Professional theatre in Newton

Since 2013, Newton Theatre Company has been bringing engaging, high-quality theatre to the folks of Newton and beyond. We are proud to explore a wide variety of production styles and are thrilled to be in our new home at St. John's Episcopal Church in Newtonville.
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2024-2025 Season

THE GUYS
Anne Nelson

SMALL TALK
Co-Production with Broken Box Mime Theater

DRACULA
​Bram Stoker - adapted by Stephen Dietz

DOUBT: A PARABLE
John Patrick Shanley
 

2023-2024 season

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Jane Austen - adapted by Claire Wittman

KINDERTRANSPORT
Diane Samuels

WE'RE GONNA DIE
Young Jean Lee

2022-2023 season

​NO CHILD...
Nilaja Sun

​SAINT JOAN
G.B. Shaw

IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES
 Caridad Svich

2021-2022 Season

​TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 
Anna Deavere Smith

MACBETH 
William Shakespeare
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​OUR TEARS ARE THE SAME COLOR: PARALLEL NARRATIVES OF BEREAVED PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI WOMEN
compiled by Melissa Bernstein (see video)

IPHIGENIA AMONG THE TAURIANS
Euripides
Translated by Rachel Hadas

2020-2021 Season

TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992
Anna Deavere Smith

ANTIGONE​
Sophocles
Translated by Seamus Heaney

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
A Zoom radio hour production
based on the Frank Capra Classic

​AND THEN WE BAKED BREAD: AN EVENING OF QUARANTINE-INSPIRED THEATRE

A MEDAL FOR WILLIE
William Branch

MARY STUART​
Friedrich Schiller
​Translated by Peter Oswald

2019-2020 Season

ROALD DAHL'S THE WITCHES
David Wood

MARIE ANTOINETTE
David Adjmi

PINOCCHIO
In collaboration with Pazzi Lazzi

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
Lucille Fletcher

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
H.G. Wells

REBECCA
Daphne du Maurier

ALL ABOUT EVE
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

UNDER MILKWOOD
Dylan Thomas

THE MRS
​Maggie Kearnan

2018-2019 Season

JUNIE B. JONES SMELLS SOMETHING FISHY
 Barbara Park

LIVING IN EXILE
​Jon Lipsky

WORLD PREMIERE: MANSFIELD PARK
Jon Jory

WOMEN: A COMEDY
Chiara Atik
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EXHIBITING: A SOLO PERFORMANCE
​Sari Boren

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A RADIO PLAY
Joe Landry

HELEN
Euripides

2017-2018 Season

JUNIE B. JONES AND SOME SNEAKY PEEKY SPYING
Barbara Park

​ETHAN FROME
​Edith Wharton

NATURAL SHOCKS
Lauren Gunderson

ADA AND THE ENGINE
Lauren Gunderson
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IPHIGENIA AT AULIS
Euripides
Translated by Don Taylor

2016-2017 Season

JUNIE B. JONES AND THAT MEANIE JIM'S  BIRTHDAY
Barbara Park

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
​Clark M. Gesner

THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN (or The Would-Be Hipster)
​Molière

​THE ORESTEIA (The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides) 
 Aeschylus

2015-2016 Season

​JUNIE B. JONES AND THE YUCKY BLUCKY FRUITCAKE
 Barbara Park

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Oscar Wilde

AGAMEMNON
Aeschylus

2014-2015 Season

THE SONG OF ACHILLES  PART 1: BEFORE TROY
Madeline Miller
See Video

THE SONG OF ACHILLES PART 2: TROY
Madeline Miller

THE IMAGINARY INVALID
​Molière

2013-2014 Season

WONDER
 R.J. Palacio

OUR TOWN
 Thornton Wilder