Dance
Created by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance
Dorrance Dance
Global Arts Live
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
April 25-26, 2025
A brilliantly conceived and executed performance with exhilarating percussion and exhilarating choreography combining tap and modern dance.
The Center Will Not Hold:
Crowns
Musical (2002)
by Regina Taylor
Adapted from the book Crowns: Black Women in Church Hats (2000) by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
Directed by Regine Vital
Associate Directed by Davron Monroe
Music Directed by David Coleman
Moonbox Productions
Arrow Street Theater
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
April 11 – May 4, 2025
A rousing musical theater piece taking off from the historic practice of African-American women wearing very elaborate hats, mostly to church.
Carousel
Musical (1945)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Boston Lyric Opera
April 4-13, 2025
The classic musical about a well-meaning but flawed man who makes some tragic mistakes and who comes back from the dead to make amends.
It’s a Motherfu**king Pleasure
Play, Performance (2023)
Written and performed by FlawBored, an award-winning, disability led, theater company
Directed by Josh Roche
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center
Washington Street, Boston
April 2-13, 2025
A humorous and self-referential takeoff on the issue of identity as related to disability – and how it can be mismanaged.
Night Side Songs
Play, Musical (2025)
by Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour
Directed by Taibi Magar
American Repertory Theater
in association with Philadelphia Theatre Company
Masonic Temple, Porter Square area, Cambridge (March 27 – April 6)
Hibernian Hall, Roxbury (April 9-20)
March 27 – April 20, 2025
A beautifully constructed and performed musical narrative about a woman afflicted with cancer.