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‘Message in a Bottle’ tells a refugee family’s survival story through dance to the music of Sting

Kate Prince choreographed the show, coming to Emerson Colonial next week. "I’m a conduit between music and dance because I do both."

Boston Comedy Festival honoring a local legend (but please don’t call him that)
Tony V will be celebrated at the festival for his 40-plus years in stand-up, but the comedian has no intention of easing up any time soon.

Lewis Black has no complaints about getting off the road
The always-agitated comedian is embarking on his "Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour," with dates this weekend and in September at the Wilbur.

The struggles, spiritual and otherwise, of August Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’

In an outstanding production by Actors’ Shakespeare Project at Hibernian Hall, James Ricardo Milord portrays King as a man on fire, within and without. The effect is riveting.

The Huntington’s 2024-25 season includes ‘Leopoldstadt’ and a pair of plays from ‘The Ufot Cycle’
Family will loom large as a theme of the Huntington’s 2024/2025 season, to judge by the slate of five productions the Boston theater company announced Tuesday. Two more shows will be announced at a later date.

Boston Ballet’s ‘Cinderella’ is a glass slipper that fits
In 2014, artistic director Mikko Nissinen went back to the first Western version, Frederick Ashton’s from 1948. He’s said it’s the one that fits the company’s glass slipper, so no surprise that it was brought back in 2019 and is being presented again this time out.

STAGE REVIEW
‘Girl From the North Country’: Tangled up in Bob
Perhaps it’s fitting that a musical built around the songs of Bob Dylan alternates between entrancing and perplexing.

Ahead of ‘The Cher Show,’ designer Bob Mackie dishes on those costumes the diva dared to wear
Their pairing led to the superstar's most celebrated looks, often intended to shock. "She's a bad girl," Mackie says.

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STAGE REVIEW

In Umbrella Stage’s ‘The Minutes,’ it’s time for the truth

The play gives the inner workings of local government a satiric twist, then takes the proceedings to a very dark place.

Dance Review

Alonzo King LINES Ballet flows together in ‘Deep River’

King has described dance as “a kind of faith”; here faith is a personal rather than a communal affair, strangers in the same boat crossing over Jordan.

STAGE REVIEW

At SpeakEasy, a moving ‘Cost of Living’ reveals its riches

Lewis D. Wheeler is a standout in Martyna Majok’s drama about disability, social class, compassion, loneliness, and what it takes to get through this world.

For ‘Cost of Living’ playwright Martyna Majok, the struggle to survive and connect isn’t fiction

The idea for her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, getting its Boston premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company, came to her after “a year of a lot of vulnerability, bad breaks, grief, and wondering: What is this all for?"

WORKING ARTIST

In Cambridge, Laura Sánchez dances with words

In the Globe's "Working Artist" series, writer Cate McQuaid visits artists and performers in their studios and spaces to find out how they create and what their lives are really like.

At Central Square Theater, a tale of bird brains and human hearts

"Beyond Words" captures the story of scientist Irene Pepperberg, who gained international attention for her pioneering work with a parrot named Alex.

Queer Voices festival will showcase a ‘crazy mix’ of 10-minute plays

The festival runs with repeat performances of the seven plays Friday through Sunday at the Boston Center for the Arts.

The mysterious man behind the musical ‘Girl From the North Country’? Bob Dylan himself.

“This show itself is carrying on from the lightning, from whatever struck him,” says writer and director Conor McPherson of Dylan, whose songs are woven into a story set in a Depression-era boarding house in Duluth, Minn.