Artists' Theater of Boston

04/29/2022

BOSTON THEATER MARATHON XXIV!
Come out and see us on Sunday! We partnered with the Brandeis University Theater Dept, and are on during the 12pm slot with a beautiful short play by Fabiola Decius!
Nothing feels quite like the comfort of old friends, and we’re here for celebrating that kind of deep love every single day.

03/27/2022

Happy 🌟World Theatre Day🌟 from ATB! Last week we presented a staged reading of a new work, Power Play: A Full Length Play about Consent, Bodies, and Fat Liberation, by Core Member Rachel Greene . This was our first in-person event since COVID hit, and we were overjoyed to create meaningful live theatre in community again. We can’t wait for so much more down the line - stay tuned 💞

03/18/2022

Look at this cast! Meet the actors bringing Power Play to life 🤩

🔥 Alieyah Brown as Sarah
🌟 Ethan Williams as Chris
🔥 Ariana Teixeira as Emma
🌟 Josh Telepman as Oliver
🔥 Grace Graham as Lizzie
🌟 Emma Tayce Palmer as Violet
🔥 Renata Leighton as Deb
🌟 Jessica Umanoff reading stage directions

03/18/2022

✨ Introducing the team behind this weekend’s staged reading of Power Play! Rachel Greene is the playwright as well as the producer of this reading, and Rose Freudberg is directing ✨

03/11/2022

ATB 💜s new work! We are so thrilled to currently be supporting the developmental workshop of Power Play, by ATB Core Member Rachel Greene . Power Play addresses topics of fatphobia and fat liberation, specifically as they manifest in educational theatre spaces.

💫 When overachieving, agreeable, and undeniably fat undergrad Sarah gets cast to play historical s*x symbol Helen of Troy in a student production, she and her peers are forced to confront their understandings of beauty, s*x, and fatness. To make matters more complicated, a budding tension between Sarah and her on-stage love interest Chris begs the student actors to ask where the characters end and the real bodies begin. With a cast of all-too familiar characters, Power Play puts a magnifying glass to the underbelly of “liberal” and educational theatre-making and the bodies it continues to marginalize.

01/04/2022

We are honored to be partnering with notable local poet and writer, Ashley Rose Salomon, on workshopping and producing her first play, The Roslindale Love Canal! This new work, inspired by her striking, poignant poem about the Roslindale “Love Canal” which burst in 1996, will explore the deeper, personal narratives that surrounded this tragic, little-known event in Boston’s history. This year marks the 26th anniversary of this barely known tragedy in our city, and to this day, it is nearly impossible to even find information about its existence; the way it is remembered is through the memories of the survivors. Ashley Rose has a personal account of this event as a survivor of the flood, and in her workshopping process is eager to reflect on the connections between housing insecurity and inequity, hardships faced by the city’s BIPOC community, and what it looks like to heal from trauma, particularly when one’s experiences from a tragedy are disbelieved.

Stay on the lookout for more details on this exciting development process throughout the year! ✨

12/23/2021

Missed us? Well you’re in luck, because ATB is BACK 🎉🎉🎉

We have so many exciting projects in store for our 2021-22 season that we cannot WAIT to share with you all. Keep checking back for more info on our year-long play development process with the phenomenal Ashley Rose (supported generously by our Lab Grant from The Boston Foundation as well as the BCA ), several exciting Core Member new work premiers, and further collaboration with our dear friend Kit Yan.

More info to come soon, but we are SO looking forward to reconnecting with you all this year 💜

07/01/2021

06/30/2021

TOMORROW!!!

Join ATB, in collaboration with The Parsnip Ship, as we present a public pop-up reading of HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL DEAREST by Javier Rivera DeBruin! The reading will take place TOMORROW (July 1st) at 8pm EST / 5pm PST on Zoom. Register here to join us:

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🎂 It's Angel's 33rd birthday. It's time to celebrate, and everyone's joining the party: her family, her neighbor, even a time traveling pirate… 🎂

Featuring:
Marian Gonzalez
Graciela Femenia
Hatem Adell
Ted Deasy
Matthew Zahnzinger
Luz Lopez

Creative Team:
Playwright: Javi Rivera DeBruin
Director: Fran Astorga
Sound Design: Rachel Brees

06/26/2021

Artists’ Theater of Boston is thrilled and humbled to announce that we have been awarded a 2021 Live Arts Boston (LAB) Grant by The Boston Foundation!

ATB will be using this grant for our upcoming collaboration with accomplished poet Ashely Rose Salomon on her first full-length play, The Roslindale Love Canal, based on personal narratives that surround this little-known tragic event in Boston’s history.

We are endlessly grateful to The Boston Foundation for this support and we extend our enthusiastic congratulations to the rest of this year’s grantees!

05/25/2021

We’re thrilled to share that we are one of 152 organizations receiving a Boston Cultural Council grant this year! A huge thank you to the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture Boston for supporting our work. We look forward to using this funding to continue our efforts in making art with a commitment to systemic social change 💖

05/18/2021

🍎 Meet the creative team of She Eats Apples: A Zoom Workshop Collage! 🍎

These phenomenal artists have been working tirelessly to put together this amazing project! Swipe to meet them and check out some throwbacks to their own high school days 😎

Don’t miss She Eats Apples: A Zoom Workshop Collage on May 21st and 22nd at 7:30pm! Link to the event: https://fb.me/e/51fKvxAG8?ti=icl