2015-2016 Season

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  A Little Night Music

  September 11 — October 11, 2015
  Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre

  Lovers reunite, passions reignite, and new romances blossom around famous actress Desiree Armfeldt and an unforgettable cast of characters during an eventful weekend in the country. Stephen Sondheim’s most romantic and popular work features a gorgeous, sweeping score infused with humor, warmth, and the flavor of a waltz, including Sondheim’s best known song, “Send in the Clowns.” Directed by Artistic Director Peter DuBois, this exquisite musical celebration of love is the must-see event of the season!

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  Choice

  October 16 — November 15, 2015
  South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

  When successful journalist Zipporah Zunder takes on an assignment to investigate a new and polarizing social phenomenon, she is unprepared for how deeply this story will impact her life, transforming her understanding of herself, her past, and her future. Funny, smart, and emotional, this unpredictable new play looks at all the layers that live inside a single choice.

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  A Confederacy of Dunces

  November 11 — December 20, 2015
  Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre

  Nick Offerman (“Parks & Recreation”) stars as larger-than-life character Ignatius J. Reilly, the Don Quixote of the French Quarter. He’s overweight, arrogant, eccentric, and still living in his mother’s New Orleans basement in the 1960s. Adapted from the cult classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces is a hilarious wild ride, filled with colorful characters and comic misadventures.

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  Disgraced

  January 8 — February 7, 2016
  Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre

  Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize

  High-powered New York lawyer Amir has climbed the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his Muslim roots. When he and his wife Emily host a dinner party, what starts as a friendly conversation escalates, shattering their views on race, religion, and each other. 

  Approximate run time: 90 minutes without intermission.

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  Milk Like Sugar

  January 29 - February 27, 2016
  South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

  Annie and her teenage friends want the same things: the hottest new phones, cute boys, designer bags. But when they enter into a pregnancy pact, she wonders if there might be a different path and a brighter future. Huntington Playwriting Fellow Kirsten Greenidge (Luck of the Irish) finds raw humor and gritty poetry in this provocative, ripped-from-the-headlines new play.

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  August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

  March 5 - April 3, 2016
  Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre 

  In this solo show, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson shares stories about his first few jobs, a stint in jail, his lifelong friends, and his encounters with racism, music, and love as a young poet in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Directed by Todd Kreidler and featuring Eugene Lee, both longtime Wilson collaborators, this theatrical memoir charts one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a black artist in America.

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  Can You Forgive Her?

  March 25 - April 24, 2016
  South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

  It’s Halloween night, and Miranda is desperate for a way out. She’s up to her neck in debt, she might be in falling for the man who pays her bills, and now her date has threatened to kill her. A charismatic stranger offers shelter and a drink; where will the night take them? With her trademark dark humor, two-time Pulitzer finalist Gina Gionfriddo presents complicated characters wrestling with love, money, and their past in this sharp contemporary comedy.

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  I Was Most Alive With You

  May 27 - June 26, 2016
  South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

  A family’s faith is severely tested when their adult son, a Deaf, gay, recovering addict played by Russell Harvard (“Fargo,” Spring Awakening), sees his carefully calibrated world fall apart after an accident. Performed simultaneously in English and American Sign Language, I Was Most Alive with You by award-winning playwright Craig Lucas(Broadway’s An American in Paris, Prelude to a Kiss) is a theatrical event of the first order: a love story so wholly original – funny, heartrending, and deeply theatrical – it must not be missed. 

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