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April 2006, Sunday
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Blue Man Group
Charles Playhouse
74 Warrenton Street, Boston
Regular Schedule: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 8:00pm; Fridays at 7:00pm; Saturdays at 4:00pm,7:00pm & 10:00pm; Sundays at 2:00pm & 5:00pm; visit http://www.blueman.com/boston for added show times
For tickets, visit http://www.blueman.com/boston or call 617-931-2787


Shear Madness
Ongoing
Charles Playhouse
74 Warrenton Street, Boston
Tuesdays-Fridays, 8:00pm; Saturdays, 6:30pm & 9:30pm; Sundays, 3:00pm & 7:00pm
$38 (holiday prices may vary)
617-426-5225


A Scanner Darkly
Brandeis hosts an exclusive sneak preview of the new film written and directed by Richard Linklater. Adapted from the classic sci-fi novel by Phillip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly depicts a paranoiac futuristic world of technology and psychoactive drugs where Americans are hired by the government to spy on each other. Movie will be followed by a conversation with the film’s producer Erwin Stoff. Seating limited to 200.

Shapiro Campus Center Theater, Brandeis University
415 South Street, Waltham
9:00pm
Free
781-736-4224


Bank of America Celebrity Series Presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(Tuesday, April 25-Sunday, April 30)
Seven-performance dance engagement includes three Boston premieres: Judith Jamison's Reminiscin', Ronald K. Brown's Ife/My Heart, and Hope Boykin, Abdur-Rahim Jackson, and Matthew Rushing's Acceptance in Surrender.

The Wang Theatre
270 Tremont Street, Boston
Show times and prices vary
800-447-7400


Big Apple Circus: Grandma Goes to Hollywood
(Saturday, April 1-Sunday, May 7)
Grandma the Clown and her luminous cast of acrobats, jugglers, trapeze flyers, performing horses and dogs, humorists and superheroes of the Big Top make movie moments come to life.

City Hall Plaza, Boston
Show times vary
$13-$54
617-931-2787/800-922-3772


Bill W. and Dr. Bob
(Sunday, March 5-Sunday, March 26)
The amazing and often humorous story of the founders of AA.

New Repertory Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street, Watertown
Show times vary
$30-$48
617-923-8487


Boston Symphony Chamber Players Perform All-Mozart Concert
The all-Mozart concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth will include performances of his Flute Quartet in A, K.298; Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola, and cello, K.617; Quintet for horn and strings, K.407; and Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581.

New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
3:00pm
$17-$30
617-266-2378


Massasoit Community College Buckley Performing Arts Center presents You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
(Friday, April 21-Sunday, April 30)
Based on The Comic Strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schultz; directed and choreographed by Tara McSweeney.

The Buckley Performing Arts Center, Massasoit Community College
Off Rt.27, Brockton
Friday-Saturday, 8:00pm; Sunday, 3:00pm
$18, general public; $16, with Massasoit ID, senior citizens & students
508-427-1234


Damn Yankees
(Tuesday, April 25-Sunday, May 14)
An all new production of this classic musical presented in association with The Boston Red Sox. NSMT puts a new spin on a hilarious and heart-warming musical which now tells the story of a die-hard Red Sox fan who makes a deal with the devil to help the Sox take the pennant from the dreaded Yankees.

North Shore Music Theatre
62 Dunham Road, Beverly
Wednesday, 1:30pm; Tuesday-Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday-Saturday, 8:00pm; Saturday-Sunday, 2:00pm
$40-$75
978-232-7200


Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters
"Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" is an ambitious, kaleidoscopic survey of European art from 1900 to the 1960s.

The Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Times and prices vary
617-369-3189


Zeitgeist Stage Company presents: Hiding Behind Comets
(Friday, April 28-Saturday, May 20)
Although twin brother and sister Troy and Honey share an unusually strong bond, they seem as different as night and day. One late summer evening, a stranger wanders into their family-owned bar. When he starts asking personal questions, it soon becomes clear that his visit to this small-town dive has not been purely coincidental. The extent of his journey, its underlying motivation and the past horrors that have directed it provide a roller coaster of surprises that keep audiences on the edge of their seats until the play's final moments.

BCA Plaza Black Box
539 Tremont Street, Boston
Thursday-Saturday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 4:00pm; Sunday, 5:00pm
$15
617-933-8600


The Leonard Bernstein Festival of Creative Arts
(Wednesday, April 26-Sunday, April 30)
The five-day festival features more than 50 exhibitions and performances by international, national, and regional artists, actors, and musicians, as well as by Brandeis students and faculty.

Several locations at Brandeis University, Waltham
Times vary
Some events are free, prices vary for others
781-736-5008


Bank of America Celebrity Series Presents Maurizio Pollini
Pollini’s concept of the keyboard is orchestral, and one of his central virtues is the unfailing structural development that he brings to every performance.

Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
3:00pm
$38-$68
617-482-2595


Menopause, the Musical
Ongoing
Four women with nothing in common meet at a lingerie sale. Fighting over a bra, they realize how much they actually share.

The Stuart Street Playhouse
200 Stuart Street, Boston
Wednesdays-Fridays, 8:00pm; Saturdays & Sundays, 2:00pm & 5:00pm
$42.50 per person; group rates available
800-447-7400


The Civilians Perform the Boston Premiere of Nobody’s Lunch
(Tuesday, April 25-Sunday, April 30)
The NYC Obie Award-winning company delves into the politics of information with this performance, an insightful, musical, darkly comedic look at our national identity.

Zero Arrow Theatre
Intersection of Arrow St. and Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge
Tuesday-Thursday & Sunday, 7:30pm; Friday & Saturday, 8:00pm; Saturday-Sunday, 2:00pm
$30
617-846-4275


Stoneham Theatre Presents Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
(Thursday, April 20-Sunday, April 30)
Sisters are offered a $10,000 donation for their school if they will perform in a Las Vegas showroom, leading to adventure complete with song and dance.

Stoneham Theatre
395 Main Street, Stoneham
Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday-Saturday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 4:00pm; Sunday, 2:00pm; 4/26, 2:00pm
$36, adults; $32, seniors; $18 students
781-279-2200


Real Hush-Hush
(Thursday, April 20-Sunday, May 14)
MRT’s second world premiere of the season, Shaw, Larry and Wilson share an office, but what is it they really do? A workplace comedy full of bureaucratic bumbling, backstabbing and intrigue. Fast, funny and frightening, this theatrical ride shouldn’t be missed.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre
50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell
Wednesday-Friday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 4:30pm & 8:30pm; Sunday 2:00pm & 7:00pm (call for any variations)
$32-$55
978-454-3926


Boston Theatre Works presents: The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
(Thursday, April 13-Saturday, May 6)
Celebrated painter Dana Fielding is the toast of the art world. But after her latest exhibition tanks and her boyfriend dumps her, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital where she finds inspiration from the unlikeliest of sources - the legendary bad boy of baseball, Darryl Strawberry. This is a funny and caustic play about the pressures of success and the need to create a protective "other self" to survive life in the spotlight.

BCA Plaza Theatre
539 Tremont Street, Boston
Thursday-Friday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 4:00pm & 8:30pm; Sunday, 3:00pm
$29
617-933-8600


Boston Lyric Opera’s Thais
(Friday, April 28-Tuesday, May 9)
She's captivating and provocative. He's full of the fire of conversion. The temptress and the monk clash: Eros or God? Like Thaïs, Massenet's music is seductive, like her monk, persuasive, like them both, irresistible.

The Shubert Theatre
272 Tremont Street, Boston
7:30pm (Sunday shows are at 3:00pm)
$33-$166
800-447-7400


The Road Home: Re-Membering America
(Friday, March 24-Sunday, April 30)
The Huntington Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Marc Wolf’s one-man show based on the recording he made on his way home from the West coast after September 11, 2001.

Virginia Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
527 Tremont Street, Boston
Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30pm (except 4/4); Fridays-Saturdays, 8:00pm; Sundays at 7:00pm (3/26, 4/2 & 4/23 only); Wednesdays at 2:00pm (4/5, 4/12 & 4/26 only); Saturdays-Sundays, 2:00pm (except 3/26 & 4/8)
$15-$52
617-266-0800

For tickets, go to http://www.huntingtontheatre.org


Wicked
Wednesday, April 12-Sunday, May 14
This musical tells the story of how two girls grew to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.

The Opera House
539 Washington Street, Boston
Tuesdays-Thursdays & Sundays, 7:30pm; Fridays-Saturdays, 8:00pm; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:00pm
Prices vary
1-866-523-7469

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