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 […]
Park part of 2017 Boston Project
Congratulations to Rick Park (on the left—playwrights Bill Doncaster and Obehi Janice also have work in development through this program), whose proposal for a new play—Knock Down, Drag Out—was accepted as part of SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 2017 Boston Project! Read more about this exciting program here.
Poe Returning to Boston
Stefanie Rocknak’s Poe Returning to Boston In case you haven’t seen the clay model of the new Edgar Allan Poe statue, to be installed in Poe Square this fall. Read more. Thanks Jake!
Winning trio
A trio of Boston KCACTF winners at last month’s National Festival in Washington, D.C.: Rick Park (L) won the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting for Gay Guy, Fat Girl; Lesley University’s Lisa Kenner Grissom (C) won the National Ten-Minute Play Award for Tattoo You; and Michael Parsons (R) won the Rosa Parks and the […]
Still looking up
Today, I’m committed to doing whatever I can to help create a positive start to the new week. So I give you this: Alexis Scheer — our intern last summer and a student at The Boston Conservatory — put together this video of her fellow musical theatre students (and she’s in there, too) singing Jason […]
“The good outnumber you, and we always will”
“I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths. But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent […]