Upcoming Shows & Performances
5 upcoming shows and performances from Merrimack Repertory Theatre, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →
Wed Oct 14 – Sun Nov 1
A respectable doctor invents a second self to do what the first will not admit to wanting, and then cannot call it back. Robert Louis Stevenson published the novella in 1886 and it has been adapted for the stage more or less continuously since; this production opens Merrimack Repertory Theatre's season.
Wed Nov 25 – Sun Dec 13
All six Austen novels compressed into a single fast and deliberately unhinged evening, written by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast and Meghan Winch. Actors' Shakespeare Project programmes it alongside its own Dracula comedy this autumn. Austen finished six novels; two were published after her death.
Wed Feb 24 – Sun Mar 14
The Reduced Shakespeare Company's three-actor sprint through the Western canon, Homer to Hemingway, compressed into about two hours. The company built the format with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) in 1987 and has since applied it to the Bible, American history and sport.
Wed Feb 24 – Sun Mar 14
Six anxious children compete in a school spelling bee while the adults running it fail them in various ways. William Finn's songs and Rachel Sheinkin's book leave room for audience volunteers, pulled on stage to spell until they are eliminated.
Wed Apr 7 – Sun Apr 25
Paul Tsongas ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992 out of Lowell, on fiscal discipline and an argument nobody else in the field was making, and won the New Hampshire primary without ever leading the race. Merrimack Rep commissioned the play and gives it its world premiere in the city Tsongas came from.
