Stage Top 5: February, 2017

Dennis William Grimes, Juliet Hart, Siddhartha Rajan and Kareem Bandealy in TimeLine Theatre Company’s “A Disappearing Number”/Photo: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux Inc.

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A Disappearing Number
(TimeLine Theatre Company)
Love, math and history bend toward infinity in this hypnotizing play from London’s Complicite

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Gloria
(Goodman Theatre)
This shocking new workplace dramedy will get lodged deep in your brain

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Empress Archer
(The Cambrians)
Dances by a dozen international choreographers are remixed in a duet about friendship and the creative process

Ballet de Lorraine

(Merce Cunningham and others)
The MCA pays tribute to the choreographic master and prolific collaborator

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Jim Lehrer and the Theater and Its Double and Jim Lehrer’s Double
(Theater Oobleck)
Mickle Maher’s twisted world premiere descends into the rabbit hole of our cultural subconscious

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