NOW PLAYING
THE AWESOME 80S PROM | We haven’t seen a Joey & Maria’s Italian Wedding–type show around for a while, but this interactive entry from Metro Boston native Ken Davenport appears to be in the ballpark. | Club Venu, 100 Warrenton St, Boston | July 18, August 29 | www.awesome80sprom.com | Curtain 8 pm Sat | $40-$100
THE BALD SOPRANO | Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater’s 25th-anniversary season continues with Eugène Ionesco’s first play, a story of the Smiths and the Martins and the Smiths’ maid, Mary, and Mary’s lover, who’s the local fire chief, and the fun evening they spend shouting non-sequiturs to each other. It all culminates in a chorus of “It’s not here! It’s over there!” Brendan Hughes directs and plays the fire chief; Brenda Withers, Jonathan Fielding, Amanda Collins, Lewis D. Wheeler, and Dakota Shepard round out the “over there” cast. | Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Harbor Stage, 1 Kendrick Ave [next to town pier], Wellfleet | 508.349.WHAT | Through July 12 | Curtain 7:30 pm Wed-Sun | $29; $16 student rush
CAROUSEL | Julianne Boyd directs Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic 1945 musical about carnival roustabout Billy Bigelow, who finds a wife in millworker Julie Jordan but not happiness. With Aaron Ramey as Billy and Patricia Noonan as Julie, plus “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” “If I Loved You,” “My Boy Bill/My Little Girl,” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” | Barrington Stage Company, 30 Union St, Pittsfield | 413.236.8888 | Through July 11 | Curtain 7 pm Tues | 2 + 7 pm Wed | 8 pm Thurs | 2+ 8 pm Fri | 8 pm Sat | 5 pm Sun | $42-$50
CHILDREN | The Williamstown Theatre Festival opens its Mainstage season with A.R. Gurney’s Fourth-of-July-set play about three adult (but also adolescent) children whose widowed mother is about to remarry — which means that they’ll inherit the family house. Tony nominee (for Loot) John Tillinger directs; the cast includes Mary Bacon, Katie Finneran, Judith Light, and James Waterston. | Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage, 1000 Main St, Rte 2, Williamstown | 413.597.3400 | Through July 12 | Curtain 8 pm Tues-Wed | 3 + 8 pm Thurs | 8 pm Fri | 4 + 8:30 pm Sat | 2 pm Sun | $45-$59
DIVIDING THE ESTATE | Well, that’s the question in the late Horton Foote’s Tony-nominated play, whose production has moved to Hartford Stage after getting closed down on Broadway in January. Texas matriarch Stella Gordon wants to keep the 100-year-old family estate intact, even though its time seems to have passed. Her three children are more interested in the title activity. The production is directed by Hartford artistic director Michael Wilson (which is partly why it wound up in Hartford), and it’s pitch-perfect; the performances marry sweetness to satire, with Hallie Foote’s Tony-nominated turn as Mary Jo the most daringly broad. | Hartford Stage, 50 Church St, Hartford | 860.527.5151 | Through July 5 | 2 pm Sun | $23-$68
THE EINSTEIN PROJECT | This work by Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein was presented in BTF’s Unicorn Theatre in 2000; now it’s being brought to the Main Stage, with Eric Hill again directing and Tommy Schrider back in the title role of a scientist whose understanding of relativity doesn’t seem to give him a leg up on relationships. With Miranda Hope Shea as his son, Edward, and James Barry as Werner Heisenberg. | Berkshire Theatre Festival Main Stage, Main St, Stockbridge | 413.298.5576 | Through July 18 | Curtain 8 pm Mon-Tues | 7 pm Wed | 2 + 8 pm Thurs | 8 pm Fri | 2 + 8 pm Sat | $46-$68
