Abigail Adams News

Nationally acclaimed Boston-based vocal ensemble Lorelei Ensemble announces the 2022-2023 premiere performances of composer Julia Wolfe's Her Story, a 30-minute piece for orchestra and women's vocal ensemble.

Co-director and A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus discusses reckoning with American history in 1776. Watch here!

Special Offer: NJ Premiere of Dominique Morisseau's MUD ROW at Premiere Stages

Premiere Stages at Kean University will present the New Jersey Premiere of Dominique Morisseau's Mud Row July 14-31 in Kean University's Bauer Boucher Theatre Center.

Get a first look at the trailer here for the new Diane Paulus directed production of 1776!

Mistaken identities and foolhardy love affairs abound in The Vinegar Tree, Paul Osborn's rarely produced 1930 comedy of manners, directed by Abigail Adams and onstage at People's Light June 29 through July 24.

Massachusetts Senator and American Repertory Theater fan Elizabeth Warren attended 1776 on Thursday, June 16.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced principal casting for its new to Chicago production of Fiddler on the Roof, the North American premiere of an internationally heralded reinvention of the Broadway classic, set to hit the Lyric stage this Fall.

On May 26 following the Harvard University Commencement, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson attended the Opening performance of American Repertory Theater’s revival of 1776.

All new photos have been released for the pre-Broadway engagement of 1776, opening tonight at the American Repertory Theatre!

Premiere Stages at Kean University has announced its 2022 season, featuring three new plays from regional dramatists. The season will kick off in July with the New Jersey Premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Mud Row.

The Broadway-bound production of 1776 began performances last week at American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and we've got the first photos of the cast and the new production.

Following their recent leadership transition in which Producing Artistic Director Zak Berkman succeeded former Executive Artistic Director Abigail Adams, People's Light announces an exciting expansion of their artistic team with four new appointments.

Following their recent leadership transition in which Producing Artistic Director Zak Berkman succeeded former Executive Artistic Director Abigail Adams, People’s Light has announce an exciting expansion of their artistic team with four new appointments. Broadway-favorite Steve H. Broadnax III (Thoughts of a Colored Man) transitions from Resident Director to People’s Light Associate Artistic Director.

Theatre444 presents the popular musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor.

Pilgrim Festival Chorus, the region's principal community chorus, presents its spring season concert, A Woman's Voice, on Saturday, May 7 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, May 8 at 4 pm, at St. Bonaventure Parish, 803 State Road, Plymouth. The concert, co-directed by William B. Richter and Elizabeth Chapman Reilly, features instrumentalist Adam Grüschow, bassoon.

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University announced today the full cast and creative team of its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Go inside the first day of rehearsals!

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University announced the full cast and creative team of its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. 

People's Light will honor former Executive Artistic Director Abigail Adams at their spring fundraising  gala on April 29, 2022. After many years of service and immense artistic contributions, Adams passed the reins of artistic leadership to Producing Artistic Director Zak Berkman on March 1st.

The Lakewood Cultural Center and Performance Now Theatre Company present America’s Tony Award-winning musical “1776,” March 18th through April 3rd. Witness the birth of a nation as our forefathers struggle to craft the Declaration of Independence. The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most beautiful and unconventional Broadway hit.