Boston Center for the Arts

Boston Center for the Arts
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Boston, 02116
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Current Productions

We have no current productions for this theater right now.

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Past Productions

Play

The Submission

Boston

Closed: May 30, 2015

Musical

A New Brain

Boston

Closed: October 30, 1999

Violet

Boston

Closed: February 20, 2000

Drama

Abingdon Square/What Ghosts There Were

Boston

Closed: February 20, 2000

Drama

Miss Julie

Boston

Closed: February 20, 2000

Star F*ckers

Boston

Closed: February 19, 2000

Boston Women On Top Festival

Boston

Closed: March 19, 2000

Drama

Come Back Little Sheba

Boston

Closed: March 18, 2000

Play

Salad of the Bad Café

Boston

Closed: April 8, 2000

Drama

That Championship Season

Boston

Closed: April 15, 2000

Personal Instrument

Boston

Closed: April 8, 2000

Play

After Rhyme, The

Boston

Closed: April 8, 2000

Play

This Is Our Youth

Boston

Closed: April 30, 2000

Drama

Island of the Beholder, The

Boston

Closed: May 14, 2000

Play

Here for a Little Time

Boston

Closed: June 10, 2000

Comedy

Immaculate Infection

Boston

Closed: June 24, 2000

Five Bottles in a Six Pack

Boston

Closed: June 24, 2000

Bel Canto: A Staged Reading

Boston

Closed: June 21, 2000

The House Not Touched by Death

Boston

Closed: July 1, 2000

Comedy

The School for Scandal

Boston

Closed: July 29, 2000

Comedy

Chronic Competition

Boston

Closed: September 16, 2000

The Rice Room

Boston

Closed: September 9, 2000

Super/Psycho

Boston

Closed: September 10, 2000

Comedy

Innocent Heat

Boston

Closed: September 16, 2000

Family/Kids

Garden Variety Show

Boston

Closed: September 24, 2000

Glory Box

Boston

Closed: September 23, 2000

Comedy

Cab & Lena

Boston

Closed: September 24, 2000

Cabaret

Mad Dogs and Englishmen: The Music and Wit of Noël Coward

Boston

Closed: October 1, 2000

Musical

Mighty Real

Boston

Closed: September 30, 2000

Drama

Clear the Floor

Boston

Closed: September 30, 2000

A Trio of Duets

Boston

Closed: October 8, 2000

Drama

Radio Check 2330

Boston

Closed: October 28, 2000

The Boston Plays: A Night of Short Plays by Boston Playwrights

Boston

Closed: October 29, 2000

Drama

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Boston

Closed: November 18, 2000

How Mrs. Grinchley Swiped Christmas

Boston

Closed: December 18, 2000

African American Theater Festival

Boston

Closed: January 20, 2001

Drama

SIN

Boston

Closed: February 10, 2001

Drama

This Lime Tree Bower

Boston

Closed: March 10, 2001

Comedy

Oklahoma City

Boston

Closed: March 17, 2001

Triptych

Boston

Closed: March 31, 2001

Figurations

Boston

Closed: March 24, 2001

All About Eve

Boston

Closed: March 18, 2001

Concert/Event

Ted Richer Reads

Boston

Closed: March 20, 2001

Emerald City

Boston

Closed: April 14, 2001

Play

Bash

Boston

Closed: May 5, 2001

Invisible Strings

Boston

Closed: May 26, 2001

This Year’s Fashions

Boston

Closed: June 16, 2001

Play

Too Tall Blondes Do Sex, Death & Gender

Boston

Closed: June 16, 2001

Musical

Queer Theory! A Musical Travesty

Boston

Closed: June 16, 2001

Love’s Fire

Boston

Closed: August 12, 2001

Play

Stop Kiss

Boston

Closed: August 25, 2001

Play

Marat/Sade

Boston

Closed: September 1, 2001

Play

Dr. Frocket’s Vivifying (Re-Anmatronic) Menagerie and Medicine Show

Boston

Closed: September 8, 2001

Out on the Edge Festival

Boston

Closed: September 29, 2001

I Remeber Mapa

Boston

Closed: September 9, 2001

Shequida’s Opera for Dummies

Boston

Closed: September 15, 2001

Comedy

Crouching Cabico, Hidden Cho

Boston

Closed: September 16, 2001

Play

P.S. 69

Boston

Closed: September 22, 2001

Play

Three Tall Women

Boston

Closed: October 13, 2001

Play

A Fairy Tale

Boston

Closed: September 23, 2001

Higher Highs, Lower Lows

Boston

Closed: September 29, 2001

Holy Shit! Stories from Heaven and Hell

Boston

Closed: September 29, 2001

Home Free!/Ludlow Fair/Two Ex-Smokers

Boston

Closed: November 10, 2001

April Project

Boston

Closed: April 28, 2002

Family/Kids

Dr. Mee-Mee’s Mysterious Machine

Boston

Closed: April 27, 2002

Concert/Event

My Own Story

Boston

Closed: May 25, 2002

Play

Lessons Learned

Boston

Closed: June 1, 2002

Comedy

The House of Yes

Boston

Closed: June 22, 2002

Blue Heart

Boston

Closed: June 15, 2002

Cabaret

Miss Mary Mac: Home Fires Burning

Boston

Closed: June 8, 2002

Play

Heart of Jade

Boston

Closed: June 29, 2002

Play

Dr. Faustus

Boston

Closed: September 6, 2002

Musical

Bat Boy: The Musical

Boston

Closed: October 26, 2002

Play

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Boston

Closed: November 2, 2002

Comedy

Cloak and Dagger

Boston

Closed: December 21, 2002

Spiked Eggnog

Boston

Closed: December 21, 2002

Comedy

3 Pieces of Ass

Boston

Closed: December 21, 2002

Musical

Bat Boy: The Musical

Boston

Closed: January 25, 2003

Play

The Shape of Things

Boston

Closed: February 22, 2003

Circle & Chain

Boston

Closed: March 15, 2003

Musical

A Class Act

Boston

Closed: March 22, 2003

Play

Bits and Pieces

Boston

Closed: April 6, 2003

Comedy

Try Not to Step on the Naked Man

Boston

Closed: April 5, 2003

Play

A Piece of My Heart

Boston

Closed: April 26, 2003

Musical

Bat Boy: The Musical

Boston

Closed: June 28, 2003

Ruthless!

Boston

Closed: July 12, 2003

Comedy

The Twin Captains

Boston

Closed: July 26, 2003

Comedy

Making Porn

Boston

Closed: August 3, 2003

Play

My Boyfriend the Stripper

Boston

Closed: August 24, 2003

B4T: Before Testosterone

Boston

Closed: September 14, 2003

Out on the Edge: 12th Annual Festival of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Theater

Boston

Closed: September 27, 2003

Master of the (Miss) Universe

Boston

Closed: September 27, 2003

Play

The Credeaux Canvas

Boston

Closed: October 25, 2003

Comedy

The Silent Movie Play

Boston

Closed: November 22, 2003

Play

Back to Before

Boston

Closed: December 20, 2003

Comedy

A New Holiday Comedy

Boston

Closed: December 13, 2003

Comedy

My Life With the Kringle Kult

Boston

Closed: December 28, 2003

Play

Far Away

Boston

Closed: January 24, 2004

Play

12 Angry Men

Boston

Closed: January 24, 2004

Drama

The Moonlight Room

Boston

Closed: December 19, 2004

Play

The Gigolo Confessions of Baile Breag

Boston

Closed: February 28, 2004

Musical

The Last 5 Years

Boston

Closed: February 28, 2004

Play

The Unemployable Livia Peacock

Boston

Closed: February 28, 2004

Concert/Event

ClimACTS!

Boston

Closed: February 21, 2004

Concert/Event

Another Evening With Yolanda

Boston

Closed: February 21, 2004

Play

Lost City

Boston

Closed: March 27, 2004

Comedy

Our Lady of 121st Street

Boston

Closed: March 27, 2004

Play

Backwater: A Movie Play

Boston

Closed: April 10, 2004

Play

Mojo Mickybo

Boston

Closed: April 24, 2004

Play

Last Rites

Boston

Closed: April 24, 2004

Black Power: Six short plays from the 60s

Boston

Closed: May 9, 2004

Musical

Elegies: A Song Cycle

Boston

Closed: May 29, 2004

Comedy

Popcorn

Boston

Closed: June 5, 2004

Comedy

The Last Sunday in June

Boston

Closed: July 3, 2004

Play

Body & Sold

Boston

Closed: June 26, 2004

A Clockwork Orange

Boston

Closed: August 14, 2004

Comedy

Say You Love Satan

Boston

Closed: September 11, 2004

Canny Afghani

Boston

Closed: September 4, 2004

Play

Ballast

Boston

Closed: October 2, 2004

Play

Black Folks’ Guide to Black Folks: Your Neighborhood Inside Out

Boston

Closed: October 4, 2004

Out On The Edge Theatre Festival

Boston

Closed: October 24, 2004

LOUNGE-ZILLA: Asian Sings the Blues

Boston

Closed: October 9, 2004

Another American: Asking and Telling

Boston

Closed: October 23, 2004

Turned Up Volume

Boston

Closed: October 10, 2004

Tim Miller: US

Boston

Closed: October 17, 2004

Play

Oedipus at Palm Springs

Boston

Closed: October 23, 2004

Spell #7

Boston

Closed: November 20, 2004

An Evening of Israel Horovitz

Boston

Closed: December 19, 2004

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The Tempest

Boston

Closed: February 13, 2005

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The Promise

Boston

Closed: February 5, 2005

Play

The Sanctuary Lamp

Boston

Closed: February 26, 2005

Play

Blue/Orange

Boston

Closed: March 5, 2005

Play

Homebody/Kabul

Boston

Closed: March 19, 2005

Play

The Actors

Boston

Closed: March 12, 2005

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Boston

Closed: April 2, 2005

Play

Den of Thieves

Boston

Closed: April 23, 2005

My Price Point

Boston

Closed: May 1, 2005

Play

Tooth and Claw

Boston

Closed: May 21, 2005

Musical

Duplex

Boston

Closed: June 11, 2005

Play

That Championship Season

Boston

Closed: June 26, 2005

N

Boston

Closed: June 25, 2005

Slanguage

Boston

Closed: August 13, 2005

BTW Unbound 2005: A Festival of New Plays

Boston

Closed: August 6, 2005

Drama

The Story

Boston

Closed: September 24, 2005

Play

N (as in Bonaparte)

Boston

Closed: October 8, 2005

Musical

Pulp: A Play With Music

Boston

Closed: October 15, 2005

Out On The Edge Festival

Boston

Closed: November 13, 2005

Play

Fringe and Fringe Ability

Boston

Closed: October 16, 2005

Comedy

The Kvetching Continues

Boston

Closed: October 23, 2005

Play

Girl With A Pearl Necklace: An Act Of Love

Boston

Closed: October 29, 2005

Comedy

Women on the Verge of HRT

Boston

Closed: November 27, 2005

P.S. Page Me Later

Boston

Closed: December 17, 2005

Musical

Promises, Promises

Boston

Closed: December 18, 2005

Comedy

Charlotte the Destroyer

Boston

Closed: January 21, 2006

Play

Home

Boston

Closed: February 4, 2006

Play

Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer

Boston

Closed: February 11, 2006

Drama

Othello

Boston

Closed: March 11, 2006

Concert/Event

climACTS! Carnaval

Boston

Closed: February 25, 2006

Play

A More Perfect Union

Boston

Closed: April 1, 2006

Play

Talking to Terrorists

Boston

Closed: April 8, 2006

Breaking Ground Festival

Boston

Closed: April 9, 2006

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Boston

Closed: April 6, 2006

Christine Jorgensen Reveals

Boston

Closed: April 29, 2006

Play

Rosa

Boston

Closed: April 22, 2006

Persephone

Boston

Closed: April 7, 2006

Mauritius

Boston

Closed: April 9, 2006

Play

The Atheist

Boston

Closed: April 9, 2006

Drama

The Sweetest Swing In Baseball

Boston

Closed: May 6, 2006

Musical

Gorilla Man

Boston

Closed: April 30, 2006

Play

Hiding Behind Comets

Boston

Closed: May 20, 2006

Play

Deep

Boston

Closed: May 21, 2006

Play

The Blue Room

Boston

Closed: June 3, 2006

Comedy

Heading For Eureka

Boston

Closed: June 17, 2006

Musical

Once Upon a Mattress

Boston

Closed: June 24, 2006

Play

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

Boston

Closed: July 1, 2006

BTW Unbound 2006

Boston

Closed: July 16, 2006

Play

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Boston

Closed: August 5, 2006

Play

The Penis Responds

Boston

Closed: August 5, 2006

Drama

Patience of Nantucket

Boston

Closed: September 23, 2006

Monsters

Boston

Closed: September 30, 2006

Coming Up for Air – an AutoJAZZography

Boston

Closed: October 14, 2006

Musical

Little Shop of Horrors

Boston

Closed: October 21, 2006

Play

Stuff Happens

Boston

Closed: December 2, 2006

Play

After Ashley

Boston

Closed: November 18, 2006

Comedy

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant

Boston

Closed: December 16, 2006

Play

Bombs and Manifestos

Boston

Closed: January 20, 2007

Play

Design For Living

Boston

Closed: January 27, 2007

Play

Sacred Hearts

Boston

Closed: February 17, 2007

Play

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Boston

Closed: March 3, 2007

The Bread and Puppet Theater: The Battle of the Terrorists and the Horrorists

Boston

Closed: February 18, 2007

Play

Almost, Maine

Boston

Closed: March 10, 2007

Family/Kids

The Bread and Puppet Theater: Everything is Fine Circus

Boston

Closed: February 18, 2007

Comedy

More Than What

Boston

Closed: March 10, 2007

Play

Six Rounds/Six Lessons

Boston

Closed: March 31, 2007

Crossing Borders III: Voices

Boston

Closed: April 7, 2007

Play

Where the Lost Boys Go

Boston

Closed: March 24, 2007

Play

409 Edgecombe Avenue: The House on Sugar Hill

Boston

Closed: April 21, 2007

Play

Valhalla

Boston

Closed: May 5, 2007

Play

Confessions of a Mormon Boy

Boston

Closed: May 19, 2007

Comedy

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Boston

Closed: May 26, 2007

Play

Just Say Love

Boston

Closed: June 30, 2007

Play

Indian Ink

London

Closed: July 1, 2007

Play

Mr. Marmalade

London

Closed: August 11, 2007

Play

Simon Says

Boston

Closed: September 29, 2007

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Boston

Closed: October 20, 2007

Cabaret

Sorry, Wrong Number

Boston

Closed: October 2, 2007

Play

The Kentucky Cycle

Boston

Closed: November 17, 2007

Cabaret

Paved Paradise

Boston

Closed: November 4, 2007

Out of the Box: Twisted Tales

Boston

Closed: November 3, 2007

Comedy

Nut/Cracked

Boston

Closed: November 11, 2007

Play

This is Our Youth

Boston

Closed: January 19, 2008

Play

Blowing Whistles

Boston

Closed: February 9, 2008

Play

Zooman and the Sign

Boston

Closed: February 9, 2008

2008 African American Theatre Festival

Boston

Closed: February 9, 2008

Play

Feather on My Arms…Zora Neale Flying High

Boston

Closed: February 7, 2008

Play

Camp Logan

Boston

Closed: February 3, 2008

Bread and Puppet Theater: The Divine Reality Comedy

Boston

Closed: February 10, 2008

Family/Kids

Bread and Puppet Theater Circus: The Divine Reality Comedy Circus

Boston

Closed: February 10, 2008

Plays on Tap

Boston

Closed: March 1, 2008

Play

Metamorphoses

Boston

Closed: March 15, 2008

Play

The Seagull

Boston

Closed: March 15, 2008

Play

The Gibson Girls

Boston

Closed: April 5, 2008

Play

Stones in His Pockets

Boston

Closed: April 5, 2008

Play

Travesties

Boston

Closed: May 3, 2008

Play

Spin

Boston

Closed: May 10, 2008

Play

Syllabus of Errors

Boston

Closed: May 10, 2008

Play

The Memory of Water

Boston

Closed: May 31, 2008

Play

Impossible Things

Boston

Closed: June 14, 2008

Play

Essential Self-Defense

Boston

Closed: June 28, 2008

Drama

Closer

Boston

Closed: June 28, 2008

Musical

Assassins

Boston

Closed: August 9, 2008

Comedy

After School Special

Boston

Closed: August 8, 2008

Play

The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View

Boston

Closed: September 16, 2008

Play

In the Continuum

Boston

Closed: October 18, 2008

Adam Pascal Live

Boston

Closed: September 20, 2008

Comedy

Seascape

Boston

Closed: October 25, 2008

Out on the Edge Festival

Boston

Closed: November 8, 2008

Drama

Faith Healer

Boston

Closed: November 22, 2008

Drama

Voyeurs De Venus

Boston

Closed: November 22, 2008

Play

Mary’s Wedding

Boston

Closed: November 30, 2008

Play

The Laramie Project

Boston

Closed: December 13, 2008

Crying Deer

Boston

Closed: January 24, 2009

Play

Uncle Vanya (Finita La Comedia)

Boston

Closed: January 24, 2009

Family/Kids

Bread and Puppet Theater: The Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle (recommended for ages 12 and up)

Boston

Closed: February 1, 2009

Play

Bad Jazz

Boston

Closed: February 21, 2009

Family/Kids

Bread and Puppet Theater: The Sourdough Philosophy Circus (For Kids Of All Ages)

Boston

Closed: February 1, 2009

Comedy

The Random Caruso

Boston

Closed: March 6, 2009

Swansong / Bottom of the Lake

Boston

Closed: March 14, 2009

Play

The Pain and the Itch

Boston

Closed: April 4, 2009

Play

Look and Long – a Gertrude Stein Miscellany

Boston

Closed: April 4, 2009

Comedy

Humble Boy

Boston

Closed: May 2, 2009

Play

The Buddha In His Own Words

Boston

Closed: April 25, 2009

Play

The Mojo and the Sayso

Boston

Closed: October 1, 2009

Play

The Overwhelming

Boston

Closed: November 21, 2009

At Home At The Zoo

Boston

Closed: May 28, 2011

UnTamed

Boston

Closed: June 2, 2011

Song of Songs

Boston

Closed: June 18, 2011

Rent

Boston

Closed: July 9, 2011

Play

Twelfth Night

Boston

Closed: October 22, 2011

Play

Double, Double Toil and Trouble

Boston

Closed: November 19, 2011

Play

And Neither Have I Wings to Fly

Boston

Closed: November 20, 2011

Drama

Hamlet

Boston

Closed: December 17, 2011

Concert/Event

Hamlet

Boston

Closed: December 17, 2011

Family/Kids

The Velveteen Rabbit

Boston

Closed: December 18, 2011

Family/Kids

Calvin’s Monster

Boston

Closed: February 12, 2012

Family/Kids

Reflections of a Rock Lobster

Boston

Closed: March 11, 2012

Family/Kids

James and the Giant Peach

Boston

Closed: March 25, 2012

Musical

Floyd Collins : a haunting musical drama

Boston

Closed: April 14, 2012

Play

Cruel Botany: At Play in the Gardens of Harry Kondoleon & Federico Garcia Lorca

Boston

Closed: June 23, 2012

Drama

Romeo and Juliet

Boston

Closed: August 25, 2012

Drama

Romeo and Juliet

Boston

Closed: August 25, 2012

No Room for Wishing

Boston

Closed: September 22, 2012

Drama

Now or Later

Boston

Closed: November 10, 2012

Play

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Boston

Closed: November 17, 2012

A New Brain

Boston

Closed: April 6, 2013

Musical

A New Brain

Boston

Closed: April 6, 2013

Concert/Event

Splendor

Boston

Closed: November 16, 2013

Play

Neighbourhood Watch

Boston

Closed: March 1, 2014

Play

Good Television

Boston

Closed: May 17, 2014

Festival

Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers

Boston

Closed: June 21, 2014

Musical

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)

Boston

Closed: December 20, 2014

Play

Bread & Puppet Theater: Captain Boycott

Boston

Closed: February 1, 2015

Play

The Big Meal

Boston

Closed: March 7, 2015

Drama

Simon Says

Boston

Closed: March 14, 2015

Play

Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them

Boston

Closed: June 27, 2015

Play

Colossal

Boston

Closed: August 15, 2015

Play

Inferno: Fire at The Cocoanut Grove 1942

Boston

Closed: April 3, 2016

Play

The T Party

Boston

Closed: August 13, 2016

Comedy

From the Sea, To Somewhere Else: A New Play

Boston

Closed: July 23, 2016

Play

Twelfth Night of the Living Dead

Boston

Closed: November 5, 2016

Multimedia

Gumdrops & The Funny Uncle

Boston

Closed: December 18, 2016

Play

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Boston

Closed: April 29, 2017

Benefit/Fundraiser

2017 Spotlight Spectacular

Boston

Closed: April 24, 2017