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Our theater recommendations for the month of December.
A profile of several local theater companies exploring the boundaries of independence in artmaking.
Dance in December with Twyla Tharp, Crystal Pite, Christopher Wheeldon and more.
Tshabalala originally created the piece in his native South Africa, ostensibly in response to apartheid and its aftermath, but the pounding heart of "INDUMBA" is universally powerful to witn…
This dysfunctional family drama is heavy on the dysfunction and light on just about everything else.
A nineteenth century comedy of errors that strives for relevance but ends up as something much more satisfying: entertainment.
Tracy Letts' latest play raises a mirror to our current political situation. Unfortunately, it is pointing in the wrong direction.
Candace Chong's 2012 play about the former British colony of Hong Kong receives an urgent, if occasionally heavy-handed, American premiere.
Lauren Gunderson's lighthearted Shakespeare-centered drama answers the question "What is theater without conflict?"
A quickly paced and altogether wonderfully silly interpretation of Oscar Wilde's classic farce.
Based in Los Angeles and making its local debut at Victory Gardens, Tanya Saracho's behind-the-curtain entertainment industry drama doesn't travel well.
The inaugural production from Firebrand Theatre resonates boldly.
The local premiere of this movie musical cult classic turned Tony Award winner will have you leaping from your seat.
Like its protagonists, this world premiere coming-of-age drama needs to focus more on personal growth.
Rohina Malik's living room romance is revived at the Goodman.
A bittersweet new play from Joshua Harmon ("Bad Jews") about being single and staying strong.
Court Theatre's production of this 1976 play about the poet Emily Dickinson falls short of a complete portrait of the complex Massachusetts native.
This production of José Rivera's Obie Award-winning magical realist play falls short on the magic.
Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer prize-winning opera has aged into a fixated and tonally limited dystopia.
This latest piece from Hanson plays with perception by moving the audience through three rooms.
Like the repartee, the dancing is brisk and dazzles with its seeming ease, patterns and formations suddenly emerging from the action and just as rapidly dissolving.
This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play is reimagined with a cast made up exclusively of women over the age of fifty-five.
This darkly imaginative world premiere is part Dr. Seuss and part "Peyton place" with a bit of "Goodfellas" thrown in for good measure.
