On April 21, we had hoped to gather with you for our Spring Gala to celebrate Central Square Theater and YOU. While our stages must be dark during this unsettling time, we continue to create theater and education programming that will change our perspectives, and move us to action — now and through the coming year.
Join us everyday through Sunday for new performances with guest appearances, songs to make you joyful and programs to inspire you. There is much to do. And, with your help – we can do it.
1830. Britain’s Industrial Revolution has dawned. The fiery, brilliant Ada Byron Lovelace, is the author of the first computer program and daughter of Lord Byron (yes, that Lord Byron). At 17 she befriends Charles Babbage, salon host and inventor of the first mechanical computer. What follows is a tempestuous collaboration wherein they envision a future where a “thinking engine” completes complex calculations. Filled with the music of Ada’s imagination, Lauren Gunderson’s (Emilie La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, The Half-Life of Marie Curie) play is what the Cincinnati Enquirer calls “inspiring and absorbing”.
Ada and the Engine is The Brit d’Arbeloff Women in Science Production.
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production.
The mid-1980s. America. A modern masterpiece, Angels in America, careens from New York City to Heaven and back in the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration. A brilliant and poignant exploration of human connection, this epic tale will be brought to vivid life through Bedlam Artistic Director Eric Tucker’s signature, pared-down approach. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, Angels in America is still fiercely hopeful today.
Please note: Angels in America includes explicit sexual situations, nudity and adult language.
Production Effect: There is a strobe light effect in the production.
Early showtimes: Wednesday and Thursday evenings will begin at 7pm. Friday and Saturday evenings will begin at 7:30pm. Saturday matinees will begin at 1pm and Sunday matinees will begin at 2pm.
Ulysses Lincoln, a Gulf War veteran lost at sea and presumed dead, fights to find his way back home to his wife and son. The meddlesome Gods, Great Grand Daddy Deus and Great Grand Paw Sidin have other plans in mind as they battle for control of Ulysses’ fate. Presented in October 2017 in the God’s Closet Reading Series by The Front Porch Arts Collective, black odyssey melds together Greek mythology, African-American oral history and music in this visionary new take on Homer’s classic tale.
Come see the beautiful quilts created by Sisters In Stitches Joined By The Cloth, now featured in the Central Square Theater lobby. SISJBTC have exhibited their work in galleries, colleges, churches, and craft shows thoughout New England, and we are thankful to have them on view at CST through the run of black odyssey boston, closing May 19.
“The Guild meets every third Saturday of each month at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Arlington to sew, share ideas and techniques and to celebrate our love of quilting. SISJBTC guild members reside in the greater Boston area, Southshore, Metrowest including Springfield and Worcester. We are joined together by our shared experience in quilting which focuses on the African American group’s perspective.
The art of quilting has traveled across oceans, survived 400 years of slavery and has been carried down by generations of our family and friends. Now it’s up to us to keep the tradition going and to pass it along. Over the centuries, we of African descent have joined together to make quilts as a way of sharing our joys, sorrows, traditions and to celebrate our history. Quilting connects us to our ancestry, preserves our memories and gives us a way to connect with generations to come. Sisters In Stitches Joined by the Cloth celebrates our heritage and reinforces the link that binds us to our collective history and is our way of contributing and participating in our traditions.”
We’re doing a Virtual Replay of the Act Up & Vote! Festival!
Join us online for five days of performances and panels surrounding the topics of voting and civic engagement.
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For the first time, Central Square Theater and Youth Underground present the Act Up & Vote! Festival – five days of performances, panels & community workshops surrounding the topics of voting and civic engagement.
Every two years about 7 million Americans turn 18 and are eligible to vote. Despite their newfound eligibility, these voters participate at a much lower rate than the rest of the population. Why? Does their vote matter? Does your vote matter?
Hear the voices of these voters in our community as they speak up on civic engagement and how to make the world a better place for future generations. For the past two years, Central Square Theater’s youth ensemble, Youth Underground, has interviewed members of our community who grapple with the challenges and promises of increasing civic participation. Together with playwright Betsy Bard, and director Vincent Ernest Siders, in the spirit of activism and social change, Youth Underground brings you Act Up & Vote!
Presented by the YU Ambassadors
October 7-11, 2020 at Starlight Square Stage
Watch our LIVE panels from the Act Up & Vote! Festival here:
The mid-1980s. America. A modern masterpiece, Angels in America, careens from New York City to Heaven and back in the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration. A brilliant and poignant exploration of human connection, this epic tale will be brought to vivid life through Bedlam Artistic Director Eric Tucker’s signature, pared-down approach. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, Angels in America is still fiercely hopeful today.
Brandon G. Green & Johnny Lee Davenport. Photo: Nile Scott Studios. Design: Bird Graphics.
