’t stay that way for long.
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Carrie the Musical
At Manatee Players
By: - Oct 20th, 2026You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”
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MCLA Theatre Announces 2026-2027 Season
Celebrating Collaboration, Creativity, and the Art of Storytelling
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre announces its 2026-2027 performance season, featuring six events that celebrate the possibilities of live theater through professional collaboration, inventive storytelling, student experimentation, and original performance.
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Mark H. Dold in Vanya at Barrington Stage Company
A Career Defining Performance
By: - Oct 19th, 2026Everything about the Simon Stephens deconstruction of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya into the one act solo by Mark H. Dold, Vanya, at Barrington Stage company is truly remarkable.
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Every Saturday Night: A Harlem of the West Musical
World Premiere About Urban Renewal in San Francisco
By: - Oct 17th, 2026The Fillmore was the Bay Area's center of African-American life and jazz in the 1950s. An ill-advised urban renewal project displaced over 10,000 residents and forever destroyed the area's character. A new musical looks at the environs then and now through the context of a fictional family
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Ben Bliss at the Park Avenue Armory
Mix and Match Songs Accompanied by Christopher Allen
By: - Oct 15th, 2026In the opera house, he is known as Benjamin Bliss and is highly regarded. At the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room, he goes simply by Ben, singing a wide range of songs in his beautiful voice and speaking to us through the sound of music.
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
Early Mozart Singspiel that Foretold Later Operatic Masterpieces
By: - Oct 14th, 2026A light-hearted culture clash between Europeans and Turks begins with captivity but ends in magnanimity.
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Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
Summer 2027 Co Production Barrington Stage and Tectonic Theatre Project
By: - Oct 14th, 2026“Sunday in the Park with George is one of the great achievements of the American musical theater—an exploration of the passion and courage it takes to create something beautiful and lasting,” said BSC’s Artistic Director Alan Paul. “It reminds us why art matters, and why we devote our lives to making it.”
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David Auburn's Summer of 1976
At Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge
By: - Oct 12th, 2026One of the most enjoyable plays of the season, Summer of 1976, by David Auburn is on view at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge The one act two -hander entails young mothers in a college town. Alice (Kate Baldwin) is a faculty wife whose husband, Doug, faces tenure review in the fall. Diana (Jennifer van Dyck) is a single mother and artist who teaches part time. Their five-year-old daughters, Holly and Gretchen, have become fast friends.
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