Design: Jules Talbot

Summer, 1976

1976. An Ohio college town. The second wave of feminism is cresting. Two very different women are thrown together through a faculty babysitting co-op and an unlikely friendship forms between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. Summer, 1976 is written by Pulitzer winner David Auburn (Proof) with Paula Plum, recipient of the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence making her CST directorial debut. She is joined by Elliot Norton Award-winning actors Lee Mikeska Gardner and Laura Latreille as Diana and Alice. In the course of 90 minutes, we are brought directly into their memories and the small moments that change the course of their lives in this funny and poignant play The New York Times praises as “sharply observant…subtly, insistently feminist.”

SUMMER, 1976
by David Auburn
directed by Paula Plum
November 6 – 30, 2025

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Design by Jules Talbot

Silent Sky

1900. Cambridge. Enthralled by the night sky, Henrietta Leavitt joins the Harvard Computers, a sisterhood of scientists who chronicle the stars. Despite dismissal from her male supervisors, she records her own observations of Cepheid stars and changes the way we look at the universe forever. Sarah Shin (The Chinese Lady) returns to direct what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “sheer magic,” by the author of past favorites The Half-Life of Marie Curie and Emilie La Marquise du Chatalet Defends Her Life Tonight, Lauren Gunderson.

The Brit d’Arbeloff Women in Science Production
SILENT SKY

by Lauren Gunderson
directed by Sarah Shin
September 11 – October 5, 2025
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production

Interested in bringing your school to see Silent Sky? Student matinees are scheduled for Thursday, September 25 and Friday, October 3. Reserve your tickets for our student matinees today.

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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

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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

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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

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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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