The Factory Theatre
The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont Street Boston MA 02118- Phone:
- 617-817-6600
- Website:
- http://www.thefactorytheatre.org/
- Capacity:
- 49
Completed in 1854, the Jonas Chickering Pianoforte was the second largest building in the world, after the United States Capitol, and the first to combine all aspects of the manufacturing of pianos under one roof.
The theatre at the Piano Craft Guild has had many names throughout the years: The Beau Jest Moving Theatre, Threshold Theatre, and most recently Devanaughn Theatre. It has always remained a popular and affordable choice for fringe theatre companies in Boston to produce some very impressive works, classics as well as originals. This remains our mission today.
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
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Solace: New Space-Age Drama From the Science Fiction Theatre Company
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
New England's only exclusively science fiction theater company premieres Solace, an original tale of heartache, humor and space travel. Life hasn't been the same for Julia, the brilliant engineer at the... Learn More.
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Black Comedy: Peter Shaffer's Comedy That Takes Place in the Dark
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
In this wild comic farce by renowned British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus), a desperate sculptor hopes to impress his fiancee's father and a potential patron by "borrowing" a few antiques... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
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Dog Sees God: Dark Parody of the Peanuts Gang's Teen Years
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $9.00
Good Grief! Have you ever wondered what happened to the gang of kids from Peanuts? The award-winning Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal is an irreverent and poignant... Learn More.
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A Dream Play: Strindberg's Trip Into the Subconscious
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $16.00
- Our Price:
- $8.00
The daughter of the early Hindu god Indra is sent to explore the mysterious nature of human existence on earth, in famed Swedish playwright August Strindberg's trippy trip into the subconscious. As in a real... Learn More.
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The Embryos: Ginger Lazarus' Reproduction Comedy at Fresh Ink
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Fresh Ink launches its second season of new work with The Embryos, by Ginger Lazarus. In this surreal reproduction comedy, Mommy and Daddy have tried unsuccessfully to have a baby. When they are informed... Learn More.
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Discover the Secret of the Trippy Sci-Fi Drama The Man in the Couch
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
An entirely original work by local artist Alison Meirowitz-McCarthy, who writes and directs, The Man in the Couch is a complex story of relationships, sci-fi shenanigans and trust. Gigi is a shut-in who hasn... Learn More.
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The Revenants: Modern Zombie Drama From Happy Medium Theatre
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
This character-driven relationship drama by Scott T. Barsotti just happens to be set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Two married couples are forced into hiding together, but not before two of the... Learn More.
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Grandma's House Offers a Dark Spin on Little Red Riding Hood
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $5.00
This isn't the Little Red Riding Hood from your childhood; nor is it for the faint of heart. Grandma's House takes a bold, horrifying and often humorous look at the classic "girl meets wolf" tale. Penned by... Learn More.
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Gripping Tale The Pillowman by the Writer of In Bruges
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Flat Earth Theatre presents the black comedy The Pillowman by noted Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, who wrote and directed the acclaimed film In Bruges. Set largely in an interrogation room in an unnamed... Learn More.
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A Comic Book Convention Sets the Scene in True Believers
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
Aspiring comic book artists, psychotic fanboys, cybernetically enhanced humans, women dressed like Princess Leia -- their lives all intertwine at a comic book convention in True Believers. Penned by local... Learn More.
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The American Plan: Love and Loss in Midcentury America
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50
Happy Medium Theatre presents The American Plan, by playwright Richard Greenberg, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist best known for his "Best Play" Tony-winner, Take Me Out. Acclaimed for his subversive yet... Learn More.
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Drama On Ego Explores What Makes Us Who We Are
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
How does the piece of meat you call your brain become your mind? How do skin, bone and a hundred billion brain cells equal a human? On Ego delves into the conundrum of the conscious mind through the story of... Learn More.
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Outrageous Comedy Election Day From Happy Medium Theatre
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50
This witty comedy will take you through the day of the mayoral election with a driven lawyer and activist, her graphic designer boyfriend, his sex-crazed slacker sister, a somewhat violent political... Learn More.
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Mom's Consorting With Extraterrestrials in Dark Matters
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
What would you do if you suspected your spouse of sleeping with aliens? When his amateur astronomer wife Bridget doesn't return from a grocery run, Michael contacts the local sheriff to look into her absence... Learn More.
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Zombie Thriller Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom at The Factory
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom is a bizarre horror story and biting social commentary. The subject matter is particularly timely: the teenagers of a cookie-cutter subdivision all become addicted to an... Learn More.
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The T Plays III - Short Plays Written During One Subway Ride
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
In 2008 Mill 6 staged the first-ever T Plays. Now, due to the success of rounds one and two, they're presenting The T Plays III, featuring seven world premieres over five days. Random chance will team up a... Learn More.
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Psychological Thriller Bug: Madness and Millions of Insects
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
In a seedy motel room in Oklahoma City, cocktail waitress Agnes invites aloof Gulf War veteran Peter to spend the night. Peter identifies a hidden bug infestation in the room, and undertakes efforts to... Learn More.
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MilkMilkLemonade: A Comedy About Growing Up Gay in America, and a Depressed Chicken
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.00
A bitingly fun look at gay coming-of-age in rural America, Joshua Conkel's award-winning comedy tells the story of 11-year-old Emory, who lives on a farm with his bitter, chain-smoking Nanna and a depressed... Learn More.
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Journey to the Heart of X Minus One: Plays Based on Science Fiction Radio of the 1950s
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Counter Productions Theatre returns to the land of serial science fiction with Journey to the Heart of X Minus One , a series of tales based on the 1950s radio broadcast as well as original sci-fi shorts... Learn More.
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The Monster Tales: Nighttime Dreams Come to Life by Mill 6 Collaborative
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $5.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
In this fantastical fable, a young woman has just settled in for the night when a monster appears from under her bed. The woman and the monster tell each other a series of stories in which children grow in... Learn More.
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The House of Yes: Wendy Macleod's Dark Comedy is a Cult Classic
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
This wonderfully perverse cult comedy is as unsettling as it is funny and moving. Thanksgiving Day, 20 years after the JFK assassination, there is a hurricane raging outside outdone only by the storm brewing... Learn More.
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Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid: A Retelling of Classic Myths
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Whistler in the Dark presents Ted Hughes' robust retelling of Ovid's epic poem Metamorphoses. A recipient of the Whitbread Prize, Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid revisits the myths that have been the basis of... Learn More.
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Whistler in the Dark Presents Slapstick Tragedy Family Stories by Biljana Srbljanovic
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
In Biljana Srbljanovic's haunting-yet-hilarious Family Stories, four children play house amid the wreckage of a bombed-out playground. Reflected in the fun-house mirror of their game is a thrilling and... Learn More.
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Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Full of sharp and witty language, arresting images, complex characters, and deep insight, Three Days of Rain is an intellectual and emotional ride. It's a tour-de-force for three actors as they play... Learn More.
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The Shape of Things: Neil LaBute's Incisive Play at The Factory Theatre
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50
Adam, a well-meaning young man, falls into an intense relationship with Evelyn, a charismatic art student. Under Evelyn's influence, Adam finds himself radically changing his life and betraying his friends.... Learn More.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play Dinner with Friends at The Factory Theatre
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
The Independent Drama Society presents Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about four people whose relationships are tested by the challenges of growing old. Dinner with Friends a play about... Learn More.
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Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury from Mill 6 Collaborative
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
When he finds out that he is only a fictitious character who never appears in The Importance of Being Earnest, Bunbury uses his double anonymity to infiltrate and alter classic literature, starting by... Learn More.
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Neil Simon's Fools: A Comic Fable from The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $18.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $9.00
Boston's F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company presents legendary playwright Neil Simon's Fools: A Comic Fable. This hilarious play tells the story of a Russian man hired to lift the curse on a village which has... Learn More.
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The T Plays - Short Plays Written During One Subway Ride
The Factory Theatre (Boston, MA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Mill 6 Collaborative presents a collection of world premiere short plays. Five playwrights will board the subway knowing only the number of characters and the setting (the very subway they are on). At the... Learn More.
Map and Directions
The entrance to the Factory Theatre is located at the back of the building through the parking lot on Northampton St.
Street parking and parking garages are available across the street from the theatre on Northampton St. Do not park in the Piano Factory Lot, it is for residents of the building and you will be towed. If using public transportation, take the MBTA to the Mass Ave stop on the Orange Line.
For more information on parking and directions, please visit http://www.thefactorytheatre.org/?page_id=38
Handicap Information
Venue is not wheelchair accessible.
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.