I’m excited our season will invite audiences to experience extraordinary stories—from beloved classics to boundary-breaking new work—that have the power to open our hearts and minds. These productions are being created by a roster of visionary artists. I am personally thrilled to be reuniting with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui on Romeo and Juliet. Our partnership on Jagged Little Pill was one of the most exhilarating creative collaborations of my life, and I can’t wait to bring Shakespeare’s iconic play to new life on our stage.
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus
Our Season
Romeo and Juliet
A bold new staging
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Diane Paulus
Choreography and Movement Direction by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
August 31 – October 6, 2024 at the Loeb Drama Center
A.R.T. Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus (Becoming a Man, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress) reunites with two-time Olivier Award winner Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Jagged Little Pill; Beyoncé at the 2017 Grammy Awards and APESHIT; Madonna’s Celebration tour) to stage a visceral, heart-pounding new production of Shakespeare’s iconic love story.
Production support for Romeo and Juliet is provided by Janet and Irv Plotkin.
Diary of a Tap Dancer
A.R.T. Commission / World Premiere
Written and Choreographed by Ayodele Casel
Directed by Torya Beard
December 12, 2024 – January 4, 2025 at the Loeb Drama Center
“Ayodele Casel has spent her tap-dancing career not just chasing magic but creating it and sharing it.” – The Boston Globe
Trailblazing tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel (Chasing Magic, Funny Girl, Max Roach 100) returns to the A.R.T. in a new production that interweaves dance, narrative, and song to share the story of her own life and honor the histories and legacies of the extraordinary women tap dancers who came before her. Experience the joy, magic, and liberatory power of tap dance in this world-premiere production commissioned by the A.R.T.
Production support for Diary of a Tap Dancer is provided by Leslie and Howard Appleby.
The Odyssey
A.R.T. Commission / World Premiere
By Kate Hamill
Directed by Shana Cooper
Adapted from the epic by Homer
February 9 – March 16, 2025 at the Loeb Drama Center
“A true war story is never moral.” – Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Acclaimed writer and adaptor Kate Hamill (Sense & Sensibility, Vanity Fair, Dracula) turns a contemporary lens on Homer’s Odyssey in this new play that reimagines the stories of both Odysseus and his wife, Penelope, and asks how we can learn to embrace healing and forgiveness in order to end cycles of violence and revenge.
Production support of The Odyssey is provided by Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP and Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett. Support for the development of The Odyssey was provided by The Bob and Alison Murchison New Work Development Fund. Additional support is provided by The Robert Brustein Endowment Fund for New Works.
Night Side Songs
A.R.T. Commission / World Premiere
Words and Music by the Lazours
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced in association with Philadelphia Theatre Company
March 27 – April 20, 2025 at the Cambridge Masonic Temple and Hibernian Hall
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” – Susan Sontag
A communal music-theater experience performed for—and with—an intimate audience, Night Side Songs gives voice to doctors, patients, researchers, and caregivers to meld the realms of the well and the sick. This genre-breaking theatrical kaleidoscope by Richard Rodgers Award recipients Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour (We Live in Cairo, Flap My Wings) fuses story and song to take us on a journey through illness that brings us closer to life.
Support for the development of Night Side Songs was provided by The Bob and Alison Murchison New Work Development Fund.
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
North American Premiere
By Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
Directed and Choreographed by Tim Jackson
A Kiln Theatre Production
May 20 – June 29, 2025 at the Loeb Drama Center
“Funny, heartfelt, but unsentimental. It’s a charmer.” – The Guardian
A naïve and impossibly upbeat Brit, Dougal, has just landed in New York for his dad’s second wedding—the dad he’s never known. Robin, the sister of the bride, is at the airport to pick him up—and she’s late for work. Hungry for an adventure in the city he’s only seen in movies, Dougal hopes native New Yorker Robin will be his guide. Taking inspiration from traditional rom-coms, this “fresh, funny, ironic, and inventive” (The Observer) new musical balances life’s sweetness and struggle as Dougal and Robin discover the meaningful impact on each of their lives a stranger can make.
Production support of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is provided by The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust and Katie and Paul Buttenwieser.
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A.R.T. in the World
- Waitress (A.R.T. world premiere August 2015) will be produced in French in Quebec in Summer 2024 and is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
- We Live in Cairo (A.R.T. world premiere May 2019) will be produced at New York Theatre Workshop in Fall 2024.
- Life of Pi (A.R.T. North American premiere December 2022) begins its US tour in December 2024.
- The immersive phenomenon Sleep No More (A.R.T. production October 2009) continues at The McKinnon Hotel in Shanghai and at The McKittrick Hotel in New York City.
- Notes from the Field (A.R.T. production August 2016) is currently available on HBO.
- All the Way (A.R.T. production September 2013) is currently available on HBO.