![]() $30-$90, Saturday and Sunday, September 23-24, Boch Center Wang Theater, 270 Tremont St., Boston COMEDYĪparna Nacherla, whose voice you may have heard in Bob’s Burgers or Bojack Horseman, opted to do a standup tour to promote her new book, Unreliable Narrator. If you’re only familiar with Disney’s version of the story, it may be interesting to see how those films measure up to a more authentic telling. Straight from China comes this dance drama adapting the story of folk heroine Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the military. $25-$280, through September 24, Emerson Colonial Theater, 106 Boylston St., Boston DANCE $35-$150, through September 24, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge OPERAĪs a corrective to the original work’s Western gaze, Boston Lyric Opera’s spin on Puccini’s popular romantic tragedy moves the action from 19 th century Japan to San Francisco, shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, exploring the persecution of Japanese Americans during World War II. Ave., CambridgeĪmerican Repertory Theater opens its season with this fusion of ancient Greek and Yoruba mythology by poet-playwright Inua Ellams, telling the story of a Nigerian demigod (appropriately named Demi) whose superhuman basketball abilities take him all the way to the NBA and Olympics-but at the cost incurring the wrath of Zeus. $25-89, through October 8, Central Square Theater, 450 Mass. Most of these performances are for the second part, Perestroika, but there will be a few of the first, Millennium Approaches, mostly this week, for those who need to get caught up. ![]() $30-$155, through October 8, The Huntington Theater, 264 Huntington Ave., BostonĪngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National ThemesĪfter a months-long intermission, Central Square Theater picks up where it left off in Tony Kushner’s epic, groundbreaking AIDS drama. It’s directed by Loretta Greco, whose experience with the play predates its original New York run. ![]() The Huntington Theater presents the Boston debut of Joshua Harmon’s funny/serious, generations-spanning tale of a French Jewish family, the Salomans, from World War II to the (near) present. Pay-what-you-want (minimum $10), through September 23, Black Box Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston Soon, however, the group begins to wonder whether fleeing is the better choice. As war rages, local DJ Rachel is holed up at her radio station with several other people, trying to provide the public with updates. This black box sci-fi tale starts after an alien invasion by a force known simply as the Legion. $25-$80, open through October 15, Roberts Studio Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., Boston Alternately titled Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, POTUS follows said women-inner circle White House staff-as they react to a crisis instigated by their boss’ latest sex scandal. SpeakEasy Stage brings this patriarchy-skewering Broadway comedy from playwright Selina Fillinger to Boston. $35, through October 15, Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown Soon enough, we’re whisked back in time to Boston during the civil rights movement. Overlapping with A Raisin in the Sun, this world premiere from New Repertory Theater and playwright Phaedra Michelle Scott centers on Sunny, a contemporary Black Bostonian who’s investigating her family history. $35, through October 1, Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown New Repertory Theater tackles Lorraine Hansberry’s iconic 1959 tale of the trials and tribulations of the Youngers, a Black family on Chicago’s South Side, which broke new ground for realistic portrayals of Black life on the mainstream stage, dramatizing issues like housing discrimination and assimilation pressure that continue to this day. $30-$85, through October 15, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., Boston It’s motley crew, to be sure, ranging from frustrated actor John Wilkes Booth to Charles Manson true believer Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. Lyric Stage has revived this Stephen Sondheim musical exploring the warped ambition of the people who’ve tried to kill the American president, successfully or not. $20-$149, Friday, September 22 through October 29, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., Boston Read more about the Huntington Theatre Company’s fall 2023 season here. Sound familiar? It should, but don’t expect it to go down quite the same way it went down in Denmark. The Huntington presents this 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner from James Ijames about Juicy, a Black, queer southerner who get a visit-at, of all places, a barbecue-from his father’s ghost, demanding the young man avenge his murder. Mabry IV playing Juicy in The Huntington’s Fat Ham by James Ijames.
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