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Saturday Night / Sunday Morning cast

Opening this Friday on October 23rd,  Boston’s Lyric Stage Co. presents Saturday Night / Sunday Morning, which brings together seven African-American women in a Memphis, TN beauty parlor / boarding house during the waning days of WWII.  The play centers around their lives and the uncertainty they feel for their future, wondering if their men will return home safely.

Saturday Night / Sunday Morning runs from Friday, October 23rd – Saturday, November 21st. You can read more about the production and purchase tickets from the Lyric Stage Co.’s website.

Saturday Night / Sunday Morning

Actor: Christipher Hanke
Photo Credit: James Leynse

Are you heading to New York City this fall? You may want to check out a new play that takes place in 1950 called, Perfect Arrangement. The production includes Broadway and TV actor, Christopher J. Hanke and was written by Topher Payne.

Initially produced in Atlanta last year, Payne has brought his show to New York City to share with a larger audience. The biting comedy revolves around two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, who have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. The twist is that both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover.  Perfect Arrangement is in previews but formally opens later this week, October 15th at The Duke on 42nd Street.

When asked if Payne thought the show would appeal to all audiences (not just the LGBT community) he responded in an interview in HuffingtonPost ,“Everybody knows what it is like to have a secret.”

You can find our more about this production by visiting the website, here.

King Lear – July 22 – August 9
All performances are free and open to the public

The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s 20th season of free Shakespeare on the Boston Common starts later this week on Wednesday.  Take the opportunity to plan a date night or have a group of friends meet you out on the Common for a night of theater.  Local pizzerias in Beacon Hill will meet you by bike delivery, making for an excellent picnic. While drinking is not allowed, nobody will bother you if you sip your wine / beer in sola cups and other subtle containers.

Next month Boston-native, Jennifer Coolidge, who I first fell in love with when Reese Witherspoon taught her the Bend and Snap in Legally Blond will be coming to Boston (well Cambridge to be exact) to take to the Nora Theatre Company’s stage in Central Square to play a liberal atheist who’s meeting her daughter’s evangelical boyfriend in the play, Saving Kitty. 

Saving Kitty opens on Thursday, July 9th and runs through Tuesday, August 2nd. For more information about the show or to purchase tickets link here.

For those of you living on the North Shore be sure to check out Salem Theatre’s latest production The Normal Heart which opens tomorrow, June 11th and runs through the 27th of this month; Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 20 will be a special Pride performance at 5 p.m.

Last year H.B.O. brought Larry Kramer’s ground breaking (and heart tugging) play to life with amazing performances from Mark Ruffalo, Jonathon Groff, Julia Roberts and others.  I would think this would be a powerful story to see unfold on a stage so bring your tissues and get your tickets ($25.00 / $10.00 for students).

For More information and tickets