The Strand Theatre – the only performing arts venue owned and operated by the city of Boston – is getting a helping hand from the Wu administration this season in the form of $200,000 in grants aimed at spurring more programming at the Uphams Corner venue. It’s a positive signal that the mayor and her team are putting some thought and resources behind the venerable stage that
Company One Theatre will bring a new play about the politics of Black hair and the power of community activism to the Strand Theatre’s stage this month. Titled “can i touch it?”, the play will run from July 23 through August 13. Its playwright, Francisca Da Silveira, a Cape Verdean American, is based in Boston and calls both Dorchester and Roxbury home. “I grew up walking by