A nonprofit research and advocacy organization is brewing conversations about labor organizing in an interactive performance at an atypical venue.

Verdi’s “Falstaff” is based on Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” If you can’t imagine laughing (on purpose) during an opera, this is the one to try.

It’s rare that a musical has both a smart book and a smart score, and “Real Women Have Curves” has both, as well as a committed and talented Latina cast.

Work will begin next year on an Allston home for the A.R.T., now based in Harvard Square, for an opening in 2026. The scheduling was announced after unanimous approval of the plans by the Boston Planning and Development Agency.

The organization wants to pack its renovated 4,500-square-foot black box theater and new 1,100-square-foot street-front studio with a community celebration.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is back in Somerville on Halloween as a screen-and-stage experience and in Cambridge through November as musical theater – and in some ways the show has been here since 1984.

Homer’s epic includes a cyclops, alluring but deadly sirens and a sea monster, but Kate Hamill’s adaptation roots out themes of war, trauma and forgiveness.

The Arrow Street Arts theater replacing Oberon in Harvard Square gets its first production from the resident Moonbox in October, before construction is done.

“Evita” is the most striking evening of theater to hit Boston stages in a while, making it almost possible to overlook the major drawback of the evening – the play itself.

Elegant direction of a flawless cast makes a three-hour show feel more like one and a half, even with weighty themes such as AIDS and apocalypse in the 1980s.