The Stage
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Once you’re bitten by the bug, there’s no going back. The stories here only scratch the surface of the rich and theatrical lives of BU theatre-artists – actors, producers, directors, stage technicians, designers, playwrights, organizers. It takes a village to produce a live performance, and all aspects of the stage life are fostered here at CFA.
School of Theatre Presents Tony-Nominated Musical The Rink at Booth Theatre
For the first time in 40 years, this rarely produced musical featured a newly restored book and orchestrations on BU’s main stage.
Collaborating with a theater dream team
Gregg Wiggans (CFA’25) shares his experience associate directing Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at Carnegie Hall
A Directing Hit
Rosalind Bevan (CFA’19) discusses life as an independent director, producer, and casting director of stage productions
Two BU Alums Take On Same Role
Mishka Yarovoy (CFA’23) stars in Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning drama in Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Leopoldstadt; his understudy is former BU classmate Jacob Schmitt (CFA’24)
His First Broadway Show Just Earned This CFA Alum a Tony Award Nod
David Israel Reynoso (CFA’03) was nominated for best costume design for a musical for Water for Elephants
BU’s Booth Theatre Helps Boston Public Schools Students and Grads Set the Stage for Success
State-of-the-art facility provides an opportunity for students in nonprofit Brighter Boston program to learn lighting, sound, video—and land jobs
Composing Theatrical Soundscapes
As chronicled in the Boston Globe, MFA sound design alum Mackenzie Adamick (CFA’24) is making a mark on the Boston theater scene
Shepherding a play
Playwrights Martin Sherman – a BU alum – and Kirsten Greenidge – director of CFA School of Theatre – discuss teaching, rehearsals, and sustaining a career in theater
Our Man in Prague
BU School of Theatre alum Guy Roberts (CFA’94) founded a thriving Shakespeare Company in the Czech capital
Going behind the curtain on Broadway with BU alums
From the cast to design to production, eight BU alums were involved with Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes at the Belasco Theatre in 2023
BU alum and current student play same character, 70 years apart
Will Lyman (CFA’71) and Jesse Kodama (CFA’25) on Prayer for the French Republic‘s exploration of fear, hope, and family. They portrayed the same character, separated by a lifetime, in the Huntington Theatre Company play.
CFA Costume Designers Help Swedish Company Stitch Together a New Rigoletto
SOT director Susan Mickey and four BU students spent July in the countryside working with Opera på Skäret
A Singular Light
As one of the country’s only professional Deaf lighting designers, Annie Wiegand (CFA’10) is pushing artistic boundaries and working to increase industry diversity and access
CFA alum helps to foster community-building through the arts
The Jar curator-in-residence Ireon Roach (CFA’21) says the arts organization uses art to help people “to see others in themselves a little more clearly and authentically.”
Backstage Pass
Design & production alums make shows like Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera and ESPN’s Sportscenter come to life.
Huntington Theatre Company’s Teenage Dick Reunites BU Alums and Longtime Friends
Moritz von Stuelpnagel (CFA’00), the play’s director, and Gregg Mozgala (CFA’00) have been friends since they roomed together during a study abroad semester in London more than 20 years ago.
Broadway is Back
As casts and crews return to the stage, many productions want to flip the scripts—to right systemic wrongs. BU alums working on Broadway chime in on how they see the industry growing.
Stage Magic
From Disney On Ice to Monster Jam, How Feld Entertainment Has Revolutionized Live Family Entertainment. Photo of Jurassic World Live Tour courtesy of Feld Entertainment
Playwright Kirsten Greenidge is Daring Her Audiences
BU playwright Kirsten Greenidge has adapted, with Emerson College theater director Melia Bensussen, Tony Lukas’ 1985 Pulitzer Prize–winning book Common Ground for the stage. The Huntington Theatre Company production of their piece, Common Ground Revisited, played at the Calderwood Pavilion Wimberly Theatre in 2022.
A Standout at SpeakEasy Stage Company
Acting student Mishka Yarovoy (CFA’23) is getting noticed in Tony winner The Inheritance
