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‘Chicago’ holds up a mirror to its times, and to ours

A mordant, ink-dark sendup of celebrity culture, a corrupt legal system, tabloid journalism, and showbiz, “Chicago,” now at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, remains a warhorse with bite.

Boston Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ brings classic holiday magic
The company's 45 performances have begun, delivering Clara, a Nutcracker-turned-prince, the sugar plum fairy, and friends to the Opera House stage.

Two Broadway legends with staying power: ‘Chicago’ and composer John Kander
Kander, 96, reflects on Broadway's current longest-running musical ahead of a touring production that arrives at the Emerson Colonial Theater Nov. 28.

For these superstar queens, the holidays are anything but a drag

"RuPaul's Drag Race" winners Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme bring "The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show" to the Wang Theatre on Nov. 28.

STAGE REVIEW
A moving portrait of hope and heartbreak in ‘The Band’s Visit’
The undertow of melancholy pervading “The Band’s Visit,” now at the Huntington Theatre, reveals a musical that knows all about human sadness. But it also knows about the quite real possibilities for human connection.

DANCE
The Royal Ballet of London makes exclusive visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2024
This will be the world-renowned company's first appearance at the festival in Becket and its only US stop next year.

STAGE REVIEW
An all-in ensemble elevates Lyric Stage’s madcap ‘The Game’s Afoot’
While Ken Ludwig's farcical whodunit is not his best work, director Fred Sullivan Jr. brings out the best in this talented cast.

STAGES
The two Asian moms who inspired Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Heart Sellers’
The idea for the play, now getting a production at the Huntington, sprouted from conversations playwright Lloyd Suh and director May Adrales shared about their own mothers' immigration experiences.

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In Boston, a comedy boom fills the biggest rooms

The appetite for comedy has been surging in the city over the last few years, with the likes of John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle, and Bill Burr drawing crowds on a scale seldom seen before.

STAGE REVIEW

Fact, fiction, and forging an identity in ArtsEmerson’s ‘The Real James Bond … Was Dominican’

Christopher Rivas centers his play on his discovery when he was growing up that Agent 007 was believed to have been modeled on the persona and exploits of a Dominican playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa.

In ‘The Band’s Visit,’ there’s harmony in human connection

The Tony-winning musical about Jewish villagers bonding with a group of Egyptian musicians stranded in their town opens Friday at the Huntington Theatre.

STAGE REVIEW

‘Elvis: A Musical Revolution’ travels a too-familiar path at North Shore Music Theatre

Despite Dan Berry’s magnetic performance in the title role, this new musical largely contents itself with taking us on a dutiful tour through the King’s life and career.

STAGE REVIEW

A troubling journey into the past in ‘How I Learned to Drive’

Jennifer Rohn and Dennis Trainor Jr. excel in Paula Vogel’s memory play, directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue at Actors’ Shakespeare Project.

Orlando Baxter doesn’t have to come home for Comics Come Home — he’s already here

When he steps on the TD Garden stage alongside the likes of Denis Leary, Bill Burr, and Marc Maron on Saturday night, the Boston comic will be performing for the biggest crowd of his career.

On her ‘Woo Woo’ podcast, Rachel Dratch’s guests give her the creeps

Co-hosted by fellow Lexington native Irene Bremis, “Woo Woo” features conversations with Dratch’s friends from stage and screen about premonitions, weird dreams, malevolent spirits, and other eerie experiences.

STAGE REVIEW

‘Frozen’ has the power to enchant, despite some slush

Within the universe of Disney stage musicals, “Frozen” sits somewhere between the sublime, game-changing inventiveness of “The Lion King” and the formulaic likes of “The Little Mermaid," “Aladdin," and “Beauty and the Beast."