The Year Ahead for Plays in Place

We have a busy year ahead!

We are very excited to be working on so many wonderful projects and partnerships this year. Be sure to mark your calendars so you don’t miss any of our events.

Here’s a quick list of Plays in Place’s upcoming 2025 public projects:

• March 5 & 6. A reading of Blood on the Snow by Patrick Gabridge, in partnership with Historic Northampton, at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence.  Tickets are available now.  Directed by Brianna Sloane.
• April 2 & 3. A reading of A Light Under the Dome by Patrick Gabridge, in partnership with Historic Northampton, at the Unitarian Society of Florence and Northampton.  Directed by Brianna Sloane.
• April 5 & 6. A reading of Hot Love in the Moonlight by Patrick Gabridge, part of a celebration of the Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence program, Cambridge, MA. Directed by Frances Hellums. Get tickets here.
• April 18. A reading of Revolution’s Edge by Patrick Gabridge in Boston, in partnership with Old North Illuminated. FREE. More info here. Directed by Jess Meyer.
• May 10.  A panel discussion on dramatizing sports history, at Boston’s West End Museum. Producing Artistic Director Patrick Gabridge will talking about The Kittie Knox Plays.  Get tickets here.
• May 18.  MassBike’s Kittie Knox Ride, which fosters awareness of Kittie Knox, a young biracial cyclist in the 1890s who fought against race and gender-based limitations. The ride will help raise funds for The Kittie Knox Plays. Register for the ride here.
• August 27-September 6.  Production of A New Era by Miranda ADEkoje, for the National Parks of Boston, at the King’s Chapel Parish House on Beacon Hill. Shows Wed-Sat, FREE but will fill up fast. This play explores the first National Convention of Colored Women, held in Boston in 1895, led by Josephine St. Pierre-Ruffin.  Directed by Summer L. Williams.
• September 6-27. Production of The Kittie Knox Plays by Patrick Gabridge, Claire Gardner, and Kirsten Greenidge. Shows on Saturdays at 11am, 2pm, 5pm, in Boston, Cambridge, and Milton.  A fun “bike-specific” set of plays, in partnership with MassBike. Directed by Michelle Aguillon.We’re still raising funds for this project. Please donate if you can.
• November 12-15. Concert reading of A Revelation of Character by Patrick Gabridge, at the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall. (FREE, tickets will go fast.) This is a new play about the Boston abolition movement and the fractured friendship of Lydia Maria Child and Maria Weston Chapman. Directed by Lisa Rafferty. In partnership with the Associates of the Boston Public Library.

And those are just the public events. We’re also busy behind the scenes, creating more new plays for the Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine in Connecticut; the Hunter House in Newport; Historic Deerfield; Historic Northampton; and the last installment of Suffrage in Black & White for the National Parks of Boston, at Faneuil Hall. All this coming in 2026. (And you never know, maybe a few more).

Tickets are available now for our Northampton reading of Blood on The Snow!

​On March 5, 1770, British soldiers in Boston killed four unarmed civilians and wounded eight more in what is known today as the Boston Massacre. This play focuses on the events that took place the day after–March 6, 1770—when the leaders of Boston gathered in the Council Chamber of what is now the Old State House and made decisions that placed Massachusetts on the road to revolution.

These live readings, 255 years to the day after the events took place, will be the first time this play has been performed outside of Boston.

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We hope to see you at one of our events this year!