If you’re interested in discovering community theaters in the Boston area, here are some places to start. Bookmark Your Theater 411 for a complete listing of theaters, productions, and auditions.
The community theater tradition provides ongoing opportunities for students to become involved in a lifelong love of performing, whether as a cast member, crew member, or an audience member.
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Performances are far more reasonably priced but the directors, producers, and cast and crew pay just as much attention to detail and craft as they would in any professional production in Boston. And many well-known actors got their start on a community theater stage.įor residents of the area, theatre offers a wonderful and enriching gift. Many members of community theaters have professional backgrounds. Countless performers learned their craft “on the boards” and every season blooms with the fresh energy of both seasoned and up-and-coming thespians. Many community theaters in the area offer a storied history of continuous production. Arlington Friends of the Drama was founded in 1923. The Concord Players celebrates its 100th anniversary season this year.
In fact, Jamaica Plain’s Footlight Club is America’s oldest community theater, producing performances every year since 1877. Some of the oldest community theaters in the country were born in eastern Massachusetts. On the North Shore, there’s the Marblehead Little Theatre. The Bay Players makes its South Shore home in Duxbury. Just about every town in Greater Boston has a community theater. Whether you’re looking for homes on the North Shore, Boston, Metrowest, Cape Cod, or the South Coast, the Boston area offers a spectacular variety of community theater all created by volunteers who do it because-they love the theater. Eastern Massachusetts has a wealth of community theaters that rival the work of the professionals for a fraction of the ticket price.
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