"After School Special" Company One presents a late-night show of John Kuntz's comic sendup of teenage angst, Fridays and Saturdays (and one Thursday, July 31) through Aug. 8 at 10:30. 617-933-8600, bostontheatrescene.com

Forget about dusty skeletons and fossilized footprints. "Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience" offers life-size beasts with skin, sound, mobility and, best of all, attitude, in this dramatic representation of the Earth as it was 200 million to 65 million years ago.

After an abbreviated seven-performance run last summer, this year's free Shakespeare production on the Boston Common is back up to 15 performances.

There's nothing ordinary about the Boston Opera Collaborative. This troupe made up of emerging professionals, most of whom have completed their master's degree work at Boston-area conservatories, has set Mozart's classic "The Magic Flute" in a Victorian mental asylum - a far cry from its original setting in ancient Egypt. Our favorite tidbit about this fully staged production: The cast ...

Four-inch gold pumps, a Cher wig, a two-piece bathing suit, and a pair of leopard-print capri pants are just a few of the costume pieces that will be worn by John Kuntz and Rick Park when they open the revival of "After School Special" tonight.

BECKET - The Boyz doth protest too much, methinks. Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, who make up the UK-based choreographic duo Ballet Boyz, have added their voices to the "ballet is elite" refrain: In press statements and interviews they've expressed their frustration with what they see as classical dance's inaccessibility. If by elite they mean too-high ticket prices for audience ...

Broadway and television actor Fred Weller is anxiously waiting to hear if his USA Network crime drama, "In Plain Sight," will get picked up for a second season.

Don't know the name Frank Caliendo? That's OK. Even after seven years on "MADtv," countless appearances on Fox's football programs, and his own show, "Frank TV," on TBS, Caliendo knows people have a hard time placing him. That's probably because he's so good at his job, mainly, creating uncanny impressions of celebrities ranging from Robin Williams to Dr. Phil.

Eiko and Koma's "Mourning" (2007) takes the couple's signature preoccupations and method of operating - movements so slow you lose sight of how the two get from here to there - and evolves them into another dimension.

Company One, which is producing "Assassins" at the Boston Center for the Arts, opens "After School Special" tonight, which will run late-night on weekends in the same theater. "Special," written by and starring John Kuntz, is about a teenager named Janet (played by Kuntz, near left, with Rick Park) who must save her dog, become popular, befriend a bully, and ...