Upcoming Shows & Performances
6 upcoming shows and performances from Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →
Thu Oct 8 – Sun Oct 11
Five drama students drink through the night after a first-year is cast as Lady Macbeth over the senior who expected the part, and the evening turns. Sophie McIntosh's play had its off-Broadway premiere in 2022. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club performs it with an undergraduate cast.
Thu Oct 15 – Sun Oct 18
Iago persuades a general who trusts him that his wife is unfaithful, then narrates the destruction to the audience as he arranges it. Shakespeare wrote the play around 1603, working from a novella by Giraldi Cinthio, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club performs it with an undergraduate cast.
Wed Oct 28 – Sun Nov 1
An anxious high-schooler lets a lie about a dead classmate grow into a public story he cannot stop. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the score and Steven Levenson the book; it opened on Broadway in 2016 and won six Tony Awards, including best musical. An undergraduate production.
Wed Oct 28 – Sat Oct 31
Sondheim and Lapine send Cinderella, Jack, Rapunzel and the Baker past their happy endings into a second act where the wishes granted in the first one come due. It opened on Broadway in 1987 and won three Tony Awards. An undergraduate cast takes on the score.
Thu Nov 5 – Sun Nov 8
Six members of a Canadian chamber choir die on a roller coaster and wake in limbo, where a mechanical fortune teller offers one of them a return to life in exchange for a story. Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell's cult musical.
Thu Dec 3 – Sun Dec 6
Annie Baker's play watches five people through six weeks of a community-centre acting class in Vermont, where the exercises keep turning into confessions and the pauses do most of the work. It won an Obie for Best New American Play.