Comedy goes screwball in the Lyric Stage’s world premiere of local scribe Jack Neary’s Kong’s Night Out (May 5–June 3; 617.585.5678), which is set in the hotel suite “from which Faye Wray is plucked that fateful night.” The Boston Theatre Marathon (May 21; Calderwood Pavilion; 617.933.8600) is the eighth annual assault of 50 10-minute plays by New England playwrights produced by 50 companies. Zeitgeist Stage also gets racy with Brian Dykstra’s sexually charged barroom thriller Hiding Behind Comets (April 28–May 20; BCA; 617.933.8600).
Dance blooms all spring as well. Boston Ballet presents “An Evening of Russian Ballet” (May 4–7; 800.447.7400) at the Wang Theatre, then gets sassy for Jorma Elo’s Carmen (May 11–21). Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (April 25–30; 617.447.7400) makes its annual April visit to the Wang Theatre under the auspices of the Bank of America Celebrity Series. And Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, with its male swan corps, comes to the Colonial Theatre (April 20–23; 866.523.7469). Across the river, CRASHarts (617.876.4275) commissions new works by homegrown companies for the fourth Dance Straight Up! at Zero Arrow Theatre. World premieres this year come from Debra Bluth and Lorraine Chapman, the Company (May 12–13), and Collage Dance Ensemble (May 11 and 14).
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- Players and painted stage
It seems the fall theater season was shot from a gun this year, barely after the Labor Day picnic baskets had been packed away.
- Meltdowns
Like the bony, broom-riding icon of Oz it aims to exonerate, Wicked is neither all good nor all bad.
- Boston Theater Marathon 2008
- Love and death
Forget star-cross’d. At the American Repertory Theatre, Romeo and Juliet are just plain cross.
- Spring stages
As we recover from turning the clocks ahead and making our day’s journey into night a bit longer, area stages are taking a cue from Mother Nature.
- Groundbreakers
As the Huntington Theatre Company mounts Radio Golf , the ghost in the rafters is that of Wilson, who died last October at 60, soon after completing this final piece of his grand project chronicling decade by decade the African-American experience of the last 100 years.
- Primary colors
Now that the holiday hubbub is behind us, we have no dreams of white Christmases or visions of Sugar Plum Fairies to warm a theatergoer’s heart.
- The best on the boards
There have been a few muggings on the rialto this year.
- Best on the boards
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
- Best on the boards
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
- Chilly scenes in winter
The drama of the holidays (and I don’t mean A Christmas Carol) may be behind us, but there’s plenty more drama — and comedy and musicals — ahead to light up long winter nights.
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