Name: Juliet & Jul-Yingtai
Start: 2026-01-15T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-17T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Strand Theatre

Join us for a modern twist on a classic love story at the Strand Theatre - Juliet & Jul-Yingtai will captivate your heart!
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Juliet & Jul-Yingtai is a Mandarin and English bilingual production that brings Shakespearean tradition into conversation with Chinese folklore. Incorporating traditional elements such as nuó dance, the piece embraces cultural diversity and creates a vivid cross-cultural dialogue. Through a contemporary lens shaped by memory, fate, and mirrored selves, it reimagines the journeys of two iconic heroines. Co-directed by Yifei Pei and Vermilion Theater Co-founder and Artistic Director Wisteria Deng, and created by an all-women cast and creative team, the production centers women’s voices and challenges inherited ideas of femininity, love, and agency across Western and Chinese literary traditions.

Our inaugural production (premiered in New Haven, April 2025), Juliet and Jul-Yingtai, blurs the boundary between love and death, remembrance and reincarnation. Set in a dreamlike purgatory where every soul must choose between moving on or reliving the same fate, two star-crossed women - Juliet and Jul-Yingtai - defy the limits of memory, language, and time.

We are bringing the production to The Strand Theater in Boston this January.

Join us for a limited run at one of Boston’s most historic venues.

Performance Schedule:

Thursday, Jan 15, 2026: 7:30 PM
Friday, Jan 16, 2026: 7:30 PM*
Saturday, Jan 17, 2026: 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM

*Includes a special post-show dialogue in partnership with Asian Women Development Plan International.

As a proud recipient of the Strand Theatre Grant from the City of Boston, Vermilion Theater is pleased to provide this performance at no cost to all attendees.

If you are moved by our work, we gratefully welcome donations to support our artists and keep the theater alive.

About Vermilion Theater:

Through producing multilingual versions of plays originally written in Mandarin or translated to Mandarin from other languages, Vermilion Theater is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that aims to facilitate cross-cultural conversations and foster a sense of belonging among the Chinese diaspora and the broader non-Mandarin-speaking audience along the East Coast. For more information, go to Instagram account @vermilion_theater or visit .