Moonbox Productions is hosting their first-ever Boston New Works Festival this Thursday through Sunday, June 23–26, at the Calderwood Pavilion and the Boston Center for the Arts. Celebrating new original plays by local playwrights, the festival features seven plays on five different stages at the Calderwood Pavilion and the Boston Center for the Arts.
Tickets are $25 for an individual show, $50 for a Day Pass (available Fri, Sat, or Sun) and $125 for a Festival Pass (Thurs – Sun) and are available at bostontheatrescene.com or by calling (617) 933-8600. Pay what you wish tickets are also available at the box office.
For a complete list of show dates and times go to moonboxproductions.org.
Here are a few of the plays in the festival lineup with some great LGBTQ content:
“For the Fish,” by Surrey Houlker — 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., June 24–25; and 3 p.m. Sun., June 26, in The Plaza Black Box Theatre — Somewhere deep in rural Massachusetts in the ’70s, 13-year-old Susanna goes fishing with her Uncle whenever she gets bored. Or overwhelmed. Or terrified. Susanna’s big heart and quick temper keep her precariously perched between normalcy and disaster. Her uncle, grappling with their addiction and Susanna’s math homework, finds themselves caught up in this wave of teenage turmoil. As 1974 comes to a close, Susanna and her uncle draw closer, bonded by an understanding very few in their town will ever hold.
“Queens,” by Kai Clifton — 8 p.m. Fri., June 24; 4 p.m. Sat., June 25; and 5:30 p.m. Sun., June 26, in The Plaza Theatre — A play about four queer black men living in New York City. Through storytelling that combines poetry, rhythm and song, Sky, Bobbi, Alex, and Adrienne discover all the juiciness adulthood has to offer from careers to friendship, love and sex. Amid it all, they fight for their masculinity, confronting societal pressures without apology.
“The Prince and the Painter,” by Rebecca Wright and Kelvyn Koning — 7 p.m. Fri., June 24; 8 p.m. Sat., June 25; and 3 p.m. Sun., June 26, in Martin Hall — In this new fantasy musical, the Hero’s Journey meets the brilliance and queerness of the Jazz Age. After its magic disappears, the country of Fidan is crumbling. Ylber Sassoun, a rebellious young artist, unwittingly holds the key to its survival – but he’s busy trying to outrun his own terrible secret. As he struggles, he befriends a movie starlet, her fiancée and a strange, serious boy. Will Ylber and his friends be able to untangle the mystery of the vanished magic before their country – and perhaps reality itself – collapse around them?
More on the festival and Moonbox: moonboxproductions.org
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