Fri 8/1/2003 to
Fri 1/1/2012 | Theater | | SHEAR MADNESS
SHEAR MADNESS | The dramatis personae of the audience-participation whodunit (which is now the longest-running non-musical in American theater history, having run 26 years in Boston) continue to comb Newbury Street for the murderer of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is set. | Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St, Boston | 617.426.5225 | Indefinitely | Curtain 8 pm Tues-Fri | 6 + 9 pm Sat | 3 pm + 7 pm Sun | $40
| CHARLES PLAYHOUSE
Boston, MA |
Thu 1/1/2004 to
Thu 8/31/2010 | Theater | | LAW AND MURDER
LAW AND MURDER| Mystery Café presents an audience-interactive “spoof on the whole Law and Order/CSI phenomenon.” With dinner. | Elephant and Castle, 161 Devonshire St, Boston | 781.784.7469 x 202 | Indefinitely | Curtain 7:30 pm Sat | $48, includes dinner | ELEPHANT & CASTLE
Boston, MA |
Sun 8/1/2004 to
Sun 8/1/2010 | Theater | | MOBFATHER
MOBFATHER | Mystery Café’s interactive spoof of Scarface and the Godfather movies. | Ricardo’s Restaurant, 175 North St, Boston | 781.784.7469 x 202 | alternate Fridays, indefinitely | Curtain 7:30 pm | $48, includes dinner | MYSTERY CAFE DINNER THEATER
Boston, MA |
Sat 9/23/2006 to
Sat 12/30/2008 | Theater |  | RESPECT, A MUSICAL JOURNEY
Former Vanderbilt University professor Dorothy Marcic is the power behind this Cliffs Notes of musical feminism, a revue bringing together some four dozen female-associated pop oldies, from “I Will Survive” and “I Am Woman” to “Piece of My Heart” and “These Boots Are Made for Walking” — all of them well sung by Aimee Collier, Kareema M. Castro, and Tiana Cheechia. Unfortunately, Marcic is not content to make the point that women have sung a lot of great songs (the sappy 1982 Charlene hit “I’ve Never Been to Me” notwithstanding). She hooks a perfectly good evening of cabaret to an on-stage narration (by Kathy St. George) that combines the author’s personal history with the social history of American women since 1900, with the civil-rights movement thrown in for good measure. | Stuart Street Playhouse, Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston | 800.447.7400 | Indefinitely | Curtain 8 pm Wed-Fri + 2 pm Wed [second + fourth week of the month] | 2 + 8 pm Sat | 2 pm + 6 pm [first + third week of the month] Sun | $45; $40.50 seniors with ID; $22.50 students with ID 30 minutes prior to curtain | STUART STREET PLAYHOUSE
Boston, MA |
Thu 10/26/2006 to
Thu 1/1/2100 | Theater | | THE LOVE SUICIDES AT SONEZAKI
Yale Cabaret presents this adaptation for a modern audience of Japanese writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s kabuki drama, in which lovers choose to die together rather than live apart. Dustin Eshenroder directs the show, which utilizes movement, masks, and puppets. | Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St, New Haven, Connecticut | October 26-28 | Curtain 8:30 pm Thurs | 8:30 + 11 pm Fri-Sat | $15; $10 students; food and drink priced separately | YALE CABARET
New Haven, CT |
Thu 6/7/2007 to
Thu 6/13/2010 | Theater | | JOEY AND MARIA’S COMEDY WEDDING
JOEY AND MARIA’S COMEDY WEDDING | “One wedding that’s had an unbelievable reception,” the Italianate, audience-interactive nuptials are back. | Tremont Playhouse in the Tremont Hotel, 275 Tremont St, Boston | Indefinitely | 800.944.JOEY | Curtain 7:30 pm Sat | $55 includes dinner catered by Italian Express | TREMONT PLAYHOUSE IN THE TREMONT HOTEL
Boston, MA |
Thu 6/7/2007 to
Thu 12/12/2010 | Theater | | RFK
Written and performed by Jack Holmes, this stage portrait of Robert F. Kennedy received 2006 Off Broadway Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. It tells the story of Kennedy’s last four years, from 1964, when the young attorney general was still reeling from the assassination of his brother, to the tragic night of the 1968 California primary. Seth Greenleaf directs. | Stuart Street Playhouse, 200 Stuart St, Boston | 800.447.7400 | Opens June 7 | Curtain 8 pm Wed-Fri [7:30 pm June 7] | 2 + 8 pm Sat | 2 pm Sun | $39.50 | STUART STREET PLAYHOUSE
Boston, MA |
Fri 6/8/2007 to
Fri 12/12/2010 | Theater | | AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MISS JUDY GARLAND
AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MISS JUDY GARLAND
Area favorite Kathy St. George channels the Wizard of Oz star in this new theater piece adapted from Garland’s hard-to-get-hold-of recorded memoir, Judy Speaks, and directed by Tony McLean. The first part of the 90-minute show is set in 1964 in a London hotel suite, where a forlorn and angry Garland sets out to tape her reminiscences for an autobiography that never materialized; that’s followed by an ebullient mini-concert in which St. George pours herself body, voice, and vibrato into Garland’s signature songs, from a clanged-out “Trolley Song” to an aching “The Man That Got Away” and “Over the Rainbow,” all accompanied by pianist Tim Evans with deference and sweep. (The arrangements are by Catherine Stornetta.) The point is that the love of Garland’s life was her audience, and St. George serves up every trademark gesture, tic, and stance as she sings Judy’s heart out. | Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St, Boston | 617.585.5678 | Indefinitely | Curtain 8 pm Wed-Sat | 3 pm Sun | $45-$50 | LYRIC STAGE COMPANY OF BOSTON
Boston, MA |
Tue 8/7/2007 to
Tue 8/7/2010 | Theater | | BLUE MAN GROUP
BLUE MAN GROUP | The Drama Desk Award–winning trio of cobalt-painted bald pates begin their delightful and deafening evening of anti–performance art beating drums that are also deep buckets of paint, so that sprays of color jump from the instruments like breaking surf, and end by engulfing the spectators in tangles of toilet paper. | Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St, Boston | 617.931.ARTS | Indefinitely | Curtain 8 pm Wed-Thurs | 7 pm Fri | 2 + 5 + 8 pm Sat | 2 + 5 pm Sun | $48-$58; $21.75 obstructed-view seating, available at the box office day of performance | CHARLES PLAYHOUSE
Boston, MA |
Wed 8/27/2008 to
Wed 9/21/2008 | Theater | | SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO
| WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATRE
Wellfleet, MA |
Fri 9/12/2008 to
Fri 10/11/2008 | Theater | | Let Me Down Easy
| LOEB DRAMA CENTER
Cambridge, MA |
Sun 9/14/2008 to
Sun 10/5/2008 | Theater | | Down Under
| ARSENAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Watertown, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Community Events | | "FUTURE OF CULTURE IN THE AGE OF COMMERCE: CHINA AND INDIA"
| With Vishakha N. Desai | 7:30 pm | Boston University, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston | Free | www.bu.edu/cas/honors | "FUTURE OF CULTURE IN THE AGE OF COMMERCE: CHINA AND INDIA" |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Community Events | | "SINGLES IN REAL ESTATE NETWORKING SOCIAL"
| Door prizes and complimentary hors d'oeuvres | 5:30-9:30 pm | J.A. Stats Pub, 99 Broad St, Boston | $15-$20 | 781.740.2545 | "SINGLES IN REAL ESTATE NETWORKING SOCIAL" |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | 10 pm | DJ Night with Jumpoff, Flax & Panda | PLOUGH & STARS
Cambridge, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | 10 pm | Low Profile | SALLY O’BRIEN’S
Somerville, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | 10:30 pm | Halle Jane | MATT MURPHY’S PUB
Brookline, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | 3516 Fire Benefit Recovery Show with Murder, Designer Drugs, Faulty Conscience, Zombie Reagan | MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS
Cambridge, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | 7 pm | Jason Creigler, 9 pm | Hayride! | ATWOOD'S TAVERN
Cambridge, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Comedy | | 7 pm | Myq Kaplan | SALLY O’BRIEN’S
Somerville, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | 9:30 + 10:15 pm | Squabble | CHURCH
Boston, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | Beat Research Gnawledge | ENORMOUS ROOM
Cambridge, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | Dirty Sexy Mondays Kris Knievil, DJ Susan Esthera | MACHINE
Boston, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | Free Bowling Night with DJ Mark Pearson [Neptune] | MILKY WAY
Jamaica Plain, MA |
| Mon 9/15/2008 | Music | | Live Music Mondays Iyeoka & the Blue Funk Tribe | SAVANT PROJECT
Roxbury Crossing, MA |
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