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March 13, 2017 | Theatre,

2017 IRNE Award Nominees Announced

  Congratulations to ALL IRNE Awards nominees! We are especially proud of this season’s Mala by Melinda Lopez being up for best solo performance. Congratulations, Melinda and director David Dower!...

March 13, 2017 | Theatre,

Virtuosic Women Come Together to Create Something New

  Parable of the Sower program note by co-artistic director, P. Carl. Collaboration is what makes theatre such a unique artform; you can never make it in isolation and often...

March 3, 2017 | Theatre,

On Afrofuturism

  What is Afrofuturism? The mixing of black culture with sci-fi has been explored for many, many decades, though the specific term was only coined back in 1993. In the midst...

February 28, 2017 | Theatre,

A Marquee Message About Gender Diversity At Emerson

February 23, 2017 | Theatre,

An interview with an Emerson College student who grew up near Leenane in Ireland

  Tommy Higgins is a senior Communication Studies major from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania at Emerson College. Tommy’s family is originally from County Galway, Ireland in the Province of Connacht where...

February 10, 2017 | Theatre,

On Isolation

  In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Written by Ireland’s...

February 10, 2017 | Notes From Leadership,

Boston as a Vital Destination in ‘Beauty Queen’ and Beyond

  Warsan Shire’s widely read poem HOME begins powerfully: “No one leaves home  unless home is the mouth of a shark”   The final stanza sticks in your heart: “no one...