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 unpredictable climax, this savagely funny new comedy is a little bit Sex and the City and a little bit Titus Andronicus.

All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can! The means we don’t decide the price, you do! Our “sweet spot” would be about $20 per person; if you are on a budget, pay less, and if you are able to pay more, please do!

Performances 
Friday, October 27th-8pm
Saturday, October 28th-8pm
Sunday, October 29th-5:00pm
Thursday, November 2nd-7:30pm
Friday, November 3rd-8pm
Saturday, November 4th-8pm
Sunday, November 5th-5pm
Thursday, November 9th-7:30pm
Friday, November 10th-8pm
Saturday, November 11th-8pm

Donations of toiletries will be collected at each performance for local charities

Appropriate for ages 16+
Contains mature themes, stage violence and strong language.

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 unpredictable climax, this savagely funny new comedy is a little bit Sex and the City and a little bit Titus Andronicus.

All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can! The means we don’t decide the price, you do! Our “sweet spot” would be about $20 per person; if you are on a budget, pay less, and if you are able to pay more, please do!

Performances 
Friday, October 27th-8pm
Saturday, October 28th-8pm
Sunday, October 29th-5:00pm
Thursday, November 2nd-7:30pm
Friday, November 3rd-8pm
Saturday, November 4th-8pm
Sunday, November 5th-5pm
Thursday, November 9th-7:30pm
Friday, November 10th-8pm
Saturday, November 11th-8pm

Donations of toiletries will be collected at each performance for local charities

Appropriate for ages 16+
Contains mature themes, stage violence and strong language.

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 unpredictable climax, this savagely funny new comedy is a little bit Sex and the City and a little bit Titus Andronicus.

All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can! The means we don’t decide the price, you do! Our “sweet spot” would be about $20 per person; if you are on a budget, pay less, and if you are able to pay more, please do!

Performances 
Friday, October 27th-8pm
Saturday, October 28th-8pm
Sunday, October 29th-5:00pm
Thursday, November 2nd-7:30pm
Friday, November 3rd-8pm
Saturday, November 4th-8pm
Sunday, November 5th-5pm
Thursday, November 9th-7:30pm
Friday, November 10th-8pm
Saturday, November 11th-8pm

Donations of toiletries will be collected at each performance for local charities

Appropriate for ages 16+
Contains mature themes, stage violence and strong language.

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 unpredictable climax, this savagely funny new comedy is a little bit Sex and the City and a little bit Titus Andronicus.

All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can! The means we don’t decide the price, you do! Our “sweet spot” would be about $20 per person; if you are on a budget, pay less, and if you are able to pay more, please do!

Performances 
Friday, October 27th-8pm
Saturday, October 28th-8pm
Sunday, October 29th-5:00pm
Thursday, November 2nd-7:30pm
Friday, November 3rd-8pm
Saturday, November 4th-8pm
Sunday, November 5th-5pm
Thursday, November 9th-7:30pm
Friday, November 10th-8pm
Saturday, November 11th-8pm

Donations of toiletries will be collected at each performance for local charities

Appropriate for ages 16+
Contains mature themes, stage violence and strong language.

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 unpredictable climax, this savagely funny new comedy is a little bit Sex and the City and a little bit Titus Andronicus.

All tickets are Pay-What-You-Can! The means we don’t decide the price, you do! Our “sweet spot” would be about $20 per person; if you are on a budget, pay less, and if you are able to pay more, please do!

Performances 
Friday, October 27th-8pm
Saturday, October 28th-8pm
Sunday, October 29th-5:00pm
Thursday, November 2nd-7:30pm
Friday, November 3rd-8pm
Saturday, November 4th-8pm
Sunday, November 5th-5pm
Thursday, November 9th-7:30pm
Friday, November 10th-8pm
Saturday, November 11th-8pm

Donations of toiletries will be collected at each performance for local charities

Appropriate for ages 16+
Contains mature themes, stage violence and strong language.

 

ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE

In this stunning world premiere at ArtsEmerson, The White Card unfolds a meticulously crafted story, raising uncomfortable questions about what — and who — are on display.

Exploring contemporary headlines and cultural touchstones, CLAUDIA RANKINE‘s The White Card refuses to remain “just a play,” safely entrenched on the stage. Like her 2014 New York Times bestselling book of poetry entitled Citizen: An American Lyric, this new play unpacks the insidious ways in which racism manifests itself in everyday situations, prompting the question, “Can American society progress if whiteness stays invisible?”

In the elegant loft of a powerful, well-intentioned white couple in the New York City art world, a black artist named Charlotte Cummings arrives in the hopes of selling her new work. When the couple’s activist son joins them for dinner, tensions arise, truths are interrogated and the notion of intent — both conscious and unconscious — becomes paramount.

ArtsEmerson presents Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia

ArtsEmerson is pleased to present Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia.

Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia is an extraordinary new composition fusing music, film, voice and movement. It is the first major symphonic work that addresses the traumas that occurred in Cambodia in the late seventies, and is the first collaboration between the Oscar-nominated director Rithy Panh and lauded composer Him Sophy — both survivors of the Khmer Rouge and now at the forefront of Cambodia’s cultural renaissance. Anchored in “bangsokol” — a ritual for the dead or soon to be deceased — the performance intertwines traditional Khmer instruments with The Metropolis Ensemble orchestra and the Taipei Philharmonic Chamber Choir. All together, they create something innately Cambodian but relatable to audiences everywhere.

Bangsokol is an act of cultural renewal, aiming to return the arts to their place at the heart of Cambodian society. While the world continues to witness new genocides, wars and destruction, Bangsokol urges us to express our scars from the past in order to forge a new path forward.

Albert Camus’ THE STATE OF SIEGE at ArtsEmerson

Written by Nobel Prize–winning author Albert Camus, staged by leading avant-garde French director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and produced by the celebrated Paris theatre company Théâtre de la Ville, The State of Siege is set to take the country by storm this fall on its first visit to the United States. The rarely staged work, penned in 1948, weaves a tale of paranoia, endurance and political struggle resulting in a dizzying modern metaphor. With a renowned ensemble working on an epic scale, The State of Siege (L’État de siège) explores how art can serve as a way to process – and to resist – human atrocities. What role can art play in the face of peril? Faced with imminent danger, can the human spirit remain focused on the beauty of life?

ArtsEmerson: KISS

When a young, aspirational theatre troupe discovers and performs what they believe is a Syrian soap opera, they come to realize just how much they got wrong. Kiss is a brilliant play-within-a-play that shows how misunderstanding cultural cues can reveal blind spots you never knew you had. Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón brings his masterful sensibility to this intense, tightly wound new production where naiveté can turn out to be the kiss of death.

Actress and Memoirist MARIANNE LEONE Reads from her Latest, Ma Speaks Up

Porter Square Books welcomes local memoirist MARIANNE LEONE with her latest acclaimed work, Ma Speaks Up: And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back.

Ma Speaks Up is a record of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, with the wrong family, in the wrong religion. Though Marianne’s girlhood is flooded with shame, it’s equally packed with adventure, love, great cooking, and, above all, humor. The extremely premature birth of Marianne’s beloved son, Jesse, bonds mother and daughter in ways she couldn’t have imagined. The stories she tells will speak to anyone who has struggled with outsider status in any form and, of course, to mothers and their blemished, cherished girls.

This event is not ticketed.