Our 2026-27 Season
Four new plays in two rep festivals + THE ICONIC BOSTON THEATER MARATHON
FALL REP Tickets available NOW!
white phoenix
by yide cai
Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky
November 5 – 22, 2026 on the Snodgrass Stage (949 Comm Ave.)
Part of our Fall Rep Festival
Important Ticketing Information
Please be advised that Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is the only authorized seller of tickets for White Phoenix. To ensure fair pricing and guaranteed entry, we strongly recommend purchasing tickets exclusively through our official website or box office.
Tickets purchased through third-party sellers or unauthorized websites may be invalid, overpriced, or fraudulent. We are not able to assist with tickets bought outside of our official channels.
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An epic family drama that spans decades and continents – told by two actors in one room. White Phoenix follows Li CunYi, a Chinese orphan who makes a promise to reunite with his sister, Li CunXin, who is adopted by an American family. As CunYi grows into adulthood in China, he becomes involved with the daughter of a powerful political family, who both aids and manipulates the search for his sister. Meanwhile, CunXin, renamed Annie Bradford, comes of age in America within a prominent senatorial dynasty, and begins a secret romance with the senator’s son. When their parallel journeys finally converge, the long-awaited and fraught reunion between the siblings and their political partners mirrors the conflicted, intense, and incestuous partnership between China and America.
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Coming soon
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Playwright: Yide Cai
Director: Dmitry Troyanovsky
Stage Manager: Jess Brennan**Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Thursday, November 5 at 7:00pm
Friday, November 6 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 7 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 14 at 2:00pm
Sunday, November 15 at 2:00pm
Thursday, November 19 at 7:00pm
Saturday, November 21 at 8:00pm
Sunday, November 22 at 2:00pm
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Fall Rep Pass—$50 for both plays
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$15
Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only; this applies to all students with valid ID)
Pay-What-You-Want Previews: Thursday, November 5 (7 p.m.); Friday, November 6 (8 p.m.)
For information about group rates, contact K. Alexa Mavromatis (kamavrom@bu.edu)
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Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, November 5 (7 p.m.) and Friday, November 6 (8 p.m.) See the play for the amount you select (including $0)!
Fall Rep Opening Reception after the 8 p.m. performance on Saturday, November 14
Post-show Conversation after the 7 p.m. performance on Thursday, November 19
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Coming soon
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jessica of venice
by rachel beth greene
Directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden
November 12 – 22, 2026 on the Snodgrass Stage (949 Comm Ave.)
Part of our Fall Rep Festival
Important Ticketing Information
Please be advised that Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is the only authorized seller of tickets for Jessica of Venice. To ensure fair pricing and guaranteed entry, we strongly recommend purchasing tickets exclusively through our official website or box office.
Tickets purchased through third-party sellers or unauthorized websites may be invalid, overpriced, or fraudulent. We are not able to assist with tickets bought outside of our official channels.
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Convening in a forgotten library, a group of Orthodox Jewish schoolgirls discover a banned copy of The Merchant of Venice and become fascinated with Jessica, the rebellious runaway daughter. Most enamored of all is the discontented Shaina, who dreams of a big world just beyond her community and crushes on a Christian boy from her driver’s ed class. Lines between harsh reality and forbidden fiction begin to blur as Shaina walks a dangerous tightrope between religious and secular worlds. Set in the present day with Early Modern themes, “jessica of venice” asks what it takes to rip yourself from the home that made you, and what – or who – you destroy on your way out.
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Coming soon
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Playwright: Rachel Beth Greene
Director: Josh Glenn-Kayden
Stage Manager: Jenna Worden**Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Thursday, November 12 at 7:00pm
Friday, November 13 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 14 at 8:00pm
Sunday, November 12 at 2:00pm
Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00pm
Friday, November 20 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 21 at 2:00pm
Sunday, November 22 at 7:00pm
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Fall Rep Pass—$50 for both plays
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$15
Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only; this applies to all students with valid ID)
Pay-What-You-Want Previews: Thursday, November 12 (7 p.m.); Friday, November 13 (8 p.m.)
For information about group rates, contact K. Alexa Mavromatis (kamavrom@bu.edu)
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Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, November 12 (7 p.m.) and Friday, November 13 (8 p.m.) See the play for the amount you select (including $0)!
Fall Rep Opening Reception after the 8 p.m. performance on Saturday, November 14
Post-show Conversation after the 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, November 21
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roswell
BY gabrielle franklin
Directed by Taylor Stark
February 18 – March 7, 2027 on the Snodgrass Stage (949 Comm Ave.)
Part of our Spring Rep Festival
Important Ticketing Information
Please be advised that Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is the only authorized seller of tickets for Roswell. To ensure fair pricing and guaranteed entry, we strongly recommend purchasing tickets exclusively through our official website or box office.
Tickets purchased through third-party sellers or unauthorized websites may be invalid, overpriced, or fraudulent. We are not able to assist with tickets bought outside of our official channels.
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July 4th, 2027; Roswell, New Mexico. Lauryn – government operative, veteran, almost astronaut – has been working for a decade to bring aliens back to Roswell. In partnership with Dr. Hart, a brilliant but marginalized physicist, she identifies a human medium whose body can be used as a safe container for the alien’s entrance: Guadalupe, a twenty-year-old waitress whose family is facing eviction. The experiment seems to have worked – at least until Guadalupe's boyfriend shows up, giving new meaning to “love will set us free.” Roswell is a new sci-fi thriller that explores what it means to feel foreign in a place where you should be at home.
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Coming soon
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Playwright: Gabrielle Franklin
Director: Taylor Stark
Stage Manager: Jess Brennan*
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. -
Spring Rep Pass—$50 for both plays
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$15
Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only; this applies to all students with a valid ID).
Pay-What-You-Want Previews: Thursday, February 19 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 20 (8 p.m.)
For information about group rates, contact K. Alexa Mavromatis (kamavrom@bu.edu)
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Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, February 18 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 19 (8 p.m.)
Spring Rep Opening Reception after the 8 p.m. performance on Saturday, February 27
Post-show Conversation after the 7 p.m. performance on Thursday, March 4.
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parallel play
BY fintan bracken
Directed by Carla Mirabal Rodríguez
February 25 – March 7, 2027 on the Snodgrass Stage (949 Comm Ave.)
Part of our Spring Rep Festival
Important Ticketing Information
Please be advised that Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is the only authorized seller of tickets for Parallel Play. To ensure fair pricing and guaranteed entry, we strongly recommend purchasing tickets exclusively through our official website or box office.
Tickets purchased through third-party sellers or unauthorized websites may be invalid, overpriced, or fraudulent. We are not able to assist with tickets bought outside of our official channels.
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Rebecca drops by her twin sister Ruth’s house for an impromptu visit – which is, of course, totally unrelated to the fact that Ruth just returned from the hospital after attempting suicide. But when she finds Ruth shacked up with an eccentric stranger she met on her trip to the psych ward, Rebecca stays longer than she planned. The long night unfolds, fueled by vodka, Stratego, and decades of things left unsaid. A play about what it means to be alive, and what it means to keep going – or not.
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Playwright: Fintan Bracken
Director: Carla Mirabal Rodríguez
Stage Manager: Jenna Worden*
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. -
Spring Rep Pass—$50 for both plays
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$15
Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only; this applies to all students with a valid ID).
Pay-What-You-Want Previews: Thursday, February 19 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 20 (8 p.m.)
For information about group rates, contact K. Alexa Mavromatis (kamavrom@bu.edu)
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Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, February 25 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 26 (8 p.m.)
Spring Rep Opening Reception after the 8 p.m. performance on Saturday, February 27
Post-show Conversation after the 2 p.m. performance on Sunday, February 28
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BOSTON THEATER MARATHON XXIX
FEATURING 50 plays by new england playwrights
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY 50 NEW ENGLAND THEATRES
Sunday, June 6, 2027 from 11:00am to 10:00pm
at the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre, 820 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
The 29th annual Boston Theater Marathon (BTM) returns at a new time in a new, bigger venue!
Inspired by the iconic Boston Marathon, the BTM is a theatre endurance event designed to make connections between local playwrights and local theatres—seeding new collaborations and strengthening existing ones, and encouraging more companies to consider producing new plays by local writers!—and to introduce audiences to the breadth and depth of the Boston playwriting and theatre scene. The yearly event provides a showcase—and a connecting point—for the entire theatre community. The plays are chosen from approximately 300 entries from New England playwrights, and the 50 selected plays are produced by 50 New England theatre companies which donate their time and talent to this event.
Generously supported over the years by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and by individual donations, the BTM gifts its net proceeds to the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, an organization that helps area theatre artists and companies in crisis.
Important Ticketing Information
Please be advised that Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is the only authorized seller of tickets for the Boston Theater Marathon. To ensure fair pricing and guaranteed entry, we strongly recommend purchasing tickets exclusively through our official website or box office.
Tickets purchased through third-party sellers or unauthorized websites may be invalid, overpriced, or fraudulent. We are not able to assist with tickets bought outside of our official channels.