About Us

Liars & Believers is the Boston company creating and touring original, breathtaking, theatre.

We use music, movement, mask, puppet, video, clown, bands, aerialists… pretty much anything we can get our hands on to tell a good story.

“Inspired”

– the New York Times

“The region’s most experimental artists”

– the Boston Survival Guide

“Charming”

– The Scotsman

“Hugely Imaginative”

– WGBH

Since 2009, Liars & Believers has premiered 12 original shows in Greater Boston including…

A Story Beyond, a new fable about a fractured community, told with mask, music, and puppets began it’s second run at The Foundry in February 2023.
Yellow Bird Chase, a clown adventure of the imagination, has toured New England since 2015 and played Edinburgh in 2022.
Macbeth, a serialized web-production, created during the COVID lockdown, is now a teaching aide for schools.

We collaboratively develop our plays over 12-24 months of improvisation, experimentation, and training. 

We premiere in Greater Boston then continually tour and revise our shows.

LaB is the only Boston theatre company touring original work regionally and internationally. LaB works almost exclusively with local artists, training them and paying a fair living wage.

What if Boston were as known for theater as it is for the Red Sox?

What if our performing arts were as famous for groundbreaking innovation as Moderna? 

What if a Boston company produced and toured original, breathtaking theatre? 

Liars & Believers harnesses creative, original, groundbreaking power in  the performing arts. Touring our plays around the country and the world, we  are establishing Boston’s reputation as a hub for cultural creativity and  innovation.

We are committed to: 

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.

Our Mission

Create original live performances that move the heart, challenge the mind, and feast the senses.

Explore manifold performance forms.

Expand the audience for live theatrical performance.

Enrich our community.

Liars & Believers recognizes our privilege and our limitations as a white 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, diversifying our company and our board, continual anti-racism education, and active participation in decentralizing European concepts of arts & culture.

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