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Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre
March 5 - April 2
Directed by Todd Kreidler and featuring Eugene Lee, both longtime collaborators of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson (Fences, The Piano Lesson), this theatrical memoir charts one man's journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a black artist in America.
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SpeakEasy Stage Company
Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
March 13 - April 7
Bootycandy is a shockingly funny and saucy spin on race, sex, and sexuality. Based on playwright Robert O'Hara's own experiences growing up black and gay, the play unfolds in a series of vignettes, confronting racial, sexual, and cultural stereotypes with outrageous humor and real heart.
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Zeitgeist Stage Company
BCA Plaza Black Box
Tonight - March 19
Sparks fly and nerves are frayed at a cake baking competition in a small Vermont town as contestants will do anything to win. Featuring a colorful cast of characters, Cakewalk is a heartwarming story filled with laughter, jealousy, pain, and love.
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Boston Public Works
BCA Plaza Theatre
April 15 - 30
A troubled young man with nowhere to go crashes his widowed stepmother's 40th birthday party. His arrival triggers a flurry of memories - fond, painful, and frightening - and unwittingly exposes his family to the danger that haunts him.
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Apollinaire Theatre Company
Chelsea Theatre Works
The Sonic Life probes the everyday lives of urban adults. Everything seems comfortable - jobs, relationships - but beneath the surface runs a powerful undercurrent of longing. Playwright Toshiki Okada is one of the most groundbreaking playwrights and directors in Japanese theatre today.
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Stoneham Theatre
Tonight - March 13
It's Election Day 2012, and the Apple Family gathers in an act of solidarity to face putting their beloved elderly uncle into a nursing home. Confronted by regrets, they wrestle with making choices concerning the future of their family and our nation in this contemporary American drama. Sorry is the third of Richard Nelson's The Apple Family Plays.
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Lyric Stage Company
March 4 - 27
Fast Company
follows a successful con artist family as they attempt the biggest job of their lives. This fast, funny, and dangerous theatrical crime caper will keep you guessing about who's on top and who's getting conned.
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New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
In this humorous and touching new work, a daughter faces ever-growing challenges as her mother begins her inexorable and relentless descent into dementia. To cope with watching a loved one fade, Vivienne retreats further into a world of anxiety, imagination, and late-night baking.
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Brandeis Department of Theater Arts
Spingold Theater Center
An African American seamstress in 1905 New York creates lingerie for clients ranging from prostitutes to wealthy white patrons. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's poignant play centers on Esther's search for love and success, and the racial and socioeconomic obstacles she faces.
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Boston Playwrights' Theatre
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
Sunny afternoon. Newbury Street. Meeting a friend for coffee. You're wallowing in self-pity. Everything is normal. All at once, everyone you know turns into a rhinoceros. Rhinoceros is a new adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's 20th century absurdist masterpiece, reimagined for the 21st.
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Actors' Shakespeare Project
Cambridge YMCA Theatre
Tonight - March 12
The beautiful poetry of Richard II tugs at the heart, and this biting story reminds us that the passage of centuries can never untangle the rat's nest of political acrimony, especially among cousins. ASP Artistic Director Allyn Burrows directs a 7-person cast led by Doug Lockwood in the title role.
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Central Square Theater
April 1 - 30
Past and present collide in Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-nominated play. In 1809, a brilliant 13-year-old proposes a scientific theory with implications well beyond her own understanding. Simultaneously, present-day academics investigate scandals of the early 19th century. Arcadia is a romantic and funny exploration of the heart, the sciences, and how history is mis-created.
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Moonbox Productions
Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
April 15 - May 1
This gritty, sexy, jazz musical by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe tells the story of vaudeville vixen Queenie and
her eclectic entourage of friends. The booze and flirtations flow freely until the long night of debauchery leads to tragedy and the sobering reminder that no party lasts forever.
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Lexus Broadway In Boston
Boston Opera House
March 29 - April 10
The spirited story of Maria and the von Trapp family will thrill audiences with its award-winning score, featuring "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Edelweiss," and more. This new production marks the 50th anniversary of the most successful movie musical in history.
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The Weston Friendly Society of the Performing Arts
Weston Town Hall
Robert is a single man celebrating his 35th birthday in the company of his best friends, all of whom want to help him settle down and finally commit to something meaningful. When composer Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods) decided to tackle relationships, marriage, and the meaning of love, the results were epic and sweeping.
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American Repertory Theater
OBERON
March 13 - 20
The Hypocrites (Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado) return with the final show in their Gilbert & Sullivan trilogy. With the cast acting as its own orchestra, this zany adaptation of the classic operetta H.M.S. Pinafore features all the well-known songs including "I'm Called Little Buttercup."
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The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts
This production is a brand-new incarnation of the iconic original. Annie includes such unforgettable songs as "It's the Hard Knock Life," "Easy Street," "I Don't Need Anything But You," plus the eternal anthem of optimism, "Tomorrow."
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Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre
April 14 - 17
A high-rolling gambler falls for a puritanical missionary, and a showgirl dreams of the straight-and-narrow while tied to a craps game manager. It's post-war New York, with love and luck blooming in unlikely places. Filled with toe-tapping tunes "Luck be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," many consider Guys and Dolls the perfect musical comedy
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The Boston Conservatory
The Boston Conservatory Theater
April 22 - 24
This winner of three Tony Awards is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill,
Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny.
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Boston University College of Fine Arts
Boston University Theatre
Parade follows the tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, a man wrongly accused of murder. Amid religious intolerance, political injustice, and racial tension, Jason Robert Brown's stirring Tony Award-winning musical explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds.
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