sprout and the stories of our investigations

Money! Money! Money!

You’re invited to Money! Money! Money! a sprout spaghetti dinner sprout spaghetti dinners is a dinner theater series seeking to bring people from the Somerville and Cambridge communities together around good food, good music, and good performance. Each month, we’ll find an eclectic group of performers to explore the month’s theme through different lenses. In the tradition of dinners hosted by NYC-based theater [...]

pictures and videos from The Social Contexts of Light

The January 2010 sprout spaghetti dinner focused on the theme The Social Contexts of Light. John Bell and Shaunalynn Duffy sandwiched the featured performances with short toy theaer tableaux exploring the nature and history of different types of light. Music was provided by Mike Romanyshyn on bari sax, clarinet, and drums.

First, The Aaatack, [...]

The Social Contexts of Light, a sprout spaghetti dinner on January 20

This Wednesday will be the next spaghetti dinner. Join us for an exploration of light as a means of political, artistic, and cultural expression. As usual, the event will be at 339R Summer St. Somerville MA with dinner at 7:30 and performances at 8. This month, Food Not Bombs will be preparing [...]

pictures and video from The Grind: Out of the Office

December’s theme was The Grind: Out of the Office. Mike Nagle cooked our spaghetti and we saw performances by The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, who are a musical performance group that play typewriters like instruments in the character of white collar office workers.

The Royal Frog Ballet performed a puppet show [...]

The Grind: Out of the Office on December 16

The next spaghetti dinner will be happening December 16 at 7:30om at 339R Summer St. We will have spaghetti and drinks as usual, and we have a suggested donation of $10 to cover costs for the event. This month, The Grind: Out of the Office will take a look at some issues around work and [...]

pictures and videos from The Science of Accordion Reeds

The night opened with delicious, pumpkin-sauce spaghetti cooked by Beth O’Sullivan, a math teacher from Cambridgeport involved in sprout and The Science Club for Girls.

After socializing for a while, we heard a world premiere of the piece You Are written by local musician and composer Mike Romanyshyn for clarinet choir. The ensemble [...]

The Science of Accordion Reeds on November 19!

This month’s dinner is being held on November 19 at 7:30pm at 339R Summer St. Somerville MA, just outside of Davis Square. The theme is Reeds! How they work and how they sound. The spaghetti will have a special seasonal pumpkin sauce this time, thanks to local cook Beth O’Sullivan, and there will [...]

the little red school house–on its head!

October 15 was the second in our series of dinner theater events. The theme for the evening was education, and we had a range of performers and perspectives. People began arriving around 7:00. We ate and talked until around 8:15 when we started the first of the performances.
(Please excuse the [...]

our first dinner was a success!

Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Band

What is HONK? a cantastoria performed by members of Somerville’s Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band looking at the many and joyful meanings of the sound “HONK!” (It is not only a plug for the HONK! festival to be held in Davis [...]