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Murder Ballad – Bailiwick

Tales of murder and passion have always fascinated the public. Songs of revenge have been around for ages. Centuries ago the murder

Travesties – Remy Bumppo

In a surreal mixture of Monty Pythonesque characters, Oscar Wilde wordplay and Marx Brothers’ situations, Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-

Title and Deed – Lookingglass Theatre

Will Eno, runner-up for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play “Thom Paine (based on nothing),” has written a new one-man show

Our Bad Magnet – Mary-Arrchie Theatre

Take an unsolved local mystery, combine it with a dark, rural tale of lost innocence and lace it with bursts of unexpected black humor and

Balm in Gilead = Griffin Theatre

Lanford Wilson’s first full-length play, written back in 1965 when the young playwright was living in New York City, became his signature

Les Miserables – Paramount Arts Center

Ringing down the curtain on their fourth successful season of musicals, Paramount tops itself once more with this spectacular production.

Outside Mullingar – Northlight Theatre

John Patrick Shanley (the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Moonstruck” and the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-

Two Trains Running – Goodman Theatre

The late playwright, August Wilson, was a literary genius and a true American treasure. His Century Cycle (or Pittsburgh Cycle, as it’s often

The Illusion -Right Brain Project

This theatre company kicks off their 10th season with a play that literally plunges its audience into darkness, much like its main character.

The Royal Society of Antarctica – Gift Theatre

What if someone told you that your mother, now deceased, bore you in a barren, frozen, faraway land, and that shortly after your birth she