Elliot Norton News

Hub Theatre Company of Boston will kick off its highly anticipated 13th season with Eugène Ionesco's celebrated comedies The Bald Soprano & The Lesson directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Bryn Boice.

Michael Stuhlbarg is in the building! Or at least he was in the Robin Williams Center recently to chat about his incredible career on stage and screen. In addition to his many film credits, Stuhlbarg has starred in nine Broadway shows, the most recent being last season's Patriots, for which he received a Tony nomination. Watch in this video.

The Harbor Stage Company, Cape Cod's acclaimed artist-run ensemble, will head south this winter with their celebrated adapation of the iconic indie film My Dinner with André.

In the past few theater seasons, Sehnaz Dirik has enhanced her reputation for playing strong women.

Apollinaire Theatre Company will present Tina Satter’s IS THIS A ROOM, a verbatim play based on the FBI interrogation transcript of Reality Winner. The production runs December 12–January 11 at Chelsea Theatre Works.

Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain is set to make its European premiere next year at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Learn more about the production which will make the transfer from Broadway and find out how to get tickets here!

State Theatre New Jersey will present Richard Thomas in Mark Twain Tonight! By Hal Holbrook in November. Learn more about the upcoming production and how to get tickets here!

Get a first look at Bill Hanney's North Shore Music Theatre's production of THE CHER SHOW. The production is now on stage and plays through Sunday, November 2, 2025. 

Page 73 has announced 12 semifinalists for the 2026 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship: Benjamin Benne, Kate Cortesi, Alexa Derman, Ryan Drake, JuCoby Johnson, Aditya Joshi, Chad Kaydo, Adin Lenahan, Dhari Noel, Abigail C. Onwunali, Anike Sonuga, and Mallory Jane Weiss.

What did our critic think of TICK, TICK...BOOM! at The Umbrella Arts Center?

Get ready to turn back time as Bill Hanney's award-winning North Shore Music Theatre concludes the 70th Anniversary Subscription Season by with THE CHER SHOW. Learn more!

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) just announced its 2025-2026 season—a line-up of bold new plays that cross cultures, generations and borders, featuring stories of love, intersectionality and resistance.

When “Grease” premiered in 1971, the Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical about working-class teenagers at a Midwestern high school in the late 1950s was a gritty satire, first performed at a Chicago nightclub.

The full cast has been announced for Talene Monahon’s MEET THE CARTOZIANS, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer. The world premiere production kicks off Second Stage Theater’s  47th Season. We have all of the details here!

North Shore Music Theatre will continue its 70th Anniversary Season by taking audiences back to the 1950's with GREASE. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

Because of its great cultural and intellectual influence, Boston has been known as the Athens of America for centuries. That sobriquet is as true today as ever thanks to the area’s vibrant theater scene featuring pre-Broadway productions and national tours, Tony Award-winning regional theaters, and a host of other theater companies presenting everything from Shakespeare to classic and contemporary plays, musicals and concerts.

The Huntington will present a work-in-progress presentation of A Mongoose Speaks, written by Mahira Kakkar and directed by Danilo Gambini. Learn more.

Tennessee Williams found fame with 1944’s “The Glass Menagerie,” which is considered to be one of the gifted playwright’s most notable works along with “A Streetcar Named Desire, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Sweet Bird of Youth.” That status is being affirmed once again by the magnificent production of the drama now at Gloucester Stage through June 28.

Hub Theatre Company of Boston will launch its 12th season with The Understudy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck. Directed by five-time Elliot Norton Award winner Paula Plum, the production will run July 19 through August 2, 2025 at Club Café.

Shakespeare in Clark Park will celebrate its 20th anniversary with the world premiere of A Bottom's Dream, a bold, music-fueled reimagining of A Midsummer Night's Dream by acclaimed composer and librettist Jay Eddy.