Get Ready For The Umbrella Stage Company'S 2023/24 Season!

Featuring a lineup of plays and musicals that exemplify brave storytelling and reimagine the theater experience.

“The stories of the 2023/24 season lift up important questions: What is true? Whose stories do we hear – or even get to hear? How far would we go for what we believe? Our goal is to create four distinct theater experiences that will be compelling and meaningful, spark conversations, and spread joy.” - Director of Performing Arts Brian Boruta.

Lizzie The Musical
By Steven Cheslik-deMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt
Main Stage Theater 144
Sep 22 - Nov 5, 2023

The subject of centuries-old, sing-song villainy, Lizzie Borden turns searing rock anthem anti-hero and has audiences raging in their seats.

Lizzie was famously acquitted and yet the question lingers… did she do it? Now, as the story is retold by four women defying musical theater stereotypes, fronting a six-piece rock band, and delivering a score that epitomizes riot grrrl power, Lizzie finally gets her say. Nominated for three Drama Desk awards and named best musical eight times over in regional awards around the country and the world, this musical is totally whack (in a good way)!

White Rabbit
By Nassim Soleimanpour
Black Box
Oct 5 - Nov 12, 2023

No rehearsal. No director. One actor. A script in a sealed envelope. Theater stripped to its essential elements in a no-net night of unexpected comedy and shared discovery.

Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Soleimanpour wrote a play to travel the world in his place. Since its award-winning premiere at the Edinburgh Festival it has been translated into more than 30 different languages and performed over 3,000 times. At each incredibly unique performance, a different actor – one who has never before seen or read the play – brings the voice of the absent playwright to life, challenging audiences to question whose stories get told and what happens when we are fully present together.

The Minutes
By Tracy Letts
GREATER BOSTON PREMIERE
Main Stage Theater 144
Mar 1 - 24, 2024

An evening in Big Cherry – a small town in anywhere USA – and the city council meeting unfolds in real time, unmasking undercurrents that threaten to undo life as they know it … and driving the question, “How far would you go?”

Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ (August: Osage County) new play was called one of the most thrilling on Broadway in recent years. Nominated as Best New Play by the Tony Awards and Outer Critics Circle in 2022, and for the Pulitzer Prize in drama, The Minutes is part biting comedy, part Hitchockian mystery, and at its dark heart an unflinching allegory about small-town politics and real-world power.

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Don'T Miss The Final Show Of The 2022/23 Season!

The Color Purple
A story of HOPE, a testament to LOVE, and a celebration of LIFE!

Based on the novel by Alice Walker, with a Tony Award®-winning score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is an intensely moving American classic, and a triumphant theatrical treasure.

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