★★★★☆ 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

★★★★☆ Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown. Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s modern-dress take for Actors Shakespeare Project locates fairyland in the ‘70s disco-ball, glam-rock era, which

★★★★☆ Arrow St. Arts, Cambridge. A notable coffee table book of 2000 celebrated the history and role of haberdashery among African-American women with stunning B&W