His brilliant career: Mark Harris delivers rich portrait of entertainment legend in ‘Mike Nichols:...
Author Mark Harris knew it was “going to be weird” to write about the 2003 HBO miniseries “Angels in America” for his biography of director Mike Nichols. Harris,...
Boston Theater Offensive’s benefit for True Colors moves online to Nov. 12
"Beyond the Stage," The Theater Offensive's premier annual fundraiser for their LGBTQ youth program, True Colors, has moved online. The event had been one of the earliest postponed back in March due...
Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Billy Porter joins Huntington theater board
Billy Porter, the openly gay Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning performer and current star of the hit TV series "Pose" — for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in...
Boston’s Theater Offensive’s ‘Beyond the Stage’ benefit postponed
Due to COVID-19 (coronavirus) concerns, The Theater Offensive's March 12 "Beyond the Stage" benefit event has been postponed.
The event is the premier annual fundraiser of Boston's LGBTQ youth theater program, the longest running such...
Boston Lyric Opera brings New England premiere of ‘Fellow Travelers’ to the stage, Nov....
When author Thomas Mallon discovered that there was interest in turning his 2007 historical novel “Fellow Travelers” into an opera, his first thought was, ‘You mean the book’s not gay enough already?’
On the surface,...
Stage legend Everett Quinton returns to Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Sept. 26–29
Through new interpretations of his plays and by pairing him with notable literary masters spanning continents and time periods, the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, running September 26–29, keeps the great American playwright in...
George Takei to speak at BPL as his play ‘Allegiance’ opens in Boston
On Tuesday, May 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Boston Public Library, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Boston Asian American Film Festival host actor, icon, and social media guru George Takei, best known as "Mr....
Provincetown Theater names Obie winner David Drake artistic director
The Provincetown Theater has just announced a new artistic director, and the name is ... (drumroll, please): Obie Award-winning playwright/performer ("The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me") David Drake!
"Beginning in 2010, David Drake has built...
Gender-bending cast re-stages old pioneer tropes of American history
Manifest Destiny was never this much fun.
That’s because playwright Jaclyn Backhaus plucks the “man” out of the term for the 19th-century belief that U.S. expansion West was justifiable and inevitable. Her off-Broadway comedy “Men...
Boston’s True Colors Earns National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award
The young thespians from the Boston-based theater program True Colors: Out Youth Theater and their grown-up program leaders from The Theater Offensive have earned a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, which will be...
