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Photo: From (left to right) Luis Negron playing Gomez Addams, Aimee Doherty as Morticia Addam, Jack Baumrind as Pugsley Addams, Sam David Cohen as Lurch, Jane Stabb as Grandma, Emilia Tagliani and Timothy Bevens as Lucas Beineke, act out a scene during a dress rehearsal for the play, The Addams Family at Wheelock Family Theatre. A group of people dressed in spooky black, emo attire act out a scene on stage as the rest of the cast looks on.

Theatre

The Addams Family Opens Wheelock Family Theatre’s 2023–2024 season

October 12, 2023

Photo: A woman in a blue dress next to a woman in a red shirt who appears to be yelling performs in front of a room of students watching from chairs in the background

Theatre

All the World’s a Stage at 27th Annual CFA Fringe Festival

October 12, 2023

Photo: Photo: Ben Stiller, a white man with graying hair wears a dark, dusty blue button up with similar color shirt and slacks. He sits in a plush chair on a wooden stage, hands up, talking. Next to him, in another plush chair, is Jeff Kahn, another white man with a blue button up, a pinstripe blazer, and the same color pants as Stiller. He is smiling as he talks, faced in the same direction towards the audience as Stiller is.

GUEST SPEAKER

Emmy Award–Winning Comedian Ben Stiller Latest Cinemathèque Speaker

October 10, 2023

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: A platter of three steak and jalapeno tacos with limes on the side

Things-To-Do

Celebrate National Taco Day Today

October 4, 2023

Photo: Cast of the play Refuge Plays, with many people in suits and other fancy colorful clothes.

Theatre

BU’s Nathan Alan Davis’ The Refuge Plays Opens Off Broadway

October 3, 2023

Composite image: Multiple young people in fashionable outfits are cropped together into a single image on top of a rainbow gradient background

Style on Campus

Comm Ave Runway: October Edition

October 3, 2023

Photo: Writers from the Writers Guild of America picketing outside Paramount Pictures Studios

Film & TV

BU Hollywood Writer Alums React with Joy, Relief to End of 148-Day Strike

October 2, 2023

Image: collage of artists either hosting concerts in Boston in October 2023 or with new albums coming out in September. Black background with outline-font white lines features photos of Joji, Maluma, and Kim Petras. Each photo has white, polaroid-style borders. At left, Joji performs in concert, mic in hand; he is a white man wearing a white tee shirt and cap on his head. At right, Kim Petras, a white young woman with platinum blonde hair and wearing a silky green dress and bold sunglasses, smiles on stage with mic in hand. Center, Maluma is shown performing in concert. A Hispanic man wearing a black vest and sunglasses performs with mic in hand on stage. Text on right behind image reads "What's Hot in Music" in a repeating pattern.

New Music

New Music October 2023: Local Boston Concerts, New Album Releases

October 2, 2023

Photo: A clown puppet from the movie "Saw"

Movie Quiz

Who Is the Lucky Saw X Fan?

September 29, 2023

Photo: An ornate library with many books are wood/stone carvings

Things-To-Do

The Weekender: September 28 to October 1

September 27, 2023

Photo: Two headshots side by side, one of a black man wearing glasses and one of a white woman wearing glasses

Poetry

Major Jackson, Award-Winning Poet and Host of The Slowdown Podcast, Reads from New Collection at Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Tonight

September 27, 2023

Photo: A man in a blue sweater with red hair laughs as he teaches a classroom full of college students

Books

Wesley Wildman on the Challenges and Joys of Writing Fiction after Work for Academic Audiences

September 26, 2023

Photo: Sharlene Chang (SHA’24) and Irene Kim (COM’23), two young Asian women sipping boba teas, smile and pose resting together. They sit in front of a backdrop of large boba tea recreations made out of cardboard and puff balls.

Watch Now

Video: Boba Showdown, Round Two

September 22, 2023

Photo: A person in an orange cardigan with glasses poses for a picture in front of a wall of books

Books

New Book by STH Lecturer, and Alum, Calls Out Christianity for Stigmatizing Fat People

September 22, 2023

Photo: Two dining hall works poses together as they work on preparing red lobsters for students in the dining hall.

Student Life

Lobster Night, One of BU Dining’s Most Popular Events, Is Tonight

September 21, 2023

Photo: Large trees with orange, yellow, and red leaves frame students on BU's campus as they sit and chat on and around a campus lawn on a sunny, warm autumn day in Boston.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: September 21 to 24

September 20, 2023

Photo: A black man in a beret and a collared shit with a suit jacket poses for a formal photo

Literature

Booker Prize–Winning Author Ben Okri to Deliver Ha Jin Lecture Tonight

September 20, 2023

Photo: Will Lyman (CFA’71), an older white man, sits in the audience chairs as he looks at the camera with a side eye, posed strong. Jesse Kodama (CFA’25), a younger white man with short brown hair, sits across from him, holding his head in his hand.

Arts & Culture

In Huntington Theatre Company’s Prayer for the French Republic, BU Alum and Current Student Play Same Character, 70 Years Apart

September 19, 2023

Photo: A bright image of a crusted quiche, with various amounts of vegetables like mushrooms, tomatoes, eggplant, and more. The round quiche sits on a bright, white table.

RECIPE SERIES

Easy Vegetable Quiche

September 18, 2023

Easy Vegetable Quiche