Company One Theatre

Opening night is ALMOST SOLD OUT! Get your tickets now for tonight's 7:30pm performance, or join us tomorrow for our first 2pm matinee!

Get your Pay-What-You-Want tickets now at companyone.org.

Pictured: Kai Clifton. 📸: Annielly Camargo

Theater Commentary: Theater for Young Audiences - What Role Can It Play In Saving Our Democracy? - The Arts Fuse Meeting today’s challenge—harnessing the performing arts to prepare the next generation to sustain democracy—requires broader collaboration not only with schools and community partners but among TYA c...

Check out this feature uplifting C1's educational philosophy:

"Empathy rooted in the awareness of one’s own identity and gifts—combined with recognizing the identity and gifts of others—creates the paradigm shift that spurs concrete action toward social justice."

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12 theater productions to see this winter Deep introspection is at the heart of many productions hitting local stages this season. WBUR theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair shares a roundup of shows that tackle troubling history, warn of technolo...

The Great Privation is one of @wbur.org's 12 theatre productions to see this winter!

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Congratulations to The Great Privation director Mina Morita, who was just named a 2026 United States Artists Fellow!

Learn more at unitedstatesartists.org

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond - The Boston Globe Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, theater, comedy, museums, family events, and more.

The Great Privation is a @bostonglobe.com Critic's Pick!

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Past and present build to powerful effect in ‘Great Privation’ - The Boston Globe The new coproduction between Boston's Company One Theatre and Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company takes place across two eras.

Critics and audiences agree: The Great Privation is "powerful."

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Boston Public Radio & The Culture Show Live Monday January 12, 2026 YouTube video by GBH News

"Remarkable performances . . . A fabulously rendered production." — GBH Arts Editor Jared Bowen on The Great Privation

Watch the full @wgbh.org interview with Summer L. Williams:

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Company One Theatre on Instagram: "Every ticket for The Great Privation is Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum). We asked the cast: what does that mean to you? Performances begin January 9 at the Modern T... 0 likes, 0 comments - companyoneboston on January 7, 2026: "Every ticket for The Great Privation is Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum). We asked the cast: what does that mean to you? Performances begin ...

Every ticket for The Great Privation is Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum). We asked the cast: what does that mean to you?

Performances begin January 9 at the Modern Theatre at Suffolk University. Get your tickets at companyone.org

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The Great Privation is both serious and seriously funny. We asked the cast: how does the play balance humor and heaviness?

Performances begin January 9! All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum). Get yours at companyone.org

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We asked the cast of The Great Privation: what excites you most about bringing the play to Boston?

Our co-production with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company arrives in Boston January 9-31 after an acclaimed run in DC this fall.

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Company One Theatre on Instagram: "Make your gift before midnight to support the artists, students, and partners who make up the C1 community! We only have $5,000 left to raise to reach our 2025 fund... As the holiday season approaches, consider supporting Company One Theater, a Boston-based organization dedicated to using theatre as a tool for social justice. Your end-of-year gift will help them con...

Make your gift before midnight to support the artists, students, and partners who make up the C1 community!

We only have $5,000 left to raise to reach our 2025 fundraising goal! YOU can help us cross the finish line!

Make a gift today at companyone.org/donate

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The Theater Artists of 2025 Ten creatives whose work helped define Boston’s year onstage

Chris Ehlers highlights Aubrey Dube's design:

"My favorite of Dube’s soundscapes this year were The Glass Menagerie & The Meeting Tree... the latter animated by a sonic world so delicately realized that even the rustling leaves of the titular tree felt palpably real."

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Krystal Hernandez Told Her Day Job She Was Sick So She Could Audition for SIX The multitalented artist now plays Anna of Cleves in the hit musical at the Lena Horne Theatre.

Shoutout to C1 artist & Broadway star Krystal Hernandez, who was featured this week on @playbill.com

"I consider my big break to be when I played Olivia in Miss You Like Hell in the joint production with Company One Theatre and American Repertory Theater in 2019."

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Help us reach our year-end fundraising goal! Text 50155 with the message c1boston to make a gift today, or visit companyone.org/donate.

Pictured: participants at Better Future Series: Your Vote Our Future. 📸: Annielly Camargo

Help us reach our year-end fundraising goal! Text 50155 with the message c1boston to make a gift today, or visit companyone.org/donate.

Pictured: C1 students at Boston Adult Techinical Academy. 📸: Annielly Camargo

What Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Watched, Read, and Listened to in 2025 “‘Gameboy,’ by Katseye. The way this damn “American K-pop” experiment is working on me is embarrassing.”

The Great Privation is one of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' theatre picks of 2025! You might remember BJJ as the playwright of Season 17's An Octoroon and Season 12's Neighbors.

Check out his full list of faves via @vulture.com:
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Boston’s Company One Theatre & DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company — two of the country’s most progressive theatres — are teaming up for the first time.

After an acclaimed run in D.C., our co-production of The Great Privation arrives in Boston this January!

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Help us reach our year-end fundraising goal!

Text 50155 with the message c1boston to make a gift today, or visit companyone.org/donate.

Pictured: Bradley Lewis in Haunted. Photo by Ken Yotsukura.

Building a Theater for the People - Barr Foundation Building a Theater for the People | Barr Foundation provides insights, stories, and updates on what’s driving impact and equity in our communities.

Read @barrfoundation.org's feature on how Company One is making theatre differently.

Check out the article to learn more about our Pay-What-You-Want ticketing model, our approach to community partnerships, our actor training and casting philosophy, and more!

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This winter, C1 kicks off Season 27 with a darkly comic new play co-produced with DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.

Pay-What-You-Want tickets now available!
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Shoutout to C1 Managing Director @karthiksub.bsky.social, who joined the Asian Community Fund last week for a Legislative Briefing at the State House on The State of the AAPI Arts & Culture Sector in MA.

The cohort shared key findings, recommendations, and a vision for how to move forward together.

Reclaiming Our Roots: Returning to Ancestral Homes Photo by Eilis Garvey on Unsplash Our collective American history is a culmination of rich, complex, and tragic stories. Since its discovery in 1602 and later establishment in 1776, our collective …

What does it mean to return to the land of your ancestors, even when that land holds painful history?

That’s one of the questions The Meeting Tree's dramaturgy team pose in the blog post Reclaiming Our Roots: Returning to Ancestral Homes. Read it here:
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"The Meeting Tree is a perfect 75-minute play... with director [Summer L.] Williams’ guidance, the cast tells one hell of a story."

Read the full review:
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Theater Review: THE MEETING TREE (Company One Theatre) - Stage and Cinema REPAIR AND REPARATIONS Company One’s world premiere of The Meeting Tree powerfully evokes the debate and the struggle over reparations and restitution through the lives of six women, some Black, some ...

"Poignant and meaningful... the play presents the struggle for reparations for centuries of racial injustice in microcosm."

Read the full review:
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Tangled branches in Company One’s ‘The Meeting Tree’ - The Boston Globe B. Elle Borders has crafted a small gem of a play about race, family, possession, dispossession, and the obligation to right history’s wrongs.

"A small gem of a play that deserves a much bigger audience."

Read @bostonglobe.com's review of The Meeting Tree:
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Thanks to all who came out last night to the Boston Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture!

C1 has been a proud host committee member for this event. We were so energized to see the Strand filled with arts & culture advocates, while the candidates responded to questions from the set of The Meeting Tree!

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Friday, July 18, 2025 | The Meeting Tree with E. Elle Borders YouTube video by Java With Jimmy

"It's a story about an American family. It's a story about what it means to repair. Is there a pathway for reparation — and not just reparation, but reconciliation?"

— The Meeting Tree playwright B. Elle Borders on Java With Jimmy

Check out the full interview:
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How do we center values and community in our self-producing?

In this resource sharing event, join us for a moderated conversation on producing your own work in a value-centered framework.

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