Upcoming Shows & Performances
6 upcoming shows and performances from Greater Boston Stage Company, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →
Fri Sep 25 – Sun Oct 11
An interactive whodunit set in a hairdressing salon: the audience questions the suspects and votes on the murderer, so the ending changes from night to night. Paul Portner's play ran for decades in the basement of the Charles Playhouse, and is one of the longest-running non-musicals ever staged in America.
Fri Oct 23 – Sun Nov 8
A one-woman thriller by Weylin Symes, the company's producing artistic director, who co-directs with Daniel Begin. Set in a 19th-century criminal lunatic asylum, it follows Nurse Lucy Cull, eager to prove herself, as she is drawn into radical medical experiments that grow more dangerous. The company likens it to Jekyll and Hyde and Jane Eyre; programmed for Halloween.
Fri Nov 27 – Sun Dec 20
Joe Landry stages the Capra film as a 1940s radio broadcast: a small cast at microphones playing every part, with a foley table supplying the snow, the doors and the ice. The audience watches the sound being made as much as the story.
Fri Feb 26 – Sun Mar 14
A lexicographer at a dictionary publisher is caught on video using a slur, and the office has to decide what the word now means and whether to keep printing it. Jacqueline Bircher's comedy takes place over the day that follows.
Fri Apr 9 – Sun Apr 25
Ken Ludwig's adaptation of Christie's best-known puzzle: a train stopped by a snowdrift, a dead passenger, and a carriage of suspects who all have alibis. Poirot's difficulty turns out to be not too few solutions but too many. Christie based the snowbound setting on a real stranding of the train.
Fri Jun 4 – Sun Jun 27
Roald Dahl's clever, neglected girl and the headmistress who throws children by the pigtails, with songs by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly. Minchin's lyrics are considerably more intricate than most scores written for children. The Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned and first staged it in 2010.
