Central Square Theater
Central Square Theater is a non-profit theatre located at 450 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a collaboration of two separate theater companies—Underground Railway Theater, originally founded in 1976 in Oberlin, Ohio, and The Nora Theatre Company, founded in 1988 by Mary C. Huntington. With support from the Boston Foundation Arts Fund, the two companies combined forces and moved into the state-of-the-art Central Square Theater in 2008.[1] They continue to maintain their distinct identities.[2]
The two companies together produce over 200 performances per year and reach an audiences of over 25,000 people. The Boston Foundation has cited Central Square Theater as, "one of the organizations that has contributed to making Greater Boston one of the most culturally rich cities in the world".[2]
The current artistic director of the Nora Theatre is Lee Mikeska Gardner.[3] The artistic director of Underground Railway Theater is Debra Wise.[4]
References
- ^ The Boston Foundation: Central Square Theater
- ^ a b The Foundation Center: Central Square Theater
- ^ A change in leadership at Nora as founder departs, by Joel Brown, Boston Globe, November 25, 2013
- ^ Underground Railway Theater: Official website