ASTRO BOY AND THE GOD OF COMICS Writer-director Natsu Onoda Power delivers an exhilarating multimedia sci-fi parable, built on the life and work of Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy. Through Aug. 16. Company One Theatre, at Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts. 617-933-8600, www.companyone.org
AULD LANG SYNE Paula Plum and Richard Snee make the most of the roomy showcase for their talents provided by Jack Neary’s slight but likable comedy-drama. It’s about a South Boston widow who makes a very unusual New Year’s Eve request to a down-on-his-luck gangster.
Through July 27. Gloucester Stage Company, Gloucester.
978-281-4433, www.gloucesterstage.com
FINDING NEVERLAND American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus is helming the world premiere of this new musical about author J. M. Barrie, based on the 2004 film starring Johnny Depp as the playwright who found his muse when he befriended a family with a brood of young boys, and on Allan Knee’s play “The Man Who Was Peter Pan.’’ Barrie is portrayed at the ART by Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies: The Musical,’’ “Smash’’), costarring with Laura Michelle Kelly, who plays Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. With music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy. Through Sept. 28. American Repertory Theater, at Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge. 617-547-8300, www.americanrepertorytheater.org
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