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Deborah Zoe Laufer's BE HERE NOW to Open WAM Theatre 15th Anniversary Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 29, 2024

WAM Theatre will kick off its 15th Anniversary Season with a Fresh Takes Play Reading of Be Here Now written by Deborah Zoe Laufer. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Coolidge Corner Theatre to Present 'Big Screen Debuts' Series Featuring Films by Renowned Auteurs


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 02, 2023

Explore the Coolidge Corner Theatre's 'Big Screen Debuts' series, featuring the first feature films of renowned directors such as The Coen Brothers, Sofia Coppola, Barry Jenkins, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, and Satyajit Ray. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the early works of these iconic ...

Cast Set for PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC at The Huntington


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 03, 2023

Discover the talented cast of PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, coming to The Huntington Theatre Company on March 15th. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to experience PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC....

World Premiere of THE PICKLEBALL WARS Opens At Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater August 11


by A.A. Cristi - August 01, 2023

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater presents the world premiere of The Pickleball Wars, by Kevin Rice, directed by Daisy Walker. Performances run Tuesdays through Saturdays, August 11 to September 9 at 8 p.m. Preview performances at 7:30 p.m. on August 9 and 10 are discounted and open to the public. ...

THE DING DONGS Comes to Gloucester Stage Company


by Stephi Wild - July 18, 2023

Gloucester Stage Company is excited to announce the highly anticipated opening of THE DING DONGS, a comedic thriller by Cape Cod playwright Brenda Withers and directed by Gloucester Stage's Artistic Director Rebecca Bradshaw. A part lesson in how power evolves and how intimidation works, audiences w...

Cast Set for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Shakespeare & Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 06, 2023

The cast has been revealed for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare & Company, directed by Artistic Director Allyn Burrows and staged August 1 through September 10, opening Friday, August 4 outdoors at the New Spruce Theatre....

Audra McDonald, Max Von Essen, Ginger Minj & More to Kick Off PTown Summer Lineup


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 15, 2023

Summer 2023’s Town Hall series will feature Audra McDonald, Ginger Minj and more. Learn how to purchase tickets!...

STEW Comes to Gloucester Stage Company


by Stephi Wild - June 14, 2023

Gloucester Stage Company, under the leadership of Rebecca Bradshaw, Artistic Director, and Christopher Griffith, Managing Director, is thrilled to announce the regional premiere of Zora Howard's critically acclaimed play, STEW, a moving story of women, family, overcoming emotional obstacles and the ...

The Huntington 2023 Spotlight Gala Shatters Records, Raising $1.67M


by A.A. Cristi - May 11, 2023

The Huntington held its annual Spotlight Gala on Monday, May 1, 2023 at the Cyclorama at the BCA (539 Tremont St). Over 400 attendees gathered to celebrate honorees as well as the achievement of this transformational season. The Gala supports The Huntington's artistic, education, and community initi...

The Umbrella Stage Closes Season With THE COLOR PURPLE


by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2023

The Umbrella Stage Company presents the musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel, The Color Purple, and the 1985 film by Steven Spielberg. ...

Past Shows

Common Ground Revisited
Common Ground Revisited
5/27 - 6/26/2022


This riveting and intricately woven world premiere play brings Bostons history to life in the 1960s and 70s, culminating in three families experiences in court-mandated ...

Our Daughters, Like Pillars


Lavinia is bringing her sisters and mother on a much-needed family vacation. She has planned the week to the smallest detail - antiquing in the ...

What the Constitution Means to Me


Following a smash run on Broadway, Heidi Schrecks timely, hilarious and deeply felt play breathes new life into our countrys most important document. Fifteen-year-old Heidi ...

The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
1/28 - 2/27/2022


Celebrate the legacy of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrisons acclaimed debut novel The Bluest Eye. Brought to life as a tremendously moving ...

Teenage Dick
Teenage Dick
12/3 - 1/2/2022


As the winter formal gives way to a glorious spring fling at Roseland High School, we enter the world of Mike Lews darkly funny, modern-day ...

Witch
Witch
10/15 - 11/14/2021


This fiendishly funny new play follows an alluring devil named Scratch as he arrives in the country village of Edmonton, and he promises to make ...

The Bluest Eye
4/24 - 5/24/2020


This American classic is a story about eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove who wants nothing more than to be loved. Instead, she's abused. Blaming her dark skin, ...

Our Daughters, Like Pillars
3/20 - 4/19/2020

Sweat
1/31 - 2/23/2020


With warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets and laughs ...

We All Fall Down
1/10 - 2/9/2020


The Virginia Wimberly Theatre: We All Fall Down...

Quixote Nuevo
11/15 - 12/8/2019


Quixote Nuevo is set in the fictional modern-day border town of La Plancha, Texas, where Don Quixote loses himself in stories of chivalrous escapades and ...


Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of ...

The Purists
8/30 - 9/29/2019


Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of ...

Tea At Five
6/21 - 7/7/2019

Yerma
5/31 - 6/30/2019


Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA: adapt: Melinda Lopez; trans: Melinda Lopez; dir: Melia Bensussen....

Indecent
4/26 - 5/26/2019


Paula Vogel Huntington Theatre Company...

Romeo and Juliet
3/1 - 3/31/2019


The greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare’s powerfully poetic and tragic tale of love and loss will steal your heart and leave you breathless. Transcending ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
1/4 - 2/3/2019


Doll's House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2017, before transferring ...

Man in the Ring
11/16 - 12/16/2018


Michael Cristoffer; dir: Charles Newell....

Sherlock's Last Case
9/28 - 10/28/2018


Charles Marowitz; dir: Maria Aitken....

The Niceties
8/31 - 10/7/2018


Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the ...

Skeleton Crew
3/2 - 3/31/2018


As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing ...

Bad Dates
1/26 - 2/25/2018


Contemporary Theatre of Dallas is proud to kick off its tenth season with this thoroughly charming, slyly sweet and absolutely hilarious one-woman play starring CTD ...

Mala
1/6 - 1/28/2018


“'Mala’ means ‘bad.’ Not that you have done something bad, but that you are, in your core, bad.” Funny, brutally honest, and ultimately cathartic, Mala ...

A Guide for the Homesick
10/6 - 11/4/2017


Teddy is searching for a friend for the night. Jeremy is searching for a beer. Worlds apart and miles away from home, two strangers, consumed ...

Merrily We Roll Along
9/8 - 10/15/2017


Stephen Sondheim’s remarkable Broadway fable of friendship and the high price of success opens in the present and moves backward in time. The triumphs and ...

Ripcord
5/26 - 6/25/2017


A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility, so when the cantankerous Abby is forced ...

The Who & The What
3/31 - 4/30/2017


Ayad Akhtar; dir: M. Bevin O'Gara. The Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA:...

Topdog/Underdog
3/10 - 4/9/2017


This electrifying drama about the gritty lives of two street-savvy hustlers resonated through the theatre world. The New York Times led the way, calling it ...

A Doll's House
1/6 - 2/5/2017


A Doll’s House traces the awakening of Nora Helmer from her previously unexamined life of domestic, wifely comfort. Having been ruled her whole life by ...

Bedroom Farce
11/11 - 12/11/2016


Las Vegas Little Theater presents Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Rob Kastil. This wickedly funny play about marriage takes place sequentially in three ...

Bedroom Farce
11/11 - 12/11/2016


Las Vegas Little Theater presents Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Rob Kastil. This wickedly funny play about marriage takes place sequentially in three ...

Tiger Style
10/14 - 11/13/2016


Mike Lew; dir: Moritz Von Stuelpnagel....

Tiger Style
10/14 - 11/13/2016


Mike Lew; dir: Moritz Von Stuelpnagel....


Dive into the world of artistic obsession and the complexities of creativity with Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ...


Dive into the world of artistic obsession and the complexities of creativity with Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ...


Dive into the world of artistic obsession and the complexities of creativity with Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ...

I Was Most Alive With You
5/27 - 6/26/2016


Craig Lucas; dir: Craig Lucas....

Can You Forgive Her?
3/25 - 4/24/2016


Gina Gionfriddo; dir: Peter DuBois....


Originally performed by August Wilson himself, How I Learned What I Learned is a heartfelt theatrical memoir charting one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity, ...

Milk Like Sugar
1/29 - 2/28/2016


Kirsten Greenidge; dir: M. Bevin O'Gara....

Disgraced
1/8 - 2/7/2016


Ayad Akhtar; dir: Gordon Edelstein....

A Confederacy of Dunces
11/11 - 12/13/2015


adapt: Jeffrey Hatcher; dir: David Esbjornson....

Choice
10/16 - 11/15/2015


Winnie Holzman; dir: Sheryl Kaller....

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
9/11 - 10/11/2015


A Little Night Music was Sondheim's eighth Broadway musical and features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the ...


A. Rey Pamatmat; dir: Peter DuBois....

Come Back, Little Sheba
3/27 - 4/26/2015


A troubled marriage is tested by an attractive young boarder as years of quiet frustration erupt into violence in this drama from the 1950s. Directed ...

The Colored Museum
3/6 - 4/5/2015


The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be Black in contemporary America. ...

The Second Girl
1/16 - 2/21/2015


Ronan Noone; dir: Campbell Scott....


Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their ...

Becoming Cuba
3/28 - 4/26/2014


Main Stage: - Melinda Lopez; dir: David Ellenstein....

The Seagull
3/7 - 4/6/2014


The renowned scholar Michael Henry Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, has written a brilliant new translation of this ...

Venus in Fur
1/3 - 2/2/2014


Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus ...

The C*CKtail Hour
11/15 - 12/15/2013


The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family’s house, bringing with him ...

THE LAST FIVE YEARS
11/23 - 11/24/2013


THE LAST FIVE YEARS is a contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from ...

The Power of Duff
10/11 - 11/9/2013


The Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA: Stephen Belber; dir: Peter DuBois....

The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
9/7 - 10/6/2013


Don't miss one of The Magik Theatre's first shows to tour nationally in over 50 sold out venues around the US! Adapted faithfully from Rudyard ...

Rapture, Blister, Burn
5/24 - 6/22/2013


The Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA: - Gina Gionfriddo; dir: Peter DuBois....

M
3/29 - 4/27/2013


The Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA: - adapt: Ryan Landry; dir: Caitlin Lowans....

A Raisin in the Sun
3/8 - 4/7/2013


The Huntington's Boston University Theatre: - Lorraine Hansberry; dir: Liesl Tommy....

Invisible Man
Invisible Man
1/4 - 2/3/2013


“I am an invisible man.” An idealistic young African-American man searches for identity and his place in the world in this epic journey through 1930s ...

Our Town
12/7 - 1/26/2013


The Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre (in the Calderwood Pavilion): - Thornton Wilder; dir: David Cromer....

Our Town
Our Town
12/7 - 1/13/2013


Visionary director and MacArthur "Genius" David Cromer brings his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed new version of the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town to the Huntington. ...

Betrayal
Betrayal
11/9 - 12/9/2012


For seven years, Emma and Jerry engage in a passionate love affair, deceiving their spouses, each other, and at times, even themselves. One of the ...

Now or Later
Now or Later
10/12 - 11/10/2012


On election night, the son of a Presidential candidate sends his father’s political team into crisis mode when controversial photos of him at a college ...

Good People
Good People
9/14 - 10/14/2012


In South Boston, this month’s paycheck covers last month’s bills, bingo is a night on the town, and sharp-tongued single-mom Margie Walsh has just been ...

Private Lives
Private Lives
5/25 - 6/24/2012


Divorcés Amanda and Elyot meet again by accident on their second honeymoons with brand-new spouses in tow. Fireworks fly as they discover how quickly romance ...

The Luck of the Irish
The Luck of the Irish
3/30 - 4/29/2012


When an upwardly mobile African-American family wants to buy a house in an all-white neighborhood of 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to ...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
3/9 - 4/8/2012


Legendary 1920s blues singer Ma Rainey and her musicians gather in a run-down Chicago studio to record new sides of old favorites when generational and ...

A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
3/8 - 4/7/2012


In a crowded apartment in Chicago’s South Side, each member of a struggling African-American family yearns for a different version of a better life. An ...

God of Carnage
1/6 - 2/5/2012

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
1/11 - 2/5/2012


The Tony and Olivier Award-winning New York smash hit by the author of Art comes to the Huntington! Two sets of parents meet for the ...

Captors
Captors
11/11 - 12/11/2011


1960 Buenos Aires. Covert Israeli agents have just nabbed Adolf Eichmann, the world's most wanted war criminal. The agents hold "the architect of the Holocaust" ...

Before I Leave You
Before I Leave You
10/14 - 11/13/2011


In a blink, Emily's Harvard Square world falls apart. Her husband Koji suddenly embraces his Asian roots. Her friend Jeremy's work on his novel gets ...

Candide
Candide
9/10 - 10/16/2011


Featuring Leonard Bernstein's soaring score and lyrics from some of the wittiest writers of all time, this outrageous musical satire tells the story of the ...

CANDIDE (ZIMMERMAN VERSION)
9/10 - 10/16/2011


Candide chronicles, in lightning-fast progression, the story of a young man banished from his home, drafted into the Bulgarian army and forced to endure relentless ...

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Chess: The Musical in Boston Chess: The Musical
Wheaton College - Watson Fine Arts (6/14 - 6/15)
Toni Stone in Boston Toni Stone
Huntington Theatre (5/17 - 6/16)
Come From Away in Boston Come From Away
Boston Opera House (5/28 - 6/2)
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