2020-2021 sEASON

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
September 10 - October 11, 2020
​Co-produced with The Nora at Central Square Theater
​Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent

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.

Ain’t Misbehavin’ was postponed from the 2019-20 Season. Ticketholders for that production should contact the Central Square Theatre Box Office with questions about your options.

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WRITTEN BY JEREMY O. HARRIS 
Co-Produced with SpeakEasy Stage Co.

First Production Since Broadway! Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the best and most provocative new works to show up on Broadway in years,” Slave Play is a broad send-up of race and sex in 21st Century America. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems over at the McGregor Plantation, where three interracial couples rip open history at the intersection of race, love, sex, and sexuality.  “A ballsy, often ferociously funny original work,” Slave Play is “a welcome blast of defiantly fresh air.” (The Hollywood Reporter). For tickets visit: https://www.speakeasystage.com/season30/

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FABULATION OR, THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Co-produced with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage (Intimate Apparel, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Sweat) comes a riches-to-rags comedy about a high-powered African-American publicist who stumbles down the social ladder after her husband steals her hard-earned fortune. 

This show was postponed from the 2019-2020 season. For ticket information visit: https://www.lyricstage.com/tickets/