By Richelle Devereaux-Murray Hello Everybodeeeee! (Picture Grover saying that, it makes more sense) Today is the first official day of four shows in the shop at the same time. It’s…
By Cait Powers We started rehearsals for our fall musical NINE this week. This is my third year on the stage management team for the fall musical. Previously I worked…
By Joshua O’Brian, Production Dramaturg, Spring Awakening A production that has been over a century in the making—literally. This spring, Emerson Stage is producing Spring Awakening by Steven Sater and…
By Rocío Perez, Dramaturg, The Resistsible Rise of Arturo Ui In the first few lines of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui we hear an announcer:“Ladies and Gentlemen,…
By Olivia Ek, Production Dramaturg (Good Breeding) Robert O’Hara’s Good Breeding, as a contemporary adaptation of a Greek classic, is concerned less with keeping the Oresteia’s plot completely intact and…
by Gabriel Graetz, dramaturg Nick Sulfaro, who plays George Spelvin in The Actor’s Nightmare, found this fascinating passage in the autobiographical introduction to Christopher Durang Explains It All For You….