Category Archives: New England

Coverage of theatre in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

HowlRound Announces 2020 National Playwright Residency Program

The third cohort includes 13 playwright and theatre partnerships across 10 cities.

Yale will not produce a season of plays, but will cover expenses for MFA students to extend their studies.

The company will center its 2020-21 season on New Haven with community partnerships and outdoor performances.

The season, the last under artistic director Preston Whiteway, will take place entirely online.

The festival will be livestreamed on Facebook and will feature a reading from a canceled 2020 production.

The Massachusetts theatre will remain closed for the summer months.

An inside look at the long-standing and often overlooked incubators who’ve boosted the profiles of early-career stage writers of color.

Second Stage Theater’s artistic director and president joins the 2020 class of innovative thinkers.

Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5 the Musical,’ originally slated for this season, will now close out the 2020-21 lineup.

The Off-Broadway company welcomes back the director, who previously led its Five Boroughs/One City initiative.