Our Beliefs
“Gorgeous, immersive, ambient spectacle… a silly, subversive show with something profound at its core, a sharp wit and a big heart.”
– The New Worcester Spy
LaB Mission
Create original live performances that move the heart, challenge the mind, and feast the senses.
Explore many and varied performance forms.
Expand the audience for live, theatrical performance.
Enrich our community.
How do we translate our mission into action?
Excellence
Raise the creative bar in Boston through artistic challenge.
Nurture Boston theater through continued professional training.
Develop and premiere original, innovative plays by local artists.
Equity
Diversify the voices making new work.
Build strategic partnerships with other cultural organizations.
Support artists so they can make great art.
Export
Tour original plays nationally and internationally.
Attract international talent for collaboration.
Reinvigorate Boston as an American creative hub.
Liars & Believers recognizes our privilege and our limitations as a historically white, cis-gendered, able-bodied theatre company. We are committed to changing, through inclusive and equitable practices and by holding space for diverse voices. This work is centered around practiced power sharing. It includes partnerships with BIPOC-led organizations, continuing our practice of universal design and accessibility, diversifying our company and our board, continual anti-racism education, and active participation in decentralizing European concepts of arts & culture.
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Art is a right that all people deserve to enjoy
LaB presents our shows in mobility-accessible venues. We create theatre accessible to Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences using principles of Universal Design. We still have further to go, to reach more people. We’re proud to have been one of the first 11 cultural organizations in Massachusetts to receive “UP Designation” from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Art should be affordable
LaB is committed to lowering the economic bar to entry. All of our tickets are “Pay-What-You-Can”. We encourage audiences with means to choose higher price tickets and help make theatre affordable for those without means. We are proud to participate in the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector, by breaking down the financial barriers to cultural programming.
