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Salome presented by Bridge Repertory Theater
Bridge Repertory Theater kicks off its third season with Salome, Oscar Wilde’s fast-paced one-act, inspired by the iconic Bible story, featuring dancer Shura Baryshnikov in the titular role. Oscar Wilde’s rich, heightened text enlivens a most dangerous bargain: Herod begs Salomé, “Dance for me,” and in exchange promises anything she desires. Salomé complies with the mysterious and erotic dance of the seven veils. To Herod’s horror, she then demands the severed head of John the Baptist on a silver platter…
Find out more »Hub Theatre Company of Boston presents “The Love of the Nightingale”
Hub Theatre Company of Boston will cap off its critically acclaimed third season with Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale at First Church in Boston, Friday, November 6 through Saturday, November 21. This timely and topical production addresses the issue of sexual violence, which has reached crisis proportions in our communities, corporations and college campuses. In this powerful, contemporary adaptation of the classic Greek myth of Tereus, the focus is shifted from the doomed king to his wife Procne…
Find out more »Tony Award winner ‘ART’ by Yasmina Reza presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Hub Theatre Company of Boston opens its highly anticipated fourth season with Yasmina Reza’s Tony-award winning play ‘ART’ starring John Geoffrion, Bob Mussett and Victor Shopov at First Church in Boston, Friday, April 8 through Saturday, April 23, 2016. You won't want to miss the play Newsweek describes as "a marriage of Molière and Woody Allen." What is art, what is friendship, and which is more important? Life-long friends Serge, Marc and Yvan are about to find out! After Serge spends a small fortune on an unusual piece of…
Find out more »Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What do you do when you learn you are about to die? In the show The New York Times calls “wise, witty and wrenching,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Margaret Edson questions what we value most when our days are numbered. Wit is a forceful and funny piece that examines relationships, compassion and finding the essential balance between science and art, head and heart. With no right or wrong answers, this provocative and profoundly moving play allows each of us to consider how to live,…
Find out more »Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” by Margaret Edson presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What do you do when you learn you are about to die? In the show The New York Times calls “wise, witty and wrenching,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Margaret Edson questions what we value most when our days are numbered. Wit is a forceful and funny piece that examines relationships, compassion and finding the essential balance between science and art, head and heart. With no right or wrong answers, this provocative and profoundly moving play allows each of us to consider how to live,…
Find out more »Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What do you do when you learn you are about to die? In the show The New York Times calls “wise, witty and wrenching,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Margaret Edson questions what we value most when our days are numbered. Wit is a forceful and funny piece that examines relationships, compassion and finding the essential balance between science and art, head and heart. With no right or wrong answers, this provocative and profoundly moving play allows each of us to consider how to live,…
Find out more »Pulitzer Prize Winner “Wit” presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What do you do when you learn you are about to die? In the show The New York Times calls “wise, witty and wrenching,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Margaret Edson questions what we value most when our days are numbered. Wit is a forceful and funny piece that examines relationships, compassion and finding the essential balance between science and art, head and heart. With no right or wrong answers, this provocative and profoundly moving play allows each of us to consider how to live,…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the question whether…
Find out more »LINDY WEST at Papercuts J.P.
Papercuts JP is pleased to welcome LINDY WEST for the paperback release of Shrill. Hailed as "ferociously funny" by People, "propulsively entertaining" by Slate, and the work of "one of the funniest feminists alive today" by Refinery29, the sensational New York Times bestselling series of essays about the making of a feminist in a popular culture that is hostile to women (especially fat women) and doesn't think women (especially feminists) are or can be funny. This event is being held at First Church in JP, 6…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the question whether…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Coyote on a Fence presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society. Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and as friends since grade school, they decide it's their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong? With biting one-liners, escalating confrontations and a wildly…
Find out more »Peter and The Starcatcher
Come experience The Neverland you never knew! Before Wendy, before Tinkerbell, and before The Lost Boys, there was a friendless boy, a determined girl, and a journey that would change them both forever. Filled with music, mermaids, mayhem, and magic, this Tony Award-winning prequel to Peter Pan tells the incredible story of how a lonely orphan became the boy who never grew up and a precocious young girl taught everyone to believe. With an ensemble cast of twelve actors portraying over 100 roles and…
Find out more »The Clearing
What happens when justice isn't just? This passionate, poignant and powerful historical drama tells the story of an English aristocrat and his Irish wife whose love is challenged, loyalties tested and lives forever changed by the divisive politics and long held prejudices of their time. Set in Ireland during "the curse of Cromwell," Edmundson uses a historical lens to capture the horror of today’s ethnic cleansing and forced transplantation. Full of treachery and treason, The Clearing adeptly funnels an intimate…
Find out more »The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the First Church Boston
Equal parts piety, prayer and profanity, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award nominated playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a poignant, darkly comedic examination of condemnation and compassion. Set in Hope, a rundown corner of Purgatory, a trial convenes to re-examine Judas’s crimes and determine his fate- does he deserve to ascend to Heaven or is he doomed to remain in Hell? After a cavalcade of famous (and infamous) witnesses, including Sigmund Freud, Mother…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.