Performance
Octopus Theatricals
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Theater
Washington Street, Boston
October 28 – November 1, 2026
A powerful analysis and excerpted replay of some of Shakespeare’s malevolent stars.
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Play (2023)
by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Mosesian Theater
Watertown, MA
October 9 – November 1, 2026
A wild goof on the traditional Dracula theme, with considerably more sight gags than horror.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Play (2008)
Adapted by Jeffery Hatcher
From the novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by Jenny Lavery
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
October 14 – November 1, 2026
A quite faithful retelling of the Stevenson horror novella about a doctor with a subterranean secret, portrayed adeptly, with outstanding lights and sounds.
Phantom
Musical (1991)
Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston
Book by Arthur Kopit
North Shore Music Theater
Beverly, MA
October 21 – November 1, 2026
An operatic musical – different from the one by Andrew Lloyd Webber – based on the same book -about a young singer and her involvement with a ghost – of sorts – who haunts the Paris Opera.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Play (2018)
by Aaron Sorkin
Huntington Theatre Company
Huntington Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
October 8 – November 8. 2026
A courtroom drama based on the celebrated novel about racial injustice in the South.