TAYLOR 2 Paul Taylor’s exuberant young touring company rounds up its weeklong residency at The Yard with four performances featuring the lighthearted “Three Epitaphs,’’ the rollicking “Company B,’’ and “Esplanade,’’ one of the most sublime works in the annals of contemporary dance. July 31-Aug. 2. $15-$100. Patricia N. Nanon Theater, Chilmark. 508-645-9662, www.dancetheyard.org
ORIGINATION This lively local hip-hop troupe pops and locks in a family-geared show at the Franklin Park Zoo. Aug. 4, 11 a.m. Free with zoo admission. Franklin Park Zoo’s Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park, Dorchester. 617-635-4505, www.franklinparkcoalition.org KAREN CAMPBELL
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Shakespeare on the Common returns, with Steven Maler directing the Bard’s farcical tale of mistaken identity among two sets of twins. July 31-Aug. 16. Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common. Free. 617-426-0863, www.commshakes.org
AFTER THE QUAKE Company One’s artistic director, Shawn LaCount, sensitively directs a fine young cast in this funny, touching tale, adapted by Frank Galati from two short stories by Haruki Murakami. Through Aug. 15. Boston Center for the Arts. 617-933-8600,
THE COMPLETE WOWS(A) Even the title is funnier shorter: “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’’ gets its laughs from goofy gags, clever wordplay, and the high spirits and high jinks of the Orfeo Group cast. Through Aug. 30. Christian Herter Park. 617-824-4215, www.orfeogroup.org
AURÉLIA’S ORATORIO Aurélia Thiérrée, who grew up performing in her parents’ “Cirque Imaginaire,’’ brings the same simple, enchanting magic to her own show, now in a return engagement at the American Repertory Theater. Through Aug. 2. Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge. 617-547-8300, www.amrep.org
HAMLET Shakespeare & Company reprises its electric, heady staging, with Jason Asprey leading as the melancholy one and Tina Packer playing (as well as being) his mother. Through Aug. 28. Shakespeare & Company, Lenox. 413-637-3353, www.shakespeare.org
LOUISE KENNEDY
CONSIDERED DEPTH Ean White, Jason Fiering, Bruce Rogovin, and Stephen McMillan distort space and play with viewers’ perceptions of depth to create differing representations of physical and emotional distance from their subjects. Through Aug. 14. FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer St. 617-423-4299, www.fortpointarts.org
TO BE HERE, AGAIN Abstract paintings by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, made for an artists book collaboration with poet James McCorkle presented at the 2009 Venice Biennale, are on view. McCorkle and poet Anna Frajlich will read at the opening on Friday, 7-9:30 p.m. July 31 through Aug. 7. Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge. 617-547-4648, www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/blog2
CRAIG BOSTICK: SIN ALLEY, FISH McGILL: ROBOTS & HUNGRY ANIMALS, GAVIN PETERSEN: VOODOO KITCHEN Bostick interprets sin through the lens of mid-20th-century pop culture. McGill uses robots to question what it means to be a member of society. Petersen taps global influences. July 31 through Aug. 21. Space 242, 242 E. Berkeley St. 617-797-3191, www.space242.com
CATE MCQUAID
DOVE / O’KEEFFE: CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE An exploration of the mutual influence these two popular giants of early American modernism exerted on each other. Through Sept. 7. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 413-458-2303, www.clarkart.edu
THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: FOLK THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY ART The first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk imagery and mythic history in recent American art, inspired by Greil Marcus’s book of the same name. Through Sept. 7. DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln. 781-259-8355, www.decordova.org SEBASTIAN SMEE 
