The 20th Anniversary of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT

Please join us to Celebrate 20 Years of Science on Stage

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge MA 

6:00pm | Registration, Cocktails, and Cuisine
7:15 pm | Performances, Honorees, Auction, and Paddle Raise

Honoring

The Margret and H.A. Rey

Curiosity Award Recipient

Physicist, Novelist, Essayist and Co-Founder of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT

Director of the MIT Media Lab, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics Chair, MIT

Tickets & Sponsorship

Your soirée ticket and/or sponsorship supports the future of Science on Stage. 

$250 | Soirée Ticket
Cocktails, Cuisine and  General Admission Soirée Program Seating

$150 | Sponsor an Artist
Help Support a Greater Boston Artist to join the Soirée! Limited Availability

Attend as a Sponsor

$2,500 | $5,000 | $10,000
Sponsor Levels include Reserved Soirée  Seating, Social Media Spotlights, Soirée Program Ad; and exclusive benefits commensurate with the sponsorship level.  To discuss your Sponsorship, please contact Maggie at mma@centralsquaretheater.org, or 617-576-9278, ext. 208

Buy Tickets

Unable to Attend?  Support the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT 20th Anniversary.  Your gift will be matched up to $20,000. 

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Learn more about the 20 Years of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Accomplishments

Thank you to our Sponsors

(as of March 17, 2025)

Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT Anniversary Sponsor
Philip Khoury, Chair, Advisory Committee, Ford International Professor of History, Associate Provost, MIT

Gold Sponsors  ($10,000)
Carolyn Mugar
Laura Roberts & Ed Belove

Silver Sponsors ($5,000)
Anantha Chandrakasan, Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT
Natalie & Scott Kuldell
Joseph Levine
Nergis Mavalvala, Dean,  MIT School of Science
Agustin Rayo,  Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 

Bronze Sponsors ($2,500)
Betsy & Joel Bard
Betsy Groban
Clark Warner & Mitalene Fletcher
Paul V. Kastner
Ross & Kirstin Krinsky
Alan & Jean Lightman

Sponsor an Artist
Edward & Dena Brody
Jessica Mink

Soiree  Sponsors

 

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Bumbled

Bumbled

Life is short. Especially if you’re a bee. You make honey, prop up the human food chain, fall in love, then you die. Bumbled follows Pascal, an Irish honey bee, as he embarks on a hilarious and poignant journey to tell the world about the importance of bees, save the planet, and to find true happiness with his French girlfriend, the epic Marion. Bumbled takes you on a one-bee, bee-twerking, Irish bee-slow-dancing odyssey – where bee-ing too late, often comes sooner than you think.

Bumbled is not part of any Season Ticket Package. However, Central Square Theater Season Ticket holders may purchase discounted, no-fee tickets.

BUMBLED
By Bernard McMullan
Directed by Carmel O’Reilly
Starring Colin Hamell
Produced by Tír Na Theatre and The Here Comes Everybody Players
October 24 to November 3, 2024

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

“The game is afoot, and what a game it is!”
The Boston Globe

Master sleuth Sherlock Holmes and trusty Dr. Watson unlock the mystery of The Hound of the Baskervilles! Enter the world of deductive reasoning and elementary logic, absurd accents and ridiculous puns as the inclusive, gender bending cast of three actors inhabit more than a dozen roles in this Central Square Theater favorite. Helmed by Artistic Director Lee Mikeska Gardner, leave your cares at home and join us this fall for a laugh out loud farce!

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
by Steven Canny & John Nicholson
directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner
September 12 – October 6, 2024

Interested in bringing your school to see The Hound of the Baskervilles? Student matinees are scheduled for Thursday, September 26 and Wednesday, October 2. Reserve your tickets for our student matinees today.

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Galileo’s Daughter

“Smart and poignant… moving drama about truth and faith” —The Chicago Reader

When a playwright’s life is turned upside down, she travels to Florence to study the letters between Galileo and his daughter Maria Celeste, who is forced to join a convent after her father’s earth-shattering controversies. Captured in the letters are her strength of will and own genius as she secretly assists her father in furthering his discoveries about the shape of the universe, inspiring a path forward for the playwright. Alternating between Tuscany of present day and the 1600’s – and the liminal space between playwright and audience – Jessica Dickey has crafted a play examining faith, forgiveness, and the cost of speaking the truth.

WAM TheatreGALILEO’S DAUGHTER
by Jessica Dickey
directed by Reena Dutt
November 14 – December 8, 2024
Co-produced with WAM Theatre
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production

Interested in bringing your school to see Galileo’s Daughter? Student matinees are scheduled for Friday, November 22 and Thursday, December 5. Reserve your tickets for our student matinees today.

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S P A C E

The thing about space is you have to contend with earth.

At the dawn of two different Space Races, aviators traverse time, generations, Newtonian physics, governments, political bodies — and human bodies — to reach beyond our star system for a radical re-start.

S P A C E intertwines imagined scenes with Congressional transcripts, and feats of endurance with the historical record, to interrogate the story of the Mercury 13 female pilots and their ancestors — Bessie Coleman, Hazel Ying Lee — and descendants — Mae Jemison, Sally Ride — over the course of a national Civil Rights Space Race that has spanned our past century.

S P A C E asks: What future are we headed towards?

The Brit d’Arbeloff Women in Science Production
S P A C E

by L M Feldman
directed by Larissa Lury
created by L M Feldman and Larissa Lury
January 30 – February 23, 2025
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production

Interested in bringing your school to see S P A C E? Student matinees are scheduled for Friday, February 7 and Thursday, February 13. Reserve your tickets for our student matinees today.

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