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Trailblazing tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel returns this holiday season to share the joyful, resilient, and liberating spirit of tap in an electric new play that reveals the power of reclaiming language, culture, and one’s own identity.

  • Dec 12 - Jan 4, 2025
  • Loeb Drama Center
Headshots of Dianne Walker, Ayodele Casel, and Naomi Funaki overlayed on archival photo of Dianne Walker dancing.

Three generations of tap legends share their relationships with the art form, journeys as tap dancers, and the legacies they hope to carry forward.

  • Dec 21 7:30PM ET
  • Loeb Drama Center
Gregory Hines tap dancing in a group of older men.

Tap in Film

Friday Film Matinees

Enjoy three afternoons with films featuring legendary tap dancers Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr., and others.

  • Dec 20 & Dec 27
  • The Brattle Theatre
A flat illustration of three women standing above the silhouette of a ship, pulling the lines of its sails. A warrior stands on the prow of the ship.

Acclaimed writer and adaptor Kate Hamill turns a contemporary lens on Homer’s epic, asking how we can embrace healing and forgiveness in order to end cycles of violence and revenge.

  • Feb 9 - Mar 16, 2025
  • Loeb Drama Center
Night Side Songs

A communal music-theater experience performed for—and with—an intimate audience that gives voice to doctors, patients, researchers, and caregivers to meld the realms of the well and the sick.

  • Mar 27 - Apr 13, 2025
  • Venue TBA
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A.R.T.’s annual Gala supports the theater’s groundbreaking programming that expands the boundaries of theater, engaging hearts, minds, and bodies to imagine collective pathways forward.

  • MAY 5, 2025
  • Bright-Landry Hockey Center
Passing Strange

The story of a young musician who sets out on an electrifying musical odyssey to find himself and his place in the world, swapping his middle-class LA upbringing for punk rock and protest in 1980s Amsterdam and Berlin.

  • May 20 - Jun 29, 2025
  • Loeb Drama Center