Stage listings

OPENINGS:

Bed Before Yesterday. Carol Channing is at it again. At the Colonial Theater, Boylston Street, in Boston. Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with Saturday matinees at 2.

The Death of the Boogie Woogie. Old-timer Karl Bostic directs Black C.A.S.T. in the Loeb Ex. 64 Brattle Street, November 18-20. Tickets free the day prior to performance at the Loeb Box Office.

Sly Fox. A fine cast, working under director Arthur Penn. At the Wilbur Theater, Tremont Street, in Boston. Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with Saturday matinees at 2.

Scapino! The Mainstage presents Moliere updated, augmented, and thoroughly revivified. Reviewed on opposite page. At the Loeb, 64 Brattle

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. A musical revue about, among other things, love, and involving soul, rock, folk, blues, gospel music, calypso and swing just for a start. Now with an all-black band at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton Street, in Boston. Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 6 and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday at 3 and 7:30 p.m.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Sondheim's wonderfully confusing musical comedy set in ancient Rome. Under the auspices of Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society at the Agassiz Theatre in Radcliffe Yard. Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. through November 21.

Kiss Me Kate. Cole Porter's grand musical uses Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a jumping-off point. Presented at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. Friday

The Living Newspaper. The real world made like real. The Caravan Theater gives the news at 1155 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge every Saturday at 11 p.m.

Macbeth. The Boston Shakespeare Company witches boil their brew. At the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston, Thursday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Master Builder. Ibsen's drama will open this week at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles Street in Boston. Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. plus a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m., November 11 through December 18.

The Misanthrope. A sorry, schizy update of Moliere's great attack on hypocrisy. Limping along at the Boston Repertory Theater, 1 Boylston Place, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:08; matinee on Saturday at 2 and Sunday at 3.

Rapture. A man trying to reconstruct his life with the help of scientific logic, written in the sixties) bus stop. Berlin. At Playwright's Platform, Church of All Nations, 333 Tremont St. Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.

Soap. The Proposition's word or daytime TV, at the Proposition Theater 241 Hampshire Street, Cambridge Thursday at 8:30 and Friday at 8 and 1 p.m.

Summerwork. The Harvard Premiere Society opens Mark O'Donnell's play about innocence and ignorance at a small, secluded summer camp. No songs and champagne, but then, they won't make you pay for your program. At Dunster House, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. Admission one dollar.

The Taming of the Shrew. Brush up your Shakespeare. "Modernized" by the Boston Shakespeare Company (for more information see Maceth) on Fridays at 8 p.m.

Tania. Maxine Klein's musical work about Tamara Burke, who fought and died with Che Guevera in Bolivia. At the Little Flags Theater Collective, Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont Street, Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 10.