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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 978-232-7200
North Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Road, Beverly, 978-232-7200. Performances through Aug 31: Tue & Thu at 7:30 p.m., Wed at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets: $30–79. This Tony Award-winning musical comedy follows six young people in the throes of puberty who learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. This tuneful, offbeat and heartwarming show by Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn offers audience members the opportunity to become part of the action as on-stage spellers.
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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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FOLLIES
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-437-7172
Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-437-7172. Performances: Sep 5 at 8 p.m., Sep 6 at 4 p.m., Sep 7 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $25–50. 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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HAY FEVER
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-782-5425
Publick Theatre, Christian Herter Park, Soldiers Field Road, 617-782-5425. Performances: Aug 27, 28 & 31 at 7:30 p.m., Aug 29 & 30 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $27–32. Spend a weekend in the country with the artistically unconventional Bliss family, as they play “hosts” to a quartet of bewildered guests in Noel Coward’s incomparable domestic comedy exposing the surreal lives of the creative class.
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HOW SHAKESPEARE WON THE WEST
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-266-0800
Huntington Theatre Company, Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-266-0800. Performances: Sep 5 & 6 at 8 p.m., Sep 7 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $20–82.50. Based on a true story, Richard Nelson’s funny and heartbreaking play offers a look at a troupe of 19th-century actors who cross the U.S. to perform Shakespeare for entertainment-starved panhandlers caught up in the Gold Rush.
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THE SEAGULL
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-782-5425
Publick Theatre, Christian Herter Park, Soldiers Field Road, 617-782-5425. Performances: Sep 3, 4 & 7 at 7:30 p.m., Sep 5 & 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $27–32. In this premiere of an original translation by Diego Arciniegas, Anton Chekhov’s classic emerges as a timely, complex and dark comedy. On a fading country estate in rural Russia, a mix of celebrated artists, their families and servants weigh their lives. Some hope to defy the obstacles between reality and their dreams, while the others seek comfort by consigning themselves to the inevitable.
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SHEAR MADNESS
Category: Theatre
Telephone : 617-426-5225
Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., 617-426-5225. Performances: Tue–Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 6 and 9 p.m., and Sun at 3 and 7 p.m. Tickets: $44. Boston’s hilarious whodunnit where the audience takes a stab at catching the killer. Become an armchair sleuth in the longest-running play in U.S. history.
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