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SpeakEasy Stage Company

527 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116

SpeakEasy Stage Company is a theatre in Boston, MA.

Upcoming Shows

Little Bear Ridge Road

Little Bear Ridge Road

Jan 29 – Feb 20, 2027

2026 Tony Nominee for Best Play! They’re family. That doesn’t make it easy. On the outskirts of a small Idaho town, an aunt and nephew who barely know each other find themselves sharing a house after a sudden loss. She’s blunt, guarded, and set in her routines. He’s grieving...

By Any Other Name

By Any Other Name

May 7 – May 29, 2027

Shakespeare’s heroines. Off script. Finally. Shakespeare’s heroines are done dying, marrying, and generally behaving. When the Bard’s most iconic young women collide in a magically glitched storyline, they start questioning everything, who they love, who they are, and why things...

Articles

Review: LAURA BENANTI: NOBODY CARES at The Huntington

Review: LAURA BENANTI: NOBODY CARES at The Huntington

by R. Scott Reedy · October 26, 2026

From multiple marriages and a neck broken mid-performance to the downsides of aging, nothing was off limits in “Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares,” the one-person comedy show that Tony Award winner Benanti brought to Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts recently as part of …

Review: OPERATION MINCEMEAT Is Slice of Pie

Review: OPERATION MINCEMEAT Is Slice of Pie

by R. Scott Reedy · October 21, 2026

When the Broadway musical “Operation Mincemeat” opened at New York’s Golden Theatre in March 2025, it was slated to have a 16-week run. A recent 11th extension, through April 2027, was just the latest confirmation that audiences have yet to get enough of the 2025 Tony Award nominee for Best Mu…

Review: An Uneven Flight for BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL at Umbrella Arts

Review: An Uneven Flight for BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL at Umbrella Arts

by R. Scott Reedy · October 13, 2026

The publication did prove award-worthy itself, though, as the inspiration for the scary and silly “Bat Boy: The Musical” – at Umbrella Arts in Concord through November 8 – which took home the 2001 Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical.…

Review: SUMMER, 1976 at Berkshire Theatre Group

Review: SUMMER, 1976 at Berkshire Theatre Group

by Marc Savitt · October 12, 2026

“Quietly poignant... captures an experience that’s as universal as it is inexplicable: a friendship that shouldn’t work but does, and that should endure but doesn’t.”…

Review: THE URMETAZOAN at Barrington Stage Company

Review: THE URMETAZOAN at Barrington Stage Company

by Marc Savitt · October 7, 2026

The play provides a lot of food for thought. What seems to come through most strongly in the final analysis is an inability for the two sisters to connect meaningfully and their portrayal of the tragedy of not knowing someone anymore.…

Review: SpeakEasy Stage's COVENANT Delivers on Promise

Review: SpeakEasy Stage's COVENANT Delivers on Promise

by R. Scott Reedy · October 8, 2026

With Halloween just weeks away, Greater Boston theater companies are presenting familiar titles for audiences looking for seasonal thrills – “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and “Little Shop of Horrors,” to name but a few.…

Past Shows

24 total · showing 1–10

Covenant

FeaturedCovenant

Sep 25 – Oct 17, 2026

In this town, a good myth might as well be the truth. Johnny “Honeycomb” James comes back home famous, changed, and impossible to explain. The voice is real, but the rumours are loud. In a town that remembers everything and forgives nothing, his return cracks open old stories...

Swept Away

Swept Away

Apr 24 – May 23, 2026

A storm. A shipwreck. Four survivors. As they fight to stay alive, these New Bedford whalers must confront who they are, what they’ve done, and whether forgiveness is possible. Featuring a book by John Logan and music from The Avett Brothers, Swept Away is a gripping...

The Antiquities

FeaturedThe Antiquities

Mar 6 – Mar 28, 2026

In the not-so-distant future, a team of curators at the Museum of Late Human Antiquities painstakingly reconstruct the past, using a series of relics such as vinyl records, yoga mats, and even a stuffed bear. But as their exhibit grows, so do the cracks in their understanding of...

PRIMARY TRUST

FeaturedPRIMARY TRUST

Sep 12 – Oct 11, 2025

SpeakEasy Stage Company presents the Boston premiere of PRIMARY TRUST, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Eboni Booth, running from September 12 to October 11, 2025. The story follows Kenneth, a bookstore clerk whose life takes an unexpected turn after he loses his job, leading...

A Strange Loop

A Strange Loop

Apr 26 – May 25, 2024

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE “A dazzling ride. No measure of praise could be too much.” – The New York Times Winner! 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical ! Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and...

Cost of Living

Cost of Living

Mar 8 – Mar 30, 2024

Winner! 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! In this wry and quietly observed play, Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together and the ways we all need each other. Eddie, an unemployed truck...

A Case for the Existence of God

A Case for the Existence of God

Jan 26 – Feb 17, 2024

“Easily one of the best of the year”— The Wall Street Journal Winner! Best Play – New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award! Inside a cubicle in a bank in Twin Falls, Idaho, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their...

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Sep 15 – Oct 15, 2023

“The likelihood that you will laugh until your face hurts is one of near certainty”– Entertainment Weekly Direct from Broadway! It’s The Women meets House of Cards in this riotously funny comedy that celebrates the women who keep things running behind the scenes both in — and...

The Prom

The Prom

May 5 – Jun 3, 2023

Emma didnt want to be a newspaper headline or the face of a movement; she just wanted to take her girlfriend Alyssa to their high school prom. But just when it seems like she might persuade the hesitant PTA, four bumbling Broadway has-beens in search of relevance barge into...

Wild Goose Dreams

Wild Goose Dreams

Mar 24 – Apr 22, 2023

New England Premiere! In an age where technology offers easy connection, Nanhee and Minsung are alone in Seoul, South Korea. Nanhee is a North Korean defector with no way to contact her family; Minsung is a gireogi appa or goose father, working in Seoul to send money to his...

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Bat Boy: The Musical in Boston Bat Boy: The Musical
The Umbrella Arts Center (9/25-11/08)
The Sound of Music in Boston The Sound of Music
Boch Center Wang Theatre (11/17-11/22)
An evening with LaChanze in Boston An evening with LaChanze
Berklee Performance Center (11/01-11/01)
THT Rep presents the 6th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Double Header in Boston THT Rep presents the 6th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Double Header
The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (10/28-11/01)
Romeo + Juliet Film in Concert in Boston Romeo + Juliet Film in Concert
Emerson Colonial Theatre (1/15-1/15)
Voctave in Boston Voctave
Shalin Liu Performance Center (3/05-3/05)
A Drag Queen Christmas in Boston A Drag Queen Christmas
Emerson Colonial Theater (11/15-11/15)
By Any Other Name in Boston By Any Other Name
SpeakEasy Stage Company (5/07-5/29)
Golden Girls The Laughs Continue in Boston Golden Girls The Laughs Continue
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