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ACCORDING TO TIP
Category: Theatre
Stuart Street Playhouse, Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart St., 800-447-7400. Performances beginning Oct 9: Tue–Fri at 7:30 p.m., Sat at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m Tickets: $49.50. The acclaimed show returns with Broadway and TV star Ken Howard tracing the colorful and historically memorable career of Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former Speaker of the House. Tip escorts the audience back in time from Barry’s Corner in Cambridge to the White House, giving the inside scoop on politics during the Red Scare, Watergate and Vietnam in this touching played filled with humor, music and beguiling Irish wit.
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BLUE MAN GROUP
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-931-2787
Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., 617-931-2787 or 617-426-6912. Performances: Tue–Thu at 8 p.m., Fri at 7 p.m., Sat at 2, 5 and 8 p.m., Sun at 1 and 4 p.m. Tickets: $48–58. This giddily subversive off-Broadway hit features three muted, blue-painted performers who spoof both contemporary art and modern technology through wry commentary and bemusing antics. The show has been updated to include new performance pieces, new music and alterations to the sound and lighting design.
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BOLEROS FOR THE DISENCHANTED
Category: Theatre
Huntington Theatre Company, Wimberly Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Performances beginning Oct 10: Tue & Thu at 7:30 p.m., Wed at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Fri & Sat at 8 p.m., Sun at 2 p.m. Tickets: $20–50. In Puerto Rico, Flora is nursing a broken heart when she is swept off her feet by the charming Eusebio. Four decades later, they have emigrated to America with the hope of a better life in this beautiful and moving portrait of a marriage from Academy Award-nominated writer Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries, Cloud Tectonics).
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THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT
Category: Theatre
American Repertory Theatre, Zero Arrow Theatre, Zero Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Performances beginning Oct 18: Tue–Thu at 7:30 p.m., Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 2 and 8 p.m., Sun at 2 p.m. Tickets: $39–52. A world premiere set in three different time periods, this wild and offbeat romp through the web of Romanian myth and history uses the stories of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and the original Count Dracula, Vlad Tepes, to satirize the forging of a national identity and the power of a president to rewrite the news.
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THE FEMME SHOW
Category: Theatre
Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, www.thefemmeshow.com. Performances Oct 10 & 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $12. From Barbie dolls to garter belts, from 1950s dyke bars to suburban back yards and late night taco joints, from hula hooping to clowning, this show takes audiences on a wild ride, offering a variety of diverse perspectives on feminine identity with subject matter that is at times thoughtful, sad, sexy, funny and fun in a blend of film, dance, storytelling, burlesque, drag and performance art.
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FOLLIES
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-437-7172
Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-437-7172. Performances through Oct 11: Wed & Thu at 7:30 p.m., Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 3 and 8 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m. Tickets: $25–54. It’s 1971 and a grand New York theatre will be demolished in the morning to make way for a parking lot. Before the wrecking ball hits, a Broadway impresario hosts a reunion for his former Follies performers to celebrate their past glories. When two middle-aged couples reunite, they are forced to consider the roads taken—and not—as they face reality and regret. Considered one of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest musicals, the score is filled with some of his best-known songs, including “Broadway Baby,” “Losing My Mind” and “I’m Still Here.”
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GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!
Category: Theatre
Downstage @ New Rep, Black Box Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, 200 Dexter Ave., Watertown, 866-811-4111. Performances: Wed & Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 4 and 8:30 p.m., Sun at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $30. Bud and Doug have written the next great American musical—or at least they think they have. When the opportunity to audition for financial backers comes up, the two men, excited by the possibility of a Broadway run, earnestly and hilariously perform all the songs and play all the parts in their ridiculous, historical epic based on the invention of the printing press.
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LET ME DOWN EASY
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-547-8300
American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Performances through Oct 11: Wed & Thu at 7:30 p.m., Fri & Sat at 8 p.m., Sun at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15–79. Acclaimed writer and performer Anna Deavere Smith’s latest creation explores the resilience, vulnerability and beauty of the human body. Channeling a dramatic range of interview subjects, from supermodels and athletes to doctors and survivors of the Rwandan genocide, she presents a virtuosic exploration of the resourcefulness of the human spirit.
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THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-933-8600
SpeakEasy Stage Company, Wimberly Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Performances through Oct 18: Wed & Thu at 7:30 p.m., Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 4 and 8 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m. Tickets: $30–54. Based on the classic film, this soaring musical sweeps you away to Italy in the summer of 1953, where the wife of an American businessman is traveling the Tuscan countryside with her daughter. When a handsome Florentine catches her daughter’s eye, the woman tries in vain to keep them apart. Hiding a dark secret that will surely test their love, she must consider not only her daughter’s future, but her own hopes as well.
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MARTHA MITCHELL CALLING
Category: Theatre
The Nora Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Performances beginning Oct 16: Tue–Thu at 7:30 p.m., Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 3 and 8 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m. Tickets: $32; seniors & students $22. The Boston area premiere of Jodi Rothe’s sharp and funny play tells the story of the feisty southern belle Martha Mitchell, who clamors to be heard during the tumultuous days of the Watergate scandal.
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