the Stage

ANYTHING GOES. A fine production of a terrific Cole Porter musical. Opens tonight at 8 in the Leverett Old Library.

CYRANO. After weeks of brave resistance to The Crimson's devastating pan, the old boy is about to sheathe his sword, bench his nose and flee to the wilds of New York. Closing, that is, after Saturday's performance, 7:30 at the Colonial.

ELM SEED PUPPET THEATER. Would you believe they alchemize silence and slow time into art? Neither would I, but who are we to question The Real Paper? Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass. Ave.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, or, What's a nice boy like You doing in a place like this? Opens Tuesday at 8 at the Shubert.

THE SOLDIER'S TALE, by Igor Stravinsky, and THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, by Hans Werner Henze. This is the second outing this week for Stravinsky's allegory, which Eliot House put on Sunday, but it bears repetition. It's the second American performance of the Henze, which for all I know bears repetition too. Tomorrow and Sunday, 8:30 in the Quincy House Dining Hall.

WEST SIDE STORY. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. If this be cryptic, make the most of it. 8 at the Loeb.

ZAJ-DADA. "ZAJ is a musical-theater group from Madrid, Spain," they tell me, "who will 'perform' at 8:30 p.m. at Quincy House Dining Hall" tonight. For contrast, or something, you might try GUERNICA, whatever it may be, by Le Theatre Du Ble Noir at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. in Boston, tomorrow and Saturday at 8:30.