Get ready for a vibrant fall theater season in Boston

Like Shakespeare and booze? Like “La Bohème” however need it achieved backwards? Need epic, nuanced and bombastic works about historical past? This fall theater season has all these issues because it covers dozens of types, lots of of years and a variety of feelings and concepts.

“Romeo & Juliet,” now by way of Nov. 19, Rockwell Theater, Somerville

However, tender, what gentle beer by way of yonder window breaks? The actual tragedy right here might be if the (expletive)-faced Shakespeare firm runs out of booze. For these unfamiliar with this pickled bastardization of the Bard, one member of the corporate does the present completely sloshed. Thursdays 18+, Fridays and Saturdays 21+. therockwell.org

“La Bohème,” Sept. 23 – Oct. 2, Emerson Colonial Theatre

Director Yuval Sharon and the Boston Lyric Opera turns Puccini masterpiece “La Bohème” the other way up, or ought to that be inside out? On this reimagining, the opera opens with tragedy then rewinds the motion again to blooming love in Paris. Aficionados will nonetheless discover the Italian traditional compelling whereas newbies shouldn’t have hassle following alongside — the BLO’s manufacturing might be sung in Italian with English subtitles. blo.org

“Drumfolk,” Oct. 5 – 16, Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre

Step Afrika! returns to Boston with a chunk impressed by the Stono Revolt of 1739, when enslaved Africans used drums to start out a revolt in South Carolina solely to be killed by British colonists. “Drumfolk” begins in Stono and follows the position of drums in African American tradition up by way of hip-hop. emersontheatres.org

“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Oct. 14 – Nov. 13, the Huntington Theatre

Lili-Anne Brown directs August Wilson’s beautiful story of the Nice Migration’s early years as Herald Loomis arrives at a Pittsburgh boarding home in 1911 in the hunt for his spouse and in the hunt for himself. huntingtontheatre.org

“Hidden,” Oct. 20 – 22, Boston Heart for the Arts

Boston-based choreographer Rachel Linsky appears to maintain tales of the Holocaust alive. With “Hidden,” she makes use of dance to inform the story of Aaron Elster, who at 10 was hidden for 2 lengthy years in a Polish household’s attic throughout World Conflict II. Linsky and her dancers labored with Elster’s son, Steven, to deliver this darkish, essential story to the stage. bostonarts.org

“Six the Musical,” Nov. 9 – Dec. 31, Emerson Colonial Theatre

This Broadway blockbuster turns upon the irony that England’s best-known patriarch can be a mere footnote with out his wives. In case you discover this an odd concept on which to construct a musical hit, you may be overwhelmed by this advanced, controversial, subversive pop masterwork. Extra of a historical past lesson and confrontation of centuries of misogyny than conventional musical, the present pits the wives in opposition to one another in a type of dystopian “American Idol.” boston.broadway.com

“The Chinese language Woman,” Nov. 10 – Dec.  11, Central Sq. Theater

In 1834, a 14-year-old Chinese language woman crossed oceans to land in New York from Guangzhou Province. In a flash she turns into a factor of fascination for white folks. Playwright Lloyd Suh takes us by way of a half century as a woman turns into a girl and a hidden piece of U.S. historical past is revealed on this subversive and humorous piece. centralsquaretheater.org

“The Play that Goes Improper,” Nov. 11 – Dec. 18, the Lyric Stage

“The Play that Goes Improper” operates as a play-within-a-play with a drama society making an attempt to placed on fictional whodunit “The Homicide at Haversham Manor.” Sadly for them and gleefully for the viewers, the corporate options horrible actors and incompetent stagehands wandering a deathtrap of a set. Door knobs come off in arms. Actors find yourself crawling by way of home windows to get again on stage. The butler, who has been handcuffed to the chaise lounge and misplaced the important thing, is pressured to cart the couch round on his again for half of the second act pretending it’s all based on plan. lyricstage.com