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Earlier this week Boston’s Lyric Stage Company opened with their final show of the season, an hilarious backstage comedy with an all-star cast of Boston’s brightest and best comedians.  Set at the Ritz-Carlton Boston, Light Up the Sky is a backstage comedy about the colorful artists involved in breathing life into a Broadway-bound play and that moment of anticipation and terror just before an audience sees it for the very first time.  You will  meet the grand, charismatic leading lady, hopeful young playwright, high-strung director, boorish producer, and the leading lady’s eccentric mother.  Light Up the Sky runs from May 15 — June 13, 2015.  For more information about the show and to buy tickets, link here.

Sh*t-faced Shakespeare, by Magnificent Bastard Productions, is the hilarious combination of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely sh*t-faced cast member.

Side-splitting, raucous and completely interactive, the show has entertained over 35,000 eager theatre goers across the UK. Having successfully completed multiple sell-out runs of the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe festivals, Sh*t-faced Shakespeare is now performing at the Davis Square Theatre in Somerville.

The one hour performances run through June 28th. Don’t miss out.

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Thursday, May 8th is opening night for SpeakEasy Stage Company’s latest play, Mothers & Sons, a timely and touching new play about love, loss, and family, written by Terrence McNally.  This 2014 Tony Nominee for Best Play, follows Dallas matriarch Katharine Gerard on a sudden trip to New York to meet with her late son’s former partner Cal, who is now married to another man and raising a young son.  Katherine Gerard who is still coping with the loss and of her son is challenged by Cal to consider the life her son might have led and how society has changed around her.

I have been waiting for this show all season since SpeakEasy Stage Co. first announced this in their 2014-15 line up. I fully expect I’ll need to bring Kleenex to get through some scenes but will power through all the same and I hope you will too. This is the New England premiere from one of Boston’s best theater companies.

Get your tickets today.  Mothers & Sons runs from May 8 – June 6, 2015.

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Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans open with their latest musical, Thoroughly Muslim Millie, later tonight at the Ramrod Performing Arts Center.

If you cannot check out the show tonight or opening weekend, fear not since the musical will run through May 10th.

Thoroughly Muslim Millie is about a young girl from a Canadian convent who is thrust across the border into the Middle East and straight into the arms of the Prince of Persia!  The musical parody explodes across the stage with big splashy songs, tap dancing Talibans, and bawdy “Burqa Ladies”.

Thoroughly Muslim Millie runs from April 9th – May 10th get your tickets here.

Mark your calendars, because the Fiddlehead Theatre Company, the Resident Theatre Company of the historic Strand Theatre in Dorchester will conclude their 2014-2015 season with the Tony-Award winning rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jesus Christ Superstar April 24 – May 3, 2015

The Fiddlehead Theatre Co. shares a modern interpretation of this story, creating a musical experience that resonates today. Performance tickets for Jesus Christ Superstar range from $25-$45 and may be purchased by calling the box office 617-229-6494 or purchased online at, fiddleheadtheatre.com.

The Theater Offensive is rolling out their latest production, Mommy Queerest, one week from today, starting April 9th at Club Cafe.

The raunchy one-woman show centers on Kat Evasco, who co-wrote the play with John Caldon and tells her story as a young lesbian and her closeted lesbian mother, reclaiming their sexuality in their own ways, and how their relationship is strained and strengthened by that exploration process.  From home to school to camp to church, Kat acts out a loopy Kama sutra of graphic scenes. But each affair brings her back to her Mom, who can transform any frank talk into a lesbian soap opera of absurd denials and shocking revelations.

Mommy Queerest runs April 9th – 17th (Thursday – Sunday)

Tickets can be purchased for $10 but suggested price is $20.  Tickets purchased for $25 get a FREE drink ticket.  For more details or to purchase tickets, link here

Theater doesn’t get anymore affordable than “pay-what-you-can” so no excuses for not checking out this production of Loot by the Hub Theatre Company of Boston which will run from Friday, March 27th through Sunday, April 12th at the Fist Church in Boston located at 66 Marlborough Street in the Back Bay.

Loot is an amoral, dark farce described as a tour de force of bad taste and taboos that satires the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes towards death, police brutality and pretty much everything in between according to the media release.

The Hub Theatre Company of Boston is one of the city’s newest production companies (founded in 2012) and they focus on helping to foster creativity among Boston’s emerging theatre artists.  All tickets are pay-what-you-can and may be purchased online via www.hubtheatreboston.ticketleap.com.