Category Archives: New England

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

MIT Opens Its First Performing Arts Building

The building is the first space wholly dedicated to the arts on campus.

The season will feature the return of two holiday favorites and stage adaptations of children’s books.

Next season at the theatre will feature the Vermont premiere of ‘Fun Home’ and a new Stephen Spotswood play.

A Hartford troupe makes original short plays by, for, and about teens, but the real performance may be in the talkbacks.

The season will include new plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Idris Goodwin, and Josh Wilder, focusing on the black male experience.

What I learned at the O’Neill Theater Center’s annual July boot camp for arts journalists.

The season will include Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Jen Silverman, Qui Nguyen, and more.

Shows for young audiences can sometimes be controversial for reasons that surprise even the most thoughtful theatremakers.

Edwards will join the Boston theatre in August.

Like the man himself, his plays ran on conversation and character more than conflict.