Live Audio Described Theater Performances
April through August 2025
Please come to the exciting live theater productions with audio description (AD). Preshow description of sets and costumes begins 30 minutes prior to curtain. Arrive early to allow time to get headsets, programs, and to be seated.
The following audio described performances will be at the designated theatres listed below.
Enjoy these accessible theater opportunities!
Don’t Eat the Mangos
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:00 PM (SPK)
Playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s wickedly funny tragedy Don’t Eat the Mangos portrays life on his home island of Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the saga of three sisters living just outside San Juan. As a hurricane approaches the island, secrets and ugly truths are revealed that cause the sisters to wrestle with how to stay true to their family and homeland.
Location: Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston
Ballet: Intersections V4
Friday, April 25, 2025, 8:00 PM (Live Stream, & In-Person) (ABD)
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 8:00 PM (Livestream, & In-Person) (ABD)
Annual spring ballet. Honors BIPOC and disabled honorees and highlights the important intersections of race and disability. In addition, we will highlight bills that are currently on the state floor that affect the deaf/disabled community in collaboration with Disability Policy Consortium. Live streamed to virtual audiences. All performances include recorded, open audio description.
Location: Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second Street, East Cambridge
Book of Mormon
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 1:00 PM (BIB)
“It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it “Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal.” It’s THE BOOK OF MORMON, the nine-time Tony Award® -winning Best Musical. Contains explicit language.
Location: Citizens Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston
Crowns
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 2:00 PM (MBX)
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 7:30 PM (MBX)
A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of Black history and identity, as seen through the eyes of a young Black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social function. There is a hat for every occasion, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion. Some rap, but predominantly gospel music and dance underscore and support the story. The conclusion finds the standoffish young woman, whose cultural identity as a young Black Brooklyn woman has been so at odds with the more traditional Southern Blacks, embrace hats and their cultural significance as a part of her own fiercely independent identity.
Location: Arrow Street Arts, Inc., 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Kimberly Akimbo
Sunday, May 11, 2025, 1:00 PM (ECT)
For tickets: contact the Colonial Theatre Box Office 617-902-6131.
A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), Kimberly Akimbo is the winner of 5 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. In this howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show, Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare genetic condition, her first crush … and possible felony charges. Ever the optimist, she is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Location: Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St, Boston
The Light in the Piazza
Friday, May 16, 2025, 10:00 AM (student matinee) (HTC)
June 7, 2025, 2:00 PM (HTC)
Winner of 6 Tony Awards including Best Original Score. A lush and soaring romance unfolds as Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco creates a brand-new production of Adam Guettel’s sweeping Tony Award-winning score and Craig Lucas’ profound book in this must-see story of a mother, a daughter, and the many meanings of love. Florence, summer 1953. Protective American mother Margaret Johnson brings her daughter Clara abroad for a glimpse of Italy’s romantic history. But when a real-life attraction sparks between Clara and a local boy, Margaret must ask: can she reconcile her own hopes with her daughter’s future?
Location: The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston
JaJa’s African Hair Braiding
Saturday, May 24, 2025, 2:00 PM (SPK)
Friday, May 30, 2025, 7:30 PM (SPK)
2024 Tony Nominee for Best Play! It’s a hot summer day in 2019, and in Harlem, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding salon is open for business, even though its owner is about to be married. Presiding over the shop’s team of talented, high-spirited, West African designers is Jaja’s daughter Marie, a Dreamer who has set her sights on college. When shocking news disrupts the day’s festivities, the women must grapple with what it means to be outsiders in the place they call home.
Location: Roberts Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston
Boston New Works Festival
Sunday, June 29, 2025 (TBA, Afternoon) (MBX)
Specific plays will be announced in spring 2025.
Location: Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston
Back to the Future: The Musical
Sunday, July 13, 2025, 1:00 PM (BIB)
Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical. Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Back to the Future has been adapted for the stage by the iconic film’s creators Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, and directed by the Tony Award-winner John Rando with original music by multi-Grammy winners Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, alongside hit songs from the movie including “The Power of Love,” “Johnny B. Goode,” “Earth Angel,” and “Back in Time.” When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past, and send himself … back to the future.
Location: Citizens Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston
Richard III
Saturday, August 2, 2025, 5:00 PM (GZP)
Jealous and crippled, Richard of Gloucester wants to be King of England and uses manipulation and deceit to achieve his goal.
Location: Bird Park Music Court, 135 Polley Lane, Walpole
The Wiz
Sunday, August 17, 2025, 1:00 PM (BIB)
In this new Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz, adapted from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, this revival returns “home” to stages across America in an all-new Pre-Broadway tour, the first one in 40 years. This groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway—from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and finger-snapping 70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world. Audiences get to enjoy such hits as “Ease on Down the Road,” which became the show’s break-out single, and the bona fide classic “Home”, conjure up an Oz unlike anything ever seen before. So everybody rejoice! An all-new 21st-Century WIZ is sliding into an Emerald City near you.
Location: Citizens Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston