New England

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

Chester Theatre Company Cancels Summer Season

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.

The O’Neill has transitioned its summer programming online, with no events taking place at its Waterford, Conn., campus.

The 2020 Powerhouse Theater season will be suspended this summer due to the coronavirus.

With spring dates canceled due to COVID-19, ‘Sweat’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’ will open the 2020-21 season.

The lineup, the first under new artistic director Courtney Sale, will include two world premiere plays.

Forced to cancel the summer season, the festival will work with Audible to provide the season digitally.