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A new way to perform: Theater department produces filmed rendition of 'As U Like It'

The production of the Shakespearian comedy introduced unique challenges to student actors, like performing on camera and in masks. “Theater is whatever you make it;…

by Cam Sleeper March 31, 2021

A student rehearses before opening night. Photo courtesy of the Department of Theatre.

New theater production finds religion in The Simpsons

In its 29 seasons, The Simpsons has garnered an audience that watches religiously each week. But in a post-apocalyptic world, could The Simpsons really be religion? That’s part of what Northeastern’s Department of Theatre explores in its newest production, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, which runs through Oct. 28.

by Molly Callahan October 20, 2017

The fight of her life

Bethany, the theatre department’s first production of 2014, tells the darkly comic story of a single mother’s struggle to regain what she’s lost at the height of the Great Recession: her home and her daughter.

by Joe O'Connell February 11, 2014

Elephant at center of student theatre production

Elephant’s Graveyard, a play based on the true tale of the tragic collision between a struggling circus and a tiny town in Tennessee in the early 1900s, begins its two-week run on Tuesday in the Curry Student Center’s Studio Theatre.

by Joe O'Connell October 8, 2013

Theatre department brings ‘Donnie Darko’ to the stage

The play, which opened this week at Northeastern and is directed by professor Matt Gray, utilizes advanced technology to tell the story of a troubled teen with 28 days to save the world.

by Matt Collette March 15, 2013

3Qs: Understanding the Bard

Last week, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company began its 16th annual “Shakespeare on the Common” season with “All’s Well That Ends Well.” We asked Erika Boeckeler—an assistant professor of English who recently returned from a postdoctoral fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. — for some insight into one of The Bard’s lesser-known works.

by Matt Collette July 29, 2011