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 and 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.
