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.
Art is a Necessity not a Luxury
Art is an expression of the human spirit. Art explores new ideas, challenges assumptions, and breaks down barriers. Art springs from the lived experience of the artist and flies to the heart of the audience. Art illuminates the struggles of life and lightens the weight of existence. Art inspires. Art answers “WHY”.
Art is a human right. It is the food of the soul and is as necessary as bread to the body. Art heals the heart and is as essential as medical care. Art draws individuals into the shelter of community and is as merited as housing.
All people deserve access to quality, beautiful, inspiring art.
Artists are Human Beings not Tools
The material for the artist’s work is their mind, body, and soul. The artist creates with their imagination, intelligence, voice, sweat, and sometimes blood. The artist’s experience and daily life are essential elements in the creative process.
The artist is more than their role. The artist is a valued whole human being. Their personal life, their health, their needs, and their desires are crucial elements of the creative process.
Art should nurture the Artist’s whole human being.
Art is Relational not Transactional
Art is not the exchange of goods or performing a service. Art is not a commodity. Art is shared. It is the communication of thoughts, feelings, ideas, images, and more. Art necessitates mutual respect in order for an exchange to occur across space and time. In this exchange all parties matter, from everyone involved in creating the art to everyone experiencing the art.
Art creates a community in a shared experience.
Excellence is a Constant Pursuit
Art is entertainment. But in its excellence, Art touches the soul. Art therefore demands precision, focus, and discipline. It demands honesty, rigor, and clarity. It also requires kindness and compassion.
The pursuit of excellence recognizes that the end is never achieved. Rather, it is a constant process of improvement, leaping miles and crawling inches. Excellence requires continued growth, learning, and training. It requires curiosity. It requires bravery to accept not knowing, and daring to forge ahead into that unknown.
Excellence is the necessary ultimate goal that is never reached.
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.
