Merrimack Rep Names Free Soil First Company in Residence
Free Soil Arts Collective’s founder Christa Brown will join the MRT artistic staff.
Category Archives: New England
Coverage of theatre in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Trinity Rep Delays In-Person Performances Until Fall 2021
The company will shift its focus to anti-racism work, education initiatives, and digital content.
ArtsEmerson Announces Leadership Transition
David Dower will leave his leadership role at the Office of the Arts, ArtsEmerson, and HowlRound at the end of this year.
O’Neill Theater Center Names Tiffani Gavin Executive Director
Gavin is the institution’s fifth executive director, and the first Black woman to hold the position.
Brown/Trinity Names Sophia Skiles Head of Acting
Brown University will welcome Skiles to the department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies in the fall of 2021.
Hartford Stage Cancels Onstage Performances Through June 2021
The Connecticut company’s staff will also be pared to 21 employees as the theatre turns its attention to virtual programming.
2020 National Directors Fellowships Announced
Adam M. Kassim, Kholoud Sawaf, Blayze Teicher, and Sharifa Yasmin are this year’s virtual fellows.
Describing How Art Feels and Checking Bias: My Week at Virtual Critics Camp
If the work of criticism is engaging empathetically with the world, the work is never done, as this year’s Zoom-only National Critics Institute affirmed.
A Tale of Two Reopenings, With and Without the Union Label
American Shakespeare Center and Berkshire Theatre Group will soon open full-scale productions, but only one has Actors’ Equity’s approval.
New England: Inward and Outward
Theatres in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut are variously going local and virtual, and reflecting deeply on their role in a changed future.
