Founded in 2017, Plays in Place is a theatre company that creates new site-specific plays in partnership with museums, historic spaces, and other institutions. They have extensive experience bringing historic stories and sites to life in ways that deeply engage audiences. Past and current partners and projects include Mount Auburn Cemetery (The America Plays, The Nature Plays, Moonlight Abolitionists), Revolutionary Spaces—Boston’s Old State House and Old South Meeting House (Cato and Dolly, I Am This Place, Scipio’s Balcony, Imagining The Age of Phillis), the National Park Service (Suffrage in Black and White), Old North Illuminated (Revolution's Edge), Historic Deerfield, MassBike (The Kittie Knox Plays), and Historic Northampton (Pulling at the Roots), and the Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine.
Plays in Place projects employ dozens of theatrical artists every year. In 2025 Plays in Place will be producing:
- The Kittie Knox Plays, a series of bike-specific plays about biracial barrier breaker Kittie Knox and the Cycling Craze of the 1890s. Written by Kirsten Greenidge, Claire Gardner, and Patrick Gabridge, directed by Michelle Aguillon. MassBike is our partner for this project.
- A New Era by Miranda ADEkoje, as part of Suffrage in Black & White, a three-play series for the National Parks of Boston, about the intersection of race, abolition, and the fight or woman suffrage in Boston.
- A new play about the Boston Female abolition movement in the 1830s and 1840s, by Patrick Gabridge, directed by Lisa Rafferty, as part of the Pierce Performance Series at the Boston Public Library
