News Room

The 2018 Boston Project: Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals The Boston Project is a new works initiative supporting the creation and development of plays set right here in our hometown. Our goal is to create more plays that explore what it means to be in this …

“Everyone is welcome, and no one is safe.”

Playwright Robert O’Hara on the process of writing BOOTYCANDY and bringing his own personal narrative to a larger audience.

Playwright Bill Doncaster

Bill Doncaster is a local playwright and our second Boston Project playwright. His new play Ward Nine will be featured alongside Nina Louise Morrison’s Born Naked this February.

Playwright Nina Louise Morrison

Born Naked by Nina L Morrisson will be performed as a staged reading to an invited audience this month. Watch this space for updates from rehearsal and further developments from the playwrights.

Jeanine Tesori

The VIOLET composer talks about her career and her approach to adapting Violet’s journey to the stage.

SpeakEasy Stage Receives $10K from National Endowment for the Arts

(Boston) – SpeakEasy Stage will receive an Arts Work Award of $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help fund a unique collaboration between the company and area gospel choirs as part of its upcoming New England …

Barbara and Steve Grossman to be Honored by SpeakEasy

SpeakEasy Stage Company will honor Tufts University Professor Barbara Grossman and her husband, former State Treasurer Steve Grossman, for their sustained and generous support of the arts at its 25th Anniversary Gala to be held Friday, April 1, from 6-9PM at the Hyatt

From Director Paul Daigneault

SpeakEasy Founder and Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault revisits the musical VIOLET after 15 years and talks about what’s in store in our all-new production.

His Chance to Dress

Join us for a post-show discussion with John Southard and his wife Jean.

Living Her Truth

Join us for a post-show discussion with author Grace Anne Stevens, moderated by CASA VALENTINA director Scott Edmiston.

Cultivating the Girl Within

Harvey Fierstein’s “Casa Valentina” was modeled on a real-life resort in the Catskills. Read about the people who inspired the play as detailed in the book “Casa Susanna.”