New England

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SpeakEasy Announces 2017-18 Boston Project Playwrights

Phaedra Scott and Emily Schwend will develop Boston-centric works for the company’s new-play initiative.

His unprecedented tenure at Yale Rep may be topped off (fingers crossed) by a new theatre-and-school complex.

The festival will feature works by Christopher Chen, Jonathan Payne, and Jen Silverman.

MJ Halberstadt and Brenda Withers have been selected for the two-year residency.

Butkas and her family will relocate from Rochester, N.Y., to Massachusetts this fall.

The company has brought modern touches, and new plush seats, to its home at the Bangor Opera House.

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.