Department of Performing Arts News

Emersonians win at Kennedy Center Theater Festival

Six Performing Arts students recently received top awards at the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) for Region 1.

McCauley's play to premiere at Emerson

Performing Arts Professor and renowned theater artist Robbie McCauley will premiere her one-woman show Sugar at the Jackie Liebergott Black Box in the Paramount Center on Friday, January 20.

McCauley and Shea highlighted in Globe for "Sugar"

Performing Arts faculty member Robbie McCauley’s new one-woman show, “Sugar,” which is also directed by faculty member Maureen Shea, was featured in the Boston Globe. 

Alumna snags lead in new Broadway musical

Jessica Phillips has been cast in a starring role for Leap of Faith’s Broadway launch.

Emerson announces Center for the Theater Commons

Emerson will welcome David Dower, current Associate Artistic Director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and Polly Carl, current Director of the American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI), to establish the Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College on July 1, 2012. 

Theater collaboration brings Boston controversy to life

Emerson students are exploring the 1970s busing crisis in Boston through a Performing Arts class called Adaptation.

Academy-Award-winning production designer visits Emerson College

Academy Award–winning production designer Brigitte Broch talked to Emerson students this week about what goes into production design and her experience with big-name directors.

Romanska wins 2011 Aquila Polonica Prize

Performing Arts Assistant Professor Magda Romanska recently won the 2011 Aquila Polonica Prize for her 2009 Theatre Survey article “Between History and Memory: Auschwitz in Akropolis, Akropolis in Auschwitz.”