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August 30, 2022
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History
LGBTQ

Exploring the Hawthorne/Melville Connection with REWRITTEN

by joeyphoenix
Salem State’s Center for Creative and Performing Arts will open its 2022 fall season with ReWritten, Friday, September 16 at 7:30 pm in the Sophia Gordon Center at 356 Lafayette Street. Get Tickets Here ReWritten is an immersive multi-disciplinary performance that explores the intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives, work, and remaining letters,
August 30, 2022
June 27, 2022
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Theatre
TRENDING

MLT Pleads “Let Us Entertain You” with New Production

by John Andrews
Marblehead Little Theatre’s Production of GYPSY: A MUSICAL FABLE Runs from June 24th-July 3rd, 2022. This is the first musical MLT Live has been able to produce in 3 years. Get Tickets By Easton Mills GYPSY*: A MUSICAL FABLE is often touted as Sondheim’s best musical and theatre lovers across the world continue to sing its praises. I’ve always wanted
June 27, 2022
June 7, 2022
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Lynn
Theatre

It’s the little things you do together in Arts After Hours’ SIDE BY SIDE

by John Andrews
By Easton Mills I don’t know how long it will be before live theatre stops feeling exciting again. After the too-long and intermittently ongoing COVID hiatus, it is a blessing that we are once again able to sit in rapt attention and see the pores of a performer’s face as they send emotion into the room on a wave of
June 7, 2022
May 27, 2022
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Lynn
Theatre

Sondheim Musical takes the Arts After Hours stage for three week production

by Felicia Cheney
Lynn’s Community Theatre Arts After Hours returns this spring with Side by Side by Sondheim, running Fridays and Saturdays June 3-18, 2022. Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue featuring the songs of late Broadway and film composer Stephen Sondheim, who passed away last year at age 91 after a lifetime of unparalleled contribution to the musical theatre
May 27, 2022
April 8, 2022
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Salem
Theatre

Salem State Theatre Brings Tony Award Winning Musical “Into The Woods” to Life

by Felicia Cheney
Free Admission for Salem Residents at Salem Night on April 15 Salem State boasts an enchanting production of Into The Woods at the Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, directed by Bill Cunningham with musical direction by Karen Gahagan and choreography by Alex Jacobs. Join us on this theatrical quest April 14 – 16 and April 21 –
April 8, 2022
April 6, 2022
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Salem
Theatre

Queer and Complicated is Goodreau’s THE THING THEY LOVE

by John Andrews
By Easton Mills Parker Goodreau’s THE THING THEY LOVE is available for streaming until April 30th, 2022. Get tickets Here. Set in prohibition-era New York City, the world premiere of the THE THING THEY LOVE from Salem State University features a big, queer family with familiar yet complicated problems. They must navigate the difference between the world they love, and
April 6, 2022
March 22, 2022
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Marblehead
Theatre

The Pirates of Penzance opens next week and runs for a limited time!

by Felicia Cheney
Marblehead Little Theatre is excited to announce the production of The Pirates of Penzance, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Produced and directed by Robert Kerrigan, with associate direction by Kelly Murphy and music direction by Thomas Smoker, The Pirates of Penzance will be performed in concert at Abbot Hall in Marblehead, MA. This comedic opera follows the
March 22, 2022
March 22, 2022
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Marblehead
Theatre

The Pirates of Penzance opens next week and runs for a limited time!

by Felicia Cheney
Marblehead Little Theatre is excited to announce the production of The Pirates of Penzance, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Produced and directed by Robert Kerrigan, with associate direction by Kelly Murphy and music direction by Thomas Smoker, The Pirates of Penzance will be performed in concert at Abbot Hall in Marblehead, MA. This comedic opera follows the
March 22, 2022
March 22, 2022
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Kids
Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre At Boston University Proudly Announces The Wizard Of Oz!

by Felicia Cheney
After suspending productions in front of an audience for more than two years (775 days) due to the pandemic, Wheelock Family Theatre will return to the stage with a beloved production for all ages, The Wizard of Oz because, after all, “there’s no place like home.” “In a way it feels like a homecoming,” says actor David Jiles Jr., who
March 22, 2022
March 11, 2022
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Marblehead
Theatre

Nothing Truly Lost in TRANSLATIONS

by John Andrews
By Easton Mills Live theatre has returned to Marblehead Little Theatre’s cozy Firehouse Black Box with Brian Friel’s Translations, directed by Trudi Olivetti and produced by Steve Black and Erin Pelikov.  Set in the fictional town of Baile Beag – no it’s not pronounced how it’s spelled – in the rolling greens of Donegal, a rural village in 19th century
March 11, 2022