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Photo: Anderson Stinson III, a black man wearing a camp and suspenders with trousers, center stars in the play as Bud with David Jiles Jr., right, during rehearsal at Wheelock Family Theatre, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Photo by Jake Belcher

Wheelock Family Theatre

Bud, Not Buddy Closes Out Wheelock Family Theatre’s 2022–2023 Season

April 13, 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

Bonnie Shao [playing Quack] and Echo Kaufman [Playing Mack] throw their hands in the air in the duck costumes they wear for Make Way For Ducklings, a musical at the Wheelock Family Theatre.

Things-to-do

Make Your Way to Make Way for Ducklings, the Musical at Wheelock Family Theatre

February 16, 2023

Photo: A group of ballerinas wearing tuts pose and dance in the center of a stage. The spotlight is on the center ballerina, who wears a white tutu. Other ballerinas all wearing matching pink tutus dance around her.

Things-to-do

Need Ideas of How to Celebrate the Holiday Season in Boston?

December 20, 2022

The Boston Pops performing its Holiday Pops concert at Symphony Hall in 2021. This year’s holiday show will be performed December 1 to 24. Photo by Stu Rosner

Things-to-do

14 Live Holiday Performances That Will Keep You Feeling Merry and Bright

November 30, 2022

Kira Troilo (left) as Miss Honey and Sky Fuller as Matilda in a scene from Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of "Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the Musical". An older woman and a young girl wearing a school uniform look off tot he distance with looks of wonder on their faces.

Wheelock Family Theatre

Matilda, a Most Remarkable Heroine, Takes the Stage at Wheelock Family Theatre

October 20, 2022

Andrew Bearden Brown (CFA’22) plays the Stage Manager in Our Town, an opera based on Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning play, one of this year’s Fringe Festival offerings. Our Town runs Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29, in the CFA Concert Hall. Photo by Cydney Scott

Arts & Culture

Curtains Open on 2022 CFA Fringe Festival

October 20, 2022

Mishka Yarovoy (CFA’23), who plays Oskar, the bullied boy next door, with Leah Hohhauser (CFA’24) in a scene from Let the Right One In. The two actors are close friends.

Arts & Culture

There Will Be Blood at the Booth Theatre for Halloween

October 19, 2022

Photo: Angela Lansbury presented with an honorary degree by Jon Westling (Hon.’03), then BU president ad interim, at the University’s May 20,1990, Commencement. Lansbury stands on stage wearing a red ceremonial graduation gown as Westling stands behind a podium to her right in a black set of robes.

Film & TV

Angela Lansbury’s Surprising Boston University Ties

October 13, 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

The hot fried chicken sandwich at Hot Chix Boston. Photo courtesy of Hot Chix Boston

Things-to-do

The Weekender: October 6 to 10

October 5, 2022

The many faces of Judith Kalaora (clockwise from top left): as Deborah Sampson, the first woman to enlist in the American military; as 19th-century philanthropist Madam Sarah Derby; as early suffragist Lucy Stone; as Rachel Walker Revere, wife of Paul Revere; as Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth US president; as Hollywood actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr; as teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe; and as Princess Diana. Photo of Sampon by Vincent Morreale; of Derby, Madison, and McAuliffe by Al Conant; of Stone by Chris Cavalier; of Revere by Claudio Gustafson; of Hedy Lamarr by Chris Beasley; of Princess Diana by Greg Anthony

Theater

Judith Kalaora Brings History To Life

September 23, 2022

As a CAS associate professor of the practice of playwriting, Nathan Alan Davis will run the University’s MFA Playwriting Program, and Megan Sandberg-Zakian is the new artistic director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Here the two stand back to back on Commonwealth Ave outside the theatre. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

BU Theatre

Longtime Collaborators Raising the Curtain on a New Era for Playwriting at BU

August 25, 2022

Photo of the company of Much Ado About Nothing during a dress rehersal. On stage, seven people people are seven. At right, a person dressed as a park ranger looks upset and shakes a baton at young people dresses in camoflauge pants and green vests at right. Behind those folks, what appear to be cub scouts are seen. At the back, underneath a trellis, a Black woman reads from a binder.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Shakespeare on the Common

July 26, 2022

Photo of BU playwright Kirsten Greenidge, aBlack woman with long, straight Black hair. She leans against a door wearing a white blouse as glasses res atop her head. The poster for "Common Ground Revisited" can be seen on the wall behind her.

Theatre

Can the Play Common Ground Revisited, about Boston’s Busing Crisis, Reach 21st-Century Audiences Like the 1985 Book?

June 9, 2022

The cast of A Strange Loop, the acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson, is nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including best sound design of a musical for Drew Levy (CFA’03,’04). The show, which won the Pulitzer Prize for best drama, explores sexuality, race, and gender. Here the cast is pictured in full costume, standing in a line looking at the camera. Photo by Marc J. Franklin

Theatre

Terriers Heading to the Tonys Sunday

June 7, 2022

Mishka Yarovoy (CFA’23) stands barefoot centerstage in the scene where his two characters meet in SpeakEasy Stage’s production of Matthew Lopez’s Tony Award–winning drama, The Inheritance. Photo by Nile Scott Studios

Theatre

A Standout at SpeakEasy Stage Company

June 1, 2022

Photo the cast and crew, including artist in residence Paolo Scoppola, middle, of Exit the King running a tech rehearsal April 27 at CFA’s Studio One. A large golden throne is seen center stage; behind it, a wall that reads "EXIT THE KING" in blue and is splattered with red paint. At right, an actor, Declan Schliesmann (CFA’22), dressed as a king with red and gold robes sits and practices his lines, script in hand. Scoppola, in black pants, crimson shirt, and a face mask is seen at left.

Theater Technology

Exit the King, and Enter Random Actor

May 3, 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 Judy Braha (CFA’08) at a rehearsal for Shakespeare in Love. Braha wears a long, light blue button-down and black jeans. She's a white woman with short, gray hair. Behind her, in a room with wooden floor, five students are seen rehearsing dance moves.

Theatre

CFA’s Judy Braha Caps BU Career Directing Shakespeare in Love

April 28, 2022

CFA’s Judy Braha Caps BU Career Directing Shakespeare in Love