Harbor Stage News Today

Highlights include "Gatsby" and "The Queen of Versailles," two musicals headed for Broadway.

The Newport Jazz Festival just announced that tickets will go on sale and the lineup will drop for the 2024 festival (August 2-4) on April 9th at 1PM Eastern, which has this East Coast mama reminiscing of all my favorite moments from last year! After having finally experienced the longest-running jazz festival in the country last year, it quickly made its way to the top of my ever-expanding list of favorite summer fests.

Robert Kropf and Alex Pollock have an excellent chemistry in Jonathan Fielding and Brenda Withers' play which the latter two also directed. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews the Wellfleet-based troupe's Boston visit.

Clocking in at a fast-moving 80 minutes, “Northside Hollow” proves to be a twisty, suspenseful, multilayered, and ultimately moving drama that holds out the hope of forgiveness, reconciliation, even redemption.

This season, local theater companies are offering productions on timely topics such as technology, transformation and history-making moments. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair shares a roundup of the ones she's looking forward to.

At the BCA, Brenda Withers and Jonathan Fielding are remounting their 2015 play about two men trapped in an apparent mine collapse.

Despite the financial pressures that continue to pinch theater companies post-pandemic, this fall’s theatrical lineup is an ambitious and intriguing mix of titles and topics, from an adaptation of "Hamlet" to the world premiere of "Lunar Eclipse."

With 12 stages for music, workshops and other activities, Thumbfest is sure to rock out the weekend.

As before, the venerable jazz festival enlisted pop (in this generation hip-hop, rap, etc) to help attract younger punters into the jazz fold

The Ding Dongs,’ at Gloucester Stage, is a different sort of comedy