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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

Photo: A picture of the exterior of Faneuil Hall. There are tents and many people walking outside

Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 3 to 6

April 2, 2025

Ava Cronin (CFA’26) (left) as Anna Antonelli, owner of a dilapidated roller skating rink, and Charlotte Campo (CFA’26) as her daughter, Angel, during a rehearsal for The Rink. Photos by Jake Belcher

Theatre

School of Theatre Presents Tony-Nominated Musical The Rink at Booth Theatre

November 21, 2024

Photo: At the completion of the program, the Brighter Boston team records STOMP performances in the set they built and lit

Theatre

BU’s Booth Theatre Helps Boston Public Schools Students and Grads Set the Stage for Success

August 26, 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 people holding up trash bags with items in them

Weekender

The Weekender: April 18 to 21

April 17, 2024

Photo: The inside of the Boston Public library, with ornate wood and stonework among large rows of seats

Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 4 to 7

April 3, 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 shot of a pond in Omstead Park full of dead branches of winter and two geese swimming in the pond.

Weekender

The Weekender: February 29 to March 3

February 28, 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: 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

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

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

Arts & Culture

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

August 25, 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

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

Composite image of stills from videos of BU classes being taught remote. In the bottom left, Maura Smith, a College of Communication master lecturer in film, is seen standing at a standing desk. In the top left and bottom right, Yo-EL Cassell, a College of Fine Arts assistant professor of movement, reads from a computer and demonstrates movements. In the top right, students for Yo-EL's class are seen moving in door frames.

Remote & Innovative

The Challenge of Remotely Teaching Classes That Usually Demand Hands-on Learning and Collaboration

May 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Susan Mickey.

Theatre

Susan Mickey Brings a Designer’s Eye to the School of Theatre

February 20, 2020

Susan Mickey Brings a Designer’s Eye to the School of Theatre