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“The Drowsy Chaperone” doesn’t just invite hammy excess. This utterly bonkers musical demands it, and the Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s 16-member cast are only too happy to oblige.

The Huntington Theatre and Speakeasy Stage, just steps away from East Village residence hall, recently welcomed their co-production of the Tony Award-winning comedic musical, “The Band’s Visit,” directed by Paul Daigneault, holding performances until Dec. 17. The show is about an Egyptian band and their adventures in a foreign city, where the members and locals...

It was a year rife with reminders that versatility is a key theater skill.

SpeakEasy Stage Company and the Huntington Theatre Company join forces for a thoroughly engaging production of the musical, says theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair.

The undertow of melancholy pervading “The Band’s Visit,” now at the Huntington Theatre, reveals a musical that knows all about human sadness. But it also knows about the quite real possibilities for human connection.

When a group of Egyptians are marooned in a small Israeli town, they need to find a connection that crosses borders: geographical and cultural. In “The Band’s Visit,” that connection — as it so often is — is music.

Great humor and a familiar sadness anchor the new production of the musical "The Band's Visit" at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.

The Tony-winning musical about Jewish villagers bonding with a group of Egyptian musicians stranded in their town opens Friday at the Huntington Theatre.

Jesse Kodama and Will Lyman play the same character 70 years apart in Prayer for the French Republic, a Huntington Theatre Company production.

Joshua Harmon has crafted a superb multi-generational play centering on immigration, the Holocaust and the lives of one particular family, says theater critic Terry Byrne.