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There is nothin' like a dame and two of the best belters on Broadway are mixing it up with the Boston Pops Orchestra for two performances only under the baton of The New York Pops Music Director Steven Reineke. Stephanie J. Block and Julia Murney, affectionately tagged as 'Broadway Divas,' take turns thrilling the audience with their interpretations of some of the greats from the American Songbook, including a trio of songs from 'Wicked.'

Innovative ensemble supplies a breath of fresh air and innocence with the world premiere of 'The Mountain Song,' an original folk tale that blends live music, puppetry, shadow play, and clever lighting effects for a family-friendly theatrical entertainment.

Ilyse Robbins adds Director to her resumé with impressive staging of classic Broadway musical. Her choreography is well-served by a talented troupe of tapping chorus boys and girls. Local favorite Kathy St. George gives leading lady Dorothy Brock a makeover.

Marx Brothers 1928 Broadway musical can still make 'em laugh, but is at its best when Minnie's boys are upstaging everyone else.

A sure sign of spring in Boston is the opening of the 126th season of the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall

SpeakEasy Stage Company concludes its 20th anniversary season with regional premiere of 2006 Tony Award-winning musical within a comedy. Thanks to a who's who of local talent, it is one hour and forty minutes of entertainment that will make you anything but drowsy.

Actors' Shakespeare Project inaugurates The Modern Theatre with William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra, a treatise for the ages on love, passion, greatness, and political folly.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre wraps up 32nd season with regional premiere which imagines a confrontation between the famous painter and a Nazi functionary bent on destroying his work.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzanne Lori-Parks asks you to examine your own 'Book of Grace' and look for the evidence of good things in your life. This Company One production is one of them.

Jon Lipsky's final play staged with honest, compelling performances by Boston Playwrights' Theatre and Boston Center for American Performance

New play by Stephen Karam worthy of hoopla in Huntington Theatre Company world premiere production at Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Peter DuBois

Award-winning play by Bill Cain, the founder of the Boston Shakespeare Company, featured tour de force performance by Jimi Stanton with strong support from Will McGarrahan and Amanda Collins, under the direction of Eric Engel.

You've seen her Tony Award-winning performances on the Broadway stage; you've watched her on the small screen; you've read her best-selling autobiography, 'Patti LuPone: A Memoir;' big thanks to the Celebrity Series of Boston for bringing her to Symphony Hall

Lyric Stage Company's Boston premiere of first play by up-and-comer Nathan Louis Jackson purports to be about the science of being financially broke, but exposes the fault lines within a loving African-American family and turns out to be about all of us.

The overall experience of seeing 'Hair' is exhilarating, as if some pent-up emotion lying dormant for decades is finally being let out into the air, but this revival feels inauthentic, a little like the Disney ride version of the decade and cultural upheaval that changed our society in so many important ways.

Award-winning Director Maria Aitken returns to the Huntington Theatre Company with Willy Russell's award-winning comedy about a working-class hairdresser seeking a university education and her frustrated poet/professor charged with helping her change her life. Both are transformed in unexpected ways in this play that mixes humor, pathos, and heart.

SpeakEasy Stage Company completes LaBute's "Beauty Trilogy" with New England premiere of 'reasons to be pretty.' Director Paul Melone is a master of these character-driven dramas, leaving no stone unturned to portray the unattractive obsessions of four young beauty-seekers.

Zeitgeist Stage Company presents New England premiere of playwright Alan Ayckbourn's 70th play. Lead by 10-year old Hyacinth Tauriac (alternating with Alanna Logan) in a star turn, talented ensemble portrays adults behaving badly, as seen through the eyes of a child who puts it all down in her homework essay called 'My Wonderful Day.'

Theresa Rebeck's contemporary adaptation of Ibsen classic is rich with timely themes, and features solid direction, smart design elements, and compelling performances