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Photo: A picture of people holding up trash bags with items in them

Weekender

The Weekender: April 18 to 21

April 17, 2024

Photo: The inside of the Boston Public library, with ornate wood and stonework among large rows of seats

Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 4 to 7

April 3, 2024

Photo: A performer stands in the middle of a stage lit with blue spot lights, a keyboardist and bassist flank the singer in the center

Theatre

Driving in Circles: A Story of Healing through Rock Music and Comedy

March 21, 2024

Photo: A shot of a pond in Omstead Park full of dead branches of winter and two geese swimming in the pond.

Weekender

The Weekender: February 29 to March 3

February 28, 2024

Photo: A woman in a blue dress next to a woman in a red shirt who appears to be yelling performs in front of a room of students watching from chairs in the background

Theatre

All the World’s a Stage at 27th Annual CFA Fringe Festival

October 12, 2023

Photo: Summer Sage, played by Michaela Lazarou (CFA’24) does a unique interpretative dance as she holds her arms out and throws her head back towards the ceiling. To her right, behind a colorfully painted kitchen island, stand Candy Baker, played by Katie McRae (CFA’23), and Lil Bub, played by Aidan Close (CFA’23). Both look on in shock and awe.

Arts on Campus

Art House Is BU’s Homegrown Sitcom

May 10, 2023

Photo: Jaden Bridges (CFA’25), in tank top, and Talia Sulla (CFA’23) rehearsing for Nathan Alan Davis’ “Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea,” directed by Malika Oyetimein, April 18. Photo by Will Chapman (COM’26)

Theatre

Nathan Alan Davis’ Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea Opens at CFA’s Studio ONE

April 26, 2023

Photo: Jay Eddy (CGS’23) (left), the writer, composer and performer of Alligator-A-Phobia in 3D!, clowning around with director Shamus (CFA’23) on set. A woman with red hair and wearing a purple jump suit is shown mid-air as she jumps with a large, blow-up alligator in her arms. To he right, a man with dark brown curly hair and wearing a teal shirt and jeans peaks out from behind a set piece window. He has puppet alligators on his hands as looks to the woman to his left.

Theatre

Alligator-a-Phobia in 3-D! at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Chomps on Our Anxieties

April 6, 2023

Director Shamus (left) and Playwright J.C. Pankratz pose for a photo at Boston Playwrights Theater on the set of Pankratz’s dark comedy Eat Your Young. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Theater at BU

Curtain’s Up on Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s 2022-2023 Season

October 5, 2022

As a CAS associate professor of the practice of playwriting, Nathan Alan Davis will run the University’s MFA Playwriting Program, and Megan Sandberg-Zakian is the new artistic director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Here the two stand back to back on Commonwealth Ave outside the theatre. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Faculty

Longtime Collaborators Raising the Curtain on a New Era for Playwriting at BU

August 25, 2022

Photo of Nora Kempner (center) a 17-year-old high school student from Medway, Mass., who is enrolled in the BU Summer Theatre Institute’s design program. Kempner is a young White woman with wavy hair, pulled back, wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts. She sits at a table with lighting controls and a screen and smiles as she shows her lighting scene design with classmates. Other students can be seen seated behind her in the darkened room.

Theater

CFA Summer Program Gives High Schoolers an Intro to College-Level Theater

August 3, 2022

Photo of Judy Braha (CFA’08) at a rehearsal for Shakespeare in Love. Braha wears a long, light blue button-down and black jeans. She's a white woman with short, gray hair. Behind her, in a room with wooden floor, five students are seen rehearsing dance moves.

Theatre

CFA’s Judy Braha Caps BU Career Directing Shakespeare in Love

April 28, 2022

Composite image of stills from videos of BU classes being taught remote. In the bottom left, Maura Smith, a College of Communication master lecturer in film, is seen standing at a standing desk. In the top left and bottom right, Yo-EL Cassell, a College of Fine Arts assistant professor of movement, reads from a computer and demonstrates movements. In the top right, students for Yo-EL's class are seen moving in door frames.

Remote & Innovative

The Challenge of Remotely Teaching Classes That Usually Demand Hands-on Learning and Collaboration

May 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Susan Mickey.

Theatre

Susan Mickey Brings a Designer’s Eye to the School of Theatre

February 20, 2020

Billy Meleady performs onstage

Theatre

This Immigrant Story Is a Rhyming Monologue

November 7, 2019

Joseph Hubbard in the stage production of Hydrogen Jukebox by Allen Ginsber and Philip Glass at the Boston University Fall Fringe Festival

Theatre

20th Annual Fringe Festival Opens with Glass Chamber Opera

October 14, 2016

Mayor Marty Walsh at the Huntington Theatre

Theatre

Huntington Theatre Company to Remain at Present Location

June 10, 2016

Odyssey Opera Lucio Silla Boston University Theatre

University News

Odyssey Opera Stages Mozart’s Lucio Silla at BU Theatre

June 8, 2016

Boston University BU theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Tony awards

BU Theatre

BU Theatre, Adjoining Buildings Sell for $25 Million

March 21, 2016

How I Learned What I Learned Huntington Theatre Company

Fine Arts

Huntington Stages August Wilson’s Theatrical Memoir

March 9, 2016

Huntington Stages August Wilson’s Theatrical Memoir