CFA School of Theatre announces 2018-2019 performance season in new Booth Theatre
Tony Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA opens the season at Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre
Boston University College of Fine Arts (CFA) School of Theatre is thrilled to announce the inaugural season of mainstage productions at the new Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre. With performances featuring undergraduate and graduate students of the College’s School of Theatre and School of Music, the season showcases BU’s studies in acting, singing, design, and production.
“Booth Theatre is our beacon,” explains Harvey Young, Dean of Boston University College of Fine Arts. “It illuminates the night sky and serves as a warm, welcoming, and guiding presence that helps members of our extended BU, Boston, and Brookline communities (and the world beyond) to find their way to the compelling, inspiring and socially relevant artistry produced by the College of Fine Arts.”
All productions are open to the public and give visitors an opportunity to experience firsthand the state-of-the-art new facility designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects located at 820 Commonwealth Avenue.
Fall 2018 opens with Tony Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA coming to the innovative Booth stage. ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES will run from October 17 – 21, and PART TWO: PERESTROIKA will run from October 26 – 28.
Director of the School of Theatre Jim Petosa says the fall productions will be an all-student effort. “Helmed by graduate student directors, a mix of grad and undergrad designers and technicians, and cast with an all student ensemble of actors, ANGELS IN AMERICA will provide them with the opportunity to explore one of the defining American plays of the late twentieth century. Kushner’s epic tale of America is sweeping in scope, excoriating in its social criticism, and ultimately breathtakingly redemptive in its conclusion,” says Petosa.
Young adds, “ANGELS IN AMERICA launched the current renaissance in American theatre. It introduced audiences to perspectives and experiences rarely seen onstage. It employed the stage to address important social issues. It was gorgeously theatrical while also serving as a mirror to the real world. I can think of no better play to launch the inaugural season of the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre and represent my ambitions for its future than ANGELS.”
RUNAWAYS, this year’s Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley Musical, brings Elizabeth Swados’ musical to the flexible Booth space in December.
A collaboration between CFA School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre presents Tobias Picker’s fraught psychological thriller DOLORES CLAIBORNE, February 21 – March 1, 2019. The opera will be conducted by William Lumpkin, Artistic Director of the Opera Institute (OI), with stage direction by Jim Petosa, Director of the School of Theatre. The Opera Institute has staged productions of Picker’s operas Thérèse Raquin (2009) and Emmeline (2017), and Mr. Picker and his publisher Schott Music Corp has invited OI to be a co-commissioner with New York City Opera for a chamber version of DOLORES CLAIBORNE, his newest opera, which premiered in its original version at San Francisco Opera in 2013, and in its chamber version by NYCO in 2017.
The 2018-19 season at Booth closes with THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula Le Guin, and adapted by Natsu Onoda Power, April 26 – May 5, 2019.
According Petosa, the 2018 – 2019 season at Booth Theatre “reveals an eclectic and stirring exploration of powerful stories, told with intense theatricality inspired by the creative possibilities of our new artistic home.”
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
October 17 – 21, 2018
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Jillian Robertson
Wednesday, Oct. 17 – 7:30pm
Thursday, Oct 18 – 7:30pm
Friday, Oct 19 – 8pm
Saturday, Oct 20 – 8pm
Sunday, Oct 21 – 2pm
Tickets
$15 General Admission | $10 BU Alumni | Free with BU ID, at the door, day of performance, subject to availability
bu.edu/cfa/season or 617.353.3380
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA
October 26 – 28, 2018
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Jeremy Ohringer
Friday, Oct 26, 8pm
Saturday, Oct 27, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Oct 28, 2pm
Tickets
$15 General Admission | $10 BU Alumni | Free with BU ID, at the door, day of performance, subject to availability
bu.edu/cfa/season or 617.353.3380
STEWART F. LANE AND BONNIE COMLEY MUSICAL: RUNAWAYS
December 7 – 16, 2018z
Book, Lyrics, and Music by Elizabeth Swados
Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue
Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Friday, Dec 7, 8pm (Preview)
Saturday, Dec 8, 8pm (Opening Night)
Sunday, Dec 9, 2pm
Tuesday, Dec 11, 7:30pm
Wednesday, Dec 12, 7:30pm
Thursday, Dec 13, 7:30pm
Friday, Dec 14, 8pm
Saturday, Dec 15, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Dec 16, 2pm
Sponsored in part by the Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley Musical Theatre Fund.
Tickets
$15 General Admission | $10 BU Alumni | Free with BU ID, at the door, day of performance, subject to availability
bu.edu/cfa/season or 617.353.3380
DOLORES CLAIBORNE
February 21 – 24, 2019
By Tobias Picker
Conducted by William Lumpkin
Stage Direction by Jim Petosa
Thursday, Feb 21, 7:30pm
Friday, Feb 22, 7:30pm
Saturday, Feb 23, 7:30pm
Sunday, Feb 24, 2pm
Wednesday, Feb 27, 7:30pm
Friday, Mar 1, 7:30pm
Presented by BU College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Tickets
$20 General Public | $15 BU Alumni, WGBH and WBUR members, and senior citizens | $5 Students with valid ID | Free with BU ID, two tickets, at the door, day of performance, subject to availability
bu.edu/cfa/season or 617.353.3380
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN
April 26 – May 5, 2019
By Ursula Le Guin
Adapted by Natsu Onoda Power
Directed by Sara Katzoff
Friday, Apr 26 – 8pm (Preview)
Saturday, Apr 27 – 8pm (Opening Night)
Sunday, Apr 28 – 2pm
Tuesday, Apr 30 – 7:30pm
Wednesday, May 1 – 7:30pm
Thursday, May 2 – 7:30pm
Friday, May 3 – 8pm
Saturday, May 4 – 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, May 5 – 2pm
Tickets
$15 General Admission | $10 BU Alumni | Free with BU ID, at the door, day of performance, subject to availability
bu.edu/cfa/season or 617.353.3380
Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center
820 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
bu.edu/booth