Interview: Playwright Sarah Ruhl Talks Bringing Vivaldi & Ruhl's THE SEASONS to Boston Lyric Opera
by R. Scott Reedy - March 07, 2025
Growing up outside Chicago, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl (“The Clean House,” “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)”) would listen to a cassette of Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” on holiday drives with her family to her father’s home state of Iowa....
ArtsEmerson Announces Winter/spring 2025 Film Programming
by A.A. Cristi - January 24, 2025
ArtsEmerson, Boston's leading presenter of contemporary world theater and film and the professional presenting and producing organization of Emerson College, recently announced its film programming slate for Winter/Spring 2025....
ArtsEmerson Presents THE LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K
by A.A. Cristi - December 26, 2024
ArtsEmerson will present Life & Times of Michael K at the Emerson Paramount Center from January 31 – February 9, 2025....
ON THE EVE OF ABOLITION to be Presented at ArtsEmerson This Fall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 02, 2024
ArtsEmerson will present ON THE EVE OF ABOLITION, a powerful theatrical production exploring themes of freedom and resistance. ...
IN THE SAME TONGUE Comes to ArtsEmerson
by Stephi Wild - August 29, 2024
ArtsEmerson will present the new captivating dance celebration In the Same Tongue at the Emerson Paramount Center from September 26 – 29 2024....
ArtsEmerson to Present FIGHT NIGHT in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 26, 2024
ArtsEmerson will present FIGHT NIGHT, an engaging theatrical experience that explores the world of competitive sports and the dynamics of winning and losing. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...
Todd McNeel Joins SpeakEasy Stage as Marketing Manager
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 05, 2024
Todd McNeel Jr. has joined SpeakEasy Stage Company as Marketing Manager. Learn more!...
The Regional Premiere of WISH YOU WERE HERE Comes to Gloucester Stage Company
by Stephi Wild - July 16, 2024
Gloucester Stage Company will continue its 45th-year celebration with the regional premiere of 'WISH YOU WERE HERE' by Pulitzer Prize Winner Sanaz Toossi. ...
Citywide Celebration Of Playwright Mfoniso Udofia's 'Ufot Family Cycle' Launches This Fall
by Stephi Wild - June 26, 2024
Greater Boston theatre companies and collaborative partners gathered at Boston’s City Hall today, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, to announce major plans for an ambitious two-year, citywide celebration of the Ufot Family Cycle, a cycle of nine plays about three generations of a Nigerian American family by M...
PRISON DANCER and More Set For ArtsEmerson's 2024/25 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2024
ArtsEmerson has announced its 2024/25 Season, featuring nine live stage events. Learn more about the lineup here!...
Past Shows
Life & Times of Michael K
1/31 - 2/9/2025
Life & Times of Michael K brings the Booker Prize-winning novel by J.M. Coetzee to the stage in an evocative adaptation directed by Lara Foot. ...
In the Same Tongue
9/26 - 9/29/2024
In the Same Tongue is a new dance celebration choreographed by Emmy-nominated Dianne McIntyre, featuring original music by composer Diedre Murray and the poetry of ...
Fight Night
9/20 - 9/21/2024
Fight Night, presented by ArtsEmerson, explores the dynamics of democracy and voting through an interactive performance by the Belgian theater company Ontroerend Goed. Audiences are ...
Ma Belle My Beauty
4/30 - 5/2/2021
Ma Belle My Beauty 93 minutes On-demand: APRIL 30 @ 7PM ET - MAY 02 @ 12:01AM ET Director - Teemu Nikki Screened in French ...
NIMBY - Not in My Backyard
4/30 - 5/2/2021
NIMBY - Not in My Backyard 95 minutes On-demand: APRIL 30 @ 7PM ET - MAY 02 @ 12:01AM ET Director - Teemu Nikki Screened ...
Shared Stories: Eating Up Easter, followed by Sky Aelans
4/21 - 4/25/2021
ArtsEmerson adds to its April programming schedule with the next Town Hall with David C. Howse, featuring guest artist KOA (formerly known as Daniel Beatty) ...
Live Town Hall: In Conversation with KOA (the artist formerly known as Daniel Beaty) Virtual Town Hall 5PM ET 60 minutes Join them for their ...
Shared Stories: Encore Presentations
2/24 - 2/28/2021
ArtsEmerson presents Shared Stories, a monthly film series in collaboration with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF), and ...
Julia
2/9 - 2/22/2021
A power play of sex, lies, and videotape.The Strindberg classic Miss Julie is audaciously revised in this hypnotic production from internationally praised Brazilian theatremaker Christiane ...
Down a Dark Stairwell
2/5 - 2/7/2021
When a Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a ...
Under the Radar Festival
12/21 - 1/17/2021
"Over the last 17 years, UTR has shared artists and events with us and has also programmed artists that they discovered at ArtsEmerson. In these ...
Arts and Healing: Bangsokol Festival
12/11 - 12/20/2020
In response to the challenges and realities of 2020, Cambodian Living Arts and ArtsEmerson are presenting Arts & Healing: Bangsokol Virtual Festival from December 11th ...
Arts and Healing: Bangsokol Festival
12/11 - 12/20/2020
In response to the challenges and realities of 2020, Cambodian Living Arts and ArtsEmerson are presenting Arts & Healing: Bangsokol Virtual Festival from December 11th ...
Join us for our next live Town Hall as Executive Director David C. Howse and Artistic Director David Dower pick up a long-arc conversation with ...
in the absence of things
12/1 - 12/8/2020
"Vocalist-composer and writer Somi forges new ground with experimental short film that blends spoken word, art song, and movement with deconstructed concert recordings from Somis ...
Youth ages 7+ and families tune in for this Workshop on Freedom! Featuring: Toshi Reagon, Kwame Alexander. Jason Reynolds.Jacqueline Woodson and many more...The Black Lives ...
Our Time Machine (Film)
9/11 - 9/22/2020
ABOUT THE FILMWhen artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimers disease, he creates Papas Time Machine, a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size ...
In light of the recent news that Artistic Director David Dower will be departing ArtsEmerson, he will join with Executive Director C. David Howse to ...
State vs Natasha Banina
8/20 - 8/23/2020
She makes her case; the audience decides her fate. This is State vs. Natasha Banina. Performed live by Darya Denisova (2020 Elliot Norton Award-winner for ...
Join us for this very specialone-night-only streaming ofOctavia E. Butlers Parable of the Sower: The Concert Experience!The event starts with a conversation between Toshi Reagon ...
Torrey Pines
4/27 - 5/10/2020
It's an animated film. It's a live pop-rock band. It's a queer, coming-of-age road trip like none other. It's Torrey Pines , originally presented at ...
Torrey Pines
4/27 - 5/10/2020
It's an animated film. It's a live pop-rock band. It's a queer, coming-of-age road trip like none other. It's Torrey Pines , originally presented at ...
Sequence 8
4/13 - 4/26/2020
This is your chance to see one of the classic performances that turned Montreal's The 7 Fingers into absolute fan-favorites in Boston; from our 2012/13 ...
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
1/23 - 1/26/2020
When a group of activists with intellectual disabilities holds a public meeting, they discover a history they would prefer not to know, and a future ...
An Iliad
11/20 - 11/24/2019
On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...
The Magic Flute
11/6 - 11/10/2019
Is it a) Ancient Egypt, b) Europe in the Age of Enlightenment, or c) a land beyond our imagination? The answer is: d) all of ...
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
10/30 - 11/3/2019
book: Korde Arrington Tuttle; music: Bryce Dessner; dir: Kaneza Schaal....
Passengers
9/25 - 10/13/2019
What would happen if you were to remember your deaths? Your greatest struggles or each and every moment of laughter. The people who you lost ...
See You Yesterday
5/16 - 5/19/2019
Nineteen Cambodian performers utilize their extraordinary physical skills, including acrobatics and circus arts, to travel back in time and shatter a legacy of silence. Performed ...
/peh-LO-tah/
5/1 - 5/5/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: Marc Bamuthi Joseph; music: Tommy Shepherd; dir: Michael John Garces....
American Moor
4/10 - 4/21/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: Keith Hamilton Cobb; dir: Kim Wield....
An Inspector Calls
3/14 - 3/24/2019
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject ...
When Angels Fall
2/20 - 2/24/2019
Actress, director, and circus performer Raphaëlle Boitel takes a lifetime of performance and distills it down to its pure essence with the stunning new production, ...
To The Source
1/30 - 2/3/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: Ewa Kaim; dir: Ewa Kaim....
The End of TV
1/16 - 1/27/2019
Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage: adapt: Lizi Breit, Drew Dir, Sarah Fornance, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, Kyle Vegter from Ben Kauffman, Kyle ...
WET: A DACAmented Journey
11/8 - 11/25/2018
WET: A DACAmented Journey is a true story of what it means to be an American in every sense of the word except one: on ...
Measure for Measure
10/24 - 10/28/2018
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” Shakespeare’s black comedy tingles with intrigue in this story of love, lust, and politics. A full ...
The Peculiar Patriot
10/17 - 10/27/2018
Liza Jessie Peterson; dir: Talvin Wilkes. World Premiere...
Hamnet
9/20 - 10/7/2018
Ben Kidd, Bush Moukarzel, William Shakespeare; dir: Ben Kidd, Bush Moukarzel. American Premiere...
Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour
5/5 - 5/19/2018
What happened to Mr. Joy? A Harlem community is shaken when Mr. Joy, a Chinese immigrant whose shoe repair shop has been a neighborhood pillar ...
HAMLET / SAINT JOAN
3/7 - 3/18/2018
adapt: Bedlam from George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare; dir: Eric Tucker. Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre:...
THE WHITE CARD
2/24 - 3/18/2018
Claudia Rankine; dir: Diane Paulus. Emerson Paramount Center's Robert J. Orchard Stage:...
IN THE ERUPTIVE MODE
1/24 - 1/28/2018
Sulayman Al-Bassam; music: Brittany Anjou; dir: Sulayman Al-Bassam. Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage:...
ADA/AVA
1/10 - 1/14/2018
music: Ben Kauffman, Kyle Kyle; dir: Drew Dir. Emerson Paramount Center - Robert J. Orchard Stage:...
Kiss
10/26 - 11/19/2017
When a young, aspirational theatre troupe discovers and performs what they believe is a Syrian soap opera, they come to realize just how much they ...
HOME
9/27 - 10/1/2017
On an empty stage, a house is conjured from thin air. Residents move in, move out, clean up, burn down, sweep under, paint over, fence ...
REVERSIBLE
9/6 - 9/24/2017
In the summer of 2016, Cuisine & Confessions wowed Boston audiences nightly with The 7 Fingers’ trademark acrobatic and choreographic prowess combined with on-stage cooking. ...
How To Be A Rock Critic
5/11 - 5/21/2017
Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen; dir: Jessica Blank....
17 Border Crossings
4/19 - 4/29/2017
A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty ...
Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour
4/1 - 4/21/2017
ArtsEmerson and the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity present Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour, a series of free theatre performances in four neighborhoods ...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S PARABLE OF THE SOWER
3/23 - 3/26/2017
Toshi Reagon; book: Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon; dir: Eric Ting. Emerson/Paramount Mainstage:...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
2/8 - 2/19/2017
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely ...
Our Secrets
1/19 - 1/22/2017
1980. Communist Budapest. In a dance hall, a musician confesses his private sexual desire for his seven-year-old step-daughter. And his government is taping his every ...
Mala
10/27 - 11/20/2016
“'Mala’ means ‘bad.’ Not that you have done something bad, but that you are, in your core, bad.” Funny, brutally honest, and ultimately cathartic, Mala ...
Mala
10/27 - 11/20/2016
“'Mala’ means ‘bad.’ Not that you have done something bad, but that you are, in your core, bad.” Funny, brutally honest, and ultimately cathartic, Mala ...
Here All Night
10/5 - 10/9/2016
The prose and music of Samuel Beckett's writing find new life, and a fresh resonance, in this stunning new theatrical work for soprano, actor and ...
Here All Night
10/5 - 10/9/2016
The prose and music of Samuel Beckett's writing find new life, and a fresh resonance, in this stunning new theatrical work for soprano, actor and ...
Machine de Cirque
9/21 - 10/2/2016
Machine de Cirque, a new Quebec City circus company, presents a show for all audiences that is wildly acrobatic, poetic and humorous. Sometimes comical, sometimes ...
Machine de Cirque
9/21 - 10/2/2016
Machine de Cirque, a new Quebec City circus company, presents a show for all audiences that is wildly acrobatic, poetic and humorous. Sometimes comical, sometimes ...
Screening of the National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangeroux
2/12 - 2/14/2016
Following the hugely successful broadcasts of Coriolanus and King Lear, National Theatre Live brings the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses ...
Screening of Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company: The Winter's Tale
1/22 - 1/24/2016
The first season of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live promises an exceptional series of plays broadcast to cinemas from London’s Garrick Theatre over the ...
ArtsEmerson 6th Annual One Day Sale
11/30 - 12/1/2015
Get $25 tickets for select performances of ArtsEmerson’s January – May theatre productions – a savings up to 60%! Give your loved ones a theatrical ...
The Grand Parade (of the 20th century) - Double Edge Theatre
4/30 - 5/3/2015
Ulysses on Bottles - Israeli Stage
4/9 - 4/25/2015
Winner of Israel Theater Prize’s Best Original Play in 2012, Gilad Evron’s poetic and poignant examination of lives in conflict receives its North American premiere ...
Needles and Opium - Ex Machina/Robert Lepage
4/9 - 4/12/2015
Robert Lepage....
The Muse and Morrors: 30 Years of Revolutionary Comedy Remastered
3/11 - 3/29/2015
Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza....
Tristan & Yseult - Kneehigh's
3/5 - 3/15/2015
Green Porno - Les Visiteurs Du Soir
2/13 - 2/15/2015
Isabella Rossellini....
Breath & Imagination - Daniel Beaty
1/27 - 2/8/2015
Daniel Beaty....
House / Divided
1/30 - 2/2/2014
The Cutler Majestic Theatre: dir: Marianne Weems....
Mies Julie
11/30 - 12/8/2013
Fresh from its triumphant tours to New York and London, the Baxter Theatre Centre’s runaway hit play MIES JULIE returns to South African soil when ...
Sleeping Beauty
11/13 - 11/17/2013
Paramount Theatre Mainstage: adapt: Eugenio Monti Colla; dir: Eugenio Monti Colla....
Waiting for Godot
10/31 - 11/10/2013
St. Dunstan's Theatre's Stage 2 presents Waiting for Godot. For tickets and more information, visit the website....
Step Afrika!
11/7 - 11/9/2013
Mar. 2-3, 2012 • McColl Family Theatre Rhythmic. Engaging. Electrifying. Experience Step Afrika!, the world’s first professional company dedicated to stepping, a unique art form ...
Back to Baritone: An Unauthorized History. In Song.
10/8 - 10/20/2013
Paramount Theatre Mainstage: Mark Kudisch; dir: David Dower....
Kiss & Cry
10/10 - 10/12/2013
The Cutler Majestic Theatre: Michele Anne de Mey, Jaco Van Dormael; dir: Jaco Van Dormael....
columbinus
9/17 - 9/29/2013
Stephen Karam, PJ Paparelli; dir: PJ Paparelli....
Trojan Women (SITI Company)
4/17 - 4/21/2013
Paramount Mainstage: - adapt: Jocelyn Clarke; dir: Anne Bogart....
Neva (The Public Theater NYC)
4/3 - 4/7/2013
The Jackie Liebergott Black Box: - Guillermo Calderon; dir: Guillermo Calderon....
Metamorphosis (Vesturport Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre)
2/27 - 3/3/2013
Paramount Mainstage: - adapt: David Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson; music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis; dir: David Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson....
The Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni)
1/29 - 2/10/2013
Paramount Mainstage: - adapt: Constance Congdon; dir: Christopher Bayes....
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