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      • 16 WINTERS, Or The Bear’s Tale
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      • THREE ROMANCES FOR THE UNWELL AND OTHERWISE
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Blogs about plays produced by Emerson Stage.

Behind the Scenes | New Works | Plays | Playwriting | The Company

Q&A with James La Bella, Fine China Nightmare Playwright

March 13, 2019

  Emerson Stage’s Newfest Readings and Shorts begin next Tuesday, March 19, with a reading of James La Bella’s Fine China Nightmare. I reached out to La Bella, BFA ‘20,…

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A Note from the Dramaturg: The Devil On Your Shoulder

March 12, 2019

By Grace Burns, Dramaturg, The Devil On Your Shoulder The transition into collegiate life can be isolating and tumultuous for many new students. Striking the class-life balance, living away from…

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Q&A With Miles Millikan, Sugar Plums Molding Playwright

March 7, 2019

Emerson Stage’s annual evening of student-written NewFest Shorts will take place at the Semel Theater on Saturday, March 23. I reached out to playwright Miles Millikan, BFA ‘21, about the…

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Q&A With Caleb Palmer, The Devil On Your Shoulder Playwright

February 27, 2019

Emerson Stage’s production of The Devil On Your Shoulder, winner of the Rod Parker Playwriting Award, opens at the Greene Theater on Thursday, March 14. I reached out to playwright…

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A Note from the Dramaturg – Love & Information

September 21, 2018

An Overheard Conversation About Change, with Links, Courtesy of Cast Member Juliet Walker By Dante Flores, Production Dramaturg   (After Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information) “I gave you $22.10” “What?”…

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Stefanie Zadravec: A “Write-What-You-Don’t-Know” Playwright

March 27, 2018

By Victoria Brancazio Dramaturg, Tiny Houses Emerson Stage’s NewFest New Play Workshop presents Tiny Houses, a play following the 2014 MH17 plane crash where three women find hope and agency…

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From the Dramaturg – Who Donut?

March 13, 2018

By Jessica Costas Dramaturg – Who Donut? Hello and welcome to Arden Jurskis and Kenzy Peach’s ode to Boston, Who Donut?. Originally from Florida and California respectively, Jurskis and Peach…

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From the Dramaturg – Antigone Project: A Play in 5 Parts

February 20, 2018

By Ashmita Malkani BFA Stage & Production Management, ’19 Minor in Poetry, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Antigone: daughter and sister of Oedipus, sister of Ismene, Polynices, and Eteocles,…

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An Interview with Brazen Playwrights

January 26, 2018

BE BOLD, BE BRAZEN: An Interview with Melia Bensussen, Brazen Director and Playwright, and Masha Obolensky, Playwright The director and playwright of Brazen, Melia Bensussen and her co-playwright, Masha Obolensky have…

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  • About
  • Blog
  • Upcoming Season
    • 2025-2026 Season
  • Past Seasons
    • 2024-2025 Season
      • POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
      • IMOGEN SAYS NOTHING
      • THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE
      • AMOUR
      • I LOVE XXX
      • LIMBER, A LOVE STORY
      • NewFest Short Works 2025
      • RED WOLF
      • HEAD OVER HEELS
    • 2023-2024 Season
      • LITTLE WOMEN
      • HOW WE GOT ON
      • BONNETS: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder
      • BAT BOY: The Musical
      • THE IMPRACTICALITY OF MODERN-DAY MASTODONS
      • A DOLL’S HOUSE
      • 16 WINTERS, Or The Bear’s Tale
      • NewFest Short Works 2024
      • SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT
      • NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
    • 2022-2023 Season
      • THE WOLVES
      • THE SPITFIRE GRILL
      • OLD JAKE’S SKIRTS
      • ARE YOU SOMEONE TO SOMEBODY?
      • PARIS
      • THE SECRET IN THE WINGS
      • MARY, SWEET MARY Or The Final Tragedy of Christopher Marlowe
      • NewFest Short Works 2023
      • THE LOYALS
      • CABARET
    • 2021-2022 Season
      • THE LATE WEDDING
      • THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING
      • BALTIMORE
      • MARIE ANTIONETTE
      • NEXT TO NORMAL
      • AS YOU LIKE IT
      • RAGE
      • THREE ROMANCES FOR THE UNWELL AND OTHERWISE
      • NewFest Short Works 2022
      • INTO THE WOODS
    • 2020-2021 Season
    • 2019-2020 Season
    • 2018-2019 Season
    • 2017-2018 Season
    • 2016-2017 Season
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