How often do we learn of what seemed to be an idyllic family concealing secrets that belie their apparent success and happiness? The musical based on the wildly popular album of the same name powerfully explores family dynamics and teen rebellion.

Revisiting the Eameses’ modular dream at a moment when policy, economics, and architecture are under pressure to deliver.

Roger Ackroyd's presumed murder brings Hercule Poirot out of retirement. Common to many Agatha Christie novels, a large number of characters close to the deceased become suspects, and while each has an alibi, some of them are questionable. A unique plot twist elevates the story in the minds of aficionados.

Lise Davidsen ignited Carnegie Hall in a performance of Schubert Lieder. She often speaks about Schubert having a divine spark, which sets afire the full range of human emotion. His music is perfectly suited to the human voice, and the accompaniment for his art songs often has a life of its own, captured expertly by Ms. Davidsen’s longtime collaborator at the piano, James Baillieu.

As you enter the Eclipse Mill Gallery the impact of Breathing and Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo, packs an immediate visual wallop.

This season’s performing arts series showcases programs in music, dance, literature, poetry, and theater, with highlights including Boston Baroque’s The X-Tet, Reson8 Vocal Octet, Great Barrington Public Theater, the New England Poetry Club, a panel discussion on patriotism with former Governor Deval Patrick, former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin Baron, Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth, and historian Kendra Field

Yo-Yo Ma joins Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and special guests in We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future, a weeklong residency curated by Ma. This series of concerts, conversations, and gatherings (Aug. 1–9) offers a window into Ma’s perspective on the American experiment, inviting us to celebrate community and common purpose, consider our relationship to one another and to the land we share, and imagine a hopeful future.

Through June 14, Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale, presents an engaging professional production of Dave Osmundsen's play, "Light Switch." The nonlinear play chronicles 20 years in the life of Henry Sullivan, a gay autistic Ph.D. student seeking connection in the modern dating world. Acclaimed director Michael Leeds directs a talented quintet of actors.

Sarah's 1936 penny had not aged a day during the intervening quarter-century since she had purchased it. She had not let it. The meaning it held for her was still as clear as it had been on August the twenty-sixth, the day she bought it, brand spanking new, a souvenir of her eleventh wedding anniversary which fell on that day

Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in Death of a Salesman sounds like ideal casting; and Lane is giving a fine performance. But this production under the direction of Joe Mantello Arthur left me unmoved.

Debra Jo Rupp is regarded as a cherished treasure of Berkshire Theatre. She is truly magnificent in the Barrington Stage Company production directed with precise authority by Julianne Boyd. There is a superb supporting cast of Ray Anthony Thomas as her chauffeur Hoke and Matthew W. Koreinko as her businessman son, Boolie Wertham. In the intimate St. Germain Stage we are close enough to observe every twist and turn of richly nuanced performances,

School Principal Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of having intoxicated and abused a student. Despite the absence of meaningful evidence, she pursues her quarry relentlessly.

The scholar had spent three years tracing the lineage of a single, rare manuscript on the Heavenly Horse Water Form. When he finally tracked the old teacher to a drafty shack in the northern hills, he carried the text in a silk-lined case like a holy relic. He wanted to debate the translation of the third stanza. He wanted definitions.

Jade Wheeler may not look a lot like actor and singer Eartha Kitt but she sure makes you believe the distinctive entertainer is on stage at Urbanite Theatre in her one-woman show “Who is Eartha Mae?”

Rosina's guardian, Doctor Bartolo, intends to marry her forthwith, but Count Almaviva also longs to wed her. With the assistance of jack-of-all-trades Figaro, Almaviva uses disguises and subterfuge to undermine Bartolo. Comedy and memorable music prevail throughout.

The budget provides $20 million in programming support, less than half of the $51 million recommended by the Florida Council on Arts and Culture to fully fund grants for 563 non-profit organizations.

Matter-of-factly, Jessie announces to her mother Thelma that she will take her own life at the end of the evening. Thelma tries to erect whatever barriers she can, but Jessie's calm determination is hard to counter. Global issues such as religion, legality, and social matters arise.

As a youngster in the 1970s, he’s now 75, Stephen Hannock boldly experimented with glow in the dark phosphorescent paint. Last night, during a private viewing at Porches, he told me that, back in the day, he had shown the work at night on Boston’s Esplanade, as well as at Williams College Art Museum.

On June 7, American Players Theatre administrators will accept the 2026 Tony Award’s Regional Theater Tony, which comes with an official, gleaming statuette and a $25,000 prize. According to APT’s communications director, the company is “over the moon” about this recognition.

In a rare miscue, the dabbawallah system delivers the wrong lunches to two lonely people. The two begin to pass notes along with the containers that are also returned to the sender. A warm but anonymous relationship arises along with ensuing complications.

Find the perfect spot to picnic amidst the Garden’s beauty while enjoying performances from some of our region’s most talented performers. Bring a blanket, sip something cool and let the sweet sounds of some of the region’s most talented musical performers set the tone for a perfect summer evening.

Having hidden a political prisoner, Cavaradossi is hounded by police chief Scarpia, who lusts after Tosca and agrees to free Cavaradossi if he can have his way with Tosca.

On that day, back in 1962, Joey was given two gifts that stood out from the "stacks" of others he'd received. (He liked to tell his friends that he got "stacks of presents".)

The La Jolla Playhouse presentation of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award?winning play Purpose delivers a searing portrait of a prominent Black family in Chicago. 

After a hiatus of 25 years, the curtain is rising once again on an ambitious and exhilarating new chapter of summer theatre at Mount Holyoke College.