Tragedy and Comedy in New England

According to New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson, “Everything about ‘The Corn is Green’ reawakens enthusiasm for the theatre.” He wrote i...

A new psychological thriller is currently running at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre of Lowell, Mass. The New England premiere of “Tranced”...

The Majestic Theater in West Springfield, Massachusetts thrives not through nostalgia, but through adaptation. Once a neighborhood second-r...

This program for “The Belle of Amherst”, produced at StageWest January through February of 1983, contains a recipe for Emily Dickinson’s bla...

Currently (or Soon to Be) on stage in the coming month: At The Huntington in Boston, Kate Burton and her real-life son Morgan Ritchie face o...

Above is from a Cape Playhouse playbill of the week of August 12, 1935. “Were you ever in Dennis? There’s not a whole lot of it,” so writes...

This is to introduce a new blog on theater in New England. The New England states have a rich tradition in theater, even though it was bann...