our ART

is NOT ENTERTAINMENT

it is MEMORY

medicine

WORLDBUILDING

and RESISTANCE

UPCOMING EVENTS

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UPCOMING EVENTS ✧

QUEERING THE SCREEN PRESENTS: GANJA & HESS

October 27, 2026 at 7:15 pm

Coolidge Corner Theatre

Flirting with the conventions of Blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity.

UPCOMING PRODUCTION

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UPCOMING PRODUCTION ✧

GODBODY: A RITUAL OPERA & Art Exhibition

GODBODY asks the central question, “What does it mean to birth a body free of shame?” With this as its foundation, the series engages the body as a site of emotional processing and vessel for the divinity of self.

NEWS

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NEWS ✧

“Queer [Re]Public is a bold, joyful declaration of everything we believe theatre can be,” Des Bennett, TTO’s Queer [Re] Public programs manager, said in a statement. “From aerial dance storytelling to Afro-Indigenous music-infused readings, interactive workshops, and powerful artist conversations, this festival is about more than performance. It’s about amplifying the work of queer and trans BIPOC artists in all their intersectional brilliance. We’re honoring the artistry that’s transforming our stages, launching a civic platform rooted in liberation, and acknowledging Greater Boston’s LGBTQ+ arts sector as a national force for innovation. This is theatre redefined—and a call to action.”

FOUNDED in 1989

through DRAG THEATER

PROTEST,

TTO

was born of

DEFIANCE,

grief,

GLAM—

—OUR,

and radical KINSHIP

during the height of the

AIDS

crisis.

the Theater

OFFEN—

—SIVE

(TTO)

is MORE than a THEATER company

we are a

QUEER

cultural INSTITUTION,

a LIVING

THINK tank,

A spiritual STUDIO,

and a PERFORMANCE lab

GUIDED by

and BUILT for

QUEER and TRANS

people of COLOR

(QTPOC)

over THREE

DECADES later

we remain COMMITTED

to TURNING STAGES

into SANCTUARIES,

ART into technology,

and AESTHETICS

into ABOLITIONIST tools.

we DON’T make

THEATER for TOLERANCE.

we MAKE

theater for

LIBER—

—ATION.