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Reconsidering Hanna(h), by Deirdre Girard
Hanna, a brutally blunt international journalist, is struggling to come to terms with her husband’s violent death. After accepting a seemingly tame assignment, she becomes increasingly obsessed with uncovering the history of another Hannah: the infamous Hannah Duston who was kidnapped by a Native American raiding party in 1697. Soon the stories of the two Hanna(h)s begin to merge into a single portrait of a smart woman, torn from the only world she knows, who crosses the line between civilization and her…
Find out more »Boston University Black Box Reading Series
Students and alumni of the Boston University Creative Writing Program will read selections of their work. A wine and cookie reception will follow the reading.
Find out more »HOT HOT HOT Staged Reading of New Work
HOT HOT HOT is a FUNDRAISER Staged Reading of New Works by some of the hottest Boston playwrights, and all proceeds will go to support the production of Eyes Shut, Door Open, a new play by Boston playwright Cassie M. Seinuk. There will also be live music by local talent and food from Michael's Deli Brookline! HOT HOT HOT will not only bring together playwrights and theatre makers in the community, but will also support "ESDO" and showcase a small…
Find out more »AGNI Magazine Spring Issue Readings and Launch Party
Readings by National Book Award-winner Andrea Barrett, poet Jayne Benjulian (author of Five Sextillion Atoms), David Daniel (whom Harold Bloom called "an authentic heir to Hart Crane"), and prolific essayist and fiction writer Heather Abel. Please join AGNI's editors and authors as we celebrate AGNI 83, our first issue of the year, at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre on Monday, May 2nd, at 7:00 pm. The evening will feature readings, live music, and a rollicking launch party to follow with complimentary…
Find out more »Boston One Minute Play Festival
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Boston Playwrights Theatre present THE 7th ANNUAL BOSTON ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Presented in two series: SERIES A: SATURDAY, JANUARY 6TH & SUNDAY, JANUARY 7TH SERIES B: MONDAY, JANUARY 8TH & TUESDAY, JANUARY 9TH ALL PERFORMANCES AT 8PM AT: Boston Playwrights Theatre 949 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 Tickets are $20 and will be available soon. Featuring Brand New One-Minute Plays by: Series A: Rosanna Alfaro, Lydia Barnett-Mulligan, Beirut Balutis, Lisa Burdick, Andrea Fleck Clardy,…
Find out more »Staged Reading: How Will We Live Tomorrow?
The first public staged reading of How Will We Live Tomorrow? will be held at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, on Thursday May 3rd at 7:30 p.m. A middle-aged white man bicycles to the 48 contiguous states, and asks everyone he meets, ‘How Will We Live Tomorrow?’ Along the way, he encounters generous people with myriad perspectives on humanity’s direction, while hours of solitary riding also stir personal meditation. How Will We Live Tomorrow? chronicles the United States during the…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.