In taking this complex work and turning it into an inclusive, collaborative experience, the Black and Queer artists of DNAWORKS have opened up a space for collective healing.

Central Square Theater’s stirring production of Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code follows the turbulent but brilliant life of one of the world’s most important thinkers.

We should always uplift Black playwrights, and we should be producing more plays that center Black women. But, surely, there must be better plays out there that can share these stories more effectively.

Hamill’s script does take some liberties with the original text– especially in her choice of ending.

The Great Pistachio asks audiences to confront their impulse to retreat from– and give up on– an increasingly violent world.

The simplicity of Summer, 1976 makes it easy to minimize its value. Like most women we know, Diana and Alice are deeply flawed, laden with loneliness, and longing for more.

Hang Time forces you to bear witness, to lean in, to confront. It is a reckoning and a powerful call to action. It demands that you think about the lives these Black men deserved but didn’t get to have.

What Kissajukian didn’t know at the time was that he had been living with bipolar disorder, and he was about to enter into a brutal six-month manic episode that would completely sever him from reality. 

Common Ground, Revisited offers a sharp, clear-eyed perspective of a challenging part of Boston’s history and in doing so gives insight into the city’s present problems.