Category Archives: New England

Coverage of theatre in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Production Notebook: Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘The Possibilitarians’

A puppet piece inspired by utopian farmers puts down deep roots.

Howard Brenton’s play imagines Henry VIII’s ill-fated second wife as a major player in a religious struggle.

Thanks to a triumvirate of forward-lookers, a think tank grows in Boston.

Christopher Shinn’s political play ‘Now or Later’ may mean more now than it did earlier.

Innovations in artistic practice take center stage at TCG’s 2012 National Conference in Boston.

In ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ Terry Teachout conjures an icon at the end of his career.

The class struggle in David Lindsay-Abaire’s ‘Good People’ may be even more relevant now than it was when the play premiered 3 years ago.

‘Futurity’ is an unlikely alt-rock musical about Ada Lovelace and the Civil War.

An artistic director recalls how an iconoclastic theatre took root in recalcitrant soil.

A profile of the associate general manager of Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company.