Upcoming Shows & Performances
8 upcoming shows and performances from Emerson Stage, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →
Wed Oct 14 – Sat Oct 17
The O'Mallery family gathers in a park to stage an intervention for their sister Barbara, and Robert O'Hara springs a structural trick at the interval that turns the evening into an argument about who gets to tell whose story. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company.
Sat Oct 17 – Sat Oct 24
A revue of songs by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire, who went on to write Baby and Closer Than Ever: no book and no plot, just a sequence about love arriving, failing, and going nowhere at all. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company.
Wed Nov 18 – Sat Nov 21
Five people take a six-week acting class at a Vermont community centre, and Annie Baker lets the exercises and the silences between them do the work until the small betrayals become visible. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company.
Wed Dec 2 – Sat Dec 5
Olga, Masha and Irina keep saying they will go to Moscow and keep not going, while the provincial garrison town closes in around them. Paul Schmidt's translation is among the most speakable in English. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company.
Wed Jan 27 – Sat Jan 30
A screwball comedy about a divorced couple whose carefully orchestrated double date leaves the ex-wife juggling her ex-husband's feelings, a disastrous date and her own secret romance. J.W. Andrew, an Emerson MFA student, won the Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship with it; the award, funded by the family of the television writer Rod Parker '51, brings a lab production and a cash prize. Joe Antoun directs.
Wed Feb 17 – Sat Feb 20
Stephen King's first novel as a musical: Carrie White, bullied at school and dominated at home by her loving but cruelly controlling mother, discovers a telekinetic power she will use if pushed too far. Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford wrote the songs and Lawrence D. Cohen the book; the show failed on Broadway in 1988 and was revised in 2012. Christopher Shin directs this lab production.
Fri Mar 19 – Sat Mar 27
Tony Kushner's two-part epic of Reagan-era New York, Roy Cohn, the AIDS crisis and an angel crashing through a ceiling, staged here in full. Both parts run around seven hours together. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company. Kushner subtitled it A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
Thu Apr 15 – Sun Apr 18
Brecht and Weill's Victorian London of beggars, thieves and Macheath, written in 1928 to be sung badly on purpose and to stop the audience getting comfortable. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company. Its best-known number, Mack the Knife, was added late and became a jazz standard. Emerson Stage is the college's student-led production company.
