THE THINGS AROUND US Comes to ArtsEmerson
by Stephi Wild - January 22, 2026
ArtsEmerson will present The Things Around Us, an inventive and unexpected one-person show created and performed by acclaimed musician, storyteller, and composer Ahamefule J. Oluo. ...
ArtsEmerson To Present NOLI TIMERE At Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - December 22, 2025
ArtsEmerson will present Noli Timere, a new interdisciplinary performance work by Rebecca Lazier and Janet Echelman, at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. The work features eight performers navigating a suspended net sculpture created specifically for the stage....
SPACEBRIDGE Comes to ArtsEmerson in November
by Stephi Wild - October 28, 2025
ArtsEmerson will present the Boston premiere of SpaceBridge, running at the Emerson Paramount Center's Robert J. Orchard Stage in November. Learn more about the production here!...
ArtsEmerson Presents THE 4TH WITCH By Manual Cinema
by A.A. Cristi - October 08, 2025
ArtsEmerson welcomes Chicago’s acclaimed multimedia collective Manual Cinema back to Boston with their new production The 4th Witch, a reimagining of Macbeth blending puppetry, live music, and cinematic storytelling. ...
BOSTON ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025 Schedule Announced
by A.A. Cristi - October 06, 2025
The 17th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival runs October 16–26, 2025, featuring eight feature films, six shorts programs, and a special presentation of Can I Get a Witness? with Ann Marie Fleming and Keira Jang. ...
Review: PASSENGERS at American Repertory Theater's Loeb Drama Center is Trip Worth Taking
by R. Scott Reedy - September 08, 2025
Train travel has inspired music and movies, from songs like “I Thought about You,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” “My Baby Takes the Morning Train,” and the beloved Boston classic “Charlie on the M.T.A.” to films including “Strangers on a Train,” “The Incident,” “Girl on a Train,” and, of course, “Murder...
KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER is Coming to ArtsEmerson
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 20, 2025
ArtsEmerson will present Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer at the Emerson Paramount Center. Learn more about the upcoming performance and see how to purchase tickets. ...
ArtsEmerson Reveals 2025/26 Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2025
ArtsEmerson has announced its 2025/26 Season, featuring nine live stage events in its 15th anniversary year. Learn more about the full upcoming lineup here!...
Cast and Design Team Set for Zora Howard's HANG TIME National Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 15, 2025
The Flea will launch a national tour for their world-premiere production of HANG TIME, by Zora Howard, which originally ran at The Flea in Spring 2023. See upcoming tour dates and learn more here!...
ArtsEmerson & The Museum Of Science Present UTOPIAN HOTLINE
by A.A. Cristi - April 08, 2025
Utopian Hotline is Theater Mitu's latest creation, a live performance that invites you, too, to speak your message to the distant future on a public telephone hotline. Just dial 1-646-694-8050 and respond to the prompt....
Past Shows
Life & Times of Michael K
1/31 - 2/9/2025
Life & Times of Michael K brings the Booker Prize-winning novel by J.M. Coetzee to the stage in an evocative adaptation directed by Lara Foot. ...
In the Same Tongue
9/26 - 9/29/2024
In the Same Tongue is a new dance celebration choreographed by Emmy-nominated Dianne McIntyre, featuring original music by composer Diedre Murray and the poetry of ...
Fight Night
9/20 - 9/21/2024
Fight Night, presented by ArtsEmerson, explores the dynamics of democracy and voting through an interactive performance by the Belgian theater company Ontroerend Goed. Audiences are ...
Shared Stories: Encore Presentations
2/24 - 2/28/2021
ArtsEmerson presents Shared Stories, a monthly film series in collaboration with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF), and ...
Julia
2/9 - 2/22/2021
A power play of sex, lies, and videotape.The Strindberg classic Miss Julie is audaciously revised in this hypnotic production from internationally praised Brazilian theatremaker Christiane ...
Down a Dark Stairwell
2/5 - 2/7/2021
When a Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a ...
Under the Radar Festival
12/21 - 1/17/2021
"Over the last 17 years, UTR has shared artists and events with us and has also programmed artists that they discovered at ArtsEmerson. In these ...
Arts and Healing: Bangsokol Festival
12/11 - 12/20/2020
In response to the challenges and realities of 2020, Cambodian Living Arts and ArtsEmerson are presenting Arts & Healing: Bangsokol Virtual Festival from December 11th ...
Arts and Healing: Bangsokol Festival
12/11 - 12/20/2020
In response to the challenges and realities of 2020, Cambodian Living Arts and ArtsEmerson are presenting Arts & Healing: Bangsokol Virtual Festival from December 11th ...
Join us for our next live Town Hall as Executive Director David C. Howse and Artistic Director David Dower pick up a long-arc conversation with ...
in the absence of things
12/1 - 12/8/2020
"Vocalist-composer and writer Somi forges new ground with experimental short film that blends spoken word, art song, and movement with deconstructed concert recordings from Somis ...
Youth ages 7+ and families tune in for this Workshop on Freedom! Featuring: Toshi Reagon, Kwame Alexander. Jason Reynolds.Jacqueline Woodson and many more...The Black Lives ...
Our Time Machine (Film)
9/11 - 9/22/2020
ABOUT THE FILMWhen artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimers disease, he creates Papas Time Machine, a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size ...
In light of the recent news that Artistic Director David Dower will be departing ArtsEmerson, he will join with Executive Director C. David Howse to ...
State vs Natasha Banina
8/20 - 8/23/2020
She makes her case; the audience decides her fate. This is State vs. Natasha Banina. Performed live by Darya Denisova (2020 Elliot Norton Award-winner for ...
Join us for this very specialone-night-only streaming ofOctavia E. Butlers Parable of the Sower: The Concert Experience!The event starts with a conversation between Toshi Reagon ...
Torrey Pines
4/27 - 5/10/2020
It's an animated film. It's a live pop-rock band. It's a queer, coming-of-age road trip like none other. It's Torrey Pines , originally presented at ...
Torrey Pines
4/27 - 5/10/2020
It's an animated film. It's a live pop-rock band. It's a queer, coming-of-age road trip like none other. It's Torrey Pines , originally presented at ...
Sequence 8
4/13 - 4/26/2020
This is your chance to see one of the classic performances that turned Montreal's The 7 Fingers into absolute fan-favorites in Boston; from our 2012/13 ...
Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour
5/5 - 5/19/2018
What happened to Mr. Joy? A Harlem community is shaken when Mr. Joy, a Chinese immigrant whose shoe repair shop has been a neighborhood pillar ...
Kiss
10/26 - 11/19/2017
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 ...
HOME
9/27 - 10/1/2017
On an empty stage, a house is conjured from thin air. Residents move in, move out, clean up, burn down, sweep under, paint over, fence ...
REVERSIBLE
9/6 - 9/24/2017
In the summer of 2016, Cuisine & Confessions wowed Boston audiences nightly with The 7 Fingers’ trademark acrobatic and choreographic prowess combined with on-stage cooking. ...
Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour
4/1 - 4/21/2017
ArtsEmerson and the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity present Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour, a series of free theatre performances in four neighborhoods ...
Screening of the National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangeroux
2/12 - 2/14/2016
Following the hugely successful broadcasts of Coriolanus and King Lear, National Theatre Live brings the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses ...
Screening of Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company: The Winter's Tale
1/22 - 1/24/2016
The first season of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live promises an exceptional series of plays broadcast to cinemas from London’s Garrick Theatre over the ...
ArtsEmerson 6th Annual One Day Sale
11/30 - 12/1/2015
Get $25 tickets for select performances of ArtsEmerson’s January – May theatre productions – a savings up to 60%! Give your loved ones a theatrical ...
Trojan Women (SITI Company)
4/17 - 4/21/2013
Paramount Mainstage: - adapt: Jocelyn Clarke; dir: Anne Bogart....
Neva (The Public Theater NYC)
4/3 - 4/7/2013
The Jackie Liebergott Black Box: - Guillermo Calderon; dir: Guillermo Calderon....
Metamorphosis (Vesturport Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre)
2/27 - 3/3/2013
Paramount Mainstage: - adapt: David Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson; music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis; dir: David Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson....
The Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni)
1/29 - 2/10/2013
Paramount Mainstage: - adapt: Constance Congdon; dir: Christopher Bayes....
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Zabel in Exile
Boston Playwrights' Theatre (2/19 - 3/8) | |
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The Bald Soprano & The Lesson
Boston Center for the Arts (2/20 - 3/8) | |
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Shit-faced Shakespeare®: Hamlet
The Rockwell (11/28 - 2/14) | |
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Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame Induction - 2025 Class
Boch Center Wang Theatre (3/24 - 3/24) | |
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We Had a World
Huntington Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, Wimberly Theatre (2/12 - 3/15)
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Laughter, Love, and Loss -- An Evening With Actress/Comedian Alyssa Limperis
Regis College (4/2 - 4/2) | |
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Stereophonic
Emerson Colonial Theatre (3/10 - 3/15) | |
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Jagged Little Pill
The Company Theatre (7/24 - 8/16) | |
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