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The composer di tutti composers, Stephen Sondheim, recaps his career at Northeastern University's Blackman Auditorium, with Broadway vet Kate Baldwin illustrating via song (October 24). Meanwhile, The Boston Conservatory Theater Ensemble presents his Tony award-winning musical Follies (October 22-26).
The Huntington Theatre Company presents Carrie Fisher toasting Wishful Drinking at the Boston University Theatre (October 8-26), with her autobiographical solo. Meanwhile, the company also mounts a revised revival of Jose Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted (Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion, October 10-November 5), about a Puerto Rican couple recalling four decades of tumultuous marriage.
Also at the BCA, Speakeasy Stage Company presents Sorry, Wrong Number (October 6-7), a benefit cabaret featuring the city's top talents singings songs they'd never be cast for. And the feisty Zeitgeist company has scored something of a coup: permission from Edward Albee to mount the world premiere of Seascape (October 3-25) complete in three acts; the playwright had cut it to two when it won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize.
The Theater Offensive's annual Out on the Edge Festival of queer theater at the BCA (October 18-November 8) is drawing all sorts of cool creative types, including David Parker and the Bang Group with their uniquely offbeat Nut/Cracked (October 22-26); Jeffrey Roberson in Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue (October 28-November 1); and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver starring in Split Britches' Miss America (October 31-November 2).
The Publick Theatre, which now winters at the BCA, resurrects Brian Friel's Faith Healer (October 23-November 22); artistic director Diego Arcienegas plays the charismatic title character. Company One premieres Lydia Diamond's Voyeurs de Venus (October 31-November 22), about a pop-culture academician researching the life of Saartjie Bertmaan, better -- if disrepectfully -- known as the "Hottentot Venus."
That fun Romanian couple the Ceausescus will be in Cambridge, at least in spirit, when the American Repertory Theatre premieres Anne Washburn's satire The Communist Dracula Pageant, starring ART faves Thomas Derrah and Karen MacDonald, at its Zero Arrow space (October 18-November 19); brace yourself for "hallucinations, phosphorescence, and bears." Up-and-comer Wesley Savick both wrote and directs the Boston Playwrights' Theatre production of Miss Margaret LaRue in "Milwaukee" (October 9-26), about a rue-stricken former star.
The Lyric Stage snagged rights to David Mamet's November (October 17-November 15), fresh off its Broadway run. Richard Snee plays the lame-duck Commander-in-Chief, Will McGarrahan and Neil A. Casey his comic co-conspirators. Speaking of politics, a Watergate whistle-blower finally gets her full say in Jodi Rothe's Martha Mitchell Calling, starring Annette Miller and directed by Daniela Varon, at the Nora Theatre (October 16-November 8).
The only tour blowing into town is Legally Blonde the Musical at the Opera House (October 28-November 9). Ken Howard in Dan Flavin's affectionate bio-play According to Tip -- O'Neill, that is -- seems like a good prospect for going on the road; for the time being, it has transferred from Watertown's New Repertory Theatre to the Stuart Street Playhouse (October 9-November 19).
Meanwhile, New Rep is hosting a black-box production of Gutenberg! The Musical! featuring proven amusers Austin Ku and Brendan McNab (October 7-26). Next up, on the main stage, is Martin McDonagh's fierce farce The Lieutenant of Inishmore (October 28-November 16).
Merrimack Rep is going relatively light with The Fantasticks (October 16-November 9), and Worcester's Foothills Theatre celebrates playoff season with Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out (October 25-November 16). Beverly's North Shore Music Theatre concludes its Susan Stroman-homage season with 42nd Street (October 28-November 16), while Stoneham Theatre embarks on How Many Miles to Basra? (October 30-November 9), a world-premiere Iraq War drama by Colin Teevan.
In the Berkshires, Barrington Stage Company artistic director Julianne Boyd helms To Kill a Mockingbird (October 8-26), with Debra Jo Rupp as Miss Maudie. Also, the Berkshire Theatre Festival is throwing itself a season-closing benefit party in the form of A Very Special Evening with Judy Kaye and David Green (October 12).
At the nether reaches of Cape Cod, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is getting into the spirit of the season with Conor McPherson's spooky Shining City (October 10-November 4). At Provincetown's Art House Theater, Obie Award-winner David Drake will direct the New England premiere of Poor Super Man (October 23-November 9), by Queer As Folk producer/writer Brad Fraser.
Though scarcely advisable for the tweener set, the Wheelock Family Theatre's production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (October 31-November 30) is surely appropriate for ages 13 on up: the French martyr could be described, after all, as "the world's first feminist teen rebel." The show's big draw is 16-year-old Andrea C. Ross, who last year toured the country in Whistle Down the Wind as Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's personal protegee.
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