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ACME Theater Productions
Affectionately known as "Home of the Misfits." Internationally recognized, award-winning community theater located in Maynard, MA.
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Alarm Clock Theatre Company
"Alarm Clock Theater Company is committed to revitalizing the medium of live performance with fresh approaches and ideas. We're here to spread the infectious joy of thrilling live theatre in an intimate setting, with an attitude and price that will be accessible to a wide audience. We aim to connect with the community through outreach programs, and the regular presentation of works by vital local playwrights, including world-premier productions. We also give exposure to essential works that are often overlooked by other theatre companies."
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American Repertory Theatre
Harvard Square
Cambridge
And Then I Saw...
Opinions about theater in Boston.
AYTB Theatre Company
"The As Yet To Be Theatre Company focuses on developing talent based in the Boston area. AYTB produces original works written by, directed by, designed by, and performed by Boston artists. AYTB's mission is to introduce audiences to the works of Boston writers, as well as promote works previously produced that still hold relevance in today's world. A place where both audience and artists can be challenged."
Bad Habit Productions
"Bad Habit Productions, Inc. (BHP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) theater dedicated to producing unique and imaginative theatrical and improvisational experiences within greater Boston. These productions will result from direct, creative collaboration among Boston artists and will provide much-needed opportunities for non-Equity members. BHP is committed to furthering the presence and popularity of community theatre in Boston, thereby enriching and inspiring the local arts community."
Baker Street Productions
Independent theater and video production company.
Winthrop, Ma.
Behind the Beam 
"Photos from a Spotlight Operator's Perspective."
Blue Man Group
Unusual performances at the Charles Playhouse.
BosTix
Half-price tickets the day of a performance.
Boston Baked Theatre
Basic Theatre and Sprouts Theatre for Children. Somerville.
Boston Center for the Arts
Multi-purpose arts facility: Artists' studios, exhibit space, live theatre, and more.
South End
Boston Children's Theatre
"Live Theatre For Children By Children" since 1951. Year-round program of mainstage productions, tour performances, classes, and other opportunities.
Boston Children's Theatre
"Live Theatre For Children By Children" since 1951. Year-round program of mainstage productions, tour performances, classes, and other opportunities.
Boston Directors Lab
Nonprofit performing arts organization that creates a working environment for early career directors to engage in an intensive study of their craft and to workshop material in collaboration with other artists.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
Award-winning independent professional theatre dedicated solely to the creation of new works for the stage. Home of the Boston Theater Marathon: www.bu.edu/btm
Boston Rock Opera
Nonrofit goup that brings together thespians and musicians.
Boston theater history
A history of stage performances in Boston from 1758 on.
Boston Theatre Works
Performs classical and contemporary plays at several Boston-area locations.
Boston Theatre Works
"Boston Theatre Works presents socially relevent classical and contemporary productions with a commitment to expanding Boston's theater going audience and redefiining the theater experience."
Boston University School of Theatre
Performances and events from Boston University's School of Theatre.
Fenway
Boston University Shakespeare Society
Theatre group dedicated to performing Shakespearean works at Boston University.
Broadway in Boston
Information about plays at the Colonial and Wilbur theaters and the Charles Playhouse.
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Burlington Players Inc.
Intimate and comfortable community theater presenting a four show season. Burlington.
Cannon Theatre
A website/blog about The Cannon Theatre, a small black box theatre in Littleton. We do a Fall adult/teen play, a Winter kids/teen play and a Spring kids/teen Musical!
Littleton
Center for Arts in Natick
The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) is a 290-seat performance space hosting music concerts, live theatre, and art gallery exhibits within the Boston MetroWest area.
Natick
Chevalier Theater
The Chevalier is a 2100-seat theater, just minutes from downtown Boston. Now available to promoters, producers, and production companies for rental.
Medford Square
Medford
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Presents free outdoor performances of Shakespeare plays on Boston Common every summer.
Company One Theatre
"Boston's only cutting edge theatre dedicated to producing Boston premiers for a diverse audience under the age of 30."
Devanaughn Theatre
"Devanaughn's mission is to bring passionate and transforming works, both classic and contemporary, to the Boston stage and screen. We focus on the exploration of deep, and often dark, themes, such as desire, despair, betrayal and courage. In doing so we provide the Boston community with a realistic and
recklessly impassioned exposure to the works of such theatre genius as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Synge, Yeats, Wilson, Mamet, Friel, Shepard, and Pinter, as well as providing a platform for lesser known playwrights of
extraordinary talent."
Our goal is to provide our audience with a theatre that moves and challenges them
toward self-discovery and a greater awareness of our world. Our art is not one that offers the answers to life, but perhaps asks the right questions, providing a dialogue toward healing and understanding.
South End
Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters
Emerson Majestic Theatre
Firelech Jewish Musical Theater
"Jewish Musical Theatre troupe that specializes in Yiddish and Hebrew songs and dances. Each performance mixes in pieces from Israel folk dancing, Yiddish theatre and song, and even pieces performed in Ladino. Other cultures celebrated by the troupe include Greek and Yemenite Jewish traditions."
Brighton
Footlight Club
Oldest community theater in America.
Jamaica Plain
Footlight Club Theater
Volunteer at the The Footlight Club, America's oldest community theater, located in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. Volunteers are needed for all aspects of theater: technical, administrative, house management, publicity, membership, etc. The list goes on and on...every talent can be utilized in some way!
Pond Side off Center Street
Jamaica Plain
Gloucester Stage Company
Founded in 1979, GSC presents professional productions of intellectually stimulating and socially relevant dramas, comedies and musicals; provides a nurturing working environment for artists in an inspirational setting; contributes to the cultural, economic and educational development of Cape Ann; and enriches the nation’s theater landscape by developing and presenting at least one world premiere production each year. It is located on beautiful Smith's Cove in Gloucester, home of America's oldest seaport and oldest art colony.
East Gloucester
GLOUCESTER
Hovey Players
"We are a group of people who come together to produce shows for the love of theater and the joy of camaraderie with others who share that passion. We have a solid core of regulars, but always welcome and seek new friends to help us staff our season. Currently, we produce five shows from September through May that require the help of many hands on and off the stage. Do you like to build things? Feel crafty with power tools? Like to create another world with a paintbrush? We re-invent our small theater for each production to indicate a different setting."
Waltham
Huntington Theatre Company
i Sebastiani
Re-creates an improvised form of Italian street theater as it was done in the courts and marketplaces of the 16th century.
ImprovBoston
"Oldest continously running improvisational comedy troupe in the Boston area, presenting live, innovative improv comedy five nights a week."
Inman Square
Cambridge
Industrial Theatre
Company-in-residence at the Leverett Old Library Theatre, an intimate performance venue on the Harvard University campus.
JM Productions & Children's Corner
Producing monthly dinner theatre and special events in Quincy and across the South Shore. Classes in drama, voice, music and dance available for adults and children.
7 Foster St.
Quincy
JM Productions Dinner Theatre and concert schedules
Dinner theater every other month at Raffaels resturaunt in North Quincy.
Also: concert and children's theater series throughout the year.
Larry Stark's Theater Mirror
Theater listings and daily comments.
Lexington Players
Award-winning community theater group in Lexington, drawing actors and audiences from the greater Boston area. Check out our latest show at http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/8561/ and have a great time supporting community theater.
Little Theatre of Stoughton
"Our reputation for providing quality, live local entertainment grows each year as we continue to stretch our collective muscle and offer more students and adults and audiences opportunities to participate in the dramatic arts."
Stoughton
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
140 Clarendon St.
Mass Theatrica
"Mass Theatrica is an innovative, non-profit performing arts company dedicated to bringing a variety of theatre arts genres to the masses, including plays, musical theatre, operetta and opera. Mass Theatrica is fully committed to showcasing both established and emerging artists in the Greater Boston area in a collaborative and supportive environment."
MIT Community Players
East Cambridge
Cambridge
Molasses Tank Productions
"Molasses Tank Productions recognizes that theatre does not stand isolated as a static fine art form; rather, it involves, reflects, and influences our current and ever-changing culture. We hold that our enterprise in theatre can assume an active role in valuable cultural dialogues and foster a heightened awareness of the contemporary world. We want our work to entertain, but also to do more: through achieving artistic excellence, we seek to provoke insights and commentary, to offer experiences of emotional intensity, and to understand how we determine and pursue our social values and visions."
Charlestown
Mystery Cafe Dinner Theater
Dinner Theater by land or sea in Boston and on Boston Harbor
New England Theatre Conference
Service association for theatre practitioners in New England.
On the Aisle - Boston & beyond
Reviews of theatre in the greater Boston area plus archives, news, opinion and speculation.
One Block From Broadway, 02139
"Adam Brooks and TC Cheever of ImprovBoston, located one block from Broadway in Cambridge, write about the art and process of two guys trying to create a musical or two."
Inman Square
Cambridge
Orpheum Foxborough Theatre
Renovated, not-for-profit, performing arts center, offering a variety of live theatre, music, dance and youth performances annually from September to July.
Pet Brick Productions
Boston-based theatrical production company.
Playwrights' Platform
"Playwrights' Platform is a Boston-based cooperative developmental theatre for new plays. We hold biweekly readings of new works, and each summer we produce a festival of new plays. We have been helping to develop new theatre in the Boston area for thirty years!"
Publick Theatre
Outdoor performances by the Charles River in Brighton.
Puppet Showplace Theatre
"For more than 30 years, the Puppet Showplace Theatre has provided audiences of all ages with the finest in puppetry arts. The award winning productions that we bring to our stage cover the entire spectrum of this ancient and unique form of theatre, from children's to adult productions, from traditional to cutting edge."
Brookline Village
Brookline
Randy Marquis - Actor, Writer, Filmmaker
"Randy Marquis is a professional actor whose work has been seen througout New England. Recently he's worked at the Chelsea Theatre Works, Worcester Foothills Theatre, Barrington Stage, Lyric West Theatre, and the Actor's Workshop Theatre."
Riverside Theatre Works
Major Broadway plays and musical revues.
Rough & Tumble Theatre Company
"To create, present and promote exhilarating works of theatre. To reawaken a sense of joy in our audience. To bring a new audience out to the theater, and new theater out to the audience."
Boston Center for the Arts Leland Center
539 Tremont St.
South End
Roxbury Community College Mainstage Theater
Located at the Media/Arts Center at Roxbury Community College.
1234 Columbus Ave.
Roxbury
Salem Theatre Company Blog
"Salem Theatre Company is Salem, Mass., community theater group, founded in 2002 and offering year-round plays and events."
Salem
Shadow Boxing Theatre Workshop
Open workshop for developing new scripts and theatrical techniques: open to playwrights, actors, directors. No fee.
Cambridge
Shear Madness
Participatory whodunit that is one of the nation's oldest running plays.
SpeakEasy Stage Company
Specializes in plays never before done in New England. Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street.
Spingold Theater
Theater at Brandeis University. Waltham.
StagePage
"Downloadable scripts by one of Boston's most prolific playwrights, including free monologues for audition and classroom use."
Newton
Stoneham Theatre
Stoneham Theatre is a professional theatre in Stoneham, 15 minutes from Boston, producing a full season of popular plays and concerts.
Sudbury Savoyards
Gilbert and Sullivan in Sudbury.
Sugan Theatre Company
"The Sugan Theatre Company's mission is to introduce to Boston audiences contemporary Irish and Celtic plays that present diverse perspectives of modern Ireland." A resident theater company at the Boston Center for the Arts.
539 Tremont St.
Downtown
The Bridge Theatre Company
The Theatre of the Imagination. Regular performances at the Boston Center for the Arts.
The Lexington Players
An award-winning community theater group in residence at the National Heritage Museum. Lexington.
The Lively Art
Book: "A Treasury of Criticism, Commentary, Observation, and Insight from Twenty Years of the American Repertory Theatre."
The Southborough Players
A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of live theater performance in our local community.
The Theater Offensive
"New England creator and presenter of queer theater. The Theater Offensive is best known for their annual Fall OUT ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL, Plays At Work new works program, True Colors Out Your Theater, and A Street Theater Named Desire."
South End
The Walpole Footlighters
The Walpole Footlighters is a community theater located in Walpole, Massachusetts in continuous operation since 1924.
Theatre Cooperative
Now in its 5th season, the Theatre Cooperative, located at 277 Broadway in Somerville presents evocative and intelligent drama at affordable prices.
Theatre@First
"A community theater based in Davis Square, the mission of Theatre@First is to work together to provide a fun, friendly, and creative theater experience for cast, crew, and audience alike. We welcome volunteers at all levels of experience and offer a supportive environment in which to work, play, grow, and explore new areas of the theatre arts. We offer affordable and eclectic entertainment to the community, aiming to surprise, delight, entertain, and educate our audiences."
Davis Square
Somerville
TheatreZone
Plays and actor training.
Turtle Lane Playhouse
"Year-round theatre which presents musicals in an intimate 120-seat cabaret setting. Full lounge, free parking, live orchestra. We design and build our own sets and costumes."
Auburndale
Newton
Underground Railway Theater
"Underground Railway Theater explores a changing landscape of artistic forms and social concerns, combining puppetry, music and acting to engage diverse audiences with images that challenge and delight, inform and celebrate."
41 Foster St.
Arlington
Walpole Children's Theatre
Community theatre for children, by children since 1969. Walpole.
Zeitgeist Stage Company
Theater company performing at the Boston Center for the Arts presenting a contemporary program of regional premieres.
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