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Trailer parks, baseball curses, mad scientists, and Darwin
There's plenty more than we can fit in, but here's a sampling of the broad range covered on Boston stages this spring, from new works to Shakespeare and Mel Brooks.

By: MADDY MYERS | March 12, 2010

Play by play: March 12, 2010

Theater listings, week of March 12, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | March 10, 2010

Play by Play: March 5, 2010

Theater listings, March 5, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | March 03, 2010

Missed connections

Private Fears in Public Places at Zeitgeist, Neighborhood 3 at Apollinaire
Private Fears in Public Places — Alan Ayckbourn's London-set tragicomedy from 2004 — is all about how difficult it is to know another person.

By: MADDY MYERS | February 23, 2010

Play by play, February 26, 2010

Theater listings, week of February 26, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 24, 2010

Parallel worlds

Legacy of Light at the Lyric; Not Enough Air from Nora; The Island of Slaves from Orfeo Group
Playwright Karen Zacarias would seem to have taken long drafts of Tom Stoppard Elixir.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 17, 2010

Play by play: February 19, 2010

Theatre listings, week of February 19, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 17, 2010

Present laughter

Trinity throws a Twelfth Night party
Director Brian McEleney returns to Trinity Repertory Company for a raucous Twelfth Night that hums with energy, drollery, and a makeshift score that meshes Shakespearean ditty with such seasonal fripperies as "Auld Lang Syne" and the Mariah Carey hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You."

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 10, 2010

Play by play: February 12, 2010

Theater listings, February 12, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 09, 2010

Play by play: February 5, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 03, 2010

History plays

The Good Negro from Company One; Harriet Jacobs in Central Square; Indulgences at New Rep
Tracey Scott Wilson manages to knock off Martin Luther King Jr.'s halo without removing the glow.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 29, 2010

Play by Play: January 29, 2010

Theater listings, January 29, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | January 27, 2010

American dreams

All My Sons at the Huntington; In the Heights at the Opera House; [title of show] at SpeakEasy
It's hard to imagine being dwarfed by the titanically insignificant Willy Loman.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 19, 2010