A 63-year-old tradition is getting the slightest of shakeups next year, as the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players prepare to step outside the 14-operetta canon of their namesakes to try staging … well, something else.

We’re so often told – usually by our teachers back in high school – what a great play Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is. With this production, we get to see for ourselves.

Bridge Rep leader Olivia D’Ambrosio says her theater company isn’t coming back to Cambridge, the results of a dispute with the Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge and her welcoming by a theater company in Worcester.

The A.R.T. is getting a jump on the 2019-20 season with Broadway-bound British import “Six” – an unadulterated blast of fun, despite the extreme misogynistic abuse suffered by our protagonists at the hands of husband Henry the VIII.

Mount Auburn Cemetery and its rich, natural environment is a heaven-made set for playwright Patrick Gabridge’s spectacular first set of five site-specific one-acts, “The Nature Plays.”

Besides a basic framework, “Black Odyssey Boston” shares little with its predecessor. But populated by lovingly crafted characters, guided by loving hands, it is a complete success.

Sara Porkalob is a multi-hyphenate wonder: a Filipinx American activist-feminist and actor-writer-singer-producer-director-storyteller. Let’s add educator to this 29-year-old’s list, as experiencing her remarkable show “Dragon Lady” is akin to taking a master class.

Don’t head to Central Square Theater to see Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” expecting a kind of non-musical version of “My Fair Lady.” The New York-based troupe is presenting its own superb take on George Bernard Shaw’s century-old classic in its original form.

This one-woman show about Eartha Kitt is a timely piece – and makes you realize just how ahead of her time Eartha Kitt was – but is also a wonderful showcase for talented creator Jade Wheeler, a triple threat who sings, dances and acts.

There couldn’t have been a better time to stage “Miss You Like Hell,” a mother-daughter road trip that plays up humanity (and joyful song) against a backdrop of anti-immigrant rhetoric.