NOISES OFF | Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater mounts Michael Frayn's 1982 farce about a hapless provincial theater company trying to stage a door-slamming sex comedy called Nothing On. There's chaos on stage and intrigue backstage, and in the second of the three acts, we get to see the goings-on as if we were backstage. John Hancock directs; some lovely who probably won't be Nicollette Sheridan will be running about in her undies. | Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Julie Harris Stage, 2357 Rte 6, Wellfleet | 508.349.WHAT | July 1–August 1 | Curtain 8 pm Tues-Sun | $25-$32
OTHELLO | Like its Hamlet, this is a Shakespeare & Company "encore presentation," from last August, with John Douglas Thompson as Othello, Michael Hammond as Iago, and Merritt Janson as Desdemona, all from the 2008 production, and Tony Simotes again directing. Cuckoldry, real or imagined, is a potent thing in the very masculine world of this Othello, and it strands Janson's Desdemona as an island of innocence. And though the actors' tongues race as swiftly as the production does, you hear every word, and the imagery sticks deep. | Shakespeare & Company, Founders Theatre, 70 Kemble St, Lenox | 413.637.3353 | July 3–September 6 | Curtain times vary | $16-$60
STONES IN HIS POCKETS | Sean Dillon and Seton Brown star in Marie Jones's 1998 comedy about two men in County Kerry who get jobs as extras for the shooting of a Hollywood film that's looking to perpetuate the usual Hollywood stereotypes about Ireland. In the course of the play, our heroes portray all 15 characters, who include the film's snooty British director and its prima donna American star. Kennedy Center Gold Medallion recipient Steve Reynolds directs. | Cape Rep Theatre, 1772 Main St, Brewster | 508.896.1888 | June 25–July 18 | Curtain 7:30 pm Tues-Sat [no July 4] | $22
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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
BROADWAY BY THE YEAR | This cabaret show that Scott Siegel created for the Town Hall in New York comes to the Berkshires, with host and director Scott Coulter joined by Broadway stars Christiane Noll and Kerry O'Malley for songs from the years 1930 and 1964. | Berkshire Theatre Festival Main Stage, Main St, Stockbridge | 413.298.5576 | Through June 27 | Curtain 2 + 8 pm Thurs | 8 pm Fri | 2 + 8 pm Sat | $49-$53
