Stage listings for the week

Bubbling Brown Sugar is a black musical about Harlem during its Renaissance in the 'tens, 'twenties and 'thirties, performed by the original national cast from the Broadway production. Performances are at 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday at the Colonial Theater, 106 Boylston St., Boston with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.

Candida, by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Lorenzo Mariani, is at the Loeb Mainstage Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets can be bought at the Loeb for $3 and $4.

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, is a musical and revue about, among other things, love, and involving soul, rock, folk, blues, gospel music, calypso and swing, to mention a few. Sound impressive? It is. It is playing Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 and 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston.

Ein Bericht Fuer Eine Akadeimie, a special presentation of Kafka's Report to an Academy starring actors from the Hessisches Staats Theater in Weisbaden, Germany, is being performed on Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at the Laurie Theater at Brandeis. If you couldn't read the first part of this listing, don't bother to go, unless you want to follow the English version of the play, which will be available free at the door.

Family is reopening at the Caravan Theater, 1555 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, with previews Friday and Saturday, and an official opening Wednesday, Nov 3 at 8:30 p.m. It's an original play concerning myths about the nuclear family.

Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter is being performed at the People's Theater, 1253 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Friday through Sunday at 8:05 p.m.

Flagstone, an improvisational work involving theater, mime, music and dance, is being put on by the Seachange Ensemble at the Boston Arts Group, 367 Boylston Street, Boston, Thursday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Grease, the Broadway musical about kids in the 'fifties is still playing at the Shubert Theater, 265 Tremont St., Boston. Performances are at 8 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Living Newspaper is the Caravan Theater's new way of giving you the news and happens every Saturday at 11 p.m. at 1155 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. Admission is free.

Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw, is being presented at the Spingold Theater at Brandeis at 10 a.m. Thursday, and at 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Nothin' is an original comedy revue that involves both live and videa taped performances, showing at Matt Talbot's, Berkeley and Chandler Sts. in Boston. Performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m.

Private Lives, Noel Coward's tremendously funny play about what might happen when you run into your exspouse on a balcony during your honeymoon with your current spouse, is playing at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston. Performances are Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.mn.

Rapture, about a man trying to reconstruct his life and his discovery of the inadequacy of scientific logic to meet his needs, is playing Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. at Playwright's Platform, Church of all Nations, 333 Trement St., Boston.

Shades of Black, at the Loeb Ex, includes three one-act plays by Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins and Dorothy Ahmad, and is showing at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets are free at the box office the afternoon before each performance.

Soap is The Proposition's word on TV soap operas and is playing at The Proposition Theater, 241 Hampshire St., Cambridge Thursday at 8:30 p.m. and Friday at 8 and 10 p.m.

Tania, Maxine Klein's musical work about Tamara Bunke, who fought and died with Che Guevara in Bolivia, is playing in repertory with Fanshen at the Little Flags Theater Collective, Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont St., Boston. Tania plays Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 10 p.m; Fanshen plays Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Drunkard, a musical melodrama, is on at the Charles Playhouse, The Cabaret Down Under, 74 Warrenton St., Boston, Tuesday through Thursday at 8:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m. and Sunday at 8:15 p.m.

The Importance of Being Earnest, written by Oscar Wilde, directed by Samuel Bloomfield and produced by Jeffrey Rubins, is being performed in the Leverett House Old Library Theater at Harvard, Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the ticket office in Holyoke Center from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Misanthrope, Moliere's great attack on hyprocrisy, is being performed at the Boston Repertory Theater, One Boylston Place, Boston Wednesday through Saturday at 8:08 (seriously) p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $1.

The Proposition Review is still showing on Thursday at 8:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m. at the Proposition Theater, 241 Hampshire St., Inman Sq., Cambridge.

The Royal Family, the brilliant Broadway production of George S. Kaufmann--Edna Ferber play about a flamboyant theater family strangely reminiscent of the Barrymore clan, is playing at the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St., Boston. Performances are Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Taming of the Shrew, a modernized version, is being presented by the Boston Shakespeare Company at their theater at the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Sts. in Boston, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.