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Playwrights' Theatre

Things to Do for Family and Friends Weekend at BU

October 15, 2025

Photo: Two women on a stage sitting on a couch

Theatre

Stories of Love and Resistance on Stage at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre This Season

October 10, 2025

Photo: A performer stands in the middle of a stage lit with blue spot lights, a keyboardist and bassist flank the singer in the center

Theatre

Driving in Circles: A Story of Healing through Rock Music and Comedy

March 21, 2024

Photo: A women stands outside in the cold with three statues. There are dead trees behind her, indicating it is winter.

WOMEN'S MEMORIAL

Women Making History Today Give Voice to Past Trailblazers at Boston Women’s Memorial

January 18, 2024

Photo: Maurice Parent, a tall, bald Black man wearing a long-sleeved burgundy, striped collared shirt and jeans, holds one hand to his hip. His other hand is formed into the "phone" motion as he mimes talking into a phone on a stage.

Theatre

One-Man Show about an Actor’s Time Teaching in Boston Schools Opens Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Season

October 6, 2023

Photo: Jay Eddy (CGS’23) (left), the writer, composer and performer of Alligator-A-Phobia in 3D!, clowning around with director Shamus (CFA’23) on set. A woman with red hair and wearing a purple jump suit is shown mid-air as she jumps with a large, blow-up alligator in her arms. To he right, a man with dark brown curly hair and wearing a teal shirt and jeans peaks out from behind a set piece window. He has puppet alligators on his hands as looks to the woman to his left.

Theatre

Alligator-a-Phobia in 3-D! at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Chomps on Our Anxieties

April 6, 2023

Photo: exterior of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. An old building with elaborate Greek style arches is shown.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: December 16 to 18

December 15, 2022

Director Shamus (left) and Playwright J.C. Pankratz pose for a photo at Boston Playwrights Theater on the set of Pankratz’s dark comedy Eat Your Young. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Theater at BU

Curtain’s Up on Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s 2022-2023 Season

October 5, 2022

Photo of Kate Snodgrass, a middle aged White woman with a gray bob, who wears a dark blue scarf with white pattern. She sits on the corner of a couch, presumably in her office, where framed awards and playbills hang on the wall behind her.

Faculty

Curtain Call for Kate Snodgrass (GRS’90) at BU and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

June 23, 2022

Photo of Mita Das, (left), a Bentley University Senior Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences and Prreeti Tiwari, right of South Windsor, CT, rehearsing for the Playwright's Theatre marathon. Das wears a green vest, white long sleeve, black pants and wears no shoes. She is a brown woman with brown hair. She sits on a stool and leans over to Tiwari, putting her hand on her knee. Tiwari, a brown woman with short black hair, looks forlorn, and wears bright yellow overalls.

Theatre

Boston Theater Marathon Returns to Live, In-Person Performances—and to BU

April 28, 2022

Photo of a rehearsal featuring: fEmma Permé (CAS'22) as Demetrius, Ian Aquino (COM'23) as Helena, Anoushka Thakur (CAS’23) as Hippolyta (she also plays Titania), Elizabeth Kostina (CAS'24) as Theseus, Gayane Kaligian (CAS'22) as Egeus, Carolyn (Carrie) Welter (CAS'22) as Hermia, and Ella Moran (CAS'25) as Lysander. They all wear shiny clothing, and rainbow pastel-colored curtains hang behind them.

Theatre

Back to the Stage: BU’s Shakespeare Society Puts On A Midsummer Night’s Dream

November 5, 2021

A photo of the Museum of Science in Boston

Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 22 to 25

April 22, 2021

Bevin O'Gara pushes her son Henry on a swing at a park near their home in Jamaica Plain

Theatre

Boston Theater Marathon Returns (Virtually) to Help Artists Hit by Pandemic

March 31, 2021

Composite image headshots for playwrights Melinda Lopez, Kate Snodgrass, and Kirsten Greenidge

Huntington Theatre Company

Dreaming of Boston, When the Pandemic Is Behind Us

July 24, 2020

Conrad Sunqvist-Olmos as Rob and Kayla Lian as Shaun perform a scene in Laura Neill’s Winter People.

Arts & Culture

Winter People Shines a Light on a Different Side of the Hamptons

December 13, 2018

George Washington Boston Public Garden

Playwrights' Theatre

Celebrating Presidents’ Day Weekend

February 12, 2016

Melissa Jesser (from left), Amanda Collins, and Evan Horwitz as college friends whose lives are upturned by a campus assault in Melinda Lopez’s Back the Night. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

Theatre

A Tangled Web of Campus Sexual Assault

February 10, 2016

Uncle Jack by the Boston Center for American Performance and Boston Playwrights' Theatre

Playwrights' Theatre

Modern Retelling of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at BU Theatre

February 27, 2015

Chosen Child, Monica Bauer, Boston Playwrights Theatre

Theatre

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Stages Monica Bauer’s Chosen Child

November 19, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Fine Arts CDA, playwrights, National Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Mark Twain Comedy Writing Award

Arts on Campus

BU Playwrights Triumph at Kennedy Center Festival

June 9, 2014

BU Playwrights Triumph at Kennedy Center Festival