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Coming to the Boards Regional —There's a stage adaptation of Alanis Morissette 's Jagged Little Pill in the works, and it's premiering at American Repertory Theater (in Massachusetts) next year. Featuring Morissette's music and a book by Oscar winner Diablo Cody ( Juno , Young Adult ), Jagged Little Pill will be directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus ( Pippin , Waitress ) and feature orchestrations by Tony and Pulitzer winner Tom Kitt ( Next to Normal , If/Then ), who, you might remember, also provided the incredible orchestrations for American Idiot . Visit Playbill for more. Off-Broadway —A new play by Zoe Kazan (as a writer: We Live Here , as an actress: Love, Love, Love ) has been added to Lincoln Center Theater's 2017-2018 season. After the Blast , set in a Children of Men -style dystopia, will begin performances at the LCT 3 Claire Tow Theatre October 7. Opening night is set for October 23, and the limited engagement is scheduled to conclude November...

Bruce Norris likes to write characters who stir the pot, and Jeremy Shamos is terrific at playing them. Re-teaming with their Clybourne Park director, Tony winner Pam MacKinnon  ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), they bring us The Qualms , Norris's new play about sexual politics. Shamos plays Chris, a sort of everyman, he seems like an average, middle-aged white guy. Chris is married to Kristy ( Sarah Goldberg ), a sweet-looking blonde with alabaster skin, and the newlyweds are at Gary ( John Procaccino ) and Teri ( Kate Arrington ( Grace ))'s beach condo. The couples met recently while on vacation in Mexico, and Chris and Kristy have decided to accept Gary and Teri's invitation to join their swingers club. Playing out in real time, the other members of the club begin to arrive: There's Deb (Donna Lynne Champlin), an overweight, average looking woman, and her boyfriend, Ken ( Andy Lucien ), a black man who is cut like an Adonis and carries himself in an...