★★★★★ Central Square Theater, Cambridge MA. According to a veteran policer of social media sites, viewing a daily array of posted images and videos to

★★☆☆☆ It took three hands – composer Alex Bechtel and co-librettists Grace McLean and Eva Steinmetz – to prove what might have been predicted at

★★★★☆ Or, how an obnoxious pet can worm his way into your heart. A play, too. The titular parrot (Paul Melendy) owned by the feckless

★★★☆☆ A chance to revisit Once is always welcome, particularly when the musical is as well cast as in the Hackmatack Playhouse revival in Berwick,

★★★☆☆ A curious mixture of kiddie show, domestic melodrama, mythology pageant and PSA, Learning How to Read By Moonlight presents, collage-like, incidents and dreams in

★★★★☆ Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA. The down-home vibe of The Spitfire Grill may be just the tonic you crave for our troubled times. It

★★☆☆☆ Merrimack Repertory Theater, Lowell, MA. The Cambodian genocide perpetrated by Khmer Rouge constitutes man’s inhumanity to man at its nadir, and has already inspired

★★★☆☆ Teatro Chelsea at Chelsea Theatre Works. This alleged “new play” by Alejandro Rodriguez actually wrenches, uncredited, Federico García Lorca’s last and greatest work, The