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Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) in Lowell has announced its slate of productions for the 2024-2025 season earlier this week.The trailblazing 46th season will include seven plays. Featuring well-known classics, old tales with new twists, familiar audience favorites, and freshly conceived contemporary pieces, it promises to bring MRT’s Liberty Hall stage to new heights.MRT’s new roster […]

A metaphorical show about the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ “The Great Sea Serpent” explored the intrusive impact humankind can have on our planet. The sold-out play, which follows a small fish investigating the “serpent” of the cable after it is laid in the ocean, ran Friday,...

Wallinger's hybrid of sumptuous pop, hippie mysticism and postmodern cynicism helped World Party carve out a niche on college rock radio and MTV.

Wallinger's hybrid of sumptuous pop, hippie mysticism and postmodern cynicism helped World Party carve out a niche on college rock radio and MTV.

How do you bring the story of the infamous white whale to the stage?

“Lookingglass Alice” is a show where folding chairs fly out of picnic baskets, the White Knight rides a unicycle, characters bounce on massive balls and Alice has a tea party with an audience member.

The first indication that you're not seeing a run-of-the-mill stage production of Alice in Wonderland is when the White Rabbit appears suspended 30 feet over the stage and does a somersault through a hoop. “It’s a beautiful combination,” says Molly Hernández, who plays Alice. The show “Lookingglass Alice” from the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago has been a local treat for decades, but this year gets national attention with a broadcast on PBS...

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"Lookingglass Alice" is an exciting acrobatic adaptation of "Alice In Wonderland."