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The Shark is Broken kicked off North Shore Music Theatre’s 2025 MainStage season with bite—an especially notable opener as the beloved Beverly-in-the-round venue celebrates its 70th year since first opening in 1955. Directed by Guy Masterson, this intimate three-person play dives behind the scenes of Jaws, centering on the turbulent, tension-filled downtime between filming and
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Utopian Hotline is not your average night at the theater—it’s a performance set under the stars, quite literally. Co-presented by ArtsEmerson and the Museum of Science, this one-of-a-kind experience unfolds inside the Charles Hayden Planetarium, transforming a space usually reserved for constellations and space documentaries into a dreamy dome of theatrical experimentation. Instead of the
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The Spitfire Grill, now onstage at Umbrella Arts Center under the direction of Ilyse Robbins, serves up a hearty helping of small-town storytelling, based on the 1996 film by Lee David Zlotoff. With music and book by James Valcq and lyrics and book by Fred Alley, this musical tells the story of Percy Talbott, a