Signs of spring
This morning BPT got a visit from our friends…
Boston Theater Marathon Returns to Live, In-Person Performances—and to BU
Feature from BU Today One of the 50 plays is titled Drop the Mask, but you still can’t do that at Boston Theater Marathon XXIV. After two years of virtual performances because of COVID, the annual showcase of short plays returns to live, in-person theater on Sunday, May 1—and to its original home on the […]
Snodgrass receives 2019 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education
BPT Artistic Director and MFA Program Director Kate Snodgrass was among those honored on May 8 during the final faculty meeting of the year. Dean Stan Sclaroff and Acting Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Arianne Chernock honored the winners of this year’s CAS teaching awards. “Professor Snodgrass has helped make BU the premiere […]
When the Rubber Meets the Road
We are honored to be featured in the new issue of The Dramatist, in a piece written by Visiting Professor of Playwriting Gary Garrison: I’ve written three fan letters in my life: one to the Monkees when I was ten years old (I had a mad crush on Micky Dolenz), one to Lucille Ball when […]
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre: When the Rubber Meets the Road
From the March/April 2019 issue of The Dramatist I’ve written three fan letters in my life: one to the Monkees when I was ten years old (I had a mad crush on Micky Dolenz), one to Lucille Ball when I was fourteen years old and now at a considerably older age, this article-as-fan-letter to Kate […]
Playwright Kira Rockwell on ‘The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood’ (part 2)
Part two of production dramaturg Eliana Pipes’ conversation with The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood playwright Kira Rockwell about her play, writing, process, and what’s next. On the cover page [of the script], you call The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood a poetic drama; how do you see the role of poetry in this piece? I am […]
Thank you…
…to everyone who made Boston Theater Marathon XX possible! See you next year!
Poster for ‘The Rosenbergs’
Students experience BPT “from page to stage”
Richard Chambers’s freshman seminar at Suffolk University offers students the opportunity to read, analyze, and experience local live theatrical performances, including two at BPT last fall—Lost Tempo and Elemeno Pea. Read the full story “It’s so cool picking apart a play and trying to understand it. And then you go and see you’re all wrong, […]
We will miss you, Jack Welch
The deadline for submissions to Boston Theater Marathon XX was last night. Each year, the scripts we receive to consider for inclusion in our signature annual event mark the exciting beginning of a collaborative process that doesn’t end until the curtain comes down on the BTM’s final play at 10 p.m. sharp. This year, we […]