Company One Theatre builds community at the intersection of art and social change
BOSTON CHINATOWN:
STORIES ON OUR SREETS
An Oral History Musical-in-Development
Saturday, October 18 at 2pm
Tufts Community Common (186 Harrison Ave, Boston)
Boston Chinatown: Stories on Our Streets uplifts Boston Chinatown’s history, vibrancy, and perseverance, in the face of gentrification and racial violence. From the rhythms of restaurant kitchens to the steps of a child growing up on the brick streets, this musical in development offers moving portraits of home, memory, and belonging—rooted in Boston’s Chinatown and resonant far beyond it.
Conceived by CHUANG Stage and commissioned by Company One Theatre, Boston Chinatown: Stories on our Streets builds on the community engagement and oral history collection started by the Company One & Pao Arts Center in 2021. This concert presentation invites audiences into the creative process of an essential, community-driven work, shaped by and for the community that inspired it.
THE GREAT PRIVATION
by Nia Akilah Robinson
directed by Mina Morita
a co-production with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
January 9-31, 2026
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another strangely familiar mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleepaway camp. Timelines collide, horrors are buried and revealed, but love never lacks.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play about our nation’s long practice of harming Black bodies in the name of scientific progress, our responsibility to time and the role joy plays in living with a history we cannot change.
Pay-What-You-Want tickets available soon!
Welcome to our community, where every audience member, artist, student, and supporter has the opportunity to fight for social justice.
Founded in 1998, Company One has situated itself as a home for social justice and artistic excellence by connecting Boston’s diverse communities through live performance, the development of new plays and playwrights, arts education, and public engagement programming. By establishing a dedicated space for marginalized and alternative narratives to thrive and working with partners and collaborators across the city, Company One has become a local leader in the ongoing conversations that continue to define the era of social change in contemporary America.
CONNECTIVITY
C1 is Boston’s hub for community connection. Connectivity provides opportunities for audience intersection with the people and organizations who are working to create a just and equitable Boston.
PLAYLAB CIRCUIT
Through a combination of personalized dramaturgy, group workshops, and professional development classes, C1’s PlayLab Circuit is an incubator of new work for writers of varied experience levels and backgrounds.
