Ghost Quartet, Black Button Eyes Productions @ Stage 773, through Aug. 17—Dazzling 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. 18—When 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 crime—will they escape, and is this really make-believe? MSB
—Jonathan Abarbanel and Mary Shen Barnidge