Student Matinees
The Student Matinee Series at Central Square Theater gives hundreds of students the opportunity to see shows by both award-winning resident companies:
Underground Railway Theater and The Nora Theatre Company.
Tickets to school day performances are $8 per student.
All student matinees are at 10:00am.
Study Guides are available for all shows.
Pre- and post-show workshops available for additional cost.
For bookings and inquiries contact
Courtney Romanowski, Box Office Coordinator
car@centralsquaretheater.org
617-576-9278 x 210
• Massachusetts Cultural Council "Big Yellow Bus" Funding may be avaliable for field trip transportation.
More information can be found here.
• Local Cultural Council "PASS" Funding may be avaliable for ticket costs.
More information can be found here.
2010-2011 Mainstage Season Student Matinee Performances
By Eugene O'Neil
Presented by the Nora Theatre Company
November 3, 2010 10:00 AM
The Nora Theatre Company revives Eugene O'Neil's enduring masterpiece, bringing together two of his most memorable characters: Josie Hogan, a tough-talking Irish immigrant, and Jim Tyrone, first introduced in the autobiographical Long Days Journey Into Night. Uniquely funny and poignant, A Moon for the Misbegotten illuminates a search for redemption through an unlikely and magnificent love story.
by Naomi Wallace
Presented by Underground Railway Theater
December 8, 2010 10:00 AM
Naomi Wallace offers a unique combination of lyrical theatricality and political passion in her new tryptych for the stage, presented by Underground Railway Theater. An Israeli soldier encounters a mysterious PAlestinian woman in the Rafah Zoo. A Palestinian father reveals to a young Israeli woman their shared history. A bookish Iraqi bird collector tells of his conscription into Saddam's army. Through magic, realism, and surprising humor, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East reaches out like a prophecy, challenging us to envision peace during the holiday season.
by Derek Walcott
Presented by Underground Railway Theater
February 16, 2010, 10:00 AM
March 2, 2010 10:00 AM
Underground Railway Theater and Boston Playwrights' Theatre bring Derek Walcott's powerful folk parable, Ti-Jean & His Brothers, to Cambridge. A first-time collaboration between the two companies, the production will be a celebration of Hatian art, music, and spirit. A Carribean family is in crisis: three brothers are pulled into a dangerous game with the Devil in this fanciful, dark, and ultimately hopeful story of battling despair through fierce humor and love. Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian (Harriet Jacobs).
by Hugh Whitemore
Presented by Underground Railway Theater
a Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT production
April 13, 2010, 10:00 AM
Breaking the Code, Hugh Whitemore's elegant and deeply moving play about brillian British mathemetician Alan Turing, reveals connections between his cracking of the Nazi's "unbreakable" Enigma Code and his refusal to live a closeted life. Turing's expansive spirit embraced seeming contradiction: gay man and war hero, marathon runner and Disney film fan; he envisioned a "universal machine" and set the stage for modern computer technology.
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Study Guides and Workshops
• In-class workshops are available for all Student Matinees. URT Teaching Artists will visit your classroom and prepare students to see the show with a series of interactive theater activities. Contact us for information about cost and booking.
• See Study Guides from past performances:
From Orchids To Octopi Study Guide
The Life of Galileo Study Guide
How Do You Spell Hope Study Guide
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