Performing Arts

At BUA, music and drama provide outlets for students to express themselves and — just as importantly — to have fun.  Do you sing?  Play an instrument?  Act? Want to learn?  With a wide variety of course offerings and extracurricular clubs and activities to choose from, there are many opportunities to expend some creative energy at Boston University Academy. Our performing arts program encourages and inspires students at all skill levels to build confidence, improvise, collaborate, and unlock their artistic potential.

Major Performances by Year

BUA Drama Club Plays (These do not include Senior Plays)

2023-2024

Winter Play: Our Town, Thornton Wilder

Spring Musical: The Theory of Relativity, Hill & Bartram

2022-2023

Winter Play: Pride & Prejudice, adapted Kate Hamill

Spring Musical: Clean Slate, White & Brennan (NE Premiere)

2021-2022

Winter Play: As You Like It, William Shakespeare

Spring Musical: Alien 8, White & Brennan (NE Premiere)

2020-2021

Winter Play: Laramie Project, Moses Kaufman & Teutonic Theatre Project

2019-2020

Winter Play: An Evening of Durang and Ives (Selected shorts by Christopher Durang and David Ives)

2018-2019

Winter Play: She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen

Spring Musical: Jonah and the Whale by David Darrow and Tyler Mills (1st high school production, 3rd production ever)

2017-2018

Winter Play: The Life and Death of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Spring Musical: Assassins by Stephen Sondheim

2016-2017

Winter Play: Tartuffe by Molière

Spring Musical: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris compiled by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman

2015-2016

Winter Play: Sense and Sensibility adapted by Kate Hamill

Spring Musical: Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim

2014-2015

Winter Play: The Dragon by Evgeny Schwartz

Spring Musical: The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein

2013-2014

Winter play: Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Spring Musical: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Sheinkin & Finn

2012-2013

Winter Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare

Spring Musical: Bat Boy: The Musical, Fleming & Farley

2011-2012

Winter Play: Radium Girls, D.W. Gregory

Spring Musical: Working: The Musical, Studs Turkle & Others

2010-2011

Schoolgirl Figure, Wendy MacLeod

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Reduced Shakespeare Co.

(No Spring Musical)

2009-2010

Winter Play: The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

Spring Musical: A Man of No Importance, Terence McNally

2008-2009

Winter Play: The Laramie Project, Moses Kaufman & Teutonic Theatre Project

Spring Musical: The 1940’s Radio Hour, Walton Jones

2007-2008

Winter Play: Arcadia, Tom Stoppard

Spring Musical: Godspell, Stephen Swartz

2006-2007

Winter Play: Ten-Minute Play Festival

Spring Musical: Urinetown, Kotis & Hollman