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Front Porch@Starlight

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Front Porch@Starlight
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
David Freeman Coleman, Music Director
September 3 to 6, and October 3, 2020 at 7:30PM
The Front Porch Arts Collective presented by Central Square Theater

Five evenings of cabaret – each night featuring a different artist from The Front Porch, Boston’s newest Black theater company. Song stylings range from contemporary to musical theater, featuring highlights from Front Porch past productions and sneak peeks from future shows (including Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Central Square Theater)!

Thursday 9/3 – Carolyn Saxon: Songs I Might Have Missed

Friday 9/4 – Dwayne P. Mitchell : PHOENIX: Still I Rise.

Saturday 9/5 – Davron S. Monroe

Sunday 9/6 – Sheree Dunwell: Passing By | Moving Forward

Sunday 9/6 – Cheryl D. Singleton

Saturday 10/3 – Dwayne P. Mitchell : PHOENIX: Still I Rise.

Learn more about Starlight Square:

Starlight Square Social Contract

Starlight Square Audience Safety Protocols

Starlight Square Creative Team Safety Protocols

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Judy Punches Back

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Judy Punches Back
written, directed, and performed by Sarah Nolen, Puppet Showplace Theater
August 13 & August 14 at at 8PM at Starlight Square
Puppet Showplace Theater presented by Central Square Theater

After being pushed around for over 400 years, the famous hand puppet heroine Judy has had enough! Cheer her on as she goes on a quest for respect, justice, and a well-deserved nap. Puppeteer Sarah Nolen delivers an astonishing one-woman performance in this modern feminist interpretation of the traditional “Punch and Judy” puppet show. Audiences young and old will laugh, cry, yell, and gasp in response to this highly-interactive, hilarious, hand-crafted farce.

Learn more about Starlight Square:

Starlight Square Social Contract

Starlight Square Audience Safety Protocols

Starlight Square Creative Team Safety Protocols

StarlightSquare.org

Questions? Ask Us A Question About Starlight Square

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ART IS OUR ACTIVISM On(line) Gala

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Welcome to the Central Square Theater

ART IS OUR ACTIVISM ON(line) Gala

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.

Here are ways YOU can help sustain us:

All Gifts Matched!

The Spring Gala Host Committee will match all donations up to $50,000. Make a Donation!

Bid in our Online Auction!

Exciting experiences await you – Bid early and often! View the Catalog.

We’re Here All Week!

Every day there will be a new performance or event online:

[table width= “600” colwidth=”200|400″]Day| Theme
Tuesday, April 21| Greetings!
Wednesday, April 22| Celebrate Science on Stage
Thursday, April 23| Act Up and Vote! with Youth Underground
Friday, April 24| Playwrights and New Work
Saturday, April 25| 2020-21 Season Celebration
Sunday, April 26| Join us for a series of LIVE Facebook events featuring fun Live Auction performances and fun.
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Sunday Facebook Live Schedule

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1:30PM| Featuring Conversations and Cocktails with Eric Tucker – with a surprise performance from Bedlam’s Eric Tucker and Zuzanna Szadkowski.
2:30PM| Featuring Science and Socializing- The Marie Curie Package – with a surprise performance from Lee Mikeska Gardner.
3:30PM | Curation and Cocktails with Debra Wise, featuring a special in-home performance from Debra!
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Each Facebook Live event will last approximately 5 minutes. Join us at Central Square Theater’s Facebook Page. Don’t miss out!

Bidding Closes at 10PM

Exciting experiences await you – Bid early and often! View the Catalog.

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Ada and the Engine

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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.

Digital Stream Now Available through November 6!

Purchase a Digital Stream Pass for $25 plus fees!

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

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Extended through May 28!

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.

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