Upcoming Shows & Performances
5 upcoming shows and performances from Central Square Theater, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →
Thu Sep 10 – Sun Oct 11
Paula Plum plays Eleanor Roosevelt alone on stage, revisiting her marriage to Franklin, her activism, and her part in drafting the modern language of human rights. Mark St. Germain wrote it and Bryn Boice directs. The Wall Street Journal called the production "a great show, period".
Thu Oct 29 – Sun Nov 22
Based on the true story of Katherine Ann Power and Clare Schroeder. In 1970 Power joins an antiwar group whose action turns deadly; she spends decades on the FBI's Most Wanted list while Schroeder grows up in the shadow of her father's murder. They meet when Power resurfaces.
Thu Feb 4 – Sun Feb 28
Derbyshire, 1809: the thirteen-year-old Lady Thomasina Coverly proposes a scientific theory whose implications she cannot yet grasp, while her tutor conducts several affairs. Stoppard runs 1809 and the present day in the same room, and lets the modern scholars get almost everything wrong.
Thu Apr 1 – Sun Apr 25
Studs Terkel interviewed Americans about their jobs, and this musical sets those interviews to songs by several writers, Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda among them. Central Square Theater stages it with the Front Porch Arts Collective. The interviews were published in 1974 and the musical first staged in 1978.
Thu Jun 3 – Sun Jun 27
Two men each invent a fictitious person to escape their obligations, and both are undone by the name Ernest. Eric Tucker of Bedlam stages Wilde with three actors covering every part, which puts the machinery of Victorian respectability on show.
