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BUDD BOETTICHER

How many filmmakers had previously been a boxer, a football player, and a matador? Meet Oscar Boetticher Jr., who in the late ’50s teamed up with Randolph Scott to make a series of classic Westerns including The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station. The Harvard Film Archive’s "Ride Lonesome: The Films of Budd Boetticher" salute opens December 2 with Bruce Ricker on hand to discuss his documentary Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That, and it’ll continue through December 13 at the HFA, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | 617.495.4700.

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY

Without Martha Graham, would we have Merce Cunningham or Paul Taylor or Twyla Tharp or Mark Morris? She was the foundation of dance in America, and you can help her company celebrate its 80 birthday when it comes to the Shubert Theatre, under the auspices of the Bank of America Celebrity Series and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, with Errand into the Maze, Diversion of Angels, Appalachian Spring, and Sketches from "Chronicle" | 265 Tremont St, Boston | December 2 @ 7:30 pm; December 3 @ 8 pm; December 4 @ 3 pm | $42-$60 | 800.447.7400.

LITTLE WOMEN

Tickets are on sale for Little Women — The Broadway Musical, which makes its close-to-Concord debut at the Opera House in January, with Grammy-nominated chanteuse Maureen McGovern reprising her Drama Desk Award–nominated turn as Marmee. Rent rumors aside, the beloved story has not been moved to the East Village where Beth is dying of AIDS and Laurie is a cross-dresser. It’s Louisa May Alcott straight up, but with the March sisters singing in concord. The national-touring production comes to the Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston, January 10-22 | $25-$87.50 | Opera House box office or 617.931.ARTS or http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/.