Musicals

Musical (2018)
Book by John Logan
Broadway in Boston
Citizens Opera House
Washington Street, Boston
July 30 – August 2, 2026
Based on the 2001 movie by Baz Luhrmann, a lively, brash and fun jukebox musical set in the bohemian part of Paris in 1899, based on a love story between a composer and a theater star that is complicated by a rich duke who intervenes.

Musical (1973)
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Direction and Choreography by Gerry McIntyre
Music Direction by Robert L. Rucinski
North Shore Music Theatre
Beverly, MA
July 8-19, 2026
A lively and spirited rendition of the musical about the betrayed but forgiving younger son of the biblical patriarch Jacob.

Musical (2026)
Book by Jen Silverman
Music, Lyrics, and Orchestrations
by Dave Malloy
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 26 – July 12, 2026
A musical adaptation of the film melodrama about a psychologically challenged ballet star who strives to embody the double-edged lead role in Swan Lake.

Musical (1985)
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Broadway in Boston
Citizens Opera House, Washington Street, Boston
June 9-28, 2026
A nicely staged rendition of the long-running epic about a noble man, his foster child, and the police inspector who obsessively pursues him amid political upheaval in France in the early nineteenth century.

Musical (2022)
Book by Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Based on the MGM Motion Picture Some Like It Hot (1959)
Broadway in Boston
Citizens Opera House,
Washington Street, Boston
January 28 – February 8, 2026
A lively musical adaptation of the hilarious 1959 film classic about two guys who cross dress to hide out, from thugs, in an all-women band, with some interesting variations on the original.