Make it stand out
PAST SEASONS
2024-2025 PRODUCTIONS
HOW TO NOT SAVE THE WORLD WITH MR. BEZOS
BY MAGGIE KEARNAn
November 7 - 24, 2024 on the Snodgrass Stage
Directed by Taylor Stark
The fall of capitalism is about to get very messy.
-
A throne of red Solo cups, a pile of teeth, the ghost of Pete Seeger, and a little something for dinner. It’s a parallel present, and it’s illegal to be a billionaire. Jeffrey Bezos has agreed to give an interview in exchange for information on the federal case against him. But there’s something off about journalist Cherry Beaumont, a crowd is forming outside, and the onstage Fact Checker has a few important clarifications to make. The fall of capitalism is about to get very messy.
-
Cherry Beaumont: Becca A. Lewis*
Jeffrey Bezos: Mark W. Soucy*
Fact Checker: Robbie Rodriguez
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
-
Director: Taylor Stark
Scenic Designer: Maggie Shivers
Lighting Designer: Zachary Connell
Sound Designer: Anna Drummond
Costume Designer: Chloe Moore
Production Stage Manager: Jess Brennan*
Intimacy and Violence Choreographer: Jess Scout Malone
Special Effects: Lynn Wilcott
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
-
Tickets for How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos and Soft Star:
Fall Rep Pass (both plays)—$50
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$10
Boston University Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only).
Pay-What-You-Want Previews for How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos on Thursday, November 7 (7 pm) and Friday, November 8 (8 pm)
-
Pay-What-You-Want Previews for How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos on Thursday, Nov. 7 (7 p.m.) and Friday, Nov. 8 (8 p.m.)
Masks-Required Performance—Saturday, Nov. 16 (2 p.m.)
Fall Rep Festival Opening Reception—Saturday, Nov. 16, following the 8 p.m. performance of Soft Star)
Post-Show Conversation: “Can Money Save The World?” with Professor David Lagakos, Boston University Professor of Economics—Monday, November 18 at 8:30 p.m. (following the 7 p.m. performance of How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos)
-
Content transparency: graphic violence, vomit and blood effects, as well as disrobement and discussion of drug use. For further details, which will include plot information and spoilers, click here.
-
(L-R) Mark W. Soucy, Becca A. Lewis, Robbie Rodriguez
(L-R) Mark W. Soucy, Becca A. Lewis
(L-R) Mark W. Soucy, Robbie Rodriguez, Becca A. Lewis
Robbie Rodriguez
Becca A. Lewis
(L-R) Becca A. Lewis, Mark W. Soucy
Photos: Benjamin Rose Photography
soft star
BY tina esper
November 14 - 24, 2024 on the Snodgrass Stage
Directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
What happens when the only plan you’ve ever made begins to unravel?
-
Jane and Belle are best friends. Their husbands are best friends. Someday, their children will be best friends. And of course, they don’t have any secrets from each other. What could possibly go wrong? A play about what happens when the only plan you’ve ever made starts to unravel.
-
Jane: Annika Bolton
Belle: Mairéad O'Neill
Dick: Jesse Kodama
Mitch: Kamran Bina
-
Director: Bridget Kathleen O'Leary
Scenic Designer: Maggie Shivers
Lighting Designer: Zachary Connell
Sound Designer: Kai Bolman
Costume Designer: E. Rosser
Production Stage Manager: Pat-rice Rooney*
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Intimacy & Violence Choreographer: Jess Scout Malone
-
Tickets for How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos and Soft Star:
Fall Rep Pass (both plays)—$50
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$10
Boston University Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only).
Pay-What-You-Want Previews for Soft Star on Thursday, November 14 (7 pm) and Friday, November 15 (8 pm)
-
Pay-What-You-Want Previews for Soft Star on Thursday, Nov. 14 (7 p.m.) and Friday, Nov. 15 (8 p.m.)
Fall Rep Festival Opening Reception—Saturday, Nov. 16, following the 8 p.m. performance of Soft Star)
Post-Show Conversation: “Fallen Birds, Lost Babies, and the Complexities of Female Friendship” with Carrie J. Preston (Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Associate Director, Center on Forced Displacement), Jena DiMaggio (PhD student in English), and Kelsey Quinn (PhD student in English)—Sunday, Nov. 17, 3:30 p.m. (following the 2 p.m. performance of Soft Star)
Masks-Required Performance—Saturday, Nov. 23 (2 p.m.)
-
Content transparency: infertility and difficulty conceiving, miscarriage (discussion of and depiction of). For further details, which will include plot information and spoilers, click here.
-
(L-R) Jesse Kodama, Annika Bolton
Annika Bolton
(L-R) Annika Bolton, Kamran Bina
(L-R) Annika Bolton, Mairéad O’Neill
(L-R) Kamran Bina, Mairéad O’Neill, Annika Bolton, Jesse Kodama
(L-R) Mairéad O’Neill, Annika Bolton
(L-R) Annika Bolton, Mairéad O’Neill
(L-R) Jesse Kodama, Annika Bolton
(L-R) Kamran Bina, Annika Bolton
Jesse Kodama
(L-R) Mairéad O’Neill, Annika Bolton
(L-R) Kamran Bina, Mairéad O’Neill
Photos: Amelia Cordischi
THE fig tree, and the phoenix, and the desire to be reborn
by isabelle fereshteh sanatdar stevens
February 20 - March 9 on the Snodgrass Stage
Directed by Nikta Sabouri
“I like being alive with you…”
-
In the Iranian province of Zanjan, in an orchard where all of the trees have gone to sleep, one remains ripe with fruit. Underneath its fig-studded branches, on the chilliest August night of 1988, eight-year-olds Mandana and Javeed meet for the first time—except somehow it doesn’t feel like the first time. A story of what the world has been, what it is now, and what it could be.
-
MANDANA: Minou Pourshariati
JAVEED: Danny Bryck*
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
-
Director: Nikta Sabouri
Scenic Designer: Cleo Brooks
Lighting Designer: Grant Powicki
Original Music and Sound Designer: Arshan Gailus
Costume Designer: Jez Insalaco
Properties Designer: Courtney Licata
Production 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.
-
Tickets for A Fig Tree, and a Phoenix, and a Desire to be Reborn and The Recursion of a Moth:
Spring Rep Pass (both plays)—$50
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$10
Boston University Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only).
Pay-What-You-Want Previews for A Fig Tree, and a Phoenix, and a Desire to be Reborn on Thursday, February 20 (7 pm) and Friday, February 21 (8 pm)
-
Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, February 20 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 21 (8 p.m.)
Masks-Required Performance—Saturday, March 1 (2 p.m.)
MENASA Community Night—Thursday, March 6 (following the 7 p.m. performance of Fig Tree) A celebration of our MENASA (Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian) communities and audience members, with small bites in the lobby pre-show and a chance to go deeper with a fascinating post-show conversation.
Post-Show Conversation: “Children as Metaphor, Children as Message: The Use of Child Characters in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art” with Ramyar D. Rossoukh (Associate Director for Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University), Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens (Playwright), and Nikta Sabouri (Director), moderated by BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian.
Audience members who identify as members of the MENASA community can use code MENASA (case-sensitive) at checkout for $20 General Admission (no fees).
-
Content transparency: depiction of the effects of war and violence on children. For further details, which will include plot information and spoilers, please click here.
-
(L-R) Danny Bryck and Minou Pourshariati
(L-R) Danny Bryck and Minou Pourshariati
(L-R) Danny Bryck and Minou Pourshariati
(L-R) Danny Bryck and Minou Pourshariati
(L-R) Danny Bryck and Minou Pourshariati
Photos: Benjamin Rose Photography
the recursion of a moth
by brandon zang
February 27 - March 9 on the Snodgrass Stage
Directed by Katie Brook
Time is a rubber band -- you can only stretch it so far before it snaps.
-
Icarus and Mikey time travel. Icarus and Mikey fall out of love. Icarus and Mikey meet each other for the first time at a job interview. Somewhere else, sometime else, Chrys buys a yellow house. The rules are: you can travel to any timeline as long as you don’t change anything. But of course, there’s always someone who thinks the rules don’t apply to them.
-
ICARUS: Alexander Holden*
CHRYS: Jenny S. Lee
MIKEY: Jaime José Hernández
**Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
-
Director: Katie Brook
Scenic Designer: Cleo Brooks
Lighting Designer: Grant Powicki
Sound Designer: Aubrey Dube
Costume Designer: Taylor Needlman
Properties Designer: Courtney Licata
Production Stage Manager: Fanni Horvath*
*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
-
Tickets for A Fig Tree, and a Phoenix, and a Desire to be Reborn and The Recursion of a Moth:
Spring Rep Pass (both plays)—$50
Single tickets: Adults—$40
BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25
Students with valid ID—$10
Boston University Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only).
Pay-What-You-Want Previews for The Recursion of a Moth on Thursday, February 27 (7 pm) and Friday, February 28 (8 pm)
-
Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, February 27 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 28 (8 p.m.)
Asian Joy Night—Sunday, March 2 (1:15 p.m.) Boston Playwrights' Theatre has partnered with CHUANG Stage on a special Asian Joy Night performance to The Recursion of a Moth by Brandon Zang, where all members of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities are encouraged to gather and celebrate Brandon Zang's second production in Boston, following Nüwa in Fairyland! All tickets for Asian Joy Night are Pay-As-You-Are with a minimum of $0.
On Sunday, March 2 at 1:15 p.m., come for a pre-show mixer to enjoy some egg drop soup provided by local Asian restaurants and to meet other members of the AAPI community before enjoying the performance of The Recursion of a Moth by Brandon Zang in the theater. Following the performance, join us for a post-show conversation, Writing Queer and Asian Futures, with writer Diana Cao (she/they), poet and cultural critic Aline Dolinh (she/her/hers), and poet Dorsey Schutt (he/him/his), moderated by Annaka Saari (she/her) and Alison Yueming Qu (she/they).
Masks-Required Performance—Saturday, March 8 (2 p.m.)
-
Content transparency: Depictions of violence and parental neglect and abandonment. For further details, which will include plot information and spoilers, please click here.
-
(L-R) Jaime José Hernández, Alexander Holden
(L-R) Alexander Holden, Jenny S. Lee
(L-R) Alexander Holden, Jaime José Hernández
Jenny S. Lee
Jenny S. Lee
(L-R) Alexander Holden, Jenny S. Lee, Jaime José Hernández
(L-R) Jaime José Hernández, Alexander Holden
Photos: Scornavacca Photography