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Discover the winners of the 41st Annual Elliot Norton Awards, celebrating excellence in the Boston theater scene. Stay updated with BroadwayWorld's latest news....
ArtsEmerson Presents BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS
by A.A. Cristi - March 27, 2024
ArtsEmerson will present BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS. Dive into an immersive journey of ancient myths and legends in this unique performance....
MRS. KRISHNAN'S PARTY & More Lead Boston's April 2024 Top Theatre Shows
by Team BWW - April 01, 2024
Boston is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for April 2024 include Mrs. Krishnan's Party, Jagged Little Pill and more!...
MRS. KRISHNAN'S PARTY Comes to ArtsEmerson This Month
by Stephi Wild - March 04, 2024
ArtsEmerson will present Mrs. Krishnan's Party at the Emerson Paramount Center from March 27 – April 7, 2024. From Indian Ink Theatre Company comes this immersive and utterly disarming new comedy that celebrates life, death, and rebirth....
Review: Compelling transitions abound in A.R.T.'s BECOMING A MAN
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A STRANGE LOOP & More Lead Boston's Spring 2024 Top Theatre Shows
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BECOMING A MAN, PRETTY WOMAN & More Lead Boston's February 2024 Theater Top Picks
by BWW Staff - February 05, 2024
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Cast and Creative Team Set for BECOMING A MAN World Premiere Stage Adaptation at A.R.T.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 18, 2024
The cast and creative team has been revealed for Becoming a Man, an A.R.T.-commissioned world-premiere play about the courage—and the community—we need to become ourselves....
ArtsEmerson Presents The U.S. Premiere Of DUEL REALITY By The 7 Fingers
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2024
ArtsEmerson presents the U.S. premiere of DUEL REALITY by The 7 Fingers. The acclaimed circus troupe returns to Boston with their latest show....
VIDEO: DUEL REALITY Creators Talk About Upcoming Run At ArtsEmerson
by Joshua Wright - January 04, 2024
Learn more about Duel Reality ahead of their run at ArtsEmerson! Duel Reality is Circus on a whole new theatrical level. The 7 Fingers’ reputation and fandom in Boston has grown with each stunning production they’ve previously brought to ArtsEmerson....
Past Shows
Ma Belle My Beauty
4/30 - 5/2/2021
Ma Belle My Beauty 93 minutes On-demand: APRIL 30 @ 7PM ET - MAY 02 @ 12:01AM ET Director - Teemu Nikki Screened in French ...
NIMBY - Not in My Backyard
4/30 - 5/2/2021
NIMBY - Not in My Backyard 95 minutes On-demand: APRIL 30 @ 7PM ET - MAY 02 @ 12:01AM ET Director - Teemu Nikki Screened ...
Shared Stories: Eating Up Easter, followed by Sky Aelans
4/21 - 4/25/2021
ArtsEmerson adds to its April programming schedule with the next Town Hall with David C. Howse, featuring guest artist KOA (formerly known as Daniel Beatty) ...
Live Town Hall: In Conversation with KOA (the artist formerly known as Daniel Beaty) Virtual Town Hall 5PM ET 60 minutes Join them for their ...
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 ...
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
1/23 - 1/26/2020
When a group of activists with intellectual disabilities holds a public meeting, they discover a history they would prefer not to know, and a future ...
An Iliad
11/20 - 11/24/2019
On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...
The Magic Flute
11/6 - 11/10/2019
Is it a) Ancient Egypt, b) Europe in the Age of Enlightenment, or c) a land beyond our imagination? The answer is: d) all of ...
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
10/30 - 11/3/2019
book: Korde Arrington Tuttle; music: Bryce Dessner; dir: Kaneza Schaal....
Passengers
9/25 - 10/13/2019
What would happen if you were to remember your deaths? Your greatest struggles or each and every moment of laughter. The people who you lost ...
See You Yesterday
5/16 - 5/19/2019
Nineteen Cambodian performers utilize their extraordinary physical skills, including acrobatics and circus arts, to travel back in time and shatter a legacy of silence. Performed ...
/peh-LO-tah/
5/1 - 5/5/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: Marc Bamuthi Joseph; music: Tommy Shepherd; dir: Michael John Garces....
American Moor
4/10 - 4/21/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: Keith Hamilton Cobb; dir: Kim Wield....
An Inspector Calls
3/14 - 3/24/2019
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject ...
When Angels Fall
2/20 - 2/24/2019
Actress, director, and circus performer Raphaëlle Boitel takes a lifetime of performance and distills it down to its pure essence with the stunning new production, ...
To The Source
1/30 - 2/3/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: Ewa Kaim; dir: Ewa Kaim....
The End of TV
1/16 - 1/27/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: adapt: Lizi Breit, Drew Dir, Sarah Fornance, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, Kyle Vegter from Ben Kauffman, Kyle ...
WET: A DACAmented Journey
11/8 - 11/25/2018
WET: A DACAmented Journey is a true story of what it means to be an American in every sense of the word except one: on ...
Measure for Measure
10/24 - 10/28/2018
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” Shakespeare’s black comedy tingles with intrigue in this story of love, lust, and politics. A full ...
The Peculiar Patriot
10/17 - 10/27/2018
Liza Jessie Peterson; dir: Talvin Wilkes. World Premiere...
Hamnet
9/20 - 10/7/2018
Ben Kidd, Bush Moukarzel, William Shakespeare; dir: Ben Kidd, Bush Moukarzel. American Premiere...
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 ...
HAMLET / SAINT JOAN
3/7 - 3/18/2018
adapt: Bedlam from George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare; dir: Eric Tucker. Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre:...
THE WHITE CARD
2/24 - 3/18/2018
Claudia Rankine; dir: Diane Paulus. Emerson Paramount Center's Robert J. Orchard Stage:...
IN THE ERUPTIVE MODE
1/24 - 1/28/2018
Sulayman Al-Bassam; music: Brittany Anjou; dir: Sulayman Al-Bassam. Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage:...
ADA/AVA
1/10 - 1/14/2018
music: Ben Kauffman, Kyle Kyle; dir: Drew Dir. Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage:...
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. ...
How To Be A Rock Critic
5/11 - 5/21/2017
Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen; dir: Jessica Blank....
17 Border Crossings
4/19 - 4/29/2017
A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty ...
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 ...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S PARABLE OF THE SOWER
3/23 - 3/26/2017
Toshi Reagon; book: Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon; dir: Eric Ting. Emerson/Paramount Mainstage:...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
2/8 - 2/19/2017
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely ...
Our Secrets
1/19 - 1/22/2017
1980. Communist Budapest. In a dance hall, a musician confesses his private sexual desire for his seven-year-old step-daughter. And his government is taping his every ...
Mala
10/27 - 11/20/2016
“'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 ...
Mala
10/27 - 11/20/2016
“'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 ...
Here All Night
10/5 - 10/9/2016
The prose and music of Samuel Beckett's writing find new life, and a fresh resonance, in this stunning new theatrical work for soprano, actor and ...
Here All Night
10/5 - 10/9/2016
The prose and music of Samuel Beckett's writing find new life, and a fresh resonance, in this stunning new theatrical work for soprano, actor and ...
Machine de Cirque
9/21 - 10/2/2016
Machine de Cirque, a new Quebec City circus company, presents a show for all audiences that is wildly acrobatic, poetic and humorous. Sometimes comical, sometimes ...
Machine de Cirque
9/21 - 10/2/2016
Machine de Cirque, a new Quebec City circus company, presents a show for all audiences that is wildly acrobatic, poetic and humorous. Sometimes comical, sometimes ...
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 ...
The Grand Parade (of the 20th century) - Double Edge Theatre
4/30 - 5/3/2015
Ulysses on Bottles - Israeli Stage
4/9 - 4/25/2015
Winner of Israel Theater Prize’s Best Original Play in 2012, Gilad Evron’s poetic and poignant examination of lives in conflict receives its North American premiere ...
Needles and Opium - Ex Machina/Robert Lepage
4/9 - 4/12/2015
Robert Lepage....
The Muse and Morrors: 30 Years of Revolutionary Comedy Remastered
3/11 - 3/29/2015
Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza....
Tristan & Yseult - Kneehigh's
3/5 - 3/15/2015
Green Porno - Les Visiteurs Du Soir
2/13 - 2/15/2015
Isabella Rossellini....
Breath & Imagination - Daniel Beaty
1/27 - 2/8/2015
Daniel Beaty....
House / Divided
1/30 - 2/2/2014
The Cutler Majestic Theatre: dir: Marianne Weems....
Mies Julie
11/30 - 12/8/2013
Fresh from its triumphant tours to New York and London, the Baxter Theatre Centre’s runaway hit play MIES JULIE returns to South African soil when ...
Sleeping Beauty
11/13 - 11/17/2013
Paramount Theatre Mainstage: adapt: Eugenio Monti Colla; dir: Eugenio Monti Colla....
Waiting for Godot
10/31 - 11/10/2013
St. Dunstan's Theatre's Stage 2 presents Waiting for Godot. For tickets and more information, visit the website....
Step Afrika!
11/7 - 11/9/2013
Mar. 2-3, 2012 • McColl Family Theatre Rhythmic. Engaging. Electrifying. Experience Step Afrika!, the world’s first professional company dedicated to stepping, a unique art form ...
Back to Baritone: An Unauthorized History. In Song.
10/8 - 10/20/2013
Paramount Theatre Mainstage: Mark Kudisch; dir: David Dower....
Kiss & Cry
10/10 - 10/12/2013
The Cutler Majestic Theatre: Michele Anne de Mey, Jaco Van Dormael; dir: Jaco Van Dormael....
columbinus
9/17 - 9/29/2013
Stephen Karam, PJ Paparelli; dir: PJ Paparelli....
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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Robert Frost: This Verse Business
Roberts Studio Theatre at Calderwood Pavilion (4/23 - 4/28)
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I Hear America Singing: Songs for the People and The American Songbook
St. Luke's Episcopal Church (4/27 - 4/28) | |
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The Stands
Firehouse Center for the Arts (5/3 - 5/5) | |
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Mix and Mingle with Rachel Revere
The Paul Revere House (4/19 - 4/19) | |
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A Strange Loop
SpeakEasy Stage Company (4/26 - 5/25) | |
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THT Rep presents Judith
The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (4/13 - 5/3) | |
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MJ
Boston Opera House (6/18 - 7/7) | |
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Les Miserables
Boston Opera House (8/13 - 8/25) | |
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Disney’s Descendants The Musical
The Company Theatre (11/8 - 11/10) | |
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The Queen of Versailles
Emerson Colonial Theatre (7/16 - 8/18) | |
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