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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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Pay-What-You-Want tickets now available!
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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.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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!
www.barrfoundation.org/blog/company...
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!
www.barrfoundation.org/blog/company...
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!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
Pay-What-You-Want tickets now available!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
Pay-What-You-Want tickets now available!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
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.
The cohort shared key findings, recommendations, and a vision for how to move forward together.
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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.
The cohort shared key findings, recommendations, and a vision for how to move forward together.
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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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:
c1meetingtree.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/r...
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 …
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August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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:
c1meetingtree.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/r...
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:
c1meetingtree.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/r...
"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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Read the full review:
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Won’t Nobody Know What You Want Unless You Tell Them: “The Meeting Tree” | The New England Theatre Geek
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August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"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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Read the full review:
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"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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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 ...
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August 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Poignant and meaningful... the play presents the struggle for reparations for centuries of racial injustice in microcosm."
Read the full review:
stageandcinema.com/2025/07/27/r...
Read the full review:
stageandcinema.com/2025/07/27/r...
"A small gem of a play that deserves a much bigger audience."
Read @bostonglobe.com's review of The Meeting Tree:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/a...
Read @bostonglobe.com's review of The Meeting Tree:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/a...
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.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"A small gem of a play that deserves a much bigger audience."
Read @bostonglobe.com's review of The Meeting Tree:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/a...
Read @bostonglobe.com's review of The Meeting Tree:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/a...
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!
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!
July 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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!
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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"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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— The Meeting Tree playwright B. Elle Borders on Java With Jimmy
Check out the full interview:
www.youtube.com/live/q2FKvai...
Friday, July 18, 2025 | The Meeting Tree with E. Elle Borders
YouTube video by Java With Jimmy
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July 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"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:
www.youtube.com/live/q2FKvai...
— The Meeting Tree playwright B. Elle Borders on Java With Jimmy
Check out the full interview:
www.youtube.com/live/q2FKvai...
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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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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July 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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.
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
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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You're invited to join us for a special Opening Night Celebration for The Meeting Tree on Saturday, July 19 at 7:30pm.
Join us for an evening like no other, with food, drinks, and music at the historic Strand Theatre!
Learn more: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
Join us for an evening like no other, with food, drinks, and music at the historic Strand Theatre!
Learn more: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
The Meeting Tree - Company One Theatre
A story of kinship and healing. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want! Jul 18 – Aug 9 at the Strand Theatre.
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July 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You're invited to join us for a special Opening Night Celebration for The Meeting Tree on Saturday, July 19 at 7:30pm.
Join us for an evening like no other, with food, drinks, and music at the historic Strand Theatre!
Learn more: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
Join us for an evening like no other, with food, drinks, and music at the historic Strand Theatre!
Learn more: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
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Thanks to @companyone.org for including Citizens for Public Schools and our partners from Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance and Boston Education Justice Alliance in their June 28 Our Future Looks Bright event. (It's not a party if there's no dancing, right?)
July 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thanks to @companyone.org for including Citizens for Public Schools and our partners from Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance and Boston Education Justice Alliance in their June 28 Our Future Looks Bright event. (It's not a party if there's no dancing, right?)
The Meeting Tree is one of BroadwayWorld's summer theatre picks!
Don't miss it at the Strand Theatre from July 18 - August 9. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum).
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Don't miss it at the Strand Theatre from July 18 - August 9. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum).
www.broadwayworld.com/boston/artic...
EVITA, RENT, GREASE and More Lead Boston's Hot Summer 2025 Theater Picks
Because of its great cultural and intellectual influence, Boston has been known as the Athens of America for centuries. That sobriquet is as true today as ever thanks to the area’s vibrant theater sce...
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July 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Meeting Tree is one of BroadwayWorld's summer theatre picks!
Don't miss it at the Strand Theatre from July 18 - August 9. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum).
www.broadwayworld.com/boston/artic...
Don't miss it at the Strand Theatre from July 18 - August 9. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want ($0 minimum).
www.broadwayworld.com/boston/artic...
Are you a playwright, dramaturg, or director? Spend the season in a nurturing, supportive program dedicated to your growth as a new play collaborator!
Applications are now open through August 1:
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Applications are now open through August 1:
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July 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Are you a playwright, dramaturg, or director? Spend the season in a nurturing, supportive program dedicated to your growth as a new play collaborator!
Applications are now open through August 1:
forms.gle/qP2ywNvbDqxy...
Applications are now open through August 1:
forms.gle/qP2ywNvbDqxy...
C1 returns to The Strand Theatre this summer with a new play by Boston's own B. Elle Borders! A story of kinship and healing, The Meeting Tree empowers us to break cycles of trauma and discover just how deep and tangled our roots really are.
companyone.org/the-meeting-...
companyone.org/the-meeting-...
June 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
C1 returns to The Strand Theatre this summer with a new play by Boston's own B. Elle Borders! A story of kinship and healing, The Meeting Tree empowers us to break cycles of trauma and discover just how deep and tangled our roots really are.
companyone.org/the-meeting-...
companyone.org/the-meeting-...
Company One Theatre is seeking AEA & non-AEA actors for The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) by Nia Akilah Robinson, directed by Mina Morita. This is a co-production between Company One Theatre & Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC.
Learn more: companyone.org/work-with-c1/
Learn more: companyone.org/work-with-c1/
June 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Company One Theatre is seeking AEA & non-AEA actors for The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) by Nia Akilah Robinson, directed by Mina Morita. This is a co-production between Company One Theatre & Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC.
Learn more: companyone.org/work-with-c1/
Learn more: companyone.org/work-with-c1/
A story of kinship and healing, B. Elle Border's The Meeting Tree empowers us to break cycles of trauma and discover just how deep and tangled our roots really are. See it July 18 - August 9 at Dorchester's historic Strand Theatre!
Pay-What-You-Want tickets: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
Pay-What-You-Want tickets: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
June 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A story of kinship and healing, B. Elle Border's The Meeting Tree empowers us to break cycles of trauma and discover just how deep and tangled our roots really are. See it July 18 - August 9 at Dorchester's historic Strand Theatre!
Pay-What-You-Want tickets: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
Pay-What-You-Want tickets: companyone.org/the-meeting-...
Company One Theatre proudly supports the rights and dignity of immigrants. We stand in solidarity with communities fighting for justice, safety, and belonging.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Company One Theatre proudly supports the rights and dignity of immigrants. We stand in solidarity with communities fighting for justice, safety, and belonging.
[⬇ Resources & Actions thread]
[⬇ Resources & Actions thread]
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A Truck Full of Props and Asian Joy
Gaven D. Trinidad's 'Learning to Read by Moonlight' is being produced by 2 companies and staged at 3 different Boston locations, giving its themes of immigrant belonging a wide and hyper-local reach.
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May 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"With a truck full of props and joy along for the ride, Moonlight is more than a play... it is an activation that aims to vibrantly transform traditional theatre venues and neighborhood centers into colorful, celebratory spaces." - @americantheatre.org
www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/a...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/a...
A Truck Full of Props and Asian Joy
Gaven D. Trinidad's 'Learning to Read by Moonlight' is being produced by 2 companies and staged at 3 different Boston locations, giving its themes of immigrant belonging a wide and hyper-local reach.
www.americantheatre.org
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"With a truck full of props and joy along for the ride, Moonlight is more than a play... it is an activation that aims to vibrantly transform traditional theatre venues and neighborhood centers into colorful, celebratory spaces." - @americantheatre.org
www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/a...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/a...
“The story centers this little boy who's immigrated to the U.S., who is trying to navigate life as someone who's learning English, who's undocumented and doesn't feel that they belong.” —Playwright Gaven D. Trinidad
Learning How to Read by Moonlight opens this weekend!
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Learning How to Read by Moonlight opens this weekend!
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Immigration and community take center stage in new play
In its world premiere, playwright Gaven D. Trinidad’s “Learning How to Read by Moonlight” follows a 6-year-old boy who has immigrated to the U.S. with his family. The show is told using three language...
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May 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“The story centers this little boy who's immigrated to the U.S., who is trying to navigate life as someone who's learning English, who's undocumented and doesn't feel that they belong.” —Playwright Gaven D. Trinidad
Learning How to Read by Moonlight opens this weekend!
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Learning How to Read by Moonlight opens this weekend!
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Join us at Boston Playwrights' Theatre for the Professional Development for Actors Spring 2025 Showcase! This year's class of 14 actors has been honing their craft through in-depth script analysis and monologue work, preparing them for future auditions & roles.
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Professional Development for Actors: Spring 2025 Showcase
Join us at Boston Playwrights' Theatre for the Professional Development for Actors Spring 2025 Showcase! This year's class of 14 actors has been diligently honing their craft through in-depth characte...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Join us at Boston Playwrights' Theatre for the Professional Development for Actors Spring 2025 Showcase! This year's class of 14 actors has been honing their craft through in-depth script analysis and monologue work, preparing them for future auditions & roles.
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/comp...
“Nobody should be disappeared from the streets of Somerville – or anywhere in America.” - ACLU MA
We stand in solidarity against politically sanctioned violence. Everyone regardless of immigration status, race, gender or any other identity should receive due process.
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We stand in solidarity against politically sanctioned violence. Everyone regardless of immigration status, race, gender or any other identity should receive due process.
[⬇ Resources & Actions thread]
March 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Nobody should be disappeared from the streets of Somerville – or anywhere in America.” - ACLU MA
We stand in solidarity against politically sanctioned violence. Everyone regardless of immigration status, race, gender or any other identity should receive due process.
[⬇ Resources & Actions thread]
We stand in solidarity against politically sanctioned violence. Everyone regardless of immigration status, race, gender or any other identity should receive due process.
[⬇ Resources & Actions thread]