Upcoming Shows & Performances
5 upcoming shows and performances from Theatre@First, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →
Sat Sep 26 – Sun Oct 11
Two Euripides plays, Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, woven into a single telling. The gods demand that Agamemnon sacrifice his daughter before his thousand ships can sail for Troy, and the choice sets the rest of his family's fate running. Staged outdoors.
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Lucy Prebble's play about the accounting fraud that brought down the energy company, which stages mark-to-market bookkeeping and the shell partnerships that hid the debt as things you can watch happen. It ran at the Royal Court and in the West End before a short, unhappy Broadway transfer. Hannah Baker directs for Theatre@First.
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Lawrence Gullo’s comedy follows Elle, a young photographer in 1930s London who falls in with a circle of queer and trans friends, among them an aristocrat whose inheritance is at stake, an anarchist stuck on his manifesto and a flapper who wears her own designs. Pansy Rampant Productions premiered it in Cambridge in 2024; Addie Pates directs this production.
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Shakespeare's comedy of two courtships: Beatrice and Benedick insulting each other into an engagement, and Claudio and Hero nearly destroyed by a slander staged to look like proof. Paula Hawthorne directs for Theatre@First, which programmes a Shakespeare in its summer slot each year and plays it in and around First Church Somerville.
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Robert Lawson’s reworking of Moby Dick is, in its publisher’s words, “more a poetic fantasia than literal adaptation”: with songs, contemporary humour and a weaving of other myths, a crew of whalers sets off on an epic hunt before the obsessed Captain Ahab steers them onto an entirely different course. Jess Viator and Alex Gorowara direct.