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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...