Huntington Theatre

Toni Stone was the first woman to play regularly in a major-level professional baseball league. Turned away from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because of her race, she played on men’s teams in the Negro Leagues in the 1940s and 50s.

This holiday season, The Huntington is addressing one of the most enduring debates of the 21st century: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie or not? In “Yippee Ki Yay,” a one-man parody of the 1980s action film, the answer is most decidedly yes.

Even in dark times, people can touch one another with their shared humanity. Such connections abound in “The Band’s Visit,” the 90-minute dose of musical theater magic on stage at The Huntington Theatre.

Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, “Hamlet,” has inspired some memorable adaptations (“The Lion King,” anyone?), but “Fat Ham,” opening at The Huntington this month in association with Alliance Theatre and Front Porch Arts Collective, is unlike any audiences have seen before.