Boston Playwrights’ Theatre will present Boston Theater Marathon XXVIII, featuring 50 ten-minute plays by New England playwrights. The one-day event will include performances by 50 theatre companies and benefit the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre launched its new play support program — the New Play Incubator at BPT — with four projects playing at BPT between March and August 2026.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre will present ZABEL IN EXILE, a new play exploring timely themes, from February 19 to March 8. Learn more about the upcoming production here!
The Native Performing Arts Network will lead a National Day of Theater Readings for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) on May 5, 2026.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre has announced Walt McGough and Deirdre Girard as the recipients of the Jack Welch Developmental Residency and Fellowship.
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!
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.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre has announced Boston Theater Marathon XXVII, featuring 50 ten-minute plays written by 50 New England playwrights and presented by 50 New England theatre companies
Great Barrington Public Theater has fully cast its first show of the Summer 2025 season. How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos is a world premiere production by up and coming playwright Maggie Kearnan.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) will continue its 2024-25 season with its Spring Rep Festival beginning next month. Learn more about the full lineup here!
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) has announced its 2024-2025 season. The line-up includes four dynamic new plays by playwrights in their final year of Boston University’s MFA in Playwriting Program, a public reading of a play-in-progress by the recipient of the Jack Welch Developmental Residency and Boston Theater Marathon XXVII.
Plays in Place, in collaboration with the National Parks of Boston, has announced “Suffrage in Black and White” a three-play series exploring the intersection of race and citizenship throughout the abolitionist and suffrage movements in Boston.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company reveals the cast for the free Shakespeare on the Common production of THE WINTER'S TALE, running from July 16 to August 4.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre has announced Boston Theater Marathon XXVI, featuring 50 ten-minute plays written by 50 New England playwrights and presented by 50 New England theatre companies.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre will continue its 2023-24 season with Driving in Circles, a tour-de-force new musical, written, composed and performed by Jay Eddy.
Boston Playwrights' Theatre has announced the first recipient of the Jack Welch Developmental Residency, Boston University Playwriting alumna Abbey Fenbert for her play Kill the Magistrate.
Geva Theatre presents Mr. Parent, a deeply felt and hilarious solo performance based on Maurice Emmanuel Parent's experiences as a teacher in the Boston Public School System.
Get ready for the highly anticipated production of 'Mr. Parent' by Melinda Lopez, featuring Maurice Emmanuel Parent, at Boston Playwrights Theatre. This deeply felt and hilarious solo performance explores the challenges of being an actor turned teacher and the search for belonging. Don't miss out on this thought-provoking show!
The first production of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s season will be the hilarious and heartbreaking Mr. Parent, written by Melinda Lopez with Maurice Emmanuel Parent, conceived with and directed by BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian. Learn how to purchase tickets!
Artistic Director Loretta Greco and The Huntington’s staff have announced the return of the Huntington Playwrighting Fellows Summer Workshop 2023 (July 15 – July 16, 2023).
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