Need to warm up? Try dancing. Or, better yet, try watching other people dance in a toasty theater.

Boston’s winter theater scene is hot. It’s full of dance from Cuba, laughs from Broadway, drama from Dublin, and triumph from, well, all over — rekindle your spirit with productions that travel from South Africa to Swan Lake.

“The Piano Lesson”

Jan. 23 – Feb. 16, Hibernian Hall

August Wilson is America’s Shakespeare, so it only makes sense that the Actors’ Shakespeare Project is diving deep into Wilson’s American Century Cycle. In “The Piano Lesson,” the playwright returns to Pittsburgh’s Hill District for the story of a family debating selling its antique piano to buy land where members of the family had once been enslaved. actorsshakespeareproject.org

Read the entire article as it originally appeared in The Boston Herald here.