Matt Chapuran Named Managing Director of Lyric Stage in Boston
Matt Chapuran most recently was in charge of institutional giving at the Huntington Theatre Company.
Category Archives: New England
Coverage of theatre in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Front and Center with Playwright Meg Miroshnik
Meg Miroshnik creates piece featuring young Russian girls after noticing a lack of females in Russian theatre.
Bread and Puppet Theater’s Half-Century Parade of Joy, Anger, Anarchy, and Purpose
An actor toils and performs on Bread and Puppet Theater’s Vermont farm on the eve of the company’s 50th anniversary .
Robert Schenkkan Tells LBJ’s History in Rotating Rep
A Texas playwright takes on an iconic Texas politician in ‘All the Way’ and ‘The Great Society,’ and finds a figure of Shakespearean—i.e., tragic—proportions.
What If Auditions Were More Like Collaborations Than Competitions?
Two Boston-based companies try new, more ensemble-based approaches to the casting process.
Mary Zimmerman’s Bare Necessities: a Text, a Set, a Cast—and a Disney Cartoon
The Chicago adapter/director seems like a natural choice to turn the beloved ‘Jungle Book’ into a stage musical, but that doesn’t mean it’s been easy.
Harbor Stage Company Is Fishing for a Watery Past
‘The Billingsgate Project’ interweaves real history and contemporary speculation
From the Bones of Giants: David Auburn Takes on Eugene O’Neill
The playwright directs ‘Anna Christie’ at Berkshire Theatre Group.
Double Edge’s ‘Grand Paradise’ Rushes the Gates of Heaven
The Massachusetts-based company’s Chagall-inspired new work marches through a turbulent century.
The Interrogation of Desire
Memory holds the key to playwright Christopher Shinn’s resonant dramas of the psyche.
