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Arts Ahead: Shadows, Pops and Merry Poppers

Olive Another as Maryand in the lastet production from Gold Dust Orphans.

BOSTON — Traditions take new and wild turns as a band of theater renegades reinterpret Mary Poppins, Tim Burton drops a vampire into 20th century Maine and the Boston Pops celebrate America's diverse music history with Steve Martin on banjo. Mary Poppers
Presented by the Gold Dust Orphans
At Machine (in the Fenway) through May 20th

Gold Dust Orphans give us another rollicking ride through the twisted imaginations of Boston's foremost comedic troupe with the musical parody they have been waiting a lifetime to present. "Mary Poppers" features Olive Another as Maryand other Orphan favorites: Ryan Landry, Penny Champayne, Bill Hough, Robin Banks and Delta Miles. The troupe is at their best withthis show, which is fun and hits the heights of Orphan outrageousness.

Director Tim Burton's latest movie is a revival of the 1960s cult television classic, “Dark Shadows”.

In 1752 an family with a young son set sail to the new world to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family and they settle in Collinsport, Maine. Decades later, as the master of Collinwood Manor, the son, Barnabas, is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into