Meet the cast and creative team of Arabian Nights as they talk about their work on the show after the 2pm matinee!

Come celebrate the holidays with us in your pajamas! Use the code PJPARTY to get 15% off adult tickets for December 11th’s 7:00 PM performance. Then, wear your favorite holiday jammies to the show and/or bring one non-perishable food item per ticket to be collected for the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House Pantry.

At intermission, we will be serving milk and cookies to partake in the joy of season. Open to the audience of the 7pm performance only.

Listen…

Join host Diane Edgecomb and modern-day Shahrazads Norah Dooley, Leeny Del Seamonds, and Mike Cohen for a Storytelling Symposium on December 6th following the matinee performance of Arabian Nights!

Norah Dooley is a storyteller, educator, critically acclaimed children’s author and creator of StoriesLive®, a high school storytelling curriculum and story slam program. She was the co-founder of massmouth.com and the Greater Boston Story Slam series. As project director of StoriesLive® she created and implements a curriculum used to teach over 7,000 Greater Boston high school students to tell compelling first-person narratives. As an adjunct faculty, she teaches storytelling to undergraduates at Tufts and graduates at Lesley University.  In January 2014, she returned to lecture on storytelling and language acquisition in Tokyo, Japan as part of a multi-year grant funded by the Japanese government. Norah was invited as a featured performer at the Exchange Place of the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough,TN in 2013.

Leeny Del Seamonds, Master Story Performer, is a multi award-winning, internationally acclaimed performer of Hispanic/Latino, original and World stories spiced with exquisite mime, a cornucopia of characters, and love of people. With a twinkle in her eye and fire in her heart, Leeny breathes life into stories as she masterfully and effortlessly springs from one story character to another. A dedicated Teaching Artist, Leeny encourages listeners to feel positive about themselves and rejoice in human and cultural diversity, inviting them to share in her Latin/Cuban-American sense of humor and love of performing. Her most recent achievement in growing as a performer is becoming a certified Professional Voice Actor.

Mike Cohen took up storytelling in 1992, after surviving acting, play writing, stand-up comedy, poetry slams, and cancer. He has been entertaining adults and children all over New England with his inventive and dazzling stories ever since. Mike has appeared at Coffeehouses, Festivals, Schools, Camps, Homeless Shelters, and even a Prison. He has a Master’s Degree in Education from Boston College, was on the Board of Directors of L.A.N.E.S. (League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling), helps to run The Story Space (the World’s longest-running, and only weekly Storytelling venue); and has bicycled from Seattle to Boston, by himself, three times.

An award-winning storyteller, author and theatre artist, Diane Edgecomb‘s unique adaptations of traditional tales and original stories have been featured on NPR and at storytelling festivals, coffeehouses, and theatres throughout the country. Her storytelling style, where she fully embodies the various characters and scenes in a tale, bringing each moment alive, has won her the first national ORACLE AWARD for Storytelling Excellence in the Northeast. She will be featured at Central Square Theater later this season as part of That’s What She Said: A Feminine Perspective, where Diane will bring her performance, “One Thousand Doorways,” about her journeys in the mountains of Turkish Kurdistan, on Monday, March 14, 2016 at 8 pm. LIVINGMYTH.COM

Quantum Beauty

We kick off our Central Conversations Series for Einstein’s Dreams with renowned physicist and nobel laureate Frank Wilczek!  Currently the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at MIT, Professor Wilczek attended the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. An in-demand lecturer, he will be helping us answer the question, “Does the world embody beauty?” through one of his most popular lessons on quantum beauty.  (To catch his original 2012 lecture, click here.) We are also excited to have him discuss his latest book, A Beautiful Question – Finding Nature’s Deep Design. 

Historians and Humanists of Science

Join us for a post show discussion with Professors Alan Brody and Alex Wellerstein, concerning the scientific and historical impact of the Copenhagen meetings and how the play helps us to better understand Werner Heisenberg and Niels and Margrethe Bohr.

Alan Brody is a Professor of Theater at MIT. His plays have won numerous awards. Invention for Fathers and Sons was the first winner of the annual Rosenthal Award at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 1989. It was subsequently produced at the American Jewish Theater in New York City. The Company of Angels was the recipient of the 1990 Eisner Award from the Streisand Center for Jewish Culture in Los Angeles. It had its world premiere at the New Repertory Theater in Massachusetts in the spring of 1993, and has been produced at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York, Theater Emory in Atlanta and the Janet Kinghorn Theater at Skidmore College. Operation Epsilon had its world premiere at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge in 2013.

Alex Wellerstein, an assistant professor of Science and Technology Studies at Stevens Institute of Technology, has a long association with the program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy school. His general research interests are in the history of nuclear technology, government secrecy, and Cold War science. His nuclear effects simulator applications, the NUKEMAP and NUKEMAP3D have been surprisingly popular and the subject of stories on NPR, TIME magazine’s website, various international publications and radio shows, and a brief cameo on The Daily Show.

All Central Conversations are open to the public; seats are available on a first come, first serve basis.