Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]