Why New Plays Now? A Case for Supporting the Unimaginable
One of the nation’s most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work.
All Stories About Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Malika Oyetimein Appointed Merrimack Rep’s Artist-in-Residence
The director’s position will include workshops, artistic planning support, and hiring powers.
Online This Week: Our Cup Overfloweth
A festival of Spanish classics, solo plays by Bill Irwin and Dael Orlandersmith and Sara Porkalob, and much, much, much more in our longest listing yet.
Online This Week: Morisseau, Molière, More
Reunion readings, Russian troll farms, a married couple in a play about infidelity—there’s plenty to fill your screen time this week.
Merrimack Rep Names Free Soil First Company in Residence
Free Soil Arts Collective’s founder Christa Brown will join the MRT artistic staff.
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Announces 2020-21 Season
The lineup, the first under new artistic director Courtney Sale, will include two world premiere plays.
Merrimack Rep Names Courtney Sale Artistic Director
Replacing Sean Daniels, Sale will be the first woman to lead the Massachusetts company.
Sean Daniels: Phoenix Rising
As he starts a job leading the theatre that changed his life, he wants to return the favor and make some changes there.
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Announces 2019-20 Season
The lineup includes three premieres and work by seven female playwrights.
Nancy L. Donahue, Board Backbone
For 4 decades this Lowell, Mass., native has stayed involved with the theatre she helped create there, Merrimack Rep.
