One play, two completely different ways, with the same five actors.

Bedlam returns to Central Square Theater after last season’s Saint Joan, specializing in classical revivals that are both radically innovative and winningly playful. This year they bring their successful Twelfth Night playing in rep with… itself.

Two different versions of the same play, both of them staged by the same director, Eric Tucker, and performed by the same five-person cast, whose members share between them all 12 parts!

What’s the difference between Twelfth Night and What You Will?
“What You Will, is a bright-young-things revel in which the costumes of the white-clad actors are spattered from time to time with what we come to understand is their own hearts’ blood.” – The Wall Street Journal

Subscribers may select either Twelfth Night or What You Will as one production in their subscription package. Both productions are available to be purchased through subscription benefit add-on tickets.

Join us for a very special, one night only benefit performance of Saving Kitty!

Monday, August 3, 2015

6:00p.m. – 7:00p.m.
Pre-show Hors d’oeuvres and Libations

7:30p.m. – 10:00p.m.
Final Performance of Saving Kitty

10:00p.m. – 11:00p.m.
Post-show VIP Dessert Reception on the set of Saving Kitty with the Cast!

Package Options

$300 VIP Package
Pre-show Hors d’oeuvres and Libations
Priority Seating for performance of Saving Kitty
Post-Show Dessert & Coffee with the Cast on the set of Saving Kitty
A Poster signed by the cast of Saving Kitty

$75 Pre-Show Package
Pre-show Hors d’oeuvres and Libations
One ticket to the final Saving Kitty performance

Tickets are available by calling the Box Office (617-576-9278 X1) or by clicking below!

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Proceeds will support The Nora Theatre Company’s Feminine Voice Series – a new program activating greater gender parity in theater by providing female artists opportunities to create, develop and showcase their work, deepening their connections to local audiences, and strengthening the field.

“Don’t wait another minute to get a ticket to the funniest show in town right now. Jennifer Coolidge is a riot, unlike anyone else, and I couldn’t take my eyes off her. I haven’t had this much delicious fun at the theater in awhile.
This is a fun night out!”

-Joyce Kulhawik/JoycesChoices.com

Southern Africa, 1895: A young Shona girl escapes an arranged marriage by converting to Christianity, becoming a servant and student to an African Evangelical. As anti-European sentiments spread throughout the native population, she is forced to choose between her family’s traditions and her newfound faith. Danai Gurira’s (In the Continuum and TV’s The Walking Dead) rich play examines the cultural and religious clashes that shaped the post-colonial world, and are still being felt in Zimbabwe today.

Become enchanted by the power of storytelling one final time! The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater revive their award-winning production of Dominic Cooke’s Arabian Nights. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of folk tales from the Middle East and Asia, Arabian Nights is rich with suspense, romance and hilarity—stories irresistible for all ages, and at its heart, the power of the imagination to heal, inspire, and transform.

Arabian Nights is not part of any subscription package.

If you are looking for the 2016-17 Season production of Matchless & The Happy Prince, please visit that production page.

“On an island so far north that it snowed from September to April, a boy named Frederik kept himself warm by keeping a secret…”

In 2008, National Public Radio asked Gregory Maguire (Wicked) to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. Thus was born Matchless, a rekindling of Andersen’s classic tale of the Little Match Girl from a surprising point of view. The Happy Prince, written by Oscar Wilde for his children, celebrates an unlikely friendship with his signature wit, humor, and heart. Both stories are intimately staged with actors and puppets. All ages are invited to discover life’s magic transformations: how love makes a family-and imagination finds beauty-in the most unexpected places.

Matchless and The Happy Prince are not part of any subscription package.