Upcoming Shows & Performances
5 upcoming shows and performances from Footlight Club, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All musicals in Greater Boston →
Fri Oct 16 – Sat Oct 24
Jo Levitt dies in the autumn of 1911 and the family fractures around the loss: an outraged estranged sister, a lover grieving alone, a brother trying to keep the peace, and a nephew pushed into a reckoning he is not ready for. Staged in the Parker Room rather than the Footlight Club's main hall.
Sat Oct 31 – Sat Nov 14
Thomas Meehan's book with Charles Strouse's music and Martin Charnin's lyrics, taken from the Little Orphan Annie comic strip: a Depression-era orphan who believes better days are always ahead, and turns out to be mostly right. Programmed into the Footlight Club's 150th-anniversary season.
Fri Dec 4 – Sat Dec 5
The Footlight Club's annual fundraiser reaches its twenty-fifth year: an evening of song and unexpected hilarity that has raised more than $600,000 towards restoring Eliot Hall. It falls inside the club's 150th-anniversary season, and runs for two performances. Eliot Hall has been the club's home since 1889.
Sat Feb 6 – Sun Feb 14
The Younger family in 1950s Chicago receive an insurance cheque after the father's death, and each of them has a different idea of what it is for. Lorraine Hansberry was twenty-nine, and the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway.
Sat May 1 – Sat May 15
Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance relocated from the Cornish coast to New Orleans, with jazz, blues and Caribbean rhythms worked through fresh orchestrations and the original's wordplay left intact. The Footlight Club, founded in 1877, closes its season with it.
