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Arts & Culture

Inner Strength Gospel Choir Finds Its Way Under New Director

April 17, 2025

Ella Benjamin (CFA’25) as Desdemona (left) and Lana Breheney (CFA’25) as Emilia in CFA’s DESDEMONA a play about a handkerchief, which runs at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theater April 16 to 19.

Theatre

Forget “Barbenheimer.” Try “Desdemilia.”

April 16, 2025

Photo: An exhibit from Boston University's MFA thesis exhibition. Thre are many red-toned prints hung on a wall

Fine Arts

Dozens of Dazzling Projects on View in Annual School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions

April 16, 2025

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Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 3 to 6

April 2, 2025

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Arts & Culture

John Wilson’s Art of Black Humanity

February 25, 2025

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Fine Arts

Landscapes of the Natural and Manmade World Unite in New Stone Gallery Show

February 19, 2025

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Theatre

A Squirrel with Superpowers Takes Center Stage at Wheelock Family Theatre

February 13, 2025

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Fine Arts

New 808 Gallery Show Celebrates the Vision and Talent of BU Staff Photographers

November 13, 2024

Photo: Becca A. Lewis (left) and Mark W. Soucy rehearsing for How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos by Maggie Kearnan at Boston Playwrights Theatre earlier this week.

Theatre

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Offers Prime Comeuppance for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

November 6, 2024

Photo: A wide shot of the stage during the Wheelock Family Theatre's production of "The Spongebob Musical." The set features lots of blues, to simulate being underwater, and the actors are in colorful attire. Along the side of the stage is colorful stacks of memorabilia

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre Kicks Off New Season with The SpongeBob Musical

October 3, 2024

Photo: Melissa L. Gilliam sits in the leather chair that belonged to one of BU’s founders, Isaac Rich. The chair was used in 1869 when a petition was signed to charter BU as a new corporation.

University News

A Historic Inauguration for Boston University: Melissa L. Gilliam Installed as 11th President

September 27, 2024

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Books

Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips Delivers Ha Jin Lecture Tuesday

September 20, 2024

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Campus Life

BU Student Performers Are Thrilled to Be Part of Historic Inauguration Week

September 20, 2024

Photo: At the completion of the program, the Brighter Boston team records STOMP performances in the set they built and lit

Theatre

BU’s Booth Theatre Helps Boston Public Schools Students and Grads Set the Stage for Success

August 26, 2024

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Fine Arts

New Stone Gallery Exhibition Proves You Can Go Home Again

July 17, 2024

Photo: A black and white picture of Gareth Dylan Smith, a CFA professor, playing the drums on stage

Music

Beating a Different Drum

June 25, 2024

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Sculpture

CFA Sculpture Class: Wearable Cardboard Sculptures

May 29, 2024

Arts & Culture

Kahn Award Will Carry Theater Arts Major Madeline Riddick-Seals Back to Alabama

May 10, 2024

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Fine Arts

School of Visual Arts Annual BFA Thesis Exhibitions Celebrate Works by 33 BFA Seniors

May 2, 2024

Chase Culler (center left) and Kevin Barents (center right) each teach a section of The Theater Now, a CAS Writing Program course that takes students to local theater productions. This semester, they’ve seen Hairspray and The Girl from the North Country. Photos by Jake Belcher

Arts & Culture

All of Boston’s a Stage

April 29, 2024

All of Boston’s a Stage