Theatre entertainment in Boston
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Charles Playhouse
Home to the ever-popular Blue Man Group, this dual-stage backstreet theater has an engaging underground ambience.
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Huntington Theatre Company
For award-winning theater, it’s tough to outdo the Huntington, whose trophy cabinet has long been full. It stages many shows before their production is transferred to Broadway (at least three of these have won Tonys) and seven major works by August Wilson were performed by the Huntington before going on to fame in New York. The company’s credentials also include more than 50 world premieres of works by playwrights such as Tom Stoppard and Christopher Durang. Plays occur in two venues: the fine Boston University Theatre (built in 1925) and the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts (built in 2004).
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American Repertory Theater
There isn’t a bad seat in the house at Harvard University’s Loeb Drama Theater. Here, the prestigious ART stages new plays and experimental interpretations of classics. It also has a performance space at Zero Church St, which is used for both cabaret-style and more traditional performances. Student ‘rush’ tickets for both venues are sold for $15 on the day of the performance.
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Boston Center for the Arts
There’s rarely a dull moment at the BCA, which serves as a nexus for excellent small theater productions. Each year over 20 companies present more than 45 separate productions, from comedies and drama to modern dance and musicals. The BCA occupies a complex comprising several buildings, including a cyclorama from 1884 built to display panoramic paintings, a former organ factory, and the Mills Gallery.
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Shubert Theatre
Administered by the Wang Center, the Shubert Theatre hosts dance and popular theater, such as the Boston Lyric Opera's Madama Butterfly or James Kirkwood's Legends! starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans. Like the Wang Theater, this one is an old architectural beauty, though smaller (1600 seats) and less lavish.
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Company One
Company One strives for radical theatre work, in an attempt to reach less traditional, younger, ethnically diverse audiences.Most shows are performed in the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) theaters.
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Firehouse Center for the Arts
This restored 1823 firehouse contains an art gallery, a 190-seat theater and a restaurant. The theater offers year-round concerts, plays and children’s theater, with top performers from around New England.
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Zero Arrow Theater
The American Repertory Theatre’s new space at the Zero Arrow Theater, has sparked a proliferation of small, professional companies that stage engaging and unconventional shows.
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