Summer means living the good life and for many that signals vacation time by the sea.
No one is thinking much of theater this weekend with America’s 250th birthday looming on July 4. But that doesn’t mean we can still make plans for after the 4th.
Betrayal, award-winning playwright Harold Pinter’s classic play told in reverse, plays Gloucester Stage Company July 9-August 1.
Here’s a summary: “After Jerry and Emma collide for the last time, their final encounter unfolds into a seven year long, torrid love triangle entangled with secrets, deception, and Emma’s husband Robert. Throughout this backwards tailspin, the three navigate unexpected impulses, forbidden trysts, and their own feelings of betrayal”.
For tickets and info, visit https://gloucesterstage.com/betrayal/.
Ogunquit Playhouse in coastal Maine, about an hour from Lowell, has scored a winner with its captivating production of Hello, Dolly!
Starring Tony -winning actress Beth Leavel, it’s on through July 18, and has matinee and evening performances this weekend — and the theater is air conditioned.
The blockbuster Broadway hit bursts with humor, romance, high-energy dancing and some of the greatest songs in musical theatre history. Join socialite-turned-matchmaker Dolly Levi as she travels to Yonkers, New York to find a wife for the curmudgeonly “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder.
Dolly’s romantic scheming soon entangles Horace’s two clerks and a lovestruck young artist. As she busies herself finding mates for the suitors, Dolly realizes it’s her turn to find her own perfect match.
One of the most entertaining musical comedies of all time, Hello, Dolly! is a beguiling romp in the universal search for love, with smash hits like “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” “Before the Parade Passes By,” and, of course, the show-stopping “Hello, Dolly!”
Visit https://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org/shows/whats-on/ for tickets and info.
IN THE WINGS
COMING SOON: The smash-hit original stage production, Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage, will play Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre before moving to Broadway. Performances for this strictly limited engagement will run from July 11 – 30, The press opening is July 15.
James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.
With an original story set in the world of the terrifying franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.
Paranormal Activity is written by Levi Holloway, who chilled Broadway audiences with his Tony Award-nominated Grey House in 2023, and directed by Felix Barrett, pioneering founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Punchdrunk, whose immersive Sleep No More played more than 5,000 performances in a record-breaking 14-year run in New York at The McKittrick Hotel following an acclaimed US premiere at Boston’s American Repertory Theater.
Paranormal Activity is based on the Paranormal Activity films, first written and directed by Oren Peli and brought to the screen by Blumhouse and Solana Films, and is produced by arrangement with Paramount Pictures.
Tickets begin at $49 at www.EmersonColonialTheatre..com.
Nancye Tuttle’s email address is [email protected]
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