Welcome Jeffrey!
We are thrilled to welcome a new member to the BPT family, Technical Director and Production Manager Jeffrey Petersen! You may remember his set designs for The Honey Trap, Equal Writes, and Restricted. Read all about this amazing person here.
Happy retirement, Marc
The end of June and the end of an era: Today marks Marc Olivere’s last day with BPT as Technical Director. “Thank you” seems such a puny phrase after 23 years of amazing work. We love you so much Marc, and we’ll miss you!
BTM XIX is a wrap!
Whether you watched a play, acted in a play, wrote a play, directed a play, moved set pieces for a play, sponsored a play, volunteered in the Green Room, worked front of house—whatever you did (and there are a million more jobs than these, trust me)—Boston Theater Marathon XIX couldn’t have happened without you! Thank […]
Remembering Derek: The IRNEs
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre founder Derek Walcott was remembered at last night’s IRNE Awards!
Remembering Derek: Larry Breiner
Derek Still by Larry Breiner “ore legar populi” – Ovid The pages of the sea still turn And the leaves of the trees. The feathers of birds still rustle in the wind. But there is a stillness, a muting, something missed. Where is the voice that tolled out the names in the sea, Intoned the […]
Remembering Derek: Ronan Noone
I have a lot of great memories of Derek Walcott but the one abiding memory, the one that always returns, is when he pulled me aside one day after our first class together. He had just heard an early draft of a play I was writing and he asked if I would like to sit […]
Remembering Derek: Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Today, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is mourning our founder, Derek Walcott. We wanted to offer the following memory for Derek’s past students of playwriting at Boston University. …. On the afternoon of Boston’s coldest day of the year, January 26, 2007, we interviewed Derek Walcott, Professor of Poetry and Playwriting at Boston University. Derek spoke […]
Happy birthday, blog!
BPT Pokestop?
Playwright alum Colleen Hughes says we’re a pokestop. Should we be afraid?!
Highlights from ‘The Rosenbergs’
Sneak peek: Don’t miss this special concert performance of highlights from the new opera The Rosenbergs, which will be produced by BPT and the Brandeis Department of Theatre Arts next season. Music by Joachim Holbek Libretto by Rhea Leman Music Direction by Cristi Catt Directed by Professor Dmitry Troyanovsky Sunday, April 10 at 4 p.m. […]