Boston University

College of Fine Arts

Photo: Two well-dressed people, a man in a pinstripe navy suit to the left and a woman in a red dress with a matchingblazer, sitting in red chairs at a theater and looking at a playbill for "An American in Paris"

CFA Alumni

Tony Award–Winning Producers Pledge $3 Million to CFA

April 3, 2026

Photo: Fran Brill (CFA’68) holds two of the characters she created: monster Zoe and the little girl Prairie Dawn

TV & Film

BU Alum Is ″a Muppet Legend″

March 3, 2026

Photo: Eva Kaminsky in a scene from We Had a World, a dramatic comedy by Josh Harmon about three generations of a family, produced by the Huntington Theatre Company. She is standing and wearing a white silk blouse and green trousers while holding a piece of paper with writing on it

Theatre

Huntington Theatre Company’s We Had a World Is a Homecoming for Two CFA Alums

February 17, 2026

Music

Playing a Teenager May Earn This Alum a Grammy

January 29, 2026

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Theatre

These Two BU Alums Could Take Home a Tony Award

June 4, 2025

Music

Can Missy Mazzoli Help Reinvent Opera in America?

March 25, 2025

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TV & Film

Costume Designer Esther Marquis Makes Sci-Fi Space Travel Look Realistic on TV

March 25, 2025

Photo: An actor has steam coming out of their ears in a performance

Arts & Culture

BU Alum Stars in National Tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

February 28, 2025

Photo: Valerie Coleman, a black woman wearing an elegant dark outfit, plays a flute in a photo studio

Music

Composer Valerie Coleman Explores the Dark Side of Jubilation

January 30, 2025

Photo: A collage image of three men, two of which of in black in white.

Faculty

Remembering CFA’s Murray Lefkowitz, CAS’ Jelle Atema and John Snyder

December 3, 2024

Photo: A Man in a blue suit stands under a marquee reading "Wang Theatre"

Alumni

Casey Soward (MET’09) is the new president and CEO of the Boch Center

November 4, 2024

Photo: Mishka Yarovoy (CFA'23)(left) and Jacob Schmitt (CFA'24) pose for a photo at the Huntington Theater

Theatre

Two BU Alums Take On Same Roles in Leopoldstadt, Huntington Theatre Company’s Latest Production

September 16, 2024

Theatre

His First Broadway Show Just Earned This CFA Alum a Tony Award Nod

June 11, 2024

Photo: Photo: Artist Bob Freeman, a Black man with graying hair and a gray mustache, (CFA’71,’83) in his Waltham studio. The walls are used to hang his pieces, which are behind him. He is mixing paint on a slab while wearing a black turtleneck.

Arts & Culture

Robert T. Freeman’s Long Journey Home

February 7, 2024

Photo: An old black and white photo of 4 college students at Boston University in a production of The Crucible in 1961

Theatre

When Arthur Miller Came to See What BU Did with The Crucible

February 7, 2024

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Accolades

Alum Composer Is Up for Two Grammys Sunday

February 1, 2024

Photo: Two groups of people stand and perform on a stage. People dressed as Israeli villagers (left) host an Egyptian police band (officers dressed in blur uniforms) who stand to the right of the stage.

Theatre

Hoping for Human Connection in The Band’s Visit

December 4, 2023

Photo: GFran Drescher, center, joined with National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and the TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee members posing with one fist up in the air. They stand in front of a wooden wall.

TV & Film

BU Actors Celebrate Hollywood Strike Settlement and Return to Work

November 16, 2023

Photo: Writers from the Writers Guild of America picketing outside Paramount Pictures Studios

Film & TV

BU Hollywood Writer Alums React with Joy, Relief to End of 148-Day Strike

October 2, 2023

Photo: Portrait of Brice Marden, a white man with grey-brown hair and wearing black long sleeved shirt and pants, sits on a chair and looks over his shoulder at the camera. He sits in front of a wall full of large canvases featuring his paintings.

Tributes

Celebrated Abstract Artist and Alum Brice Marden Dies

August 18, 2023

Celebrated Abstract Artist and Alum Brice Marden Dies