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O my soul!
Hamlet on the Common, plus an evening with Matt Damon and more
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HAMLET. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company has found its Hamlet: he’s Amesbury native Jeffrey Donovan, a young Broadway journeyman who’s been seen in the USA series Touching Evil and the recent film Hitch, and he joins a cast that includes George of the Jungle director Sam Weisman as Polonius, Will Lyman as Claudius, and John Kuntz as Guildenstern and Osric. CSC’s 10th annual on-the-Common production of the Bard runs July 16 through August 7, but this year, the stage moves from Parkman Bandstand to the Parade Ground, near the corner of Beacon and Charles Streets. For more information, visit www.freeshakespeare.org. MIA ANDERSON’S DRAG KINGS, SLUTS, AND GODDESSES. They were doing cabaret, burlesque, and female-to-male drag back before that description constituted a typical night out in Jamaica Plain. But after 11 years, Mia Anderson’s pioneering crew are calling it a day — consider the culture officially pushed forward — with one final fling. That would be a three-night stand, June 24 through 26, at the Footlight Club, 7A Eliot Street in Jamaica Plain, and centering on a celebration of the African goddess Oshun — one that invokes "the power of Me’Shell NdegéOcello, scratching the surface of the ’50s Desperate Housewives to reveal a kitchen that cooks more than just on the stove." Tickets, at $20, are available in advance at Grand Opening!, 308A Harvard Street in Coolidge Corner; call (617) 983-2321, or visit www.dksg.org. "BREAKING NEW GROUND: AN EVENING WITH MATT DAMON TO BENEFIT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATRE." Who says sucking up doesn’t pay? Underground Railway Theatre and the Nora Theatre Company are teaming up to design and build a new theater, and to foot the bill, they’re bringing Mr. Damon in for an evening that includes "reminiscences of Matt from teachers and high-school friends, a celebratory video, and some other merriment" courtesy of celebrity funnyman Jimmy Tingle plus an "Actors’ Studio–style interview" with Damon conducted by local "theater hero" Scott Edmiston. That’s June 25 at 7 p.m. at the Hotel @ MIT, 20 Sidney Street in Cambridge. For tickets, call (617) 694-3268.
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