Our 2024-25 Season

Icarus and Mikey time travel. Icarus and Mikey fall out of love. Icarus and Mikey meet each other for the first time at a job interview. Somewhere else, sometime else, Chrys buys a yellow house. The rules are: you can travel to any timeline as long as you don’t change anything. But of course, there’s always someone who thinks the rules don’t apply to them.

ICARUS: Alexander Holden*

CHRYS: Jenny S. Lee

MIKEY: Jaime José Hernández

**Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Director: Katie Brook

Scenic Designer: Cleo Brooks

Lighting Designer: Grant Powicki

Sound Designer: Aubrey Dube

Costume Designer: Taylor Needlman

Properties Designer: Courtney Licata

Production Stage Manager: Fanni Horvath*

*Appearing through an Agreement between Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Tickets for A Fig Tree, and a Phoenix, and a Desire to be Reborn and The Recursion of a Moth:

Spring Rep Pass (both plays)—$50

Single tickets: Adults—$40

BU Faculty/Staff, Veterans, and Seniors (62+)—$25

Students with valid ID—$10

Boston University Student rush—$0 (Box Office, day-of-performance only).

Pay-What-You-Want Previews for The Recursion of a Moth on Thursday, February 27 (7 pm) and Friday, February 28 (8 pm)

Pay-What-You-Want Previews—Thursday, February 27 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 28 (8 p.m.)

Asian Joy Night—Sunday, March 2 (1:15 p.m.) Boston Playwrights' Theatre has partnered with CHUANG Stage on a special Asian Joy Night performance to The Recursion of a Moth by Brandon Zang, where all members of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities are encouraged to gather and celebrate Brandon Zang's second production in Boston, following Nüwa in Fairyland! All tickets for Asian Joy Night are Pay-As-You-Are with a minimum of $0.

On Sunday, March 2 at 1:15 p.m., come for a pre-show mixer to enjoy some egg drop soup provided by local Asian restaurants and to meet other members of the AAPI community before enjoying the performance of The Recursion of a Moth by Brandon Zang in the theater. Following the performance, join us for a post-show conversation, Writing Queer and Asian Futures, with writer Diana Cao (she/they), poet and cultural critic Aline Dolinh (she/her/hers), and poet Dorsey Schutt (he/him/his), moderated by Annaka Saari (she/her) and Alison Yueming Qu (she/they).

Masks-Required Performance—Saturday, March 8 (2 p.m.)

Content transparency: Depictions of violence and parental neglect and abandonment. For further details, which will include plot information and spoilers, please click here.

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