November 2019
August Wilson’s Fences
Winner of both the Pulitzer and the Tony Award, August Wilson’s FENCES is a true American masterpiece. Deeply affecting and a profound theatrical experience, FENCES focuses on Troy Maxon, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man. Excluded as a black man from the major leagues, his bitterness takes its toll on his relationships with his wife and his son, who now wants his own chance to play ball. With one of the…
Find out more »StoryArt: Children’s Book Illustration Exhibition
Eight Massachusetts children’s book illustrators share their work in StoryArt, an exhibition of original book illustration: Priscilla Alpaugh, Sarah S. Brannen, Shawn Fields, Wayne Geehan, Brian Lies, Julia Miner, Ilse Plume, and Nicole Tagdell. These award-winning illustrators each have found their own way to tell stories with their art, introducing children and adults to a magical world of art, history, science, nature, fantasy, and stories of all kinds. This is a rare opportunity to see book art up close, learn…
Find out more »December 2019
The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Tuck Everlasting
Based on the book by the same name which also inspired a 2002 Disney movie, this magical, musical adventure is fun for the whole family and a dazzling spectacle for our award-winning design teams. 11 year old Winnie Foster years for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence when she stumbles upon the Tuck family and their secret to everlasting youth and faces the extraordinary choice of returning to her ordinary life or continue with the Tucks on…
Find out more »Free Family Drop-In Art Activity Day
Free Drop-In Family Days at The Umbrella Community Arts Center are a great opportunity for families to be creative together and to explore a variety of atr media in a fun and affordable way. In this program, families will engage in art making activities designed and taught by our talented art instructors. The projects will use a variety of art materials, professional artist tools, and mediums, and may incorporate seasonal considerations such as holidays and events throughout the year. By…
Find out more »Winter Solstice Celebration
Warm the spirit on the longest night of the year at the candle and bonfire lit evening on the back lawn of The Old Manse, 269 Monument Street. Celebrate the longest night of the year around a warm Solstice fire, with a candlelight sing-along with Voices for the Earth, drumming, and s’mores.
Find out more »January 2020
The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Hundred Days
HUNDRED DAYS is an uncensored, exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. A luminous musical memoir scored to anthemic folk music, HUNDRED DAYS shines a light in the darkness and is “ablaze with the ephemeral nature of life and love.” Staged in our Black Box, this intimate and engaging concert-musical is the perfect vehicle to highlight the versatility of our new home.
Find out more »March 2020
The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Bent
Profound and provocative, BENT is the story of courage and survival in the face of extreme hate and circumstance. Set in 1930’s Berlin where homosexuality is viewed as worse than being Jewish, Max and Rudy attempt to flee before being caught by Nazi soldiers. Strikingly relevant, global, and moving, BENT will keep audiences thinking and talking about the experience of it long after the lights come down.
Find out more »April 2020
The Umbrella Stage Company Presents War Paint
Hailed as “thoroughly compelling and masterfully entertaining” WAR PAINT is the true-to-life story of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein, masters of self-invention and titans of the cosmetics industry who became the country’s first major female entrepreneurs in a time when only men were thought to be capable of building international empires. This fascinating, female-forward bio-musical spans their 50 year rivalry, is a master-class for two stars and will feature Boston’s own leading ladies, Leigh Barrett and Shana Dirik in one…
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