Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre
539 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116- Phone:
- 617-933-8600
- Website:
- http://www.bcaonline.org/
- Capacity:
- 142
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
Love Person: RomCom Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $19.00
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.
Out of the Box: Cabaret-Style Performance Art Competition
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
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
28 Seeds: Premiere of New Science-Fiction Steampunk Musical
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $17.50
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.
Floyd Collins: Obie Award-Winning Musical Based on a True Story
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $37.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $18.00
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.
James and the Giant Peach from Boston Children's Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
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.
Acclaimed Drama In The Red and Brown Water, Part of a Trilogy
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $33.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $8.00 - $19.00
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.
Marathon Performance of All Three Brother/Sister Plays
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $59.00 - $69.00
- Our Price:
- $29.50 - $34.50
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.
Parts 2 and 3 of McCraney's Vivid Brother/Sister Trilogy
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $33.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $16.50 - $19.00
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.
Jason Grote's 1001, a Reworking of the Tales of the Arabian Nights
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
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.
Theater Companies Face Off During Fringe Wars
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
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.
Song of Songs, A Love Poem Set to Music, Dance and Drama at Boston Center for the Arts
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $17.50
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.
Adult Family Drama The Book of Grace by Suzan-Lori Parks at Boston Center for the Arts
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $19.00
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.
9 Circles, Bill Cain's Acclaimed New Play, Makes its East Coast Premiere
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
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.
Company One Presents Neighbors: A Shocking and Controversial New Play
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $16.50
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.
Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
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.
The Emancipation of Mandy and Miz Ellie: the Story of Two Women Told Through Dance
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $19.00
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.
Punk Cabaret Le Cabaret Grimm from The Performance LAB
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
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.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane: A Dark Comedy of Murder, Sexual Innuendo
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
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.
Marivaux's Cruel Comedy The Island of Slaves at Boston Center for the Arts
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00 - $15.00
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.
The Good Negro, an American Civil Rights Movement Drama
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $17.50
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.
The Overwhelming: Exotic Thriller from Company One
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $19.00
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.
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from Publick Theatre Boston
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $16.50
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.
The Superheroine Monologues: Comedy Hit Returns to Boston
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
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.
After the Quake, A Play of Hope and Healing in the Wake of Disaster
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $16.50
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.
Humble Boy: Publick Theatre Presents Quirky Comedy
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
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.
Controversial Comedy The Pain and the Itch from Company One
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $33.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $16.50
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.
Voyeurs de Venus, a Bold New Drama, from Company One
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $19.00
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.
Publick Theatre Boston Presents Brian Friel's Faith Healer
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $17.50
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.
Assassins: Stephen Sondheim's Acclaimed Musical at the Plaza Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $19.00
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.
After School Special: Company One Presents Absurd High School Comedy
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50
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.
Tom Stoppard's Travesties: Publick Theatre Presents Witty, Absurd Comedy
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $22.00 - $32.50
- Our Price:
- $11.00 - $16.25
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.
The Gibson Girl, a Quirky New Comedy from Company One
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
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.
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Adapted for the Stage
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $50.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $25.00
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.
Broadway Musical Farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $37.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- $18.50 - $21.00
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's Premiere of Mr. Marmalade, Edgy Comedy About Playing Grown-Up
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
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.
Indian Ink: Boston Premiere of Tom Stoppard's Witty Play
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $24.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
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.
Off-Broadway Smash Hit Confessions of a Mormon Boy, A True Story
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $17.50
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.
"Tragicomic Hip-Hop Concerto" Six Rounds/Six Lessons at Plaza Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $15.00
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.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream from Boston Theatre Works
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $17.50
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.
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $14.00
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 Premiere of After Ashley from Company One
Boston Center for the Arts - Plaza Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
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.
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