Fall 2020 Cast Lists | Emerson Stage
Thank you to all who auditioned for our Fall 2020 productions, including Men On Boats, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Corduroy, and A NEW Song Cycle (previously Godspell). We…
New Play Workshop | Director’s Note and Vision
Directors’ notes traditionally welcome and orient an audience to the work that they are about to witness together. The goal of the note is often to begin forging a connection…
Squeaky Fromme Love Song YouTube Viewing
Get ready to put your feet up after a long week and enjoy our one-night-only viewing of James La Bellla’s Squeaky Fromme Love Song on Saturday, March 28, 8:00 p.m….
Dramaturg’s Note for “Amanuensis, or The Miltons” by L M Feldman
By Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons) Our playwright, L, describes Amanuensis, or The Miltons as “a tale, a grapple, a loosely-historically-based feminist fantasia.”…
How To Diversify the Canon
by Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons) Paradise Lost has been considered an essential work in the English literary canon since the first…
The Unsung Assassin
By Jake Mouchawar, Production Dramaturg for Squeaky Fromme Love Song Before James La Bella’s new play Squeaky Fromme Love Song, the 1990 cult musical Assassins was the first (and only) fictional…
Emerson Stage’s 2020–2021 Season
Our 2020–2021 season explores the question “What are you working to build?” We will feature stories of working to build new societies, both through kindness (Godspell) and force (The Resistible…
The Oresteia to Good Breeding: How Justice Evolves
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…
A Reflection by Brenna Epstein
By Brenna Epstein (Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) What makes this rehearsal process so special for me is that this role is, by far, the most challenging…