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Items Tagged with 'theatre'

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Arts Around Town Vol 7 Issue 2

April 25, 2025
Cynthia L. Baudendistel
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Discover what's happening in the world of art this spring.


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Cultural Spotlight

The Umbrella Arts Center: A Rich and Accessible Cultural Destination in the Heart of Historic Concord

March 28, 2025
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In the heart of the historic Concord Center Cultural District, The Umbrella Arts Center at 40 Stow Street is a multidisciplinary, non-profit contemporary arts organization committed to nurturing and encouraging the arts. A cultural leader in MetroWest Boston, it provides broad and diverse access to a wide range of performing arts, visual arts, and arts education programs. Through these offerings, The Umbrella promotes creativity, learning, personal growth, and cultural exchange. 


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Cultural Spotlight

The Concord Players

March 28, 2025
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She was spirited, unconventional, energetic, and prodigiously creative, so it’s no surprise that Louisa May Alcott (along with her sister, Anna) founded a theater company to entertain family, friends, and neighbors in the Town of Concord. Their Concord Dramatic Union of 1856 featured Alcott’s original plays and vignettes. 

In 1872, the Union became The Concord Dramatic Club and, in 1919, The Concord Players, when a dedicated group of amateur actors and theater lovers came together to “stimulate interest in dramatic work in the town and to elevate the standard of performance.” The group first performed in Monument Hall but, over time, established a permanent space in the Veteran’s building, a former drill shed located at 51 Walden Street. They built a stage with the aid of theater architect Charles Blackhall; a small replica of his design for Boston’s Colonial Theater. 


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Concord’s “Hidden Gem” of Boston Theater

August 29, 2024
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Inside the stately 1929 former Emerson School building at 40 Stow Street, The Umbrella Stage Company’s recently constructed theater wing is a surprise and delight to all who discover one of the “best kept secrets” of the Greater Boston/Metrowest theater scene.

Since becoming a professional theater company in late 2019, The Umbrella Stage Company (the live theater division of The Umbrella Arts Center) has strived to produce high quality work. Its reputation has steadily grown as audiences begin to return to live theater. 


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Arts Around Town Fall 2024

August 29, 2024
Cynthia L. Baudendistel
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Whether you love music, the visual arts, or theater, Concord has something exciting for you this fall.


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Indecent comes to Concord

December 15, 2022
Linda McConchie
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The first onstage lesbian kiss in the United States took place at the Apollo Theater in 1923 in the play God of Vengeance by Polish-born Jewish playwright Sholem Asch. Obscene, indecent, and immoral were words New York theater-goers used to describe the production. So incensed were the “moral” authorities of the time that the entire cast and the producer were arrested and convicted for indecency. This over a story that the playwright called “a little Jewish play,” one that had been staged in countries throughout Europe for a decade without incident.


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Fall 2022

Arts Around Town: Fall 2022

September 15, 2022
Cynthia L. Baudendistel
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Discover what's happening in the art world this fall!


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Summer 2022

Arts Around Town Summer 2022

June 15, 2022
Cynthia L. Baudendistel
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Find our what's happening in the arts scene this summer.


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Arts Around Town

December 15, 2021
Cynthia L. Baudendistel
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Discover what's happening in the world of the arts this winter.


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Arts Around Town Fall 2021

September 15, 2021
Cynthia L. Baudendistel
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This fall brings an array of arts-related events to the Concord area.


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EVENTS

Featured Events

Learning How to Read by Moonlight

6/5/25 7:30 pm to 6/8/25 1:00 pm EDT
The Umbrella Arts Center Learning How to Read by Moonlight
40 Stow St
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: John Penney

While his mother struggles to earn money in New York City and his father waits alone in Manila for their daily phone calls, six-year-old Eddie learns English from his imaginary friend. Between the War on Drugs in the Philippines and the anti-immigrant movement in the United States threatening their humanity, will this undocumented family be able to pursue their dreams and address unspoken truths? A musical and multilingual journey of childlike wonder, Gaven D. Trinidad’s “Learning How to Read by Moonlight” is equal parts playful, poignant, and hella Pinoy.

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

6/7/25 8:00 pm to 6/8/25 4:00 pm EDT
51 Walden Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
United States

Opera51 presents “A Musical Thriller!"

Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End of London in 1980. It has been awarded eight Tony Awards, including one for best musical, and inspired the film adaptation by director Tim Burton in 2007.

June 7 at 8:00 pm

June 8 at 2:00 pm

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    Ken Burns’ American Revolution: A View Through the Lens of History

    The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt and written by Geoffrey Ward will premiere on PBS on November 16, 2025. The series examines how America’s creation turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.

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