The Theater Offensive

This organization is innovative, dynamic, transformational, loud and proud, active and supportive of it’s community of LGBTQ+ adults, youth, and allies. A safe, inclusive space.

I’m totally biased because 1) I write queer theater, 2) The Theater Offensive produced my queer theater, and 3) The Theater Offensive practically raised me, short of actually changing my diapers.
With that said, I’m not embarrassed to admit that I’m biased, because the Theater Offensive actually really really REALLY kicks ass.
Anyone will attest to that. From their annual «Out on the Edge» festival in the fall filled with a variety of hilarious, powerful, and eclectic works, to their spring season, when they produce plays on a larger scale, there’s always something fun that you will enjoy if you are a queer artist or ally.
They are also all about doing work for the community as well. Their True Colors Out Youth Theater Troupe is comprised of at-​risk youth who come together to share their experiences being a young queer teen, and create pieces that they take to schools to educate other youth about their lives and struggles. A Street Theater Named Desire, their guerrilla safe-​sex theater troupe, teams up with Fenway Community Health to bring theater, free condoms, and free testing in the Fens — a popular gay sex cruising spot.
They also have an annual PlayLab which is a development program for young queer playwrights. They are always enthusiastic and encouraging towards women and artists of color, which is definitely a breath of fresh air compared to other theater companies, and just theater in general, which traditionally has been a very white artform.
The Theater Offensive, though small, does great work for our Boston community, and there’s no other theater like it in the country.

Theatre, like art and music in Boston, is largely conservative. The Theatre
Offensive is one of the few groups to bring edgy, experimental, modern, and queer theatre to this vibrant city.
Don’t miss their Out on the Edge festival every October; it includes both productions and readings of works-​in-​progress. It also provides an opportunity to learn about their outreach programs, namely the «True Colors» youth theatre group, and their safer-​sex education improve troupe, a «Street Theatre Named Desire,» which ambushes cruising men at 3am in parks throughout the city.
One of the most worthwhile artistic causes in the city, don’t miss these guys.

wooo hoo!!! the theater offensive rocks!
queer theater!!! need i say more?
you should definitely check out their website. i try to see at least one play every year from their «out on the edge festival of queer theater.» also, they have a youth theater program which is pretty awesome, and helped to produce «surviving the nian,» a queer asian musical that won the jonathan larson musical theater award and was written by melissa li, who started theater in said youth program.
queer asian theater!!! even better!