Shirey wanted songs in A.R.T.’s ‘Ocean Filibuster’ able to speak to the hearts of us apex predators
For the musical theater production “Ocean Filibuster,” composer Sxip Shirey crafts emotional equations that stem from grief over the environment and seek to correct the “total failure of a species.”
‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ captures a moment with characters and conflict over climate change
Even if you are not an Idina Menzel fan and are oblivious to the climate crisis, run, don’t walk, to your keyboard and order tickets to this musical happening.
Final shows are announced for Oberon theater, including a free ‘House Is Open’ retrospective
The final shows at Oberon have been announced before the “club theater” lets go of its lease at 2 Arrow St., Harvard Square, part of Harvard University’s moving of its American Repertory Theater to Allston.
‘The Half-Life of Marie Curie’ lays out its thesis and never challenges the conclusions
The setup of this historically accurate play has great potential for a discussion of what it means to be a woman in (what is largely perceived as) a man’s field and what it means for a woman to step into any number of possible roles in her life. But it doesn’t allow for much of anything approaching subtlety.
Oberon is on the market for leasing as a theater
The Oberon theater space in Harvard Square hit the market Thursday, with the Graffito SP firm saying it is “seeking a one-of-a-kind arts and cultural use to take over this iconic space, and to continue the successful legacy of the performing arts in Harvard Square.”
Moonbox’s Harvard Square ‘Rocky Horror’ show is a relit ‘Light in the Darkness’ through October
“Rocky Horror” combines 1950s science fiction, pre-slasher “B” horror movies and a tale of sexual awakenings set to a rock ’n’ roll score, delivering musical theater lovers their first full-scale musical in Greater Boston since the pandemic began. It’s a much-needed blast of full-throttle exuberance.
‘Rocky Horror Show’ returns for Halloween, again filling an empty Harvard Square store
The production of “The Rocky Horror Show” that came to Harvard Square in 2019 is back beginning Oct. 16 and naturally ending with a show Oct. 31, the night of Halloween.
Bread & Puppet returns, bringing 1970s with it, for ‘Our Domestic Resurrection Circus’ show
It will feel almost pre-pandemic Saturday as Harvard Square’s Club Passim holds its campfire. music festival and Vermont’s Bread & Puppet Theater makes its annual pilgrimage for a Cambridge performance – though that can make it feel so pre-pandemic that it may seem like the early 1970s again.
Theaters to demand masks, proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for indoor performances
The American Repertory Theater and Central Square Theater have joined a dozen other stages in Greater Boston to announce requirements for their indoor performances: masks and proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test.
Visit Central Square Theater virtually Thursday with Marathon’s free, 10-minute ‘Good Mother’
The Boston Theater Marathon XXIII: Special Zoom Edition – free, 10-minute plays by New England playwrights and theaters – brings The Underground Railway at Central Square Theater’s contribution Thursday.
