About Us
Our Mission
Science, theater, and activism are linked: they take steps into the unknown and explore ways to shape the future through curiosity, creativity, and courage. By combining the imaginative forces of Boston-area theater artists, scientists, and environmental activists, Climate Crisis Cabaret (CCC) devises performances about the climate crisis to increase awareness, provide solutions, and call us to action. We aim to energize climate activism in our community and beyond.
Our Goals
- Use the medium of the performing arts in its many forms to cultivate a deeper understanding of the climate crises we face, and how climate crisis affects communities.
- Inspire audiences to take action in preventing further destruction of earth’s environment, join other organizations in this work, or start their own.
- Encourage theater artists to incorporate more climate crisis topics and the search for solutions into their work on stage.
- Collect resources about the climate crisis and related environmental activism for local theater artists to engage with, including climate-related plays and dramaturgical approaches.
- Provide a guide to local organizations focused on environmental activism.
Science is part of our mission
The collaboration of scientists and theater artists is at the core of CCC’s mission. We are continuing to widen the circle of contributors that bring up-to-date knowledge and powerful ideas from all areas of research related to the climate crisis into our work and onto the stage.
During the development of the inaugural event, Climate Crisis Cabaret: The Warm-Up, a group of scientists and activists from Scientist Rebellion developed a performance piece that discussed not only their work but also their own fears and hopes. It was presented as the celebrated finale of the cabaret program with a few of the scientists playing themselves in a fictional future. The piece tied the presentation of scientific solutions for the crisis to the experiences and emotions of the scientists and ultimately the audience and became a model for future cabaret plans as the Act Now.
Science in Conversation: Next Steps
In 2026, the CCC started a series of conversations with professors and research faculty from MIT, Harvard, and other universities in order to get both up-to-date and personal insights into current work on technological and sociological aspects of the climate crisis. The participants are experts in fields including, among others:
- Environmental Studies
- Atmospheric Science
- Architecture
- Civil Engineering
- Anthropology
- Economic Geography
These conversations were motivated by the plan to develop new materials that bring the complex connections behind the climate crisis to theater audiences. For example, multiple sessions pointed towards the importance of indigenous perspectives for opening up new ways forward, in particular in light of the environmental and social catastrophes that many of these communities have suffered in the past. CCC members are working on incorporating these and many other impulses into new performances and resources for the wider community.
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