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Photo: Three women in a theater production onstage in costumes

Theatre

29th Annual CFA Fringe Festival Puts Women in the Spotlight

October 9, 2025

Image: A graphic with the title "Hello, Dolly!" and a image of graphic with legs and a dress in silhouette.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Hello, Dolly! at the Lyric Stage Boston

June 3, 2025

Photo: A movie still of Rachel Zegler in Disney's new "Snow White" film

Film & TV

New Snow White Hit by Avalanche of Controversy

March 20, 2025

Photo: Yo-El leads his class in body movements in a studio.

Theatre

Yo-EL Cassell’s Students Discover the J.O.Y. in Movement

November 8, 2024

Schanaya Barrows as Chloe, Sydney Jackson (CFA’26) as Dailyn, and Asilinn Brophy as Nat in Kirsten Greenidge’s Morning, Noon, and Night, a Company One production with Boston University. Photo by Ken Yotsukura

Theatre

BU Plays a Big Role in New Production from Boston’s Company One Theatre

April 29, 2024

Photo: Keith Robinson (CFA’24) and Sarah Coleman (CFA’24) star as George and Dot in the College of Fine Arts School of Theatre’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which runs from April 25-28 at the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre. Photo by Katie Nelson

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George Opens at Booth Theatre

April 24, 2024

Photo: A picture of a woman on stage. Also on the stage are various pieces of furniture, including a couple lamps and tables

Theatre

For CFA’s Head of Acting, Huntington Role Required Discretion, Listening

March 29, 2024

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 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: 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: Summer Sage, played by Michaela Lazarou (CFA’24) does a unique interpretative dance as she holds her arms out and throws her head back towards the ceiling. To her right, behind a colorfully painted kitchen island, stand Candy Baker, played by Katie McRae (CFA’23), and Lil Bub, played by Aidan Close (CFA’23). Both look on in shock and awe.

Arts on Campus

Art House Is BU’s Homegrown Sitcom

May 10, 2023

Photo: Jaden Bridges (CFA’25), in tank top, and Talia Sulla (CFA’23) rehearsing for Nathan Alan Davis’ “Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea,” directed by Malika Oyetimein, April 18. Photo by Will Chapman (COM’26)

Theatre

Nathan Alan Davis’ Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea Opens at CFA’s Studio ONE

April 26, 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

Film & TV

The 2023 Academy Awards Are Sunday Night: Here’s What to Watch For

March 8, 2023

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

Collage: (left) Photo of Lilia Buckingham. A young white woman with long blonde hair poses in front of a blue Hocus Pocus 2 backdrop. She wears a light, sequined gown and matching gloves. (right) Movie Poster for the Hocus Pocus 2 movie. Poster features headshots of the three main witches and the teen protagonists below them in a purple and black theme. Gold words below all of them read "Hocus Pocus 2".

Film & TV

BU Student Stars in Hocus Pocus 2

October 11, 2022

Photo of Nora Kempner (center) a 17-year-old high school student from Medway, Mass., who is enrolled in the BU Summer Theatre Institute’s design program. Kempner is a young White woman with wavy hair, pulled back, wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts. She sits at a table with lighting controls and a screen and smiles as she shows her lighting scene design with classmates. Other students can be seen seated behind her in the darkened room.

Theater

CFA Summer Program Gives High Schoolers an Intro to College-Level Theater

August 3, 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 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

Photo of Wendy Lippe (GRS’93,’96), here rehearsing for the Psych Drama Company’s audio productions. She wears a knee-length gray dress and a blue face mask and reclines on a red therapy-looking couch with a script in her hand.

Theatre

Audio Versions of Plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams on Offer from Alum’s Local Drama Company

September 9, 2021

Audio Versions of Plays by Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams on Offer from Alum’s Local Drama Company