News & Events

Please join the Bristol Community College Theatre Program for exciting productions and events throughout the upcoming year! All events are open to the public.

Admission to all Bristol Theatre productions below is General Public: $15; Bristol Faculty/Staff & Non-Bristol Students: $10; Bristol Students: $5; Children under 13: Free. Not all productions may be appropriate for children under 13. Tickets can be purchased online by visiting www.bristolcc.edu/theatre.

• 24-Hour Play Festival Kick-Off Party 
  August 31, 2023, 4 to 6 p.m. 
  Bristol Studio Theatre (H128) and Lobby, Jackson Arts Center (H building), Bristol Fall River Campus 
• 24-Hour Play Festival Performance 
  September 1, 2023, at 7 p.m. 
  Jackson Arts Center (H building), Bristol Fall River Campus 
  Description: Five teams of actors, directors and playwrights will write, rehearse and stage five different short plays in 24 hours. Come see the madness that comes from a ridiculously tight deadline! 
  Purchase Tickets: https://www.simpletix.com/e/24-hour-play-festival-tickets-141797  
  
  
• Cancelled Sky Staged Reading 
  October 1, 2023, at 1 p.m. 
  Jackson Arts Center (H building), Bristol Fall River Campus 
  Description: This fundraising event, presented by Bristol’s Holocaust and Genocide Center, will include a staged reading of Dr. Alex Page’s The Cancelled Sky, performed in partnership with Bristol’s Theatre Program. The event will shed light on the Holocaust through the imagined experiences of the playwright’s family members taking their last train ride to Auschwitz in 1944. 
  Purchase Tickets: www.bristolcc.edu/cancelledsky 
  
  
• Antigone 
  February 16 & 17, 2024, at 7 p.m. 
  Bristol Studio Theatre (H128), Bristol Fall River Campus 
  Description: The daughter of Oedipus fights for her brother’s proper burial, despite the decree of her uncle, King Creon. 
   
• Peter and the Starcatcher 
  April 11 - 13, 2024, at 7 p.m. 
  Jackson Arts Center (H building), Bristol Fall River Campus 
  Description: Join Bristol’s Theatre program as they perform the hit Broadway play about the origin of Peter Pan. This family-friendly celebration of imagination and wonder will be a highlight of the theatre season! Peter and the Starcatcher is presented through a special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.  
   
• World Premiere of Bristol Theatre Program’s Original Devised Piece  
  Title TBD  
  May 30 to 31, 2024, at 7 p.m. (And to also be performed later in Edinburgh Scotland, by Bristol Theatre Students) 
  Bristol Studio Theatre (H128), Bristol Fall River Campus 
  Description: The culmination of a year of work, this original piece of theatre will be presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after its Bristol Fall River premiere. The piece will examine the surprising ways that we are all connected. The production, in collaboration with the Bristol Art Gallery’s fall installation “Because it Matters” and various other areas of the college, will be a truly collaborative work of art.

Bristol Community College’s Theatre Program is an Associate in Arts in liberal arts & sciences program that provides hands-on training and experience, allowing students to learn and refine their craft as they perform. Students can smoothly transfer to a four-year institution, or seek work in the performing arts. In addition to teaching history, literature and art, studying theatre also provides interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills.

For more information about Bristol theatre productions and events, please regularly visit  www.bristolcc.edu/theatre, or contact Artistic Director and Assistant Professor of Theatre, David Ledoux, by emailing david.ledoux@bristolcc.edu or by calling 774.357.3748.