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Necessary Monsters
Sex, murder, and terrible danger lurk just around the corner in Necessary Monsters, the new reality-bending comedy from John Kuntz, author of the award-winning plays The Salt Girl and The Hotel Nepenthe. Through a series of intricately connected stories, Kuntz …
A Future Perfect
Claire and Max find their values put to the test when best friends Alex and Elena announce they are having a baby. Claire is climbing the corporate ladder in advertising, while her husband Max is a puppeteer for PBS. With …
Big Fish
Big Fish centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman whose larger-than-life stories of epic adventures delight everyone around him, except his pragmatic son Will. Just as Edward’s health begins to decline, Will learns that he is about to become a …
Mothers & Sons
A timely and touching new play that explores our evolving understanding of what it means to be a family.
Living With CARRIE
Life with CARRIE Nobody outside of Stephen King himself has more history with Carrie than Lawrence D. Cohen. Writer of the 1976 screen adaptation of King’s novel, Mr. Cohen also wrote the book for both versions of the stage musical; …
Inside SpeakEasy’s Carrie
Production History Reportedly inspired by a 1981 performance of the opera LULU, Lawrence D. Cohen (who wrote the script for the 1976 film version of CARRIE) and Michael Gore (who won on Oscar for composing the title song for the …
The Anatomy of The Whale
Anatomy of THE WHALE THE WHALE is full of striking elements: its colorful characters, its setting in small-town Idaho, and of course, its six-hundred pound protagonist Charlie. But playwright Samuel D. Hunter didn’t find his initial inspiration in any of …
David R. Gammons
Production History Written by Samuel D. Hunter and first produced by Playwright’s Horizons in 2012, THE WHALE has earned a 2013 Drama Desk Award, a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations …
A Tribute to the Queen of Soul
A Tribute to the “Queen of Soul” Featuring performers from the SpeakEasy Stage production of THE COLOR PURPLE. ONE NIGHT ONLY! FEB 3, 8PM – MIDNIGHT at THE BEEHIVE 541 Tremont Street, Boston Join us for a special concert celebrating …
Inside SpeakEasy’s The Color Purple
Production History Based on the book by Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Alice Walker, the musical version of THE COLOR PURPLE had its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 7, 2004. The Broadway production began its …
An Interview With Nicky Silver
Kurt Vonnegut couldn’t make up his mind. He left behind eleven different drafts of his play Make Up Your Mind, and if it was ever going to make it to the stage, then a few decisions had to be made. …
About The Play
The second show of our season is KURT VONNEGUT’S MAKE UP YOUR MIND, running October 30 – November 30. We asked SpeakEasy Artistic Fellow Jeff Kubiatowicz, who was instrumental in bringing the play to our stage, to tell us more …
