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Between Riverside and Crazy
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! This dark urban comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis explores, with both disarming tenderness and street-smart wit, the slippery nature of justice, and the grit it takes to move on. In an effort to hang on to one of Manhattan’s last great rent-stabilized apartments, ex-cop Walter “Pops” Washington does battle with a dazzling array of outlandish characters, each one a celebration of the glorious contradictions that make up human nature.
Actress Grace Yoo
Grace Yoo is an actor/singer/performer from Los Angeles who most recently appeared as Nan Goto in East West Players’ production of ALLEGIANCE out on the West Coast. She has also appeared in Sister Act (Musical Theatre West), Hello, Dolly! (3-D …
Actor Sam Tanabe
We interviewed ALLEGIANCE cast member Sam Tanabe, who will be making his SpeakEasy debut! He was previously in Boston last spring performing Finish Line: A Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon with Boston Theater Co and the Boch Center. New York credits …
Announcing Our 2018-19 Season!
A Pulitzer Prize winner, two Best Musical Tony Award Winners, two New York Times Top Play Picks, and one of the brightest contemporary musicals await you in Season 28.
2020 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 city at this moment, …
Director Marianna Bassham
Marianna Bassham is well-known in Boston for her work on stage, both at SpeakEasy (Hand To God, A Future Perfect, In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), Reckless, and Blackbird) and many others, like Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the Huntington, …
Director Scott Edmiston
From Casa Valentina to The Light in the Piazza to The History Boys, Scott Edmiston has proven he can direct any genre, both at SpeakEasy and at theatres all over Boston. So how does he categorize SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE? A comedy? A romance? An origin story? All of that and more? We sat down with the four-time Elliot Norton Award-winning director to discuss what makes SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE the perfect love letter to the stage.
Five Fast Facts: George Olesky
You may have read him in tenth grade English or seen his work on the Common in the summer, but you’ve never seen Shakespeare quite like this. Here’s what you need to know about Newton native George Olesky, who will be playing Will Shakespeare in our upcoming production of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Interview with Actor Eliott Purcell on Sensory Friendly Performance
Eliott Purcell (Christopher Boone) returns to SpeakEasy after previously appearing in HAND TO GOD [Elliot Norton Award Nomination – Outstanding Actor] and APPROPRIATE. Recent credits: Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, King Lear, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Our Town (Huntington Theatre); Laura, Meet Me in St. Louis, (Stoneham Theatre); A Measure …
Interview with Playwright Simon Stephens
In 2003, British author Mark Haddon had his first novel published. It was called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a peculiar title for a story that would soon become one of the best-selling, most studied, and …
