Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre
264 Huntington Ave Boston MA 02115- Phone:
- 617-266-0800
- Website:
- http://www.huntingtontheatre.org/visit/venue/bo...
- Capacity:
- 890
In October 1953, Boston University purchased the facility, and the vision which had initially created the theatre again began to be realized. The School of Theatre Arts at the Boston University College of Fine Arts has now used the theatre as its primary facility for performance, design, and technical production for three decades.
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Past Events on Goldstar
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Dreams Dramatically Deferred in A Raisin in the Sun
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00 - $80.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50 - $40.00
It was a play that, in the words of The New York Times, "changed American theater forever." More than 50 years later, A Raisin in the Sun has lost none of its power to move audiences. Echoing her own trials... Learn More.
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Owen Wingrave, Benjamin Britten's Opera About Family Conflict
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Like Verdi, Mozart and Wagner before him, Benjamin Britten brought an extraordinary sense of theater to his musical treatment of complex subjects. His Owen Wingrave, based on a short story by Henry James, is... Learn More.
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Invisible Man: New Adaptation of Ellison's Award-Winning Novel
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00 - $80.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50 - $40.00
Invisible Man follows the journey of an anonymous black man from his origins in the Deep South to a basement in Harlem, then on to an ivy-covered college campus (where he experiences betrayal) and a... Learn More.
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Harold Pinter's Betrayal, an Award-Winning Classic
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00 - $80.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50 - $40.00
Harold Pinter was one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential playwrights. The winner of the Nobel Prize, he was honored with numerous other accolades, including France's Légion d'Honneur... Learn More.
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Good People: New Drama From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rabbit Hole Playwright
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $45.00 - $80.00
- Our Price:
- $22.50 - $40.00
Nominated for Best Play at the 2011 Tony Awards, Good People centers around Margie, a single mother in Boston's Southie neighborhood who is fired from her cashier position at a local dollar store. Realizing... Learn More.
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Private Lives: Noël Coward's Classic Comedy of Bickering Spouses
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $80.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $40.00
Love is so complicated! Former husband and wife Elyot and Amanda can't live with or without each other, as they realize when they find themselves honeymooning in the same hotel, each with a new spouse. Noël... Learn More.
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Assassins: Stephen Sondheim's Acclaimed Musical at Boston U.
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- $6.00
Join Boston University's College of Fine Arts for a darkly-comic and compelling look at the lives, loves and legacies of nine presidential assassins, including John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. A... Learn More.
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Assassins: Stephen Sondheim's Acclaimed Musical at Boston U.
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
Join Boston University's College of Fine Arts for a darkly-comic and compelling look at the lives, loves and legacies of nine presidential assassins, including John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. A... Learn More.
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Francis Poulenc's Psychological Opera Dialogues of the Carmelites
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Poulenc's 1957 opera is set in a Carmelite monastery during the French Revolution and follows a young aristocrat who has joined the convent in order to deal with her innate fear of life, only to watch the... Learn More.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Explosive Drama by August Wilson
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $86.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $43.00
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner August Wilson's searing drama is set in the 1920s on the south side of Chicago, where a recording session for blues legend Ma Rainey and her band becomes an intense... Learn More.
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Il Matrimonio Segreto: Cimarosa's Comic Opera from BU
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Boston University College of Fine Arts brings Domenico Cimarosa's rarely performed Italian comic opera, Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage) to the stage. This light-footed work from 1792 --... Learn More.
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Tony-Winning God of Carnage from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $85.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $40.00
Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage (translated by Christopher Hampton) won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2009 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in the same year. God of Carnage is a dark comedy... Learn More.
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Israeli Agents Capture Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Captors
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $55.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $27.50
Set in 1960 Buenos Aires, this new play picks up after covert Israeli agents capture Adolf Eichmann, the world's most wanted war criminal. The agents hold "the architect of the Holocaust" in a safe house,... Learn More.
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Hit Revival of Leonard Bernstein's Musical Candide
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $75.00 - $95.00
- Our Price:
- $37.50 - $47.50
A critically-acclaimed and sold-out hit during its earlier runs in Chicago and Washington, D.C., this new adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's Candide is directed by Tony Award winner and MacArthur Genius Grant... Learn More.
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The Comedy of Errors: Shakespeare's Classic of Mistaken Identity at Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.50 - $82.50
- Our Price:
- $16.25 - $41.25
England's Propeller Theatre Company comes to Boston with an all-male performance of Shakespeare's classic comedy with a modern flair. The Comedy of Errors takes twin masters each named Antipholus, their twin... Learn More.
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All-Male British Shakespeare Troupe Brings a New Spin to Richard III
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.50 - $82.50
- Our Price:
- $16.25 - $41.25
English all-male Shakespeare company Propeller aims to make Shakespeare more engaging by combining the classic script with physical performance inspired by mask work, animation, classic and modern film, and... Learn More.
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Produced by Boston University's School of Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
This surrealistic rendering of Ibsen's great work explores a complex, driven woman born into the gilded cage of Victorian society, desperate for freedom and adventure. The intense psychological drama... Learn More.
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Educating Rita Comes to Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $82.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $41.25
Huntington Theatre Company presents Willy Russell's award-winning comedy Educating Rita. A brash young hairdresser named Rita bursts into the life of boozy and burnt-out professor Frank Bryant when he is... Learn More.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice -- Opera Version of the Crime Novel Turned Film Noir
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Boston University College of Fine Arts presents the opera The Postman Always Rings Twice. An illicit affair between a drifter and a sultry waitress begins at a lonely roadside diner outside Los Angeles.... Learn More.
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Ruined: Acclaimed 2009 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama at Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $82.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $41.25
Huntington Theatre Company presents the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lynn Nottage's Ruined tells the story of Mama Nadi, a bar and brothel owner in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo,... Learn More.
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Vengeance is the Lord's: Sharp Drama About Crime and Punishment
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $82.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $43.00
Huntington Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Robert Glaudini's new drama Vengeance is the Lord's. In this intense and bitterly funny play, a mother's call for mercy clashes with a father's need... Learn More.
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C.P. Taylor's Drama Good Looks at How Nazism Took Hold in Germany
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
C.P. Taylor's Good examines Germany's descent into Nazism through the story of John Halder, a literature professor who is initially reluctant to accept the philosophy of the Nazi Party. With different... Learn More.
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Bus Stop: The Huntington Theatre Company Presents William Inge's Classic American Comedy
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $82.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $41.25
In this heartwarming and compassionate comedy, a busload of weary travelers is forced to stop at a roadside diner for the night by a howling snowstorm. By morning, the mismatched group of characters --... Learn More.
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Prelude to a Kiss: Magical Romantic Comedy from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $36.25
Huntington Theatre Company presents Prelude to a Kiss. This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-nominated comedy by Craig Lucas (The Light in the Piazza) follows a newly married couple through a magical journey... Learn More.
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Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- $6.00
Boston University College of Fine Arts presents Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success. Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves... Learn More.
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Classic American Opera Susannah at Boston University
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Five decades after its premiere, the Boston University School of Music and School of Theatre will produce the classic American opera Susannah. Set in a small Appalachian community in 1950s Tennessee, ... Learn More.
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Blind Date Comedy Becky Shaw from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $36.25
Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw is a wickedly funny comedy about a blind date gone bad. When a newly married couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends, crisis and comedy ensue. Already a smash... Learn More.
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All My Sons: Arthur Miller's First Masterpiece, from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $36.25
Huntington Theatre Company presents Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Two years after World War II, the Keller family is torn apart by patriarch Joe Keller's fateful decision. All My Sons won the 1947 Tony Award... Learn More.
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A Civil War Christmas, a Heartwarming Play with Music
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $36.25
It's Christmas Eve 1864 and in the White House, President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their gift-giving. On the Potomac, a young rebel soldier challenges a Union blacksmith's mercy. In the streets, a fugitive from... Learn More.
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Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
Boston University College of Fine Arts presents Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. This rarely performed work is the story of two men in a 1970s Soviet asylum, both named Alexander Ivanov. One, a... Learn More.
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August Wilson's Fences: Award-Winning Drama from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $36.25
Huntington Theatre Company presents August Wilson's drama Fences. This Pulitzer and Tony-winning drama tells the story of Troy Maxson, a man whose baseball career was derailed by racial prejudice, and his... Learn More.
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Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd) from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $67.50
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $34.75
Huntington Theatre Company presents Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd). This raucous musical comedy updates Gilbert and Sullivan's classic the Pirates of Penzance, retaining the original music but... Learn More.
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Trumpery: Story of Charles Darwin at Boston University
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.00
The Boston University School of Theatre presents Trumpery. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin races to complete The Origin of Species, battling a daughter's illness and a reexamination of his faith to claim... Learn More.
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The Pope and Galileo Clash in Epic Drama Two Men of Florence
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $37.25
Galileo Galilei and Pope Urban VIII face off in a battle for the soul of the world in this fiercely intelligent, epic drama from celebrated historian and former JFK speechwriter Richard N. Goodwin. Directed... Learn More.
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The Corn Is Green: Kate Burton Stars in Heartwarming Classic Drama
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $37.25
Kate Burton stars in The Corn Is Green, presented by Huntington Theatre Company. Emlyn Williams' classic drama tells the heartwarming story of a determined schoolteacher who creates the first school in an... Learn More.
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Rock 'n' Roll: Tom Stoppard's Latest Play
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $77.50
- Our Price:
- $21.00 - $39.75
Huntington Theatre Company presents the New England premiere of Rock 'n' Roll, the latest play by legendary playwright Tom Stoppard. The epic story of two decades of revolution, love and rock music in Prague... Learn More.
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Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking at Boston University Theatre
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $22.00 - $38.25
Writer and actress Carrie Fisher, the child of two Hollywood stars (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher), offers a hilarious and sobering look at her life. It's an incredible tale, from being cast as Princess... Learn More.
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How Shakespeare Won the West - Shakespearean Comedy and American Vaudeville
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $72.50
- Our Price:
- $21.00 - $37.50
A ragtag troupe of actors heads West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic '49ers. But with stiff competition, romantic entanglements and an Indian Chief who... Learn More.
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Delightful Musical Comedy She Loves Me from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $36.00
An endearing tale of unlikely sweethearts and the eccentric colleagues who aid and abet them, She Loves Me is based on Parfumerie, the play that also inspired the Jimmy Stewart classic "The Shop Around the... Learn More.
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Third: Final Play From Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Wasserstein
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $36.00
Third is the final play from celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Heidi Chronicles. It's the story of Laurie Jameson, a revered 54-year-old professor at an elite New... Learn More.
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Vietnam War Drama Streamers from Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $36.00
In this powerful American masterpiece, four young soldiers fresh from boot camp wait anxiously in 1965 Virginia, watching the Vietnam conflict escalate. As they struggle to make sense of their new life in... Learn More.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Tongue-in-Cheek Thriller The 39 Steps Live on Stage
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $36.00
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and a dash of Monty Python and the thrilling result is The 39 Steps, a hilarious whodunit adapted for the stage from the famous film. Richard is lured into... Learn More.
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Victor Garber (TV's "Alias") In Charming Comedy Present Laughter
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $44.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- $22.00 - $35.00
Victor Garber (TV's "Alias") stars as a dashing, utterly charming silver-screen leading man, Garry Essendine. Garry's got it all--but the years are creeping up on him, as much as he tries to ignore the fact... Learn More.
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Tony-Nominated, Critically Acclaimed Well: Touching Original Comedy
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $44.00 - $75.00
- Our Price:
- $22.00 - $37.50
A play for anyone who ever had a mother, Well is a hilarious, touching, and utterly original comedy about mothers and daughters. All Lisa Kron wants to do is put on a nice, orderly little play about growing... Learn More.
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Chekhov's Masterpiece The Cherry Orchard, Starring Kate Burton
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $44.00 - $75.00
- Our Price:
- $22.00 - $37.50
Theatre and television star Kate Burton (The Constant Wife, Grey's Anatomy) leads a stellar cast in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece The Cherry Orchard. Burton stars... Learn More.
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Rabbit Hole, the Tony Award-Nominated Broadway Play
Boston University Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $48.00 - $75.00
- Our Price:
- $24.00 - $37.50
Becca and Howie had the perfect life: a great marriage, a beautiful house. But after a tragic accident threatens to tear apart their family, the couple faces tough questions about themselves, their... Learn More.
Map and Directions
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Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
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