Ghost Quartet, Black Button Eyes Productions @ Stage 773, through Aug. 17Dazzling vocal and instrumental musicianship in the town's most unique musical; a mash-up of fantasy, gothic horror and fairytale with Dave Malloy's melodic and diverse score. JA
Come From Away, Cadillac Palace through Aug. 18When 6,600 plane passengers were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland on 9/11/2001, the locals offered generosity, decency, concern and humor. This uplifting true story moves to a driving, lilting pseudo-folkloric score. JA
Heroes ( We Can Be Us Just For One Day ), Shakespeare's Motley Crew at Winnemac Park, through Aug. 25. The Bard meets Bowie ( David, that is ) in the SMC's seventh Midsummer Madness mashup of cross-generic Greatest Hits. MSB
Pomona, Steep theatre, extended through Sept. 14. Alistair McDowall's RPG fantasy gamers must choose their adventures in a virtual universe of urban squalor, doomsday prognostication and biotechnical crimewill they escape, and is this really make-believe? MSB
Jonathan Abarbanel and Mary Shen Barnidge