This is a week packed with events at Mosesian Arts! Join us for a panel discussion about life science, a gallery talk about printmaking and social engagement, a free play reading, a staged radio play based on a sci-fi classic, and "a smart production" that The Boston Globe says "overflows with emotion." Come see, learn, and experience it all at Mosesian Arts!

EVENTS THIS WEEK

On Tuesday, April 25, at 5:30 PM, the Third Annual Life Science Panel organized by Watertown Business Coalition will connect our community to the Life Science companies and innovations happening in Watertown. Four companies from different stages in the biotech lifecycle will share their hopes and challenges. Time will be reserved for audience interaction, and refreshments from our neighbors at Branch Line will follow the panel discussion.

On Wednesday, April 26, at 5:30 PM, attend a FREE Gallery Talk for an informal gathering of some of the exhibiting artists in our current exhibition, Printmaking and Social Engagement, as they speak in the gallery about their works, the concepts behind them, and their individual creation process. Director of Visual Arts Boriana Kantcheva will lead a Q&A at the end of the evening. Cash bar and light refreshments will be available.

The final weekend of performances of The House of Ramón Iglesia plays Thursday through Sunday, April 27-30. As reviewed by The Boston Globe, "the story explores the classic tension between immigrant parents and the expectations they have for their children, complicated by the push-pull of resistance to and desire for assimilation. In the Moonbox production, director Arthur Gomez displays a gentle hand to steady what could easily drift into melodramatic caricatures. The play, written by José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries), in some ways feels like a young playwright’s purging of his own semi-autobiographical story...."

On Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, the Post-Meridian Radio Players bring Metropolis to the Black Box stage. Based on the original novel and the 1927 cult classic film, this newly adapted radio play tells the story of a futuristic city harshly divided between the working class and the city elites. When the son of the city's master builder falls in love with a beautiful working-class prophet, a class war explodes into the streets made all the worse by an inventor's plan to replace the working class with humanoid machines. Can Metropolis be saved before it burns to the ground?

On Sunday, April 30, at 6 PM, The Here Comes Everybody Players, bringing the literary and dramatic works of Irish authors to the stage, will host a FREE staged reading in the Black Box. From the pen of Dubliner Iseult Golden, Fireworks is a short sharp bite-sized comedy. Daniel and Laura recently split after four years together. Then they meet again in the most unlikely circumstances. It gets complicated…!

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Other performances this spring include our WCT production of Godspell (May 12-21), The Avi Nussbaum Stand Up Show (May 15), and The Briar & Rusty Show: Briar & Rusty in SPACE!!! (May 18).

MOVING FORWARD

Individual tickets are on sale for MOVING FORWARD: 2023 Annual Benefit & Mosesian Awards on Wednesday, May 24.

Honorees of the evening’s Mosesian Awards are internationally acclaimed Sayat Nova Dance Company, moving culture forward throughout the world, and local arts hero Barbara Epstein, who as first president of the Board of Directors helped put the wheels in motion for an arts center at the Arsenal. Sayat Nova will perform, and we’ll preview a selection from our own Watertown Children’s Theatre production of Singin’ in the Rain. As always, event proceeds will support diverse programming on MCA’s stages and in the community, free art exhibitions and gallery events, and exceptional arts education for youth and adults of all ages.

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For more of the latest events, schedules, and tickets, visit us online at MosesianArts.org! With so much to see, learn and experience at Mosesian Arts, we hope to see you soon!