Halberstadt’s ‘How to Cook…’ at WHAT
Happy first performance to alum MJ Halberstadt’s How to Cook Up a Good Idea, commissioned by Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, which runs Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 11!
New play by Halberstadt launches as podcast
Playwright alum MJ Halberstadt’s new play, The Usual Unusual, has launched as a seven-part podcast. The play was commissioned by SpeakEasy Stage as part of the theatre’s new works initiative The Boston Project. Listen
Poster for ‘Deal Me Out’
Halberstadt’s ‘Hardly Soft’
Tonight, playwright alum MJ Halberstadt opens Hardly Soft as part of the Museum of Fine Arts’ MFA Late Nites. In the play—which MJ describes as “100% an experiment”—the Placid Purlers knitting group tries to recruit new members and provide brief mini-lessons, but find that their varied strategies for achieving calmness often collide. Audience members encounter […]
Alums selected for SpeakEasy’s Boston Project
Alumni playwrights MJ Halberstadt and Laura Neill have been selected from among 40 applicants to develop an original Boston-centric play as part of SpeakEasy Stage Company’s The Boston Project. They will join returning Boston Project playwright Phaedra Michelle Scott. The three Boston Project playwrights will each receive a commission and have nine months to write […]
Three alums in ATB’s ‘This Place/Displaced’
Three alumni playwrights—Stephanie K. Brownell, MJ Halberstadt, and Livian Yeh—are on the bill of Artists’ Theatre of Boston’s This Place/Displaced, which runs through August 25. Congratulations!
Halberstadt named HPF
Playwright alum MJ Halberstadt has been selected to join the new cohort of Huntington Playwriting Fellows—congrats MJ!
Halberstadt takes home Nortie for ‘The Launch Prize’
Congratulations to playwright alum MJ Halberstadt, who took home the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script earlier this week for his play The Launch Prize! Read the complete list of recipients here. Hooray everyone!
Halberstadt’s ‘That Time…’
Happy opening night to Fresh Ink Theatre Company and That Time the House Burned Down, by alum MJ Halberstadt! The play runs until April 23 right here at BPT—read more about it here.
Halberstadt’s ‘The Launch Prize’
Happy opening night to Bridge Rep of Boston and The Launch Prize, by alum MJ Halberstadt! The Launch Prize runs until March 20.