Students studying in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts develop skills as imaginative practitioners, understand art as a meaningful human endeavor, and explore creative works in dialogue with the past and our current moment. The Visual and Performing Arts Department comprises six separate majors. In our classes, you will learn about the history of creative practice, from the ancient Greek architects and the plays of William Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington, the films of Maya Deren, and the contemporary photo-collages of Mickalene Thomas. You will cultivate the...

The Forge Theater Lab is seeking short plays to add to its script library before completing the lineup for its Season 3 event Past Tense, a night of plays connected to the theme of “confronting your past self.” We are interested in reading more 10-30 minute pieces about characters who come face-to-face with their past identities or attitudes, or who struggle to leave the past behind. The Forge Theater Lab is committed to building a diverse, welcoming community of artists. Playwrights of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and types of ability...

The Forge Theater Lab, in residence at Fitchburg State University, develops new plays that ignite passionate conversations.

It is the mission of ShirleyArts! to support and promote the visual and performing arts for education and entertainment. We are a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that has been serving North Central Massachusetts since 2004.

The Umbrella Arts Center offers a wide variety of in-person and online arts education instruction for adults, teens, and youth, as well as a summer camp and vacation week programs. In respnonse to distance learning we created The Umbrella @ Home program to deliver quality arts instruction virtually. We are constantly working with our teachers to adapt and design new opportunities to continue to learn, socialize, and experiment with the arts.

Teens WRITE (Writing, Reading, and Investigating Theater Everywhere) is a three-month program that meets weekly, April through July 2018, in which students, ages 13 to 17, will write, revise, cast, direct, and produce original plays culminating in a Ten-Minute Play Festival. Led by FABIOLA R. DECIUS, a local Boston playwright, teens will learn the basic elements of playwriting, how to critically respond to other’s work in a positive and reassuring setting, steps in rewriting and revising, criterion for auditioning and casting a play, and directing techniques. Additionally, teens will...

The Recording Artists Project is a student practice organization at Harvard Law School providing pro bono legal assistance on music business matters. RAP specializes in contract review/negotiation, copyright matters and other transactional work. In addition to serving Boston’s music community through client representation, RAP invites a select group of students from Berklee College of Music to offer their insights about the music business to our student practitioners and learn in turn about lawyering in the industry. If you are a musician, music producer, record label, or other music...

Our MFA in playwriting is a three-year program. We are looking for students who are committed to: the athletic development of their craft; the deep interrogation of the forms and purposes of their art, and of the place of art in the larger world; a leaning into faithful transformation of society through theatrical action. Students take a strong hand in designing their own course of study; they are given opportunities to learn and opportunities to teach as well (the process of constructing and executing syllabi is so useful to the articulation of mission). Candidates for graduation submit a...

Founded in 1981 at Boston University by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) is an award-winning professional theatre dedicated to new works. At the heart of BPT’s mission is the production of new plays by alumni of its M.F.A. Playwriting Program, the latter in collaboration with Boston University’s renowned School of Theatre. The program’s award-winning alumni have been produced in regional and New York houses, internationally, as well as in London’s West End. BPT’s productions have been honored with numerous national, regional, and Boston awards, including IRNE...

The A.R.T. Institute was established in 1987 by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) as a training ground for the professional American theater. It is a two-year, graduate training program for theater professionals, operated in association with the Moscow Art Theater School (MXAT). The wide range of courses given by the international faculty offers students unique preparation for the multi-faceted demands of the professional theater.

As partners in the MFA in Playwriting, the Playwriting program and the School of Theatre (SOT) want to ensure that our playwriting graduates are equipped for both the academic and professional worlds of the theatre. To that end, the MFA in Playwriting combines a strong commitment to literary scholarship with invaluable, hands-on collaborations with other theatre artists. Our shared goal, while building on the strong foundation of our award-winning successes, integrates faculty expertise in our renowned Department of English (in GRS) with complementary SOT strengths (in CFA) in acting,...

Job Description Boston University's College of Fine Arts invites applications for the position of Professor of Directing, non-tenure-track, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2022. CFA's School of Theatre is a prominent beacon for the arts in New England. With accomplished, award-winning alumni (including actors Jason Alexander, Geena Davis, Julianne Moore, Alfre Woodard, and Ginnifer Goodwin); five dedicated theatres, including the stunning state-of-the­art Booth Theatre; 40 faculty who are actively engaged in the profession of theatre-making, CFA's School of Theatre is widely...