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Fierce quick-change highlights The Rep’s “39 Steps”

Fierce quick-change highlights The Rep’s “39 Steps”

Versatile Rep vet Gerard Neugent and APT star John Pribyl perform a cavalcade of characters in the four-actor adaptation of epic comedy/mystery "The 39 Steps."

Present Music: Margaret Leng Tan’s mischief and mystery
Present Music

Margaret Leng Tan’s mischief and mystery

The Queen of the Toy piano enchants a big crowd at Turner Hall. Osvaldo Golijov's tango-flavored "Last Round" thrills it.

Design in Your Life: Packing up Christmas
Design in Your Life

Packing up Christmas

Christmas by Krebs cares about design. Which is to say: It cares about you.

On Stage 12/28: MSO, Sha Na Na, party like it’s 1959
On Stage 12/28

MSO, Sha Na Na, party like it’s 1959

Not quite all is calm post-Christmas, as the Skylight, MSO and the Racine Theatre Guild ring in the New Year.

One Piece at a Time: Cy Twombly’s not-so-simple marks
One Piece at a Time

Cy Twombly’s not-so-simple marks

Some viewers will snip that the marks in Twombly's "Untitled" pieces, like the one in MAM's Contemporary Galleries, are clumsy. They’d be wrong.

A video Christmas card from Elizabeth Johnson and YMD

A video Christmas card from Elizabeth Johnson and YMD

A sweet, simple dance that embodies the warmest, noblest sentiments of the season, from Your Mother Dances to you via TCD.

Guys and Dolls crowds stage with colorful characters

Guys and Dolls crowds stage with colorful characters

A classic musical comedy joyfully bursts at the seams of the Off the Wall space.

The Lionheart ensemble in glorious polyphonic sound

The Lionheart ensemble in glorious polyphonic sound

Early Music Now's Christmas concert offered an immersion into 15th Century religious polyphony. Six voices blended into one resonant sound.

Jeff Tyzik’s MSO Christmas card

Jeff Tyzik’s MSO Christmas card

Tyzik's music, warmth and jokes win over a big MSO Holiday Pops crowd.

Recovering from Caroline O’Connor’s “Bombshells”

Recovering from Caroline O’Connor’s “Bombshells”

Caroline O'Connor shows the intricacies of womanhood in The Rep's staging of Joanna Murray-Smith's heady, hilarious one-woman show.

Sunset’s “Wonderful Life” a bittersweet end for Salentine

Sunset’s “Wonderful Life” a bittersweet end for Salentine

Artistic Director Mark Salentine touchingly directs his last show, as 50-year institution Sunset Playhouse cuts back.

This Week at the MSO: Tchaikovsky’s Orchestrion
This Week at the MSO

Tchaikovsky’s Orchestrion

We like the idea of genius springing from nowhere. It doesn't. Also: A surprise MSO ticket discount ticket code inside!