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Performance Schedule
Thursday, May 7th through Sunday, May 10th
Tickets are priced at $25 including all fees, however they are available at a discount in order to make shows more accessible to all. In order to purchase discounted tickets, click on an event then click UNLOCK and enter a code. The code PWYW15 unlocks $15 tickets, PWYW10 unlocks $10 tickets, and PWYW5 unlocks $5 tickets.
All shows are ticketed separately and all are general admission.
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Moonbox Productions pivoted from normal operations in 2020 during the COVID shutdown to create the Boston New Works Festival. This festival has been an outstanding success– bringing LOCAL artists together to celebrate LOCAL playwrights and LOCAL performers each year.
They continue this work now entering their FIFTH FESTIVAL YEAR! This year’s Boston New Works Festival will be a weekend long festival celebrating new original plays by local playwrights and will showcase 7 original plays on three different stages, all at Arrow Street Arts.
Moonbox Presents: 5th Annual Boston New Works Festival
When Santa Fell To Earth
Playwright and Co-Lyricist: Laura Waxdal
Composer and Co-Lyricist: Mark Hartman
Director: Allison Choat
Music Director: TBD
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The world used to be different. Long ago, a band of roving Santas brought joy every winter, but ever since evil Santa Gerold Goblynch hijacked the skies, the holidays have changed. Goblynch is determined to crush the meaning out of Christmas and create his own money-making empire, and Niklas Goodfellow, a rogue Santa on the run, is all that stands in his way. When Niklas and his ragtag crew crash-land in the Goblynched town of Misty Close, they must start to reconnect with the local children and the joy they have lost. Now Niklas and his crew must decide - will they run forever, or do they dare to face down Goblynch to restore the miracles of the winter holidays?
Good: A Play About Gods in the Ghetto
Playwright: Catia
Director: Afrikah Selah
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When Zeus goes to jail, his absence is both relief and rupture. Jenmari hustles to survive the dysfunction he left behind, Cassie dreams of a better life outside the hood, and Phro hides a relationship Zeus would have destroyed. GOOD asks: what happens when gods fall and become human? When the tyrant is gone, can those in his kingdom ever truly be free? And is forgiveness possible?
Tell Her What She’s Won, Johnny
Playwright: Ken Green
Director: Audrey Seraphin
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It’s 1955 and Ruth Traveler is a contestant on the nation’s No. 1 game show, “Do It For The Money.” The first black contestant. On ANY game show. They want her to make history. She just wants an Amana double-door frost-free refrigerator/freezer. She doesn’t want to be history, she just wants to “be.” A play about how being black in white spaces is a 24/7 job.
Queer Voices Festival: A Series of Short Plays
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Visual Description/Transcript: Rhys, a white person with glasses and long brown hair pulled into a ponytail, stands against a black background wearing a dark grey hoodie. The Boston New Works Festival logo is in the upper left corner of the screen, and the Queer Voices Festival logo is in the upper right corner of the screen. Rhys smiles into the camera and signs "Hello, I'm Rhys McGovern (name sign R moved in a circle) and I'm excited to let you know about a new play from Moonbox Productions called Queer Voices. This show includes 8 short plays by queer playwrights about queer themes, identities, and relationships. There will be two interpreted shows: Friday May 8th at 7:30 pm, and Saturday May 9th at 9 pm, at Arrow Street Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interpreting team will be Jo Welch, Jody Steiner, and Cai Steele, and I am serving as DASL. We hope to see you there!"
Crime Fiction
Playwright: Deirdre Girard
Director: Shana Gozansky
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In Crime Fiction, both the audience and crime reporter Maddie are challenged to figure out what is real, what is manipulation and what is a half truth as Maddie’s mystery writing group bands together to find out who is stalking their most famous member. Maddie may get it wrong along the way— more than once— but she boldly navigates the twists and turns the predator has laid down, even when things turn deadly.
Port of Entry
Playwright: Talya Kingston
Director: M. Bevin O’Gara
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In the back office of a small New England airport, TSA agent Hank is training newbie Chloe on the day a new law—commonly known as “The Muslim Ban”—is suddenly enacted. When Jana arrives on a flight from the Middle East, they all become entangled in the chaotic fallout from this new government mandate. In a rapidly shifting political landscape, this new play questions who is protecting our country and who are they protecting it from?
White Phoenix
Playwright: Yide Cai
Director: Dmitry Troyanovsky
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An epic family drama that spans decades and continents told by two actors in one room, The story follows Li CunYi, a Chinese orphan who makes a promise to reunite with his sister, Li CunXin, who is adopted by an American family. As CunYi grows into adulthood in China, he becomes involved with Zhao YanYan, the daughter of a powerful political family, who both aids and manipulates his search for his sister. Meanwhile, CunXin, renamed Annie Bradford, comes of age in America within the family of a senator, is in a secret romance with Gabriel Bradford, the senator's son. Their parallel journeys eventually converge when CunYi travels to Washington DC as part of a Chinese diplomatic mission, setting the stage for a long-awaited and fraught reunion between brother and sister. The incestuous relationships in the play is a metaphor for the equally incestuous partnership between China and America.