Central Square Theater
Central Square Theater
450 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139- Phone:
- 617-576-9278
- Website:
- http://www.centralsquaretheater.org
- Capacity:
- 150
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Current Events on Goldstar
Note: Some events offered through Goldstar at this venue are only available via email. Please refer to your past emails to view these events.
Photograph 51 Asks: Who Really Discovered DNA?
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00 - $22.50
The Nora Theatre Company presents Photograph 51 at Central Square Theatre. In 1951, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin became a research associate at King's College in London. It was her X-ray imaging... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
ThIStHaT ShoW No. 4 and No. 5 Showcases New & Recent Dance Works
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Daniel McCusker Dance Projects presents ThIStHaT ShoW No. 4 and No. 5, celebrating an eclectic group of local dance, theater and installation artists. Many of the works are non-linear and non-narrative,... Learn More.
Award-Winning Arabian Nights: Suspenseful Tales for the Family
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.50
This co-production between The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater transports audiences to ancient Persia, where King Shahrayar, after being driven mad by his first wife's infidelity, brands... Learn More.
Central Square Theater 3-Play Subscription
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $99.00
- Our Price:
- $49.50
Cambridge's Central Square Theater presents a three-play subscription. This offer is good for tickets to any three of the last four plays of the theater's season. December's Arabian Nights is a delightful... Learn More.
Shakespeare's Historical Heroines Are Packer's Women of Will
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.50
Tina Packer has spent a lifetime studying and savoring Shakespeare's work, founding Shakespeare & Company in 1978 and directing or producing nearly all of his work. Women of Will is her masterwork, a... Learn More.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes Farce from Central Square Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.50
In this fast-paced farcical adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes novel, three actors play more than a dozen roles as the legendary detective and his assistant, Dr. Watson, investigate a case involving a... Learn More.
Matt & Ben: Gender-Bending Parody Tells the "True" Story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Fame
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.50
It's no surprise that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck became stars after the success of their debut, Good Will Hunting. The shocker is that they wrote the critically-acclaimed screenplay. The Office's Mindy... Learn More.
Silver Spoon: World-Premiere Musical from the Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
Set in late 1960s New York, this new romantic musical comedy tells the story of two young lovers from different social strata who clash with their families -- Upper East Side bankers and Jewish trade... Learn More.
Breaking the Code: Powerful Biographical Drama From Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician, known for being a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code in World War II, as well as for his amazing contributions to the field of computing... Learn More.
T-Jean & His Brothers: Musical Folk Parable Commemorating the Haiti Earthquake
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
Three brothers play a dangerous game with the Devil in this fanciful tale about the triumph of resourcefulness over oppression. Underground Railway Theater and Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University... Learn More.
Hysteria, or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis, a Freudian Comedy
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
The Nora Theatre Company's production of Terry Johnson's funny farce re-imagines the last days of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Set in London in 1938, this clever speculation showcases a dying Freud... Learn More.
The Fever Chart: Three Visions of The Middle East by Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
Underground Railway Theater presents Naomi Wallace's The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East. An Israeli soldier encounters a mysterious Palestinian woman in the Rafah Zoo. A Palestinian father... Learn More.
A Moon for the Misbegotten: Eugene O'Neill's Classic Drama
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
A Nora Theatre Company presents a revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. This starkly lyrical drama, written by America's Nobel Prize-winning playwright, is the story of Jim and Josie, two... Learn More.
Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00 - $20.00
Catalyst Collaborative@MIT presents Gioia De Cari's hit solo show about her experiences in the exotic boys club of higher mathematics at M.I.T., including being pawed by nerds, asked to serve cookies at a... Learn More.
The Lady With All The Answers, a Comedy About Ann Landers at Central Square Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
The Nora Theatre Company presents David Rambo's The Lady With All The Answers, a riotous and touching play about advice columnist Ann Landers. Over the course of a long night in 1975 Chicago, "the lady with... Learn More.
New Play From Orchids To Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story from Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
Commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez's From Orchids to Octopi is a take on... Learn More.
The Nora Theatre Company Presents the East Coast Premiere of Not Enough Air
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
The Nora Theatre Company presents the East Coast Premiere of Masha Oblensky's Not Enough Air, the story of journalist/playwright Sophie Treadwell. Treadwell is drawn in by the case of Ruth Snyder, who is on... Learn More.
Harriet Jacobs, A Drama Based on a Harrowing True Story of Slavery
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
Harriet Ann Jacobs shocking, autobiographical 19th century tale of life as a slave, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, comes to life in a new drama by Lydia R. Diamond. This sophisticated coming of age... Learn More.
Tru Grace: Holiday Memoirs: Funny and Heartwarming Stories from Truman Capote and Grace Paley
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
Tru Grace: Holiday Memoirs is a pair of heartwarming journeys into the foibles of the holiday season. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote recounts the author's memories of his wildly eccentric older cousin... Learn More.
Harold Pinter's The Caretaker from The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50
In celebration of the recently-deceased Harold Pinter, The Nora Theatre Company presents The Caretaker. When an elderly tramp is given lodging in the derelict home of two brothers, the ensuing relationships... Learn More.
One-Woman Show Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
In Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, cabaret artist Belle Linda Halpern takes a funny, intriguing and profound Jewish-American look at our constant cravings: food, sex, acceptance, fame and true... Learn More.
On the Verge (or The Geography of Learning) from The Nora Theatre Co.
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Three fiercely independent Victorian women explorers spin through time from 1888 to 1955. Through their encounters with a kaleidoscope of unlikely characters, they satisfy their need for adventure in a... Learn More.
Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo, Performed by Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo first turned his telescope upward and changed the way human beings thought of their place in the cosmos, Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT and... Learn More.
How Do You Spell Hope? from Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
How Do You Spell Hope? is a theatrical experience for the whole family based on true stories of people who overcame great obstacles to learn to read. It tells the stories of the road to literacy for a... Learn More.
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard from Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
In Chekhov's most famous play, a Russian family returns to their estate to find their family fortune has dwindled to nothing, and a dark farcical comedy ensues as they are unwilling or unable to act to save... Learn More.
Award-Winning Alice's Adventures Underground, an Adaptation of Lewis Carroll
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
Underground Railway Theater presents Alice's Adventures Underground: an award-winning adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice books, featuring outrageous puppets, sets of hand-painted silk and... Learn More.
Underground Railway Theater Presents Einstein's Dreams
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT presents Einstein's Dreams, the wry, wild, funny and surprisingly moving adaptation of Alan Lightman's bestselling novel. Einstein's Dreams imagines Einstein's dream-world as he... Learn More.
Watergate Scandal Comedy Martha Mitchell Calling at Central Square Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- $16.00
Martha Mitchell Calling takes audiences back to a point in history when an administration was hindered with political corruption and the misuse of power, and one extraordinary woman didn't want to keep it... Learn More.
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!: Nobel Laureate Dario Fo's "Comedy of Hunger"
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $32.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $16.00
The Nora Theatre Company presents We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Nobel laureate Dario Fo's satirical comedy about poverty. The play blends farce and pointed social commentary to tell the story of the aftermath... Learn More.
What the Hell Are You Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??: "Hip Harpist" in Solo Show
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
Central Square Theater presents What the Hell Are You Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??, a unique music-theater experience. Deborah Henson-Conant, a Grammy-nominated jazz musician known as "the Hip... Learn More.
Coming Up For Air: An AutoJAZZography at Central Square Theater
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Eight instruments, twelve characters, one man! Conceived and performed by Boston's favorite jazzman, Stan Strickland, Coming Up For Air is based on Strickland's near-death experience when his life and career... Learn More.
QED: A Play About Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
In the play QED, the audience will see an intimate portrait of Richard Feynman -- Nobel Prize-winning physicist, brilliant and controversial theorist, prankster, safecracker, and lover of Tuvan throat... Learn More.
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