Lizzie: The Musical at The Umbrella Arts Center

In one of 15 Boston theater productions to see this fall (Terry Byrne, WBUR Fall Theater Guide), the subject of centuries-old, sing-song villainy, Lizzie Borden, turns searing rock anthem anti-hero and has audiences raging in their seats at The Umbrella Arts Center!

More than 130 years after the grisly unsolved murders that rocked Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden finally gets her say in a ghost-story-meets-rock-concert musical that has had global audiences dancing and raging in their seats. Featuring four women fronting a six-piece rock band and delivering a score that epitomizes riot grrrl power, LIZZIE has inspired an enthusiastic cult following

Nominated for three Drama Desk awards and named best musical eight times over in regional awards around the country and the world, this musical is totally whack (in a good way)!

The production is helmed by Ilyse Robbins, and features Sophia Muharram, Liza Giangrande, Nora Sullivan, Temma Beaudreau, Stephanie Barney, and Eleni Kontzamanys.

“Presented with wall-rattling glee…deliciously watchable!” – The New York Times

“Take a pure American gothic tale that grabbed the headlines in a small New England town in 1892 and quickly went on to become a cause celebre across the nation. Set it to a volcanic, quasi-operatic punk rock beat that captures the sense of female rage, retribution and betrayal, and feels custom-made for the current climate. And then just let it roar.” – Chicago Sun Times

Running Sept. 22-Nov. 5, 2023 (press opening Friday Sept. 29, 8PM), the play will run in rotation with The Umbrella’s production of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, a no-net night of one-night-only, single-actor performance of a work by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour.

The production is in The Umbrella Stage Company's state-of-the-art Main Stage Theater144, at the newly renovated Umbrella Arts Center in the heart of historic Concord Center. Dinner-And-A-Show Thursdays, Kid-Care performances, Talkbacks and other audience activities are available at select performances. The Umbrella is ADA accessible, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council's EBT Card-to-Culture program, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries. See TheUmbrellaArts.org/Lizzie for more detail.