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Buckminster Fuller — the influential thinker and futurist — is known around the world for his big ideas and his inventions, including the curious-looking but structurally efficient geodesic dome. But now the Massachusetts native is coming home, thanks to a new one-man production at the American Repertory Theater.

One-man play at A.R.T. recounts futurist Fuller’s life.

[The show is] an entertainment modeled on the celebrated lectures Fuller traveled the world to give…in which the famously voluble Bucky tells the story of his life, expounds on some of his key ideas, and occasionally bursts into song…

“Beverly couple—with help of ‘Wicked’ creator—see their musical come to life.”

NECN Style Boston video on Johnny Baseball.

Artifice plainly heaped on artifice is the effervescent essence of this “King Stag”…The widely traveled production tells a frothy story about a lovelorn king, magic spells and talking animals that boils down to a profoundly simple truth: playfulness is serious business.

“‘Scrapbook’ is a beautiful way of saying it, looking over the last ten years of productions — memorable moments, memorable performers, and thanking the audience for being there.”

“I love to work in the musical theater form. So when I was thinking about what to direct for my 10th-anniversary season … Diane Borger suggested we instead do a show celebrating a decade of musical theater at the A.R.T.”

The first time Boston hip-hop artist Billy Dean Thomas saw Gordon Parks’ black-and-white photograph called “American Gothic,” featuring a black janitor standing in front of an American flag with mop and broom in hand, Thomas wrote an entire song inspired by the image.