BOSTON THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 218

Theatre Company of Boston returns to the (virtual) stage this fall with William Shakespeare's timeless comedy Much Ado About Nothing, directed and adapted by Bryn Boice.

Cola Concerts is bringing music back to Columbia with a star studded lineup to kick off the new series at the Columbia Speedway Entertainment Center.

Celebrity Series of Boston October--December streaming and live digital events featuring Takács Quartet, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan, and folk singer-songwriters Sara and Sean Watkins.

There's just two weeks left to submit nominations for the BroadwayWorld Boston Awards - which are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade!

There's just two weeks left to submit nominations for the BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards - which are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade!

The Handel and Haydn Society today announced major changes for the 2020-21 Season.

The Boch Center's new television music series, The Ghost Light Series, continues Friday, October 23rd at 7:30 PM on NECN with acclaimed singer songwriter and Stoughton, MA native Lori McKenna filmed live on-stage at the Wang Theatre.

The first-ever Boston Virtual Book Fair, to be held November 12-14, 2020, will launch with an all-day Paid Preview on Thursday, November 12.

Samuel Slater's Restaurant announced that it will host Three Funny Ladies, socially distanced limited capacity comedy dinners, featuring Kelly MacFarland, Laura Severse and Emily Ruskowski, on Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29.

In John Muir: Father of Our National Parks, HAP, LLC presents Living Historian J.

BabsonARTS has announced the Fall 2020 production from The Empty Space Theater Company (TEST) a curated series of 21st century monologues by Christina Anderson, Sam Chanse, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Idris Goodwin, Jen Silverman, and James Still, titled Altered States presented digitally on Vimeo, Novem

BSO will present an Encore BSO Recitals stream featuring a program of Schumann, Dukas, and Mozart, and two compositions by Richard Sebring, his Awaken! A New Day! for Alphorns and—music written in the wake of the killing of George Floyd—Listen, to the Cry of Your Fellow Man with former TMC Fell

This semester, UMass's venue is a space online instead of a stage.

Acronym TV presents Manifest Destiny's Child, a provocative, intelligent, and humorous meditation on how America lost its way and woke up in Trumplandia.

In 2015, the StageSource Gender Parity Task Force created the benchmark of '50/50 by 2020' - achieving a 50% representation of women in the New England theatre employment by the year 2020.

Strange Trace, a new opera company in the Boston and New England area with world-wide digital reach, has released a recording of a new horror opera, The Missing Piece.

Boston Baroque is introducing Biber's The Mystery Sonatas as the next full-length concert release on Boston Baroque Live.

As organizations convene to release comprehensive anti-racism plans, put out public relations fires as past transgressions come back into focus, and tighten their deadly clutch around maintaining a season subscription model, op eds and interviews circulate as leaders are asked, “what’s next?”

Mark Volpe, Eunice and Julian Cohen BSO President and CEO; Andris Nelsons, Ray and Maria Stata BSO Music Director; and Keith Lockhart, Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor have released a joint statement about the cancellation of the 2020 Holiday Pops series.

In celebration of Halloween – and the quest to continue making new online entertainment -- on Thursday, October 29 at 7pm, the Provincetown Theater will premiere its first play created exclusively for virtual consumption with the haunting Hallow's Eve tale Ghost Light: A Provincetown Ghost Story.

Miniature Masterpieces: Russian Lacquer Boxes, an exhibition featuring more than 100 intricately painted lacquer boxes widely renowned for their exquisite detail and bright colors will be on view at the Museum of Russian Icons, October 30, 2020 – March 31, 2021.

There have been many ups and downs for me while being home.

Wheelock Family Theatre embarks on an exciting journey this fall, THE 2020 VISION PLAYWRITING PROJECT.

The Boston Globe has reported that Peter DuBois, artistic director of Huntington Theatre Company is stepping down amid complaints from current and former staffers and an investigation from the board.

Break a Leg Theater Works, one of the premier performing arts programs on the South Shore, announced today co-founders Kyle Wrentz and Healy Sammis are producing and directing a COVID-safe virtual movie presentation of Jordan Wolfe's Off-Broadway hit, 'Night of the Living Dead! The Musical!' - high