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The Umbrella Arts Center

40 Stow Street
Concord, MA 01742

The Umbrella Arts Center is a theatre in Concord, MA.

Upcoming Shows

Bat Boy: The Musical

FeaturedBat Boy: The Musical

Sep 25 – Nov 8, 2026

Umbrella Arts presents... BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL | September 25 - November 8, 2026 in Concord, MA THE STORY: Half-bat, half-boy, ripped from the tabloid headlines, and thrust into the spotlight! In this camp horror comedy, a misunderstood monster seeks a place to belong. Taken in...

I AND YOU

I AND YOU

Oct 9 – Nov 22, 2026

Umbrella Arts presents... I AND YOU , playing October 9 - November 22, 2026 in Concord, MA. THE STORY A homebound teen and an unexpected visitor clash over a Walt Whitman assignment that will lead them to a stunning epiphany. Caroline is sharp-witted, guarded, and sardonic as...

Articles

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

43 total · showing 11–20

Jeremy Jordan in Concert

Jeremy Jordan in Concert

Feb 9 – Feb 10, 2024

Jeremy Jordan, award-winning actor and musician, joins The Umbrella Arts Center for our annual Broadway Concert! With his effortless and soaring voice, Jordan takes audiences on a decades-spanning journey of the best of Broadway featuring songs and tales from his storied career...

Holiday Pops Concert

Holiday Pops Concert

Dec 1 – Dec 3, 2023

The Umbrella Stage Company in partnership with Firebird Pops Orchestra is thrilled to announce the return of our holiday pops concert! Together with the Firebird Vox choir, the orchestra will sweep you away with magical scores from favorite seasonal blockbusters Home Alone and...

Lizzie: The Musical

FeaturedLizzie: The Musical

Sep 22 – Nov 5, 2023

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

The Color Purple

FeaturedThe Color Purple

May 12 – Jun 4, 2023

The Umbrella Stage Company presents the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel, The Color Purple , and the 1985 film by Steven Spielberg. The inspirational story set in the early 1900s follows a young woman, Celie, as she journeys through her...

Middleton Heights

Middleton Heights

Mar 31 – Apr 23, 2023

MARCH 31 - APRIL 23 Middleton Heights is a dark comedy that follows Meena and her Filipino family as they assimilate to life in a fictional Midwestern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The play traces historical events from 1967 to 2014 and the pursuit of the American Dream, refracted...

An Evening with Laura Benanti

FeaturedAn Evening with Laura Benanti

Mar 10 – Mar 11, 2023

The Umbrella Arts Center is thrilled to present Tony® Award-winner and five-time Tony® Award nominee Laura Benanti in an intimate concert performance -- two nights only! Hailed by The New York Times for her “effortless” vocals, and by the New York Post for her ability to “whip...

RENT

FeaturedRENT

Nov 11 – Dec 4, 2022

The Umbrella Stage Company will rock Metrowest with an electric new production of Jonathan Larson's iconic musical, RENT, running Nov. 11-Dec. 4, 2022. Directed by Julia Deter ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch , The Old Man and The Old Moon ), the production makes stunning use of The...

Dracula (A feminist revenge fantasy, really)

FeaturedDracula (A feminist revenge fantasy, really)

Sep 30 – Oct 23, 2022

“One of this Fall’s 10 Shows to See” – Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe "Abundantly clever...a rip-roaring production" -- Michael Dale, Broadway World One hundred and twenty five years after its publication, Dracula has continued to thrill and be interpreted by every generation in...

The Boy Who Grew Flowers

The Boy Who Grew Flowers

Sep 22 – Sep 24, 2022

Treehouse Shakers The Boy Who Grew FlowersBased on the Barefoot Books Picture Book By Jen WojtowiczPlay Adaption by Mara McEwinThe Boy Who Grew Flowers is a stunning visual performance for audiences for ages 5-10 and their families. Adapted from Barefoot Books bestselling...

The Colored Museum

FeaturedThe Colored Museum

May 20 – Jun 5, 2022

The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be Black in contemporary America. Running May 20-June 5, 2021, the production is directed in a fresh, relevant new way for The Umbrella Stage Company...

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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)
BOUNCERS by John Godber in Boston BOUNCERS by John Godber
Modern Theatre At Suffolk University (10/01-10/24) PHOTOS
Meet the Cartozians in Boston Meet the Cartozians
Boston Center for the Arts (2/18-3/21)
Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares in Boston Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares
Boston Center for the Arts (10/22-10/25)
1972 in Boston 1972
Farkas Hall (10/27-11/22)
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in Boston Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Huntington Theatre (10/08-11/08)
THT Rep presents Fat Ham in Boston THT Rep presents Fat Ham
The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (3/31-4/11)
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra: Brahms, Bach, and Poulenc in Boston Cambridge Symphony Orchestra: Brahms, Bach, and Poulenc
NEC's Jordan Hall (10/30-10/30)