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March 6, 2019 | News, Theatre,

Audiences in Chicago call An Inspector Calls “shocking,” “funny,” and “worth the trip!”

An Inspector Calls (MAR 14-24) had audiences raving at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater! Check out their reactions to JB Priestley’s classic thriller below: “It’s just worth the trip. I’m still...

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February 26, 2019 | News, Theatre,

ArtsEmerson 2019 IRNE Award Nominations

On Monday, February 25th, the nominations for the 23rd Annual Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards were announced, with ArtsEmerson being honored with ten nominations! Best New Play –...

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February 5, 2019 | Events, News, Theatre,

Enter to win tickets to When Angels Fall!

In anticipation for When Angels Fall (FEB 20-24), we at ArtsEmerson decided to create an enter-to-win contest, allowing Boston audiences the opportunity to win two free tickets to this show!...

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January 19, 2019 | News, Theatre,

We Won’t Be Shut Down

Our current production of Manual Cinema’s The End of TV touches on the story of economic hardship, as Louise loses her job at an a midwestern factory. Though the loss is catastrophic,...

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January 18, 2019 | News, Theatre,

The Boston Globe Calls THE END OF TV “INGENIOUS AND SPELLBINDING”

“The title is not meant to taken at face value. Nothing in this ingenious and spellbinding multimedia production is so linear as that.” “The quietly poignant story within The End...

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November 6, 2018 | News, Theatre, Race and Equity,

Immigration Reform and the 2018 Midterms

We’ve all experienced it for months at this point; the current election cycle is a ceaseless storm of sound bites and inconsistent information. Like a radio scanner bouncing between channels,...

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November 1, 2018 | General, News, Theatre,

At ArtsEmerson, A Stage With 11 Empty Chairs To Remember Victims Of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre

    “This is something we do all too regularly,” ArtsEmerson Artistic Director David Dower writes me. “It started the morning after the Charleston shooting” in which eight people were...

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October 31, 2018 | News, Theatre, Race and Equity,

The Narrow Path to U.S. Citizenship

  Becoming a United States citizen is a process laden with bureaucratic loopholes, stifling processes, and nearly aspect is requires a innate knowledge of the immigration system. With President Trump’s...

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