Flat Earth Theatre presents a radically collaborative virtual theatre experience in 7 Rooms: The Masque of the Red Death. We've united seven local playwrights and seven local directors to construct…
On the dark, frigid wasteland of Pluto, a team of astronauts find themselves marooned and out of contact with Earth. With nothing to do but wait, the crew struggles to maintain their sanity as the very…
COVID-19 Update: Visit the far side of the moon any time you want! Our new radio play Fine-Tuned Universe is now a six-episode podcast! Check it out on anchor.fm or your favorite podcast platform. Inspired…
Out of consideration for the safety of our artists and audiences during this global health crisis, Flat Earth is saddened to announce that we will be canceling our June 2020 production of Walden. In…
Heralded as the woman who stole the bomb from the Nazis, physicist Lise Meitner became a human enigma when she fled battle-ravaged Germany directly into obscurity. The war long over, she visits with the…
An exhausted mother just needs one night off and escapes to the sanctuary of the theatre – to find that the play being performed is the one she desperately can’t bear to watch. Straddling the worlds of…
Well-intentioned grad student Jessica unwittingly stumbles into a strange, sordid fantasy when she invites runaway teen Nihar into her home. The fanciful tale he weaves unveils a debauched realm of exploitation…
Berlin, 1932. A group of bohemian friends struggle to respond as Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power. Watching their world unravel around them from the uncertain safety of Agnes Eggling’s apartment,…
Tyranny, demagoguery, and absolute power are disrupted in Jean Anouilh’s modern adaptation of Antigone, written in 1940s France as a form of resistance against Nazi occupation. In an act of treason…
The Nether is an immersive online wonderland where anything is possible. The mysterious “Papa” holds court in his virtual garden, a sensory utopia where patrons may indulge their darkest fantasies under…
Following the success of our 2014 live radio drama Lovecraft’s Unnamable Tales, Flat Earth will unleash the Great Old Ones on Boston with two new H.P. Lovecraft–themed readings: Arkham Books and Lovecraft's…
At Harvard Observatory at the turn of the 20th century, Henrietta Leavitt joins a group of women tasked with charting the heavens without being allowed to touch a telescope. Despite restrictions placed…
Smart, sexy and fat, Helen lives in a world that judges her for her weight. Her new, conventionally thin, boyfriend Tom quickly becomes enamored with her despite the condemnation of his shallow, often…
There are rules in this universe: seventh graders always win dance competitions, lunch table divisions are absolute, and there is only one right way to wear a backpack. In a nostalgia-filled pastiche of…
The world is in awe of a scientific miracle: two genetically identical humans, unrelated but more twin than twins, exactly the same in every way! No one can tell them apart – except journalist Karen Sayer,…
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, famed English explorer, has driven his team to the bottom of the earth. Patriotism and confidence urge them achingly forward through nature's coldest, most inhospitable environment…
From screenwriter/playwright Aaron Sorkin, who brought us The West Wing and The Social Network, comes a whirlwind history of the controversial invention of the television. Philo Farnsworth,…
Corporate greed turns devastating in Radium Girls, inspired by the true story of the factory workers of the U.S. Radium Corporation. Once considered a miracle cure and scientific marvel, by the…
Flat Earth presents the New England premiere of Ann Marie Healy's What Once We Felt, a science-fiction exploration of the schisms in society and technology. One woman’s utopia is another’s dystopia…
Daniel Lucas, the government’s top censor, is confronted with a manuscript that threatens to expose his darkest secrets. In his quest to uncover the story’s author, he finds that not only do its words…
Overseen by a totalitarian police state, the people of London navigate the stations of the century-old Underground. Here, flower seller Eliza Doolittle meets the privileged Henry Higgins, a linguistic…
When the Managing Director receives an interoffice memo in Ptydepe, a language he has never seen before, he discovers that affairs in his Department are not entirely under his control. Communication in…
Reclusive genius Abel Znorko fails to shoot an unwelcome intruder -- a journalist determined to interview him about his latest novel. But as Erik Larsen continues to force his way into Znorko’s solitude,…
Tired of waiting helplessly for traffic lights to change, Donny Rowan seeks the road not taken. He’s put his life up for sale on the front lawn, and scans the galaxy from his E-Z Boy recliner in the attic.…
Two great physicists. One conversation. Infinite possible interpretations. In the fall of 1941, German atomic scientist Werner Heisenberg paid a visit to his mentor, Niels Bohr, "the father of modern…
Cultures clash when Captain Jonathan Emerald Sherry dubiously enlists Britain's bourgeois as crewmen aboard his once-feared–though unfortunately-named–pirate ship, The Coward. While the captain…
In the confines of an interrogation room in a totalitarian regime, writer Katurian bears his responsibility to storytelling under the threat of pain and sacrifice. A resemblance between his most violent…
When Martin, a distinguished and successful architect, is forced to confess a sordid affair to his family, the consequences could have the power to destroy his ideal life, and the lives of his wife and…
Steve Martin’s adaptation of a 1910 German farce by Sternheim follows the fate of Louise Maske after the startling day when her underpants fall off in public, taking a wry look at propriety, notoriety,…
In a seedy motel room on the outskirts of Oklahoma City, cocktail waitress Agnes invites an aloof Gulf War veteran, Peter, to spend the night. Peter identifies a hidden bug infestation in the room, and…
Come marvel as three thespians condense the entirety of The Bard's works into a single evening. Cheer as the Tudor monarchs play football for the crown, salivate while Titus Andronicus hosts a cooking…
Living on a remote moon, Dr. Paulson seeks a better life for his daughter, Mary. To that end, he tasks his android servant, Ariel, with sabotaging a passing ship containing a potential suitor for Mary,…
Evan Wyler, a newly-renowned novelist, is taken under the wing of a jet-setting record producer, Alexa Vere de Vere, who hires him to write the story of her life. He is drawn into a whirlwind of limousines,…
Thanks to scientific breakthrough, almost all labor on earth is done by cheap, efficient robots made by the Rossum's Universal Robot company. When a young idealist, seeking to liberate the robots, visits…
Adapted for the stage by Sherman L. Sergel and the basis for the 1957 Henry Fonda film 12 Angry Men, the play follows the jury's deliberations in a capital murder trial. A nineteen-year-old kid…
"Lizzie Borden took an axe..." begins the classic school yard rhyme that sets the stage for Pollock's award-winning historical drama. In 1892, Andrew and Abigail Borden were brutally murdered in their…
Three recently deceased strangers find themselves trapped in a room together, each discovering an object of attraction in one of their roommates, and an eternal foe in the other. Together, they are forced…
Tom Wingfield, a worker in a shoe warehouse who seeks escape at the movies, struggles to leave his mundane life behind but is hindered by his devotion to his disabled sister, Laura—who finds her escape…
In Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, the good Sister Mary, a Catholic school nun, delivers a lesson in religion and hilarity - as well as answering a few questions about herself -…
Joe tells the chilling story of a man driven to the edge by mounting socio-economic tensions in the wake of his wife's death. In the not-so-distant future, conditions in the United States have…
All in the Timing is a collection of short plays by playwright David Ives from which Flat Earth will be performing three comedic scenes. Words, Words, Words explores the theory that three…
As climate change ravaged the Earth, those with money and power escaped into space, leaving behind the less fortunate to try and survive in the wreckage. Half a century later, a small group of said survivors…
Driven by a conviction that the crisis of accelerating climate change represents a core challenge and responsibility of humanity at this time, and a belief that art is a great provocateur of public dialogue…
It's business as usual in the afterlife until an unexpected death upends the worlds of angels, demons, and many exalted beings in between. Particularly affected is Lucifer M. Star, whose journey through…
Much like countless children across the globe, Elikia and Joseph have been torn from their homes and families, pressed into service in a brutal civil war. This is the child soldiers’ testimonial: the story…
In a community where the men have been disappeared by a fascist government not unlike the playwright's native Chile, an unidentifiable corpse turns up in the river. The tormented women who remain — grandmothers,…
Newly adapted by Flat Earth's A. Lehrmitt, Lovecraft's Unnamable Tales presents radio play variations of four of Lovecraft's short stories that exemplify the horror of something unknown. Set in…
Eight hundred years in the future in a galaxy that looks vaguely familiar, a revolutionary, a robot union organizer, and the madam of a high-class space brothel are on the run from the law. Citizens…
As he lies in a Latin American city, dying of consumption, Rudolph Schnabelt confesses his involvement in the most notorious act in labor history, the bombing in Haymarket square. We hear about his coming…
Based on the novel by H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds radio drama shocked the world when it first aired on October 30th, 1938. Many who tuned in late to Orson Welles's historic broadcast mistook…
The War of The Worlds, a chilling tale of alien invaders from Mars, caused mass panic during its original broadcast when latecomers to the program believed it to be an actual news bulletin. Flat…
