2019 - 2020 season
MARIE AND ROSETTA
By George Brant
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Co-produced with Greater Boston Stage Company
OCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Celebrated for her ferocious guitar playing and swinging gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe broke boundaries and influenced rock 'n' roll's earliest icons.
Set in 1940's Mississippi, Marie and Rosetta shows the legendary icon rehearsing with her young protegee, Marie Knight, as the two prepare to embark on a tour that will ultimately cement them as one of the greatest musical duos in history. Read More
By George Brant
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Co-produced with Greater Boston Stage Company
OCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Celebrated for her ferocious guitar playing and swinging gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe broke boundaries and influenced rock 'n' roll's earliest icons.
Set in 1940's Mississippi, Marie and Rosetta shows the legendary icon rehearsing with her young protegee, Marie Knight, as the two prepare to embark on a tour that will ultimately cement them as one of the greatest musical duos in history. Read More
PASS OVER
by Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Monica White Ndounou
Co-produced with SpeakEasy Stage Company
Moses and Kitch chat their way through yet another aimless day on their local street corner in this groundbreaking mash-up of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga. Crafting everyday profanity into poetic and humorous riffs, the friends share their dreams of deliverance, until an ominous stranger changes their world forever. Potent, daring, and breathtakingly theatrical, Pass Over unflinchingly exposes the reality of young black men just looking for a way out. Read More
by Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Monica White Ndounou
Co-produced with SpeakEasy Stage Company
Moses and Kitch chat their way through yet another aimless day on their local street corner in this groundbreaking mash-up of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga. Crafting everyday profanity into poetic and humorous riffs, the friends share their dreams of deliverance, until an ominous stranger changes their world forever. Potent, daring, and breathtakingly theatrical, Pass Over unflinchingly exposes the reality of young black men just looking for a way out. Read More
FABULATION OR, THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Co-produced with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston
April 3 — May 3, 2020
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage (Intimate Apparel, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Ruined) comes the satirical tale of successful African-American publicist Undine, as she stumbles down the social ladder after her husband steals her hard-earned fortune. Broke and now pregnant, Undine is forced to return to her childhood home in the Brooklyn projects, where she must face the challenges of the life she left behind. Featuring “punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor” (The New York Times), Fabulation reveals how difficult it is to outrun our roots. Read More
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Co-produced with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston
April 3 — May 3, 2020
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage (Intimate Apparel, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Ruined) comes the satirical tale of successful African-American publicist Undine, as she stumbles down the social ladder after her husband steals her hard-earned fortune. Broke and now pregnant, Undine is forced to return to her childhood home in the Brooklyn projects, where she must face the challenges of the life she left behind. Featuring “punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor” (The New York Times), Fabulation reveals how difficult it is to outrun our roots. Read More
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
By Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horwitz
Music by Luther Henderson
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Co-produced with The Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater
May 28 - June 28, 2020
The Harlem Renaissance – Jazz arrives at The Cotton Club. Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and the Dandridge Sisters shape an artform alongside men such as – Thomas “Fats” Waller. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, five performers present Waller’s unforgettable music in co-production with The Front Porch Arts Collective (black odyssey boston). Join us for an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the love, longing and zest for life of the era. Read More