AD 20/21 Art and Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries

40 outstanding galleries and design exhibitors from the US and Europe

Only Once... One Night, One Artist, One Video

Plays On Tap

A lot happens in bars and restaurants besides eating and drinking! Eight local playwrights take a look at how much of life's business is actually conducted in our eating and drinking establishments.

The Cry of the Reed

Huntington Theatre Company

20th Drawing Show Closing Ceremony

Presentation of The Boston Drawing Award

Travesties

Join Henry Carr- dubious British diplomat and amateur thespian- on a whirlwind trip down memory lane to Zurich 1917, in Tom Stoppard’s witty and riotous examination of the politics of art, the art of revolution, and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Blowing Whistles

A searing topical drama about love, sex, and identity that transcends sexuality to resonate with anyone who has ever tried to maintain a long-term relationship.

Greed, Guilt and Grappling: Six Artists Responding to Climate Change

Greed, Guilt and Grappling: Six Artists Responding to Climate Change opens February 1st, 2008 at The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts. The show is guest curated by Clara Wainwright and Mags Harries, with artwork by Jay Critchley, Harries, Lajos Heder, Michael Sheridan, John Tagiuri and Wainwright.

Greed, Guilt and Grappling Public Programs

Opportunities for the public to be more involved in the exhibit.

Echo of the Gecko

The Echo of the Gecko is a spin-off of The Gecko In Winter play-reading series hosted by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education since 2005, and was inspired by a similar series based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it was referred to as The Monday Night Lizard.

Defending the Caveman

This wildly popular comedy has become a peacemaker in the ongoing misunderstandings between men and women. A hilariously insightful play that has both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition about the ways in which we relate to each other.

Some Men

While two men exchange wedding vows, their friends at the ceremoy reminisce about their own loves, lives and relationships.

Metamorphoses

Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life.

The Seagull

For the third play of their Leaving Youth season, 11:11 brings you Chekhov's masterpiece in the most intimate of settings.

The Gibson Girl

Following last fall’s smash hit The Bluest Eye, Company One presents The Gibson Girl, a quirky new comedy from the award-winning director-writer team of Victoria Marsh and Kirsten Greenidge.

Stones In His Pockets

A hilarious two man show about the filming of a Hollywood epic in rural Ireland.

Under the Overcoat

Using an imaginative blend of storytelling and movement, an ensemble of 7 actors fuse three of Gogol's most marvelous tales of the unexpected, for a darkly comic exploration of Gogol's world of nonsense and nightmare. This modern adaptation revives and animates Gogol's fantastical city of St. Petersburg to create a lively, expressive and thoroughly unique theatrical experience.

The Cry of the Reed

A journalist and her colleague find themselves unexpectedly "detained" by a band of insurgents as bombs rain down on a wartorn landscape.

Don't need a weather man to know which way

Using the famous Bob Dylan quote as a title, Don’t need the weather man to know which way the wind blows presents works by two artists dealing with weather as an emotional state rather than mere meteorology. Beyond the romantic assumption that agitated weather mirrors a restless soul, the videos in this exhibit register the tension between nature and culture, facts and emotions, personal memories and atmospheric conditions.  

Drawing The Line
The 20th Drawing Show

VOICES OF THE ENVIRONMENT

A Greed, Guilt and Grappling Program

THE EARTH BENEATH OUR FEET

A Greed, Guilt and Grappling Program

Angels In America Part I: Millenium Approaches

Tony Kushner’s seminal modern epic is a story both intimate and grand, which follows the disintegration of two relationships against a backdrop of greed, conservatism and the discovery of AIDS. Collectively, the two parts of Angels in America won the Pulitzer Prize (1993), two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk awards and over 200 other awards throughout the world.

NOTES FROM THE SLUSHY UNDERGROUND: New Works on Climate Change

A Performance of "Echo of the Gecko"

Bread and Puppet 2008

The award-winning Bread and Puppet Theater, featuring Artistic Director Peter Schumann and his troupe of seven Vermont puppeteers, will join forces with over 20 local puppeteers and the 17-piece locally-based Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band and their musical friends. Bread and Puppet Theater’s residency at the Cyclorama includes two different puppet shows (one geared towards adults and one "family-friendly”) and a political art exhibit.

This Is Our Youth

Gurnet Theatre Project presents Kenneth Lonergan's hilarious tale of 80s era adolescence. In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, This Is Our Youth follows forty-eight hours in the lives of three very lost souls in the big city at the dawn of the Regan Era.

The Little Dog Laughed
SpeakEasy Stage Company

An up-and-coming Hollywood actor becomes emotionally entangled with a sexy young drifter and his girlfriend in this New England premiere of the hit Broadway comedy.

African American Theatre Festival

Festival of dramatic theatre by African American playwrights, poets, and actors.
*ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN
by Charles Fuller
*CAMP LOGAN
by Celeste Bedford Walker
*FEATHERS ON MY ARMS...ZORA NEALE FLYING HIGH By Jacqui Parker

Drawing Sessions with Nancy Murphy Spicer

As part of the 20th Drawing Show "Drawing the Line" currently on view at the Mills Gallery at The Boston Center for the Arts, Nancy Murphy Spicer is presenting her work Hanging Drawings 1 (20 Successive Drawings, Unique and Unrehearsed). The artist invites individuals to interact with her work by signing up to have their own drawing session in the gallery. No preparation is necessary and those signing up should allow approximately 30 minutes for the drawing session.

A Conversation About Drawing

Artists Cree Bruins, Jeffrey Marshal, Bob Oppenheim, Pat Shannon, Jill Slosburg-Ackerman and Nancy Murphy Spicer, who are featured in the 20th Drawing Show, will discuss their views on drawing. Moderating the conversation will be Carole Anne Meehan, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Magda Campos-Pons, Juror of the Drawing Show, will make some remarks.

Swedish Yuletide

Presentation of the Drawing Show Catalogue

A reception to present the 20th Drawing Show's Catalogue

The Weavers
Boston University College of Fine Arts

The story of the Silesian weaver's revolt of 1844 - an epic of misery and revolt, an awakening of the solidarism of the labor force.

25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
Huntington Theatre Company

Actress/comedienne Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan embarked on a five-year journey across the United States, interviewing Jewish mothers of different ages, ethnicities, and occupations.

Artist Studios Holiday Sale

Medicine Wheel 2007, Water Bearers

Artist Michael Dowling’s annual participatory public art installation in honor of World AIDS Day

South End Holiday Tree Lighting

The Kentucky Cycle

Zeitgeist Stage Company & Way Theatre Artists

A cast of 23 actors who bring life to a plethora of characters who struggle to retain the land they believe to be rightfully theirs.

Boston International Fine Art Show

New England's Premiere Showcase forContemporary and Traditional Fine Art

Over 40 Outstanding Galleries
from the United States and Europe offering:

• Paintings • Works on Paper
• Sculpture • Photography
• Fine Prints • Mixed Media
• Studio Furniture, Glass and Ceramics

Brendan

Huntington Theatre Company

A funny and touching premiere from one of America’s top young playwrights.

Un(Building)

7 artists take on architecture via sculptures, installations, video

Parade

SpeakEasy Stage Company

A Resident Theatre Company 

Snappy Dance Theater

Cultural Partners Series 

Encounters

Dutch and Iranian artists explore totalitarian regimes

Sights of Time

Video by Adriana Rios

Confessions of a Mormon Boy

Boston Theatre Works

Persephone

Huntington Theatre Company

Valhalla

Zeitgeist Stage Company

Surviving the Nian

The Theater Offensive

A Resident Theatre Company 

Dancing at Lughnasa

Way Theatre Artists

Crossing Borders Festival

Pilgrim Theatre

A Resident Theatre Company 

Fat Pig

SpeakEasy Stage Company

A Resident Theatre Company 

Artists' Ball

The BCA’s fabulous and foolish annual gala returns

Six Rounds/Six Lessons

Company One

A Resident Theatre Company 

Where the Lost Boys Go

11:11 Theatre Company

Aoi/Komachi

Japanese Society of Boston

Only Connect

Multimedia work examining family and connectedness

More Than What

Centastage

Almost, Maine

SpeakEasy Stage Company

A Resident Theatre Company 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Boston Theatre Works

Bread and Puppet Theater

Cultural Partners Series 

Bombs and Manifestos

Alarm Clock Theatre Company

Olympia Dukakis in Rose

Bank of America Celebrity Series

Sacred Hearts

Zeitgeist Stage Company

Medicine Wheel

Cultural Partners Series

The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin

SpeakEasy Stage Company

A Resident Theatre Company

Studios@35: Artists at the Boston Center for the Arts

Retrospective of BCA studio artists

Out on the Edge Festival

The Theater Offensive

A Resident Theatre Company

After Ashley

Company One

A Resident Theatre Company