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Boston Center for the Arts

527 Tremont St, Boston, MA, 02116
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Upcoming Shows

Purpose

Purpose

Sep 10 – Oct 11, 2026

WINNER! Tony Award for Best Play WINNER! Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize and a smash hit on Broadway, Purpose is the explosive and wildly entertaining new play from Tony winnerBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, diving headlong into the life of a prominent and...

Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares

Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares

Oct 22 – Oct 25, 2026

Direct from an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe and two sold-out Off-Broadway engagements comes Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares , a one-woman comedy show from the mind of Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti. Known for her dazzling Broadway performances and razor-sharp wit, Benanti...

Meet the Cartozians

Meet the Cartozians

Feb 18 – Mar 21, 2027

Part riveting historical drama, part razor-sharp satire,Talene Monahon’s Meet the Cartozians boldly imagines an untold chapter of American history. In the 1920s, an Armenian man fights for legal recognition in the courts. A century later, a new generation embraces pop culture’s...

Review: THE NORWEGIANS at Shakespeare & Company

Review: THE NORWEGIANS at Shakespeare & Company

by Marc Savitt · September 8, 2026

Murder-for-hire seems dark, and yes, some of the language can be a bit colorful (a few F-bombs are dropped), but really, this is a delightful little production with the emphasis on comedy that one might almost label as cute, possibly endearing.…

Review: NOISES OFF at Barrington Stage Company

Review: NOISES OFF at Barrington Stage Company

by Marc Savitt · August 31, 2026

. During a roughly 20-minute near silent stretch the cast execute a near flawless, complex, scene employing “Controlled Chaos”. Even the most `curmudgeonly of audience members find themselves rolling along with the rest of the crowd.…

Review: HAMLET at Shakespeare & Company

Review: HAMLET at Shakespeare & Company

by Marc Savitt · August 18, 2026

Shakespeare’s most searching play – a gripping story of grief, conscience, and the cost of inaction. Haunted by his father’s ghost, a young prince must navigate a world of secrets, power, and betrayal, where nothing is as it appears.…

Review: Hugh Jackman Dazzles in Debut with Boston Pops at Tanglewood

Review: Hugh Jackman Dazzles in Debut with Boston Pops at Tanglewood

by R. Scott Reedy · August 14, 2026

Making his debut with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood on August 11, Hugh Jackman dazzled his sold-out audience – under the Koussevitzky Music Shed and stretching as far as the eye could see on the lawn that surrounds it – from the moment he took the stage.…

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Barrington Stage Company

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Barrington Stage Company

by Marc Savitt · August 13, 2026

Typical of BSC efforts, everything about this production is of first-rate quality. Pharel’s script is well blended with elements that “the kids say” as well as those which are more universally applicable.…

Review: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Berkshire Theatre Group

Review: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Berkshire Theatre Group

by Marc Savitt · August 5, 2026

So, if you like good lip-synching, a driving 4/4 beat, hair and makeup that’s “too – Fabu” or perhaps know of someone who needs to be reminded that I’m OK, you’re OK, and being different doesn’t make you less than… get down to The Colonial Theatre.…

Past Shows

32 total · showing 21–30

Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Mar 12 – Mar 17, 2024

Love and power collide in our especially hilarious and yet always unsettling production of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” running 3/12-3/17 at the Boston Center for the Arts. Written amidst religious and cultural turmoil, every character in Measure For Measure has a...

John Proctor Is The Villain

John Proctor Is The Villain

Feb 8 – Mar 10, 2024

At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens explore The Crucible while navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. With a contemporary lens on the American classic, the young women begin to discover their power and agency, finding a way to hold both...

Evil Dead The Musical HD

FeaturedEvil Dead The Musical HD

Jan 25 – Feb 25, 2024

Based on the "Evil Dead," "Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness" movies, take a trip with us to a cabin in the woods...

The Heart Sellers

The Heart Sellers

Nov 21 – Dec 23, 2023

Jane and Luna run into each other in the grocery store on Thanksgiving in 1973 and find they have much in common: each are recent Asian immigrants, a bit homesick and lonely with hardworking absentee husbands, and adjusting to a new country filled with new opportunities. Over...

The Book of Will

The Book of Will

Oct 27 – Nov 12, 2023

With a legacy on the line- it’s publish or perish! Shakespeare is only three years dead- and already the London stage is littered with badly botched Hamlets, ripped-off Romeos, and plagiarized Pericles. With the clock ticking, his comrades in art must band together to outwit an...

Fat Ham

Fat Ham

Sep 22 – Oct 29, 2023

In this deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, sweet and sensitive Juicy wants to make his own way as a queer Black man growing up in a Southern family, until his father’s ghost turns up at a backyard barbecue and insists that Juicy avenge his murder. Ay, there’s...

Joy and Pandemic

Joy and Pandemic

Apr 21 – May 21, 2023

Joy and Pandemic questions how our passions regarding family, art, and war impact the very meaning of our lives. As Joy finds her Philadelphia children’s art school at risk in a burgeoning pubilc health crisis, she hopes to keep her dream of the school alive. When her unyielding...

Alex Edelman: Just For Us

Alex Edelman: Just For Us

Apr 11 – Apr 23, 2023

JUST FOR US takes the audience through hilarious anecdotes from Alex Edelman’s life — his Olympian brother AJ, an unconventional holiday season, and a gorilla that can do sign language — but at its center is an astonishing and frighteningly relevant story. After a string of...

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Mar 3 – Apr 2, 2023

Lala makes fine art on the back of pizza boxes. A sweet and sticky summer inspires her to romance Dani, a budding feminist – and Albert, his smooth-talking twin. What’s good? Love or lust? Either way, she’ll find her muse. Playwright and poet Lenelle Moïse returns to her...

EVERYDAY CABARET - a C*CKtail hour with pop up dances and songs

EVERYDAY CABARET - a C*CKtail hour with pop up dances and songs

Jun 15 – Jun 18, 2016

"Everyday Cabaret" is a party with performances: standards from different eras, sung by well known Cabaret artists as well as extraordinary everyday people pop up throughout cocktail hour, along with a series of mini-dances made especially for small spaces in , amongst and on...

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Brian Henson's Puppet Up! in Boston Brian Henson's Puppet Up!
Boch Center Shubert Theatre (9/27-9/27)
Covenant in Boston Covenant
SpeakEasy Stage Company (9/25-10/17)
Monty Python's SPAMALOT in Boston Monty Python's SPAMALOT
Boch Center Wang Theatre (10/06-10/11) VIDEOS
The Norwegians in Boston The Norwegians
Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre (9/04-10/04)
This Is Your Song: The Elton John Songbook in Boston This Is Your Song: The Elton John Songbook
Norton Singers (10/02-10/03) PHOTOS
Yeston & Kopit's Phantom in Boston Yeston & Kopit's Phantom
North Shore Music Theatre (10/21-11/01) VIDEOS
Covenant in Boston Covenant
The Calderwood Pavilion (9/25-10/17)
Rachel Sumner and Travelling Light at Harmony on the Green in Boston Rachel Sumner and Travelling Light at Harmony on the Green
Harmony on the Green (5/01-5/01)
An Evening with Lauren Ambrose in Boston An Evening with Lauren Ambrose
Powers Hall, Needham (MA) Town Hall (9/19-9/19)
Meet the Cartozians in Boston Meet the Cartozians
Boston Center for the Arts (2/18-3/21)