ArtsEmerson

Wed Oct 28 – Sun Nov 1

All the Devils Are Here

by Patrick Page

ArtsEmerson · Robert J. Orchard Stage · Emerson Paramount Center · Theatre District · Boston

Patrick Page works through Shakespeare's villains one at a time, arguing that Shakespeare invented the interior life of evil. The solo show won him the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards off-Broadway. Page was Tony-nominated and won a Grammy for playing Hades in Hadestown.

Thu Nov 12 · 6:30pm

The Point: America, 250 Years From Now: Imagining the Future of Performance and Identity

ArtsEmerson · Emerson Paramount Center · Boston · Boston

The closing conversation in ArtsEmerson’s America 250 series asks what art, stories and ways of gathering could shape the country’s next 250 years. Panelists are Cliff Notez, a Boston multimedia artist and musician; Alexandra Paul Zotov, a creative strategist who has worked with the City of Boston and Creative Time; and Lily Odekirk, who teaches applied theatre at Emerson College. A reception follows.

Thu Nov 19 – Sun Nov 22

Dream Feed

by The HawtPlates

ArtsEmerson · Jackie Liebergott Black Box · Emerson Paramount Center · Theatre District · Boston

An electro-acoustic vocal piece from The HawtPlates, a two-time Grammy-winning family band, built around whether we can remember our own dreams and share the ones we hold in common. A review the company quotes calls it comfort found in sharing your most disorienting dreams.

Thu Feb 11 – Sun Feb 14

Wake

Devised

ArtsEmerson · Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre · Theatre District · Boston

An Irish wake staged as a celebration rather than a solemnity, mixing traditional custom with club anthems, aerial work, Irish tap, cabaret, slam poetry and pole-dancing. The company frames the wake as a rite of transformation, moving from one realm to the next.

Thu Feb 25 – Sun Feb 28

2021

by Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn and Sam Ferguson

ArtsEmerson · Jackie Liebergott Black Box · Emerson Paramount Center · Theatre District · Boston

A live performance in which an audience member takes the role of Brian, an unhoused veteran reliving his final weeks inside a looping digital hospital of corridors and bureaucratic dead ends. Theatre and video-game logic converge on what machine memory keeps and what it discards.

Wed Mar 10 – Sun Mar 14

Scott Silven: Wonders

by Scott Silven

ArtsEmerson · Robert J. Orchard Stage · Emerson Paramount Center · Theatre District · Boston

The Scottish mentalist Scott Silven builds an evening out of memory, suggestion and a good deal of storytelling, closer to a seance than a card trick. The New York Times made it a Critic's Pick and Vogue called him a world-renowned mentalist.

Thu Apr 1 – Sun Apr 11

Kunene and the King

by John Kani

ArtsEmerson · Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre · Theatre District · Boston

A dying white Afrikaner actor preparing to play Lear is assigned a Black nurse, and post-apartheid South Africa argues itself out between them. John Kani wrote it and has performed it himself; the Royal Shakespeare Company premiered it in 2019.

Fri Apr 30 – Sun May 2

The Carlisle Project

Devised, produced by Octopus Theatricals

ArtsEmerson · Robert J. Orchard Stage · Emerson Paramount Center · Theatre District · Boston

A song cycle reckoning with the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in the nineteenth century on the principle of "Kill the Indian, and Save the Man" and used as the blueprint for government-sponsored assimilation. It blends song, satire and ceremony.