Company One Theatre builds community at the intersection of art and social change
SEASON 27
All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum)
THE GREAT PRIVATION
by Nia Akilah Robinson
directed by Mina Morita
dramaturgy by Sonia Fernandez
January 9-31, 2026
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
(525 Washington St, Boston)
Charity and her mom both work as counselors at a sleepaway camp in Philadelphia. On the same grounds, almost two centuries earlier, a strangely familiar mother and daughter stand watch at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. As betrayals and buried horrors come to light, love holds fast across twisting timelines.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play which asks: how do we go on living with a history we cannot change?
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE END OF THE WORLD!
by Keiko Green
directed by Shawn LaCount
dramaturgy by Jessie Baxter
March 6-28, 2026
Boston Public Library
Central Library in Copley Square
(700 Boylston St, Boston)
Come one, come all to a sparkling celebration of life, death, and cosmic connection! When Greg receives a terminal cancer diagnosis (and weird dream visitations from Greta Thunberg), he finally understands his true purpose and races to save Mother Earth as climate catastrophe looms. Meanwhile, Viv tries to hold it all together, but really just wants to stop time and hide under the covers with her husband. And through it all, our emcee, M, charts their own path while Dad is dying, life is a drag, and the world keeps spinning.
You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! proves that every family is their own ecosystem, as complex and beautiful as the Earth itself.
A NEW ERA
by Miranda Austen ADEkoje
directed by Summer L. Williams
July 17- August 8, 2026
The Strand Theatre
(543 Columbia Road, Dorchester)
Journeying across a divided America, seven formidable women gather right here in Boston for an unprecedented national conference. With liberation and Black Lives at stake, can they get in formation, navigate their political differences, and organize together to criminalize lynching? The year might be 1895, but the fight is very much our own.
A real-life story of politics, passion, and perseverance, A New Era is a powerful celebration of Boston’s Black suffragist movement and a call to build upon that legacy today.
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.
NEW WORK AT C1
Through a combination of personalized dramaturgy, workshops, and professional development programs, Company One Theatre’s New Work department is an incubator of new work for writers of varied experience levels and backgrounds.
