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Founded in 1979, MRT primarily serves the Merrimack Valley – a region of northeast Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire located about 45 minutes from Boston – where it is the only professional theatre. It also draws audiences from the greater Boston area (where it is one of three LORT Theatres), New England, and beyond. Merrimack Repertory Theatre has become known for its unwavering commitment to high production standards and selection of mostly regional and world premieres. This tradition has been embraced by artistic director Sean Daniels, who continues to develop MRT as a leader of new play production in the country. MRT attracts leading professional playwrights, directors, actors and designers from around the country, who share the company's commitment and welcome the opportunity to make MRT one of their theatrical homes. During the 2016-17 Season, the intimate 279-seat theatre will feature seven vibrant plays and musicals about who we are as a people, a country, and New Englanders, that “advance the cause of human understanding through the art of theatre." The lineup includes four world premieres, and three plays that explore New England themes. The Theatre has mounted over 200 productions in its 37-year history, including 23 world premieres and 40 regional premieres. MRT is governed by a 30-member Board of Trustees and receives advisory assistance from a Board of Overseers. Both boards are composed of community leaders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.

New York Classical Theatre’s mission is to reinvigorate and create audiences for the theatre by presenting free productions of popular classics and forgotten masterpieces that pop up in non-traditional public spaces throughout the five boroughs. We are the only all-free professional theatre in New York City. Our free productions currently pop up outdoors in Central Park, The Battery, Battery Park City Parks, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park and indoors in Brookfield Place and One Liberty Plaza. New York Classical’s hallmark is Panoramic Theatre, a style created by Founding Artistic Director, Stephen Burdman, to build a unique relationship between the actor, audience and venue. Scripts are adapted to fully embrace each performance space and through the influence of 19th century staging and single camera cinema techniques, the audience is placed at the center of the action of the play, giving them access to a deeply immersive theatrical experience. Our outdoor productions in expansive public locations push Panoramic Theatre further. At each performance, the audience follows the actors from place to place as the plot unfolds from scene to scene, following the journey of the characters. Using different areas to stage specific scenes opens up endless creative possibilities for performers and our audience. By utilizing large physical environments as our playing arenas, audiences literally inhabit the world of the play and become active participants in the drama unfolding around them. By offering our Off-Broadway performances for free, we ensure that all people, regardless of their economic, ethnic or educational background have access to the highest quality professional theatre. Our open rehearsals in public venues also allow our audience to observe the evolution of a production while demystifying the language and poetry of classical theatre. We firmly believe that the themes of the classics remain relevant to the lives of all New Yorkers today. Through the lens of classical theatre, we come to better understand human nature and our role in contemporary life. As a result, our free performances build new and future audiences for live theatre by attracting many underserved and non-traditional spectators.

Arts, Culture and Humanities

At EPAC, they always have and will continue to be fiercely devoted to telling these essential stories of connection, belonging and humanity.

DENIZEN Theatre will explore what it means to be human in all its duality and complexity, producing new works that provoke, challenge, and inspire often ignored conversations.

The mission of Suncoast Singers is to provide, preserve and present culturally rich music in a professional manner; to celebrate one of the greatest instruments, the human voice; and to provide a supportive, educational and enjoyable experience for the singer.

PACE Society consists of active and inactive sex workers, community leaders and professionals that work collaboratively to create opportunities for individuals involved in survival sex work to make free choices pertaining to their lives. In light of the changing social, legal and economic conditions in which sex work takes place, PACE Society makes the distinction between sex work (formerly prostitution) and survival sex work. Survival sex work is defined as the lack of opportunity to consistently exercise the right to refuse sex work. We work to increase the health, safety and rights of refusal for individuals involved in survival sex work.

MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity and enduring spirit of all people.

The mission of Arlekin Players Theatre is twofold: 1) to enrich, educate and entertain the audience by adapting classical and contemporary Russian literature in a playful and thought provoking way; 2) to build meaningful connections between Russian and American cultures through shared human experience.

From the website: "Our choruses, along with the choruses in the national Giving Voice Network, are created for people living with dementia as active participants. That’s right, people living with dementia are the singers in our chorus. Our chorus members are defying dementia through music." Please note that this is a different organization than Giving Voice of LaGrange Park, IL.

Mad Cow's mission is to produce highly entertaining works of theatre to an ever-widening audience – promoting, enhancing, and celebrating the human condition through art. They celebrate the word and the actor through a combination of passionate, skillful acting and compelling, insightful writing, all nurtured by an attentive and ever-changing process.

Every year, millions of animals suffer severely in laboratory experiments — with results that often cannot be extended with dependability to human beings. The British Columbia Foundation for Non-Animal Research was founded to help fund and promote alternative methods of research and to work toward replacing the use of animals in laboratory procedures.