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The Sound of Music

January 7, 2026 by admin Leave a Comment

Maria and kids hugging

Musical (1959)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Broadway in Boston
Citizens Opera House
Washington Street, Boston
January 8-18, 2026

A totally delightful, first-rate revival of the iconic musical about an Austrian nun-in-training who, amid the threat of Nazism, becomes a governess in a large family and rouses them all to song.

Wonder: The Musical

December 27, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Auggie Jack in Wonder

Musical (2025)
Book by Sarah Ruhl
Music and Lyrics by A Great Big World (Ian Axel & Chad King)
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
December 9, 2025 – February 8, 2026

A charming and moving musical about a young teenage boy, with a face vividly altered by a genetic disorder and by multiple associated surgeries, embarking on a school career.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

December 19, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Will Lyman Cast

Musical, Play
Adaptation by Steve Wargo
Musical Arrangements by Dianne Adams McDowell
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Theater District, Boston
December 6-23, 2025

An energetic musical adaptation of the iconic story about a cheap, nasty and curmudgeonly guy who sees the light.

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash

December 13, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Johnny Cash

Musical (2005)
Created by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Conceived by William Meade
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
November 26 – December 14, 2025

A delightfully and beautifully produced musical tribute to the music of Johnny Cash, with some suggestive, lightly interleaved, biographical elements.

Annie

December 7, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Annie Sandy Benjamin Rose Photography

Musical (1977)
Book by Thomas Meehan
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Martin Charnin
Wheelock Family Theatre
180 Riverway, Boston
November 21 – December 21, 2025

A lively, lovely rendition of the classic about the young, irrepressibly optimistic, orphan who inspires FDR to spark the New Deal.

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