Julia Ward Howe News

Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) will continue its 2025-26 season with Mother Mary by KJ Moran Velz, running October 9-26. Learn more about the production here!

The Handel and Haydn Society has announced the selection of emerging instrumentalists Eliana Estrada (violin) and Sarah Ghandour (cello) as Stone Fellows for the 2025-2027 seasons, following a competitive live audition process.

The Handel and Haydn Society and Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen have revealed the new appointments for the 2025-26 season. Learn more about the musicians here!

The Handel and Haydn Society is now receiving applications from string instrumentalists for the 2025-2027 cohort of the H+H Stone Fellowship, a prestigious two-year fellowship for emerging musicians pursuing careers in period performance of Baroque and Classical music.

Make the season bright with the beauty of Baroque music as the Handel and Haydn Society welcomes Ruben Valenzuela, Founder and Artistic Director of Bach Collegium San Diego to lead this year's ‘Baroque Christmas' concerts at NEC's Jordan Hall, Dec 19 and 22.

For the 171st consecutive year, the Handel and Haydn Society will present Handel’s glorious Messiah, performing on period instruments like those Handel knew and composed for.

Great Barrington Public Theater and The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, MA, will bring to stage a cry for universal liberty and the power of the vote that remains as clear in 2023 as it was over a century and a half ago when Julia Ward Howe delivered it to the Boston Radical Club.  

The annual writing contests for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival (TWFest) and Saints + Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival (SASFest) are open to submissions now until October in fiction, poetry, and one-act plays.

GBPT Artistic Director Jim Frangione and Executive Director Deann Simmons Halper have announced the appointment of Judy Braha to the newly created position, Associate Artistic Director. In that capacity she will play an integral role choosing and creatively programming future productions and developing new work.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the two recipients of the 2023 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater. Both winning musicals will receive funds toward their presentation in staged readings at nonprofit theaters in New York City.

Great Barrington Public Theater will present three outstanding new plays on two stages, in performance June to August. Learn more about the lineup here!

Representation and How to Get It, a new solo show that celebrates women & voting rights will play the United Solo Theatre Festival on Saturday, October 29, 2022 @ 8:30pm at Theatre Row.

The new one-woman show, Representation and How to Get It, is an urgent story about women, voting rights, and democracy. It will be presented at United Solo Theatre Festival Saturday, October 29, 2022 @ 8:30pm.

The winners of the 2022 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Both musicals received Staged Reading Awards.

The Providence Performing Arts Center announced today, on Flag Day, that the theatre will host a FREE virtual Wonders of the Wurlitzer concert with PPAC House Organist Peter Edwin Krasinski on Independence Day.

The winners of the 2021 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The winners are: The Monster by Chelsea Marcantel, Michael Mahler, and Alan Schmuckler, Oratorio for Living Things by Heather Christian, and TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix by EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn.

The winners of the 2021 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each musical received a Studio Production Award.

The winners of the 2020 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the Green by Grace McLean AND The Loophole by Jay Adana and Zeniba Now Each musical received a Staged Reading Award.

The Handel and Haydn Society and the Museum of African American History present the Emancipation Proclamation Concert. This special event will also mark the 2,500th performance by the Handel and Haydn Society in its history. Part of Boston's First Night celebration, the concert will take place at the historic Trinity Church in Copley Square Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 1:00 pm with Scott Allen Jarrett conducting. The performance will include narration by poet Regie Gibson of passages from the Emancipation Proclamation. The concert is free and open to the public.

The winners of the 2019 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.