Elliot Norton News

If you've yet to experience Playgroup, now is your chance! Peterborough Players is bringing back the popular online workshop series this February, March, and April. The new series, which begins with popular company member Bridget Beirne presenting on Musical Theatre on February 12th  and 19th at 7:30pm, gives patrons and artists alike the opportunity to learn and discuss the elements that comprise the theatre they love.

Broadway's Lesli Margherita (Matilda, Dames at Sea), Nicholas Christopher (Hamilton, Miss Saigon), and Musical Director Andy Einhorn (Hello, Dolly, Carousel) will appear on On the Rocks Radio Show.

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University announces today that it will join Company One Theatre to present a reimagined digital version of C1’s critically acclaimed, Elliot Norton Award-winning production of Hype Man: a break beat play by Idris Goodwin. The story of friendship, hip-hop, and protest will be filmed this winter by The Loop Lab.

A new bi-lingual theatre project has launched this year in Chelsea: Teatro Chelsea! Teatro Chelsea creates theatre at the crossroads of languages, cultures, and histories, and seeks to amplify and honor the voices that speak to these unique experiences.

The Boston area’s newest bi-lingual theatre company, Teatro Chelsea, presents the North American premiere of Sonia se fue—the Spanish language translation of Sonia Flew by acclaimed Boston playwright Melinda Lopez.

Jefferson Mays is Scrooge again, and he's right on time.

Shakespeare & Company celebrates community on December 5th with New Horizons, a Virtual Gala.

American Repertory Theater has announced today Fall 2020 workshops offered through The Wellspring, a new partnership with the Harvard Center for Wellness and Health Promotion (CWHP).

“We are meant to go into the unknown.” This is the mantra of 2020-21 Monan Professor in Theatre Arts Paula Plum, a phrase given to her by her teachers, and it is serving her well this semester as she directs a challenging and unconventional Boston College production of William Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night.”

Arlekin Players Theatre, co-producer Sara Stackhouse of BroadBand Collaborative, and presenting partner Cherry Orchard Festival in NY, will present an evening dedicated to Armenia, featuring Hayk Demoyan, Director of the Aurora Prize and former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

Mad Cow Theatre and producer Hunter Arnold unofficially kicked off the holiday season early today, announcing that a special filmed version of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic A Christmas Carol starring one of the finest stage actors of our time, Tony Award® winner Jefferson Mays, will be released worldwide on Saturday, November 28.

American Repertory Theater has announced today details about the first three events in the theater's new Behind the Scenes series with the writers, directors, composers, and choreographers who are making work at the A.R.T.

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University announced today that the Virtually OBERON lineup now includes the digital stream of Dragon Mama, premiering Thursday, November 12 at 7:30PM.

Shakespeare & Company has announced the return of Martha Mitchell Calling by Jodi Rothe featuring critically acclaimed Annette Miller. This special 4-day only, new virtual adaptation is directed by filmmaker Mark Farrell, and runs October 28 - November 1, 2020. The riveting dark comedy re-examines the life and legacy of the flamboyant, and often outrageous, Martha Mitchell, who ultimately played the pivotal role in the downfall of Nixon's Presidency, after discovering the Watergate conspiracy.

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, November 1-7, 2020.

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) and Cherry Orchard Festival co-present Arlekin Players Theatre performing live online as part of BAC's Fall 2020 season of digital presentations. Free registration is required at bacnyc.org for State vs. Natasha Banina, which will be performed live on ZOOM October 12 and 14 at 8PM EDT.

During this uncertain time for the nation and the arts community, 1st Stage remains committed to creating diverse, modern work by leading playwrights and performers. Despite the prolonged theatre closure necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company delights in bringing you the same quality of beautiful, emotional, relatable stories that you could have otherwise seen on our stage.

Two prolific, award winning artists, Carl Hancock Rux and Mallory Catlett, both former artists in Mabou Mines' Resident Artist Program, embody the company's mission to foster the next generation of experimental theater artists and bring with them a strong vision for the future of Mabou Mines.

Amidst our recent heatwave, Dr. Heather Nathans, a theatre professor, practitioner, and writer raised by two historians, felt a particular physical connection to the stuffiness eighteenth century Bostonians would have undoubtedly experienced in theatres during the summer.

Boston Theater Company, the organization that produced Finish Line: A Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon, is excited to announce a one-time virtual preview performance of its newest work The Gay Agenda: A Documentary Play About the LGBTQ+ Community on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 8:00PM.