The Footlight Club - America's Oldest Community Theater

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address:7A Eliot Street  Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 phone:617-524-3200 website:The Footlight Club - America's Oldest Community Theater

Events Calendar

Friday, January 29th

An Ideal Husband

when:8:00pm, Jamaica Plain, MA
venue:The Footlight Club

Saturday, January 30th

An Ideal Husband

when:8:00pm, Jamaica Plain, MA
venue:The Footlight Club

Friday, February 5th

An Ideal Husband

when:8:00pm, Jamaica Plain, MA
venue:The Footlight Club

Saturday, February 6th

An Ideal Husband

when:8:00pm, Jamaica Plain, MA
venue:The Footlight Club

Friday, February 12th

An Ideal Husband

when:8:00pm, Jamaica Plain, MA
venue:The Footlight Club

Nestled in a residential area near Jamaica Pond, The Footlight Club, America's oldest community theatre, has performed every year since 1877. For over a century Footlight Club members have sustained the organization's mission:

To present the best in non-professional theater to a broad-based audience, and to preserve and maintain Eliot Hall as a community resource.

Increased membership and audience sizes are evidence that The Footlight Club is once again taking its place among the sisterhood of community theatres.

Founded by an energetic group of young socialites, The Footlight Club has evolved along with its neighborhood. Once, wealthy aristocrats arrived in coaches to enjoy the society of their own kind in an atmosphere of gentility and wealth. The performances sometimes seemed secondary to the social function. Today the Footlight Club draws its membership from Jamaica Plain, other Boston neighborhoods and surrounding communities.

Members and guests range in age from teens to senior citizens and come from every social and economic stratum. Doctors and lawyers, waiters and cooks, husbands and wives, come together to perform, to enjoy, and to support exciting amateur productions and the other activities that make up live theater.

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