Presented by ArtBuzz Productions & Sheep. Co Entertainment The Maids by Roman Viktyuk based on the play by J. Genet Roman Viktyuk’s legendary play “The Maids” has been on stage for over 35 years — and it still astonishes audiences! The production is based on the play by French playwright Jean Genet. It tells the...

Emerson Stage Presents: The Henry Winkler Premier Production BARBECUE By Robert O'HaraDirected by Jonathan Kitt The O’ Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness has forced her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. But the event becomes raucous...

If you’re not invited to the party, throw a better one!

Emerson Stage Presents: STARTING HERE, STARTING NOW Music by David Shire;Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.Directed by Scott LaFeberMusic Direction by Jonathan Goldberg Starting Here, Starting Now is a thrilling and touching musical revue using the songs of Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire (Big, Baby, Closer Than Ever). In only 24 songs, Starting Here, Starting...

Patrick Page explores Shakespeare’s most memorable villains in this thrilling, hilarious, and biting solo tour-de-force.

A Streetcar Named Desire Presented by Boston Lyric Opera “Real? Who wants real?… I want magic!” The sweltering heat of a New Orleans summer sets the tone for the simmering tensions that crackle and spark between the unforgettable characters of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set to André Previn’s luminous score. Magnetic but self-deluded Blanche...

CONTINUUM Never Still. Always Becoming. ChoreographersAli CederholmChloe CrenshawJon Ole OlstadKen OssolaRobert StephenYury Yanowsky WorksCisneSyntheticaDust and WaterMoving Mountainsre:connectionBathers CONTINUUM traces dance’s ongoing evolution—where the past shapes the present and every movement opens a path forward. Featuring six works never before seen in Boston, the program explores memory, change, freedom, and our shared humanity. Intimate, honest, and...

Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields Bang on a Can All-Stars & Chorus Pro Musica The Boston Premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Anthracite Fields is a powerful tribute to the coal miners of Pennsylvania and the communities built on their labor. Scored for New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars and chorus, the work...

Emerson Stage Presents: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION By Annie BakerDirected by Alex Lonati When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Event Info Dates Venue Details 1 hour, 50 minutes...

Step inside a shared dream sequence with Grammy Award-winning band The HawtPlates.

Presented by Vivo Performing Arts Ballet BC Vancouver's Ballet BC arrives with a program that moves through tenderness, ecstasy, and raw human longing. Under artistic director Medhi Walerski, a veteran of the legendary Nederlands Dans Theater, 20 dancers bring precision and a rare openness: they share movement that asks questions, rather than delivering answers. Ballet...

Emerson Stage Presents: THREE SISTERS By Anton ChekhovTranslation by Paul SchmidtDirected by Craig Mathers Transplanted from their beloved Moscow to a provincial Russian town, three sisters – school teacher Olga, unhappily married Masha and idealistic Irina – yearn for the city of their childhood, where they imagine their lives will be transformed and fulfilled. Three...

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company presents Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" Boston's New Holiday Tradition Step into the magic of Victorian England and rediscover the heart and soul of the holiday season! Commonwealth Shakespeare Company returns for another magical season at Boston’s historic Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre with its stunning production of Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol"—a...

Emerson Stage Presents: The Rod Parker Fellowship Production ALTRUISM & OTHER LIES By J.W. AndrewDirected by Joe Antoun A modern take on the screwball comedy of remarriage. To spare Frank’s feelings, his ex-wife, June, has kept her current serious romance hidden and has overtly pretended to be in a hopelessly depressive state. Eager to see...

Glitter, beats, and banging tunes: this Irish wake is the ultimate celebration of life.

Emerson Stage Presents: CARRIE: THE MUSICAL Music by Michael Gore; Lyrics by Dean PitchfordBook by Lawrence D. CohenBased on the novel by Stephen KingDirected & Choreographed by Christopher ShinMusic Direction by Sariva Goetz Set in the present in the small New England town of Chamberlain, Maine, Carrie White is a teenage outcast who longs to...

Under the glow of a flickering screen, a daughter reconstructs her deceased father, pixel by pixel.

Breathtaking illusions await in this New York Times Critic's Pick full of intrigue and imagination.

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) Presented by Boston Lyric Opera One wedding. One day. Total chaos.Wit, mayhem, and hilarity abound in Mozart’s fan-favorite comedy that packs a lot of action into a single day! Short version (no, really): Figaro and his fiancée Susanna work for the philandering Count, who is determined to...

Emerson Stage Presents: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES By Tony KushnerDirected by Kathryn Walsh America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnected lives grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Event Info Dates Venue Details 3...

Emerson Stage Presents: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA By Tony KushnerDirected by Rebecca Bradshaw Picks up the threads of our six New Yorkers whose relationships are in tatters and fates are rapidly intertwining. Prior, Joe, Belize, Louis, Harper and Roy continue their journeys through love, loss and loneliness to overcome abandonment and ultimately discover...

In post-apartheid South Africa two men must confront themselves, the past, and their beliefs.

Emerson Stage Presents: THE THREEPENNY OPERA A play with music based on John Gay's THE BEGGAR'S OPERABy Bertoldt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth HauptmanEnglish Translation by Marc BlitzsteinDirected by Scott LaFeberMusic Direction by Jonathan Goldberg Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the...

Presented by Global Arts Live MOMIX Botanica MOMIX Botanica is a lush, surreal journey through nature’s ever-changing imagery, following the rhythms of the seasons and the passing of a day. Acting as a restorative "herbal remedy" for the senses, this immersive visual theater experience pairs the superb energy and athleticism of its performers with gravity-defying...

The legacy of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School is reckoned with in this powerful musical song cycle.