Sundance Institute Announces Fall Participants and Projects
The play-development house announces the slates artists who’ll make new plays at retreats in Boston and Suffolk County.
Category Archives: New England
Coverage of theatre in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
4 Companies Who’ve Picked Up Where 13P Left Off
From Orbiter 3 to the Workhaus Collective, companies have taken 13P’s playwright-focused production model and put their own spin on it.
Tony Simotes Leaves Post as Shakespeare & Co.'s Artistic Director
Tony Simotes, Tina Packer’s successor at Shakespeare & Company will depart Nov. 10, leaving leadership to new exec director, Rick Dildine.
5 ART Shows to Make the Broadway Move
Boston’s ART will have sent five shows to Broadway in just three years as of next March, when “Finding Neverland” opens in New York.
Matt Chapuran Named Managing Director of Lyric Stage in Boston
Matt Chapuran most recently was in charge of institutional giving at the Huntington Theatre Company.
Front and Center with Playwright Meg Miroshnik
Meg Miroshnik creates piece featuring young Russian girls after noticing a lack of females in Russian theatre.
Bread and Puppet Theater’s Half-Century Parade of Joy, Anger, Anarchy, and Purpose
An actor toils and performs on Bread and Puppet Theater’s Vermont farm on the eve of the company’s 50th anniversary .
Robert Schenkkan Tells LBJ’s History in Rotating Rep
A Texas playwright takes on an iconic Texas politician in ‘All the Way’ and ‘The Great Society,’ and finds a figure of Shakespearean—i.e., tragic—proportions.
What If Auditions Were More Like Collaborations Than Competitions?
Two Boston-based companies try new, more ensemble-based approaches to the casting process.
Mary Zimmerman’s Bare Necessities: a Text, a Set, a Cast—and a Disney Cartoon
The Chicago adapter/director seems like a natural choice to turn the beloved ‘Jungle Book’ into a stage musical, but that doesn’t mean it’s been easy.
