Boston Center for the Arts & Cyclorama

The Boston Center for the Arts is Boston’s premiere destination for arts and culture. The BCA is committed to bringing the best in visual and performing arts to the widest audience possible through our Resident Theatre Companies, the Mills Gallery and the Cyclorama Residency Series.

We invite you to be at the Center of inspiration, the Center of exhilaration, the Center of entertainment, the Boston Center for the Arts -- where theatre and the visual arts come alive. In the meantime, please make a virtual visit through our online publication, CenterFocus, and meet the many artists and performers who are the BCA.

The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is a nonprofit performing and visual arts complex located in Boston’s South End, the largest historic district in the United States. As a creative home for artists and an arts destination for audiences, the BCA builds a connection between the arts and the city’s diverse community.

Some of New England's most creative and acclaimed small and mid-sized theatre companies are in residence at the BCA, as are 50 working artists and arts organizations.

Emerging on the scene as one of Boston's premier arts and entertainment centers, the BCA expanded in 2004 to include the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion in partnership with the renowned Huntington Theatre Company.

The BCA reflects the emerging voices of our times and encourages people from all walks of life to experience the vitality of art. The BCA strives to provide a welcoming, intimate, safe environment that provides opportunities for youth, families and all visitors to have an enjoyable and meaningful experience with art, artists - and each other.

This dynamic epicenter of art and interaction welcomes more than 200,000 visitors per year and features:

• Four theaters, including two of Boston’s newest theaters in the Calderwood Pavilion, featuring productions by the BCA’s four resident theater companies and other visiting companies
• The Mills Gallery, one of the city’s premiere noncommercial contemporary visual art spaces
• The Artist Studio Building, which houses below-market studio space for more than 40 working artists and 10 nonprofit arts organizations
• The Cyclorama, a unique historic space that houses events both public and private
• The Boston Ballet Building
• The Community Music Center of Boston