Macbeth: Stage2 Public Performances
Friday, May 9th at 7:30 PM & Saturday, May 10th at 2 PM
The Strand Theatre, Dorchester, MA
By William Shakespeare
Directed By Bryn Boice
What’s done cannot be undone… This all-too-timely take on Shakespeare’s tragedy will focus on tech-manufactured jealousy and the tragic consequences of ceaseless social climbing, featuring Witches as ghastly algorithms who influence Macbeth along his deadly course of action. Macbeth, directed by CSC’s Associate Artistic Director Bryn Boice, examines the play’s questions of fate and free will as seen through the lens of Artificial Intelligence and technological manipulation.
Friday, May 9th at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 10th at 2 PM
Tickets are $20 for Adults and $15 tickets for Students/Seniors. $5 off per ticket for group orders of four or more tickets!
All tickets are General Admission.
Free Card2Culture Tickets are also available to EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders.
SEE THY WORDS: All performances are Open Captioned.
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Stage2 is Supported by Paul Kastner
This project is funded in part by Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. CSC is one of 40 professional theater companies across the nation that produce Shakespearean plays with a professional team of actors for middle- and high-schools and conduct related educational activities for students. Additional funding for Stage2 is provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
SAVOR funding is partially provided by Rodman for Kids.
Please be wary of third party sellers. The only authorized sellers for this production are the CSC Box Office (ThunderTix) and BosTix (ArtsBoston).
Student Matinees
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Cast
Cleveland Nicoll– CSC: The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth; Stage 2: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet. Wheelock Family Theatre: The SpongeBob Musical. The Hub Theatre Company of Boston: The Book of Will. Sundance: Wizard of Oz. Hale Centre Theatre: Baz Lurman’s Strictly Ballroom (U.S. Premiere), Phantom. An Other Theatre Co.: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Renaissance Now Theatre & Film: Twelfth Night, The Tempest.
Annika Burley — CSC: Macbeth (Third Witch), Romeo & Juliet (Tybalt). Boston Playwrights’ Theatre: Kill the Magistrate. Scranton Shakespeare: Next to Normal, Love’s Labours Lost, Gypsy. Cincinnati Shakespeare: The Play That Goes Wrong, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth. Berkshire Theatre Group: You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Other select credits: As You Like It (Little Foxes, London), As You Like It (Nashville Shakes), She Reached for Heaven (Nashville Rep). She is also the voice of Jane in” Dead Sea Squirrels” streaming now! Love & thanks to her family & Bryn. annikaburley.com @annikaburley.
Kandyce Whittingham –– CSC: Debut. Huntington Theatre Company: The Grove. Moonbox Productions: Holy Chicken Sandwich. Central Square Theater: Beyond Words. Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Apollinaire Theater Company: Hamlet. Kandyce holds a BFA in Acting from Emerson College and is a proud Georgia native. kandycewhittingham.com @kandyce.kmw
Peter DiMaggio –– CSC Debut. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Romeo and Juliet. Wheelock Family Theatre: The Spongebob Musical. Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. LAMDA: Troilus and Cressida. Boston University: Once, Shakespeare in Love, Mercury. Peter received his BFA in Acting from Boston University and a Certificate in Classical Acting from LAMDA. He’d like to thank his mentors, friends, and family for their constant love and support.
Website: www.peterdimaggio.com Instagram: @peterdimaggio TikTok: @peterdimaggiomusic
Joshua T. Crockett –– CSC: Romeo & Juliet (ARC). Theatre for The New City: Sometime Child. Theatro Latea: Drought. Yendor Theatre Company: Eternal City. Vivid Stage: Only Humans Stories. Film/TV: “Naked Singularity” (Scott Free Productions); “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS); “Saturday Night Live” (NBC); “East New York” (CBS). Training: BFA Montclair State University. Joshua wants to thank God, his family, and his friends for always supporting his career endeavors. joshuatcrockett.com
Patrick Vincent Curran — CSC Debut. Boston credits include; Hub Theatre Company of Boston: Tartuffe, Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. Stickball Productions: Bouncers. Wax Wings Productions: A Streetcar Named Desire. Flat Earth Theatre Company: The Memorandum. Touring credits include; Homer in the Wild: An Iliad. Brown Box Theatre Company: As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet. Film and Television; “Castle Rock”, “Dexter: New Blood”, “Free Guy”, “Louie”, “Kevin Can F*** Himself”, “Amigos Tontos “,”Gotham “. He holds a BA in Theatre Studies from Emerson College, and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. @CatPurran33
Siobhán Carroll — CSC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Blue Kettle & Here We Go. On screen credits: co-star on Amazon Prime’s MR. & MRS. SMITH, series regular (Petra) in the Black Oak TV series MS/MANAGE, Laura in PERFECT PARTY, etc. On-stage credits: The Thin Place (Gloucester Stage), Romeo & Juliet (New Repertory Theatre CRC tour), Red Velvet (OWI), It’s A Free Country (SheNYC), and Macbeth (The Cutting Room), I, Snowflake and My Fascination with Creepy Ladies (Anthem Theatre Company), etc. Siobhán’s one-woman show Is This You was part of DQT’s American Women playwriting fellowship and is a semi finalist for SheNYCs 2025 festival. She is an Irish-American actor and writer. Siobhán is the co-founder of Next Minute Productions. siobhancarroll.com; @siobhancarroll
Clara Hevia — CSC: The Winter’s Tale (Perdita), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stage2) and Henry VI Part II (App Co). National tour: Cats (Swing/Booth Singer). Lyric Stage Company: Made You Look (Wren), Party Bots (Quinn/Others). Saratoga Shakespeare: King Lear (Cordelia/music captain). clarahevia.com @clara.hevia
Rebekah Brunson –– CSC: The Winter’s Tale (Assistant Director); CSC ARC: Julius Caesar (Brutus). Huntington Theatre: The Grove. Fresh Ink Theatre: Orpheus in the Overworld. Plays in Place: The Bicycle Plays (Reading). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew (Assistant Director). @rebekah_florence
Creative Team
Bryn Boice is an award-winning director, educator, actor, and producer, as well as CSC’s Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education & Training. Also for CSC, Bryn helmed Universe Rushing Apart: Blue Kettle & Here We Go – two Caryl Churchill one-acts – which garnered her the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, Large Theatre. Other recent Boston-area credits include: The Sound Inside and The Children (both Elliot Norton nominated for Outstanding Production, Speakeasy Stage); The Book of Will, Into the Breeches! (Elliot Norton nom. for Direction and Production, Hub Theatre Company); Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern, Gloria (Gloucester Stage); The Half-Life of Marie Curie (The Nora Company); Admissions (The Gamm Theatre); Last Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes (Greater Boston Stage Company); an all-female production of Julius Caesar for Actors’ Shakespeare Project; and a number of Apprentice Repertory Company and Stage2 productions for CSC. New York, regional and other Boston credits as an actor and/or director include work with Asolo Repertory Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Anthem Theatre Company, Okoboji Theatre, InProximity Theatre, Theatre Row, Martha’s Vineyard PAC, Monomoy Theatre, Caroline’s on Broadway, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Before turning full-time to CSC, she taught at Salem State University, where her wide-ranging experience allowed her to teach Voice for Performance, Applied Stage Movement, Public Speaking, Directing, Acting III (Early Realism), Dramatic Theory & Criticism, and Dialects, among others. MFA in Directing, Boston University. MFA in Acting, Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training (FSU). Member AEA. For more information visit www.brynboice.com
William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April, which is also believed to be the date on which he died in 1616. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes referred to as the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not the only things he wrote. Shakespeare’s poetry has also remained popular to this day.
Shakespeare’s work includes 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, a collection of 154 sonnets, and other poems as well. No original manuscripts of Shakespeare’s plays are known to exist today, and about half of Shakespeare’s plays are only available to us because a group of actors in his company collected them for publication after his death. These writings were brought together in what is known as the First Folio (‘Folio’ refers to the size of the paper used). It contained 36 of his plays, and none of his poetry. Shakespeare’s legacy is as rich and diverse as his work; his plays have spawned countless adaptations across multiple genres and cultures, and his plays have had an enduring presence on stage and film.
His writings have been compiled in various iterations of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by different entities, which usually include all of his plays, his sonnets, and his other poems. From Stratford to London and beyond, William Shakespeare was and is one of the most important literary figures of the English language.
The Strand Theatre,
owned by the City of Boston and managed by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture
543 Columbia Road
Boston, MA 02125
The view from the stage out across the 1,400 seats of The Strand Theatre. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Driving Directions to The Strand Theatre
From South: Take I-93 North to exit 15, Columbia Road. Left at the bottom of ramp to third set of lights.There is a Kentucky Fried Chicken / Tedeschi’s on the corner. Turn left onto Columbia Road. Go through two sets of lights, the Strand is on the left, just past Bank of America.
From North: Take I-93 South to exit 15, Columbia Road. Right at the bottom of ramp to third set of lights. There is a Kentucky Fried Chicken / Tedeschi’s on the corner. Turn left onto Columbia Road. Go through two sets of lights, the Strand is on the left, just past Bank of America.
From West: Mass Pike (I-90) east into Boston, to I-93 south. Follow “From the NORTH” directions.
From Jamaica Plain/ Brookline: Take the JamaicaWay south to the Arborway. Keep straight to the rotary. Go 3/4 around the rotary and turn into Franklin Park. Go through the park, and turn left onto Blue Hill Avenue. Go about 50 yards, then make a right onto Columbia Road. The Strand is about 1 1/3 miles down on the right, just past the Strand/ Walgreen’s Pharmacy.
Parking
On street parking is available on Columbia Road.
Free off-street parking is available in the Ramsey Street Municipal lot. Ramsey Street is located at the intersection of Dudley Street and Columbia Road behind CVS Pharmacy and Payless Shoes.
For evening and Sunday shows, free parking is also available in the Citizen’s Bank and Santander Bank parking lots. The Citizen’s Bank lot is located at the corner of Columbia Road and Cushing Avenue. The Santander Bank lot is located in the rear of the bank at 585 Columbia Rd.
Public Transit
Red Line: Get off at Andrew station. Take the #16 (Forest Hills) or #17 (Field’s Corner) bus to Upham’s Corner/Dudley Street. Get off in front of Payless Shoe Store. The Strand is up one block on the left, just past Bank of America.
Orange Line: Get off at Ruggles station. Take the #15 (Upham’s Corner) bus via Dudley Station. Get off in front of Get off in front of Payless Shoe Store. The Strand is up one block on the left, just past Bank of America.
Orange Line: Get off at Forest Hills station. Take the #16 (Forest Hills) or #17 (Field’s Corner) bus to Upham’s Corner/Dudley Street. Get off in front of Payless Shoe Store. The Strand is up one block on the left, just past Bank of America.
What is the running time of the production?
The performance runs approximately 100 minutes without intermission.
What ages is the production appropriate for?
Stage2 productions are presented using Shakespeare’s original text, cut for length to approximately 100 minutes without intermission. Our cuts focus on highlighting the themes, ideas, and language that will resonate strongly with a wide audience. Our creative team and performers make choices that serve to illuminate the storytelling for this audience without “watering down” the source material. We recommend ages 12+ for this production.
What safety protocols do you have in place relative to covid-19?
CSC, in coordination with the Strand Theatre and the City of Boston, continues to diligently monitor the public health situation. Health decisions are made with the safety of our audiences, artists, and staff as our top priority. As a building run by the City of Boston, the Strand and CSC will follow city-mandated health and safety guidelines for COVID-19 or any other public health concerns at the time of performances. CSC also reserves the right to add additional protective guidelines where deemed necessary for the safety of all, which will be communicated to all attendees directly if implemented. Should you have an individual concern or question about our safety protocols, please reach out to us at education@commshakes.org.
Is there accessible seating available?
Yes, there are several locations in the theater to accommodate mobility devices.
Are assisted listening devices available?
Yes, visit the box office for assisted listening devices.
What other accessibility services are available?
Open Captioning will be provided at every performance. Captioning for the talkbacks will be available by request.
For questions or more information, please email audienceservices@commshakes.org.
Doors to the theater will open approximately 15 minutes before the performance. Seating will be first come, first served. We advise you give yourself plenty of time for parking and walking to the theater.
What are parking and transportation instructions?
On-street parking is available on Columbia Road.
Free off-street parking is available in the Ramsey Street Municipal lot. Ramsey Street is located at the intersection of Dudley Street and Columbia Road behind CVS Pharmacy and Payless Shoes.
For evening shows, free parking is also available in the Citizen’s Bank and Santander Bank parking lots. The Citizen’s Bank lot is located at the corner of Columbia Road and Cushing Avenue. The Santander Bank lot is located in the rear of the bank at 585 Columbia Rd.
MBTA
Red Line: Get off at Andrew station. Take the #16 (Forest Hills) or #17 (Field’s Corner) bus to Upham’s Corner/Dudley Street. Get off in front of Payless Shoe Store. The Strand is up one block on the left, just past Bank of America.
Orange Line: Get off at Ruggles station. Take the #15 (Upham’s Corner) bus via Dudley Station. Get off in front of Get off in front of the Payless Shoe Store. The Strand is up one block on the left, just past Bank of America.
Orange Line: Get off at Forest Hills station. Take the #16 (Forest Hills) or #17 (Field’s Corner) bus to Upham’s Corner/Dudley Street. Get off in front of Payless Shoe Store. The Strand is up one block on the left, just past Bank of America.
There is no food or drink permitted in the theater.
Are shows delayed or canceled for weather?
Audience and actor safety is our main concern. In cases of heavy snow or extreme weather, we will cancel and try to re-seat patrons into an alternative performance date. Weather updates can be found on the homepage of our website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
The taking of photos or video is strictly prohibited.
Featured Photo: ID: "Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Bryn Boice, May 9, 7:30 PM and May 10, 2 PM. Student Matinees May 8-16, 2025; The Strand Theatre, Dorchester with the subtitle 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs' in a neon green futuristic font against a background of computer code creating the shape of hands"