Award-winning actor, director, and filmmaker Sagan Chen '14 will be returning to campus this winter to direct a staged reading performance in the Bentley Theater! Rehearsals will begin Monday January 24, with a final public performance scheduled for Friday evening February 4.

The Department of Theater is thrilled to welcome a remarkable new visiting artist to our faculty for the 2021-22 academic year: Professor Liliana Padilla.

Professor Monica White Ndounou's winter 2020 production of Pass Over at Boston's SpeakEasy Stage Company was recently selected by the Boston globe as one of the 10 best theatre productions of the year.

Founded and directed by Associate Professor of Theater Dr. Monica White Ndounou, the Craft Institute is one of four institutions selected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to administer a newly-awarded $5 million grant to support Black theaters across the United States.

The Department of Theater is delighted to welcome playwright and performer Mfoniso Udofia and lecturer Samantha Lazar as Visiting Faculty for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Associate Professor of Theater Dr. Monica White Ndounou recently published a powerful op-ed in the Burton Wire, titled "The Silence of White Theaters on Anti-Black Violence is Deafening." Read the full piece here....

Theater professor Dr. Monica White Ndounou and Joshua Bennett of the Dept of English will be moderating a conversation with scholars Eshter Armah, Ruha Benjamin, and Che Gossett on Wednesday June 17. The event is free and open to the public; sponsored by the depts of AAAS and Theater.

Associate Professor Jamie Horton takes on the role of a lifetime as King Lear this month, along with Stella Asa '22 as Cordelia and five other students currently participating in the winter 2020 experiential learning term at Northern Stage....

The Department of Theater's John Heginbotham recently choreographed Oklahoma at St. Ann's Warehouse. Listen to New York Public Radio's...