Boston Contemporary Dance Festival 2019

Directed by Betsi Graves

Presented by Urbanity Dance

Avenue of the Arts / Huntington Avenue Theatre

8/10/19

Dance companies and artists from around the Boston area and United States convene in Boston to celebrate contemporary dance, and perform their works in one of two showcases.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

Directed by Peter DuBois

Presented by Huntington Theatre Company

Avenue of the Arts / Huntington Avenue Theatre

9/20/19 - 10/20/19

Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play arrives in a marvelously funny, spectacularly beautiful new production. This modern-day classic tragicomedy imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

The Screwtape Letters

Presented by Fellowship for Performing Arts

South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

8/8/19 - 8/11/19

This acclaimed and faithful stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ satiric masterpiece follows Screwtape, a senior tempter in Hell, as he schemes to capture the soul of an unsuspecting human on earth; and reveals spiritual warfare in vivid, humorous and powerful ways.

The Purists

by Dan McCabe

Directed by Billy Porter

Presented by Huntington Theatre Company

South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

8/30/19 - 9/29/19

A thrilling world premiere by an exciting new voice, The Purists brings Tony Award winner Billy Porter (Kinky Boots, “Pose” on FX) to the Huntington to direct this soaring new play by Dan McCabe.

Choir Boy

By Tarell Alvin McCraney

Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent

Presented By SpeakEasy Stage Company

South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

9/13/19 - 10/12/19

From Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight, comes a powerful coming-of-age story punctuated by the soaring harmonies of live gospel, spiritual, and R&B performances.

Fernanda Ghi Dance Company

Composer: Astor Piazzolla

Choreographer: Fernanda Ghi

Presented by Global Arts Live

South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

10/11/19 - 10/13/19

Choreographed by world-renowned Boston-based tango artist, Fernanda Ghi, Black + White features eight exceptional dancers moving to Astor Piazzolla’s famed music with photographs by Andrés Mario de Varona.

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical

Book by Joe Tracz

Music & Lyrics by Rob Rokicki

Presented by Huntington Theatre Company

Avenue of the Arts / Huntington Avenue Theatre

7/17/19 - 7/28/19

This "winning adaptation" (The Hollywood Reporter) of the best-selling Disney-Hyperion novel by Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is “a colossal, crowd-pleasing hit of Herculean proportions!” (Broadwayworld.com)