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Photo taken of Michael Underhill (left, Ferdinand), John Douglas Thompson (Prospero), and Nora Eschenheimer (Miranda) in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, running on the Boston Common through August 8. The trio was long, sand-colored clothing and extend their hands towards one another while standing at the front of a stage covered with sand.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common

July 27, 2021

Zoom screenshot including playwright, screenwriter, and actor Tarell McCraney (center square), who visited the African American Theatre class taught by Harvey Young, dean of the College of Fine Arts (top center).

Theatre

Zooming in to African American Theater

May 5, 2021

Photo of Elaine Vaan Hogue (CFA’97), left, and Valyn Turner (CFA’23) play Grammy Sophie and her granddaughter Esme in the Wheelock Family Theatre virtual production of Walking the Tightrope. Turner wears red overalls and a stripped rainbow shirt, and Hogue wears a blue button down and sits at a table with a blue and yellow checkered tablecloth.

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre’s Walking the Tightrope a Story of Love and Loss as Experienced by Two Generations

April 30, 2021

Bevin O'Gara pushes her son Henry on a swing at a park near their home in Jamaica Plain

Theatre

Boston Theater Marathon Returns (Virtually) to Help Artists Hit by Pandemic

March 31, 2021

Photo of stage light shining directly down onto a stage in a completely dark room.

Voices & Opinion

POV: What the Biden-Harris Administration Can Do to “Build Back Better” the Arts

February 13, 2021

A photo of cast members sitting on the Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in the Boston Public Garden

Theatre

Make Way for Ducklings Musical Adaptation by Wheelock Family Theatre Streams over Zoom Saturday

December 4, 2020

A photo of Pygmalion cast members rehearsing via Zoom on July 21

Stage Troupe

BU Stage Troupe Hosts Virtual Summer Festival

July 24, 2020

Composite image headshots for playwrights Melinda Lopez, Kate Snodgrass, and Kirsten Greenidge

Huntington Theatre Company

Dreaming of Boston, When the Pandemic Is Behind Us

July 24, 2020

Composite image of the 2020 Kahn Awards winners; clockwise from left, top: Diana Walsh, Tak-Cheung Hui, Saskia Martinez, Alex Stern, Nicholas Walker, Eric Carey.

Student Awards

2020 Kahn Career Entry Awards Go to Six CFA Graduates

May 20, 2020

Composite image of stills from videos of BU classes being taught remote. In the bottom left, Maura Smith, a College of Communication master lecturer in film, is seen standing at a standing desk. In the top left and bottom right, Yo-EL Cassell, a College of Fine Arts assistant professor of movement, reads from a computer and demonstrates movements. In the top right, students for Yo-EL's class are seen moving in door frames.

Remote & Innovative

The Challenge of Remotely Teaching Classes That Usually Demand Hands-on Learning and Collaboration

May 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Susan Mickey.

Theatre

Susan Mickey Brings a Designer’s Eye to the School of Theatre

February 20, 2020

A photo of the "Little Women: The Broadway Musical" production with the characters Jo, Amy, Beth, Meg and Marmee.

Arts & Culture

Wheelock Family Theatre Presents Little Women: The Broadway Musical

January 31, 2020

Chelsea Kerl works with a pile of orange tool that will be a skirt

Arts & Culture

Bringing a Whale of a Show to Life

December 11, 2019

Someone uses the light studio to play around with lighting in the Booth theatre

Arts & Culture

Behind the Scenes at BU: Light and Sound Lab at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre

December 9, 2019

The House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill listens to a testimony from U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor

Politics

POV: Relax, Devin Nunes: Theater Is Essential to Politics

November 25, 2019

Food from Clover Labs

Weekender

The Weekender: November 21 to 24

November 20, 2019

Billy Meleady performs onstage

Theatre

This Immigrant Story Is a Rhyming Monologue

November 7, 2019

Ricky Holguin (left) as Willy Wonka, Jamie Leslie as Charlie Bucket, and Neil A. Casey as Grandpa Joe in Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre Opens 39th Season with Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka

October 24, 2019

The cast of The Exonerated during a rehearsal at the Booth Theatre

Arts & Culture

CFA Presents Searing Drama of Wrongfully Convicted Inmates

October 18, 2019

Weekender

The Weekender: October 17 to 20

October 16, 2019

The Weekender: October 17 to 20