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Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre

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Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre

539 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116
Phone:
617-933-8600
Website:
http://www.bcaonline.org/
Capacity:
142

Events at this venue were rated 4.2 by 343 members.

The BCA is located in Boston's South End, the largest landmark district in the United States. The BCA is a four acre complex that includes: The Cyclorama, built in 1884 to display a panorama painting, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 23,000 square foot Cyclorama rotunda is now the site of exhibitions, performances and community events and houses the Community Music Center of Boston, the Art Connection, the Boston Ballet Costume Shop, three small theaters and a rehearsal studio. The Tremont Estates Building, originally an organ factory built in 1850, now houses over 50 artist studios, the Mills Gallery, two rehearsal spaces and Hamersley's Bistro. Boston Ballet's headquarters, a 1991 building designed by noted architect Graham Gund, houses rehearsal and administrative spaces, and a ballet school.

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Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$30.00 - $38.00
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$15.00 - $19.00
Love-person-050912
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Two couples, three cultures and four languages collide in a modern-day, multimedia take on Cyrano. A Boston premiere from Company One, Aditi Kapil's Love Person intertwines communication and love in a comic... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$10.00
Our Price:
$5.00
1573888-outofthebox-100111
4.0 by 1 member
  • Tue, Jun 12 @ 7:00pm

This cabaret-style show features four to five different local performers from a variety of artistic disciplines -- acting, music, dance, poetry, puppetry and everything in between -- in a friendly... Learn More.

Past Events on Goldstar

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$35.00
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FREE - $17.50
2seeds-021912
4.6 by 27 members
  • No upcoming dates available

The experimental theater company Liars and Believers joins forces with the steamcrunk band Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys to mount a performance offensive starring more than 25 of Boston's most... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$37.00
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FREE - $18.00
Floyd-collins
3.6 by 7 members
  • No upcoming dates available

Tony-winning composer Adam Guettel (Light in the Piazza) penned the score for this compelling musical based on the true story of a young Appalachian man trapped in a cave in 1925 Kentucky. While he waits to... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$25.00
Our Price:
$12.50
James-giant-peach-022712
Not yet rated
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Boston Children's Theatre presents James and the Giant Peach at the Boston Center for the Arts. This delightful play, based on the beloved book by Roald Dahl, follows a young orphan boy and the charming crew... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$33.00 - $38.00
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$8.00 - $19.00
Brownwater
4.7 by 3 members
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Fleet-footed Ova must make a decision. Caught between her dying mother and her dreams of escape, Ova makes a life-altering choice in In the Red and Brown Water, the first of Tarell Alvin McCartney's... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$59.00 - $69.00
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$29.50 - $34.50
Brothersister-1001111
5.0 by 2 members
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Fleet-footed Ova must make a decision. Caught between her dying mother and her dreams of escape, Ova makes a life-altering choice in In the Red and Brown Water, the first of Tarell Alvin McCartney's... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$33.00 - $38.00
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$16.50 - $19.00
Brothersister-100111
5.0 by 1 member
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The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet conclude Tarell Alvin McCraney's coming-of-age story arc set in the bayou country of Louisiana. Written with a passionate and authoritative voice,... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $38.00
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FREE - $19.00
1001-main
3.2 by 6 members
  • No upcoming dates available

1001 is a kaleidoscopic reinvention of the Arabian Nights, and Grote's play proves to be a timely tale as America reflects on the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. The story conjures a storybook world that... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$20.00
Our Price:
$10.00
Fringewars-070711-v1
4.0 by 1 member
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Small theater companies go head to head in the final round of competition to prove who is the best of the best. With a common theme uniting the evening, these daring companies will choose their own writer... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$35.00
Our Price:
FREE - $17.50
1358200-songofsongs-051011
4.0 by 4 members
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Theater company Liars & Believers presents Song of Songs. Inspired by the classic poem with an original score channeling Leonard Cohen, The Decemberists, Elliot Smith, and Neutral Milk Hotel, it's a trip... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $38.00
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$15.00 - $19.00
Bookofgrace-031411
4.5 by 2 members
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Company One presents The Book of Grace, a fiercely intimate and explosive story that weaves together the lives of three people bound by love and longing, passion and ambition. Pulitzer Prize-winning... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$20.00 - $33.00
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$10.00 - $16.50
1259053-9circles-021511
4.5 by 12 members
Roar
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Publick Theatre Boston, a resident company of the Boston Center for the Arts, presents the East Coast premiere of 9 Circles, a timely new play by Boston Shakespeare Company founder Bill Cain. A psychological... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $33.00
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$15.00 - $16.50
Neighbors-122110
4.4 by 5 members
Roar
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Company One presents Neighbors, a shocking and explosively controversial new work about an upwardly mobile African-American academic driven to distraction by the arrival of his new neighbors: a shamelessly... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$20.00 - $33.00
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$10.00 - $16.50
Realinspectorhound-082010
3.8 by 13 members
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Publick Theatre Boston presents Tom Stoppard's layered and witty indictment of the English "whodunnit," The Real Inspector Hound. Two mediocre theatre critics, Moon and Birdboot, have come to the remote... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $38.00
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$15.00 - $19.00
Emancipation-022310
5.0 by 4 members
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The Emancipation of Mandy and Miz Ellie follows the story of two women whose lives become inextricably intertwined by the Emancipation Proclamation. This touching and relevant journey is told through live... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$35.00
Our Price:
$17.50
Cabaretgrimm-031010
4.2 by 6 members
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From somewhere between Paris, Berlin and the bowels of the Bowery comes Le Cabaret Grimm, a punk cabaret tale of loss, longing, and desire - with a healthy dose of irony. Le Cabaret Grimmincludes music,... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$20.00 - $33.00
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$10.00 - $16.50
Entertainingmistersloane-021810
3.9 by 12 members
  • No upcoming dates available

In this sexy dark comedy, a handsome con man plots to ensnare an isolated family, but soon learns that his charms are no match against the primal forces of despair and loneliness unleashed by his arrival.... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$18.00 - $30.00
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$9.00 - $15.00
Islandslaves-012810
4.0 by 5 members
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Orfeo Group presents French playwright Pierre Marivaux's The Island of Slaves, a delightful and disturbing mix of comedy and cruelty following the fates of four shipwreck survivors -- two masters, two... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $35.00
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$15.00 - $17.50
Goodnegro-111609
4.7 by 18 members
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Portraying the human side of the American civil rights movement, "The Good Negro" makes its New England premiere at the Plaza Theatre. Tracey Scott Wilson's play is set in Birmingham Alabama in 1962, where... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $38.00
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$15.00 - $19.00
Overwhelming-102209-v4
4.7 by 6 members
Roar
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Seizing the opportunity to do research for his new book, Jack Exley uproots his family and moves to Rwanda in early 1994. As Jack, his wife and his teenage son encounter foreign culture and eye opening... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$20.00 - $33.00
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$10.00 - $16.50
Vawoolf-100209-v2
4.4 by 7 members
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George and Martha return home from a tedious faculty event at a small New England college and Martha has invited a young new professor and his mousey wife for late-night cocktails and parlor conversation.... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$25.00
Our Price:
$12.50
Superheroine-072709
4.2 by 9 members
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Fully-costumed female superheroes from Wonder Woman to Batgirl take turns describing the origins of their super lives in this hilarious, campy and even touching parody from Phoenix Theatre Artists and... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $33.00
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$15.00 - $16.50
Afterthequake-061709
4.8 by 8 members
Roar
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Frank Galati, a Tony Award-winner, has fashioned an enchanting and deeply moving play out of two of Haruki Murakami's short stories. In After the Quake, a timid man woos an old flame, enchanting her anxious... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$32.00
Our Price:
$16.00
Humbleboy-031309
4.3 by 7 members
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Publick Theatre presents the New England premiere of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy. This British comedy tells the story of a brilliant theoretical physicist who returns home to attend his beekeeper father's... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $33.00
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$15.00 - $16.50
Painanditch-021709
4.8 by 4 members
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With a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms and a young daughter in serious need of protection, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels as their darkest... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $38.00
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$15.00 - $19.00
Voyeurs-de-venus-101708
4.7 by 6 members
Roar
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Company One presents the Boston premiere of Lydia Diamond's new play Voyeurs de Venus. Sara is an African-American scholar of pop culture trying to write a book about Saartjie Baartman, better known as the... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$32.00 - $35.00
Our Price:
FREE - $17.50
Faithhealer-101208-v1
4.3 by 7 members
Roar
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Told through the contrasting memories of an itinerant Irish healer, his enduring wife and his business manager, Irish playwright Brian Friel's Faith Healer poses searing questions about the power of art to... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $38.00
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$15.00 - $19.00
Group-with-oswald-in-back
3.9 by 30 members
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Part vaudeville extravaganza, part exposé, and wholly electrifying, this Tony Award-winning musical reveals uneasy truths about the American Dream. Assassins is Stephen Sondheim's controversial... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$17.00
Our Price:
$8.50
Afterschoolbtslarge
4.0 by 3 members
  • No upcoming dates available

Company One presents After School Special. The play tells the story of Janet, a perky teen-ager who, in order to save the life of her faithful dog Duke, must become wicked popular. Along the way, she outwits... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$22.00 - $32.50
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$11.00 - $16.25
Trav206x192
3.5 by 12 members
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In his award-winning Travesties, Tom Stoppard offers both a zany spoof of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and a fiery debate among a trio of Modernist thinkers--Vladimir Lenin, Dadaist Tristan... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$30.00
Our Price:
$15.00
Image5
4.2 by 5 members
  • No upcoming dates available

Ruth is the mother of twin girls with notably different skin colors. When her adolescent daughters begin to ask questions about their past, Ruth turns to a $10 psychic for guidance. But the supernatural... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$25.00 - $50.00
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$12.50 - $25.00
Bluesteye206x192
4.8 by 17 members
Roar
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Adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye is the tragic coming-of-age tale of an eleven-year-old black girl in 1940s Ohio. With rich language and bold vision, the... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$37.00 - $42.00
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$18.50 - $21.00
7202824forum_logo_websmall
4.4 by 15 members
Roar
  • No upcoming dates available

It's just another day in ancient Rome and all Pseudolus wants to do is cheat at dice and win enough cash to buy his freedom. When his lovesick master declares his affection for the virgin next door,... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$25.00 - $30.00
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$12.50 - $15.00
1143110mrmarm
4.2 by 21 members
Roar
  • No upcoming dates available

Lucy is a precocious four-year-old whose imagination takes on a life of its own when her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade, starts behaving in a decidely adult way. He smacks his personal assistant around, can... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$24.00
Our Price:
$12.00
185737indiajpg
2.0 by 1 member
  • No upcoming dates available

The great playwright Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink explores the brief, mysterious, possibly erotic relationship between English poet Flora Crewe and Indian artist Nirad Das during India's struggle for... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

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$30.00 - $35.00
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$15.00 - $17.50
3124539mormonboy_slices_22
3.9 by 32 members
  • No upcoming dates available

Steven Fales' funny, sexy and touching story of his fall from the Mormon Church and rise to grace as an out and proud gay man. Mr. Fales brings his wit and his heart to Boston audiences as he weaves a tale... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$15.00 - $30.00
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$7.50 - $15.00
3013352sixrounds
5.0 by 1 member
  • No upcoming dates available

It's a no-holds-barred attack when Ace, a strong black man in search of redemption and enlightenment, seeks for the truth to the accompaniment of a DJ whose cuts and scratches follow Ace's own journey. In a... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$30.00 - $35.00
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$15.00 - $17.50
5204258midlogolarge
4.3 by 12 members
  • No upcoming dates available

Shakespeare's lyrical, lighthearted romantic comedy follows lover Hermia and Lysander, who defy father and king to elope. Meanwhile, Bottom the Weaver, and his troupe of would-be actors, venture into the... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$25.00 - $28.00
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$12.50 - $14.00
3122351scilogolarge
4.5 by 8 members
  • No upcoming dates available

A jubilant cast of children celebrates the controversial religion in uplifting pageantry and song. The actual teachings of The Church of Scientology are explained and dissected against the candy-colored... Learn More.

Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)

Full Price:
$25.00 - $30.00
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$12.50 - $15.00
514279image001
4.0 by 3 members
  • No upcoming dates available

The most thrilling and controversial entry at the 2004 Humana Festival, After Ashley is "blisteringly funny and deeply poignant." Three years after his mother's murder, 20-year-old Justin can barely function... Learn More.

Map and Directions

Public Transportation
The BCA is easily accessible by public transportation.
* MBTA Orange Line to Back Bay Station. Take the Clarendon Street exit and walk with traffic (Clarendon Street is one-way). Walk approximately 500 yards to Tremont Street. Take a left onto Tremont Street. The BCA is on the first block on the left.

* MBTA Green Line to Copley Square. Continue along Boylston Street with traffic (Boylston Street is one-way). Take a right onto Clarendon Street and walk approximately 750 yards to Tremont Street. Take a left onto Tremont Street. The BCA is on the first block on the left.

* MBTA Bus #43 travels along Tremont Street between Park Street Station on the MBTA Green Line and Dudley Square in Roxbury. Please ask the driver for the proper stop.

Driving
If you are driving and wish to find parking, we recommend you plan to arrive at the BCA 30 minutes prior to your event to allow ample time for parking.

From Storrow Drive Eastbound Take the Copley exit onto Clarendon Street. Continue along Clarendon; at Tremont Street, turn left. The BCA is on the first block on the left.

From Storrow Drive Westbound Take the Copley exit and turn right onto Beacon Street. Take the first left onto Clarendon Street. Continue along Clarendon; at Tremont Street, turn left. The BCA is on the first block on the left.

From the Massachusetts Turnpike Take the Copley Square exit. Turn right onto Dartmouth Street. Turn left onto Tremont Street. The BCA is on the third block on your left.

From the North Take 93 S to the I-90 exit, exit number 20, towards Worcester/Albany Street. Take the Albany Street exit on the left towards South Boston. Turn a slight right onto Albany Street. Turn right onto E. Berkeley Street. Turn left onto Tremont Street

From the South From the Southeast Expressway, take exit number 20 towards I-90. Take the Frontage Road exit on the left towards South Station. Turn slight right onto New Frontage Road/Frontage Road. Turn left onto E. Berkeley Street. Turn left onto Tremont Street.

Handicap Information

Wheel chair seating is available

Handicap seating is regularly available.

Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.