The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets. Dream Boston is a new series of audio plays that is a future vision of our city that is somewhere between dream and reality. Through short audio plays, Dream Boston asks local playwrights to imagine their favorite locations, landmarks, and friends in a future Boston, when we can once again meet and thrive in our city. These micro-plays take place at locations such as the MIT Great Dome on the 4th of July while the sounds of the “1812 Overture” float in the background, at the Boston Public Library where a librarian and library patron debate the ethics of reserving a book, and a not-so-perfect first date on the edge of the Boston Common.
Set in El Mondonguito restaurant on Dudley St, in Roxbury, MA. Directed by Carla Mirabal Rodríguez, featuring Alexander Castillo-Nuñez, Jessibel Falcón, Adobuere Ebiama, Jon Rodriguez, Ricky Holguin, Michael Hisamoto, and Inés de la Cruz. Sound designed by Val Frank Sound Engineered by Kai Bohlman
Set in Egleston Square at the corner of Washington and School Street at the Puerto Rican Festival. It is late morning, but the temperature is already hitting high 70's. The date is July 26, 2024. Directed by Veronica Wells, featuring Yaritsa Sanchez, Chantie Parrilla, Carla Mirabal Rodriguez, and Armando Rivera Sound Designed by Owen Meadows Sound Engineered by Kai Bohlman
Set in a flooded Revere, MA at the Wonderland Ferry Station on the Blue Line. The year is 2036. Directed by Melinda Lopez, featuring Luz Lopez, Cristhian Mancinas Garcia, and George Yip. Sound Design: Aubrey Dube Sound Engineer: Julie Beaulieu
Set in Irving W. Adams Park in Roslindale, MA. The year is 2024. Directed by Des Bennett, featuring Maurice Palmer and Jupiter Lê Sound Design: Owen Meadows Sound Engineer: Julie Beaulieu
Set at Shelburne Farm in Stow, MA. The date is September 7, 2038. Directed by Dawn M. Simmons, featuring Sharmarke Yusuf and Eliott Purcell Sound Design: Brendan F. Doyle Sound Engineer: Julie Beaulieu
Set right outside of the First Haitian Baptist Church at a Jamaican patty cart on Brunswick St. between Warren St. and Blue Hill Ave, slightly off the course of the West Indian Parade. Directed by John ADEkoje, featuring Shannon Lamb and Becky Bass Sound design by Aubrey Dube Sound engineering by Julie Beaulieu
A tough Southie grandmother and her adult grandson climb Dorchester Heights to take stock and admire the view in spring 2023. Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, featuring actors Nancy E. Carroll and Michael Knowlton.
A jogger bumps into a friend he hasn’t talked to in years in front of Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club on Mass Ave in 2024. Directed by Tonasia Jones, featuring actors Jared Brown and Michael Underhill.
While out for a walk on July 15, 2022, two white women sneak a peek at the construction site of their children’s new school. Directed by Melia Bensussen, featuring actors Stacy Fischer and Adrianne Krstansky with Arthur Gomez.
Sisters Kenya and Kadesia navigate the "Karens" of the world as they drive to Nantasket Beach to celebrate their shared birthday on July 28, 2024. Directed by Summer L. Williams, featuring actors Lovely Hoffman, Becca A. Lewis, and Ramona Lisa Alexander.
Two museumgoers encounter two Rothko paintings and discover the mystery of each other at the Harvard Art Museums on January 22, 2022. Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, featuring actors Diego Arciniegas and Marianna Bassham.
Echoes by Patrick Gabridge, directed by Rosalind Bevan, featuring actors Omar Robinson and Rachel Cognata; two friends make a late-night visit to the Old State House on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre on March 5, 2025.
2023. Machine Nightclub. Sometimes the walk home is worth the wait. Directed by Caley Chase, featuring actors Cristobal Paulino and Adrian Peguero.
2025, at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Dudley Street; two white women in their 20s are on their way to an exercise class in a gentrified Nubian Square. Directed by Pascale Florestal, featuring actors Becca A. Lewis and Ivy Ryan; set at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Dudley Street.
Two friends from the class of 1960 reunite in Harvard Yard on Commencement Day, May 25, 2023. Directed by Caley Chase, featuring actors Emily Kuroda and Alberto Isaac.
A former policeman meets a man from his past as he waits in a dreamscape 2024 version of a bus stop on Malcolm X Boulevard. Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, featuring actors Kadahj Bennett, Chris Tarjan, and Ricardo Pitts-Wiley.
Juneteenth 2025; a couple and their sleeping baby rush to the festivities in Franklin Park. Directed by Melinda Lopez, featuring actors Jade Guerra and James Milord.
2022. Dating post-pandemic is never easy... Directed by Rosalind Bevan, featuring Brandon G. Green and Lyndsay Allyn Cox Set at the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial on the edge of the Boston Common, May 31, 2022.
You don't always need to whisper in a library... Set in Bates Hall of the Boston Public Library’s McKim Building on January 16, 2023 Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, featuring actors Krystal Hernandez and Nael Nacer
Set at the Concord Bridge, at the Minuteman National Historical Park, on April 19, 2025 Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, featuring Lonnie Farmer Sound design and engineering by Valentin Frank
Set at the MIT Great Dome on July 4, 2024 Directed by Caley Chase, featuring Elle Borders and Richard Snee Sound design and engineering by Valentin Frank
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