"Fresh, alive, and extraordinarily complex." Keri René Fuller describes what being Broadway's current green girl is all about. Watch the full Citizens of Oz interview now on our YouTube!
FAUNTLEROY says: "There is something to be said about Hamilton's tenacity and drive that I can relate to. As an actor, I know what its like to have a work ethic, working so hard to prove you…
My Berkshire On Stage review of Hartford Stages production of "Romeo & Juliet", staged by Melia Bensussen.
Westfield News/MassLive ArtsBeat 4/21/25. Talcott Mountain Music Festival 2025 Season, Orlando in Northampton, Mathew Morrison in Hartford, Andrew Rannells at The Mahaiwe and arts news for W…
NEW ArtsBeat TV/Radio FRI 4/11/25 from Westfield Community Programming, 89.5fm/WSKB, Agawam Media and Southwick Community TV. Sarah Vincelett Dredge and Marty Kluger introduce Springfield Ch…
Westfield News/MassLive ArtsBeat 3/31/25. Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford to co-present "Sweeney Todd"; "Ragtime" opens Goodspeed season. OLLI Berkshire Arts Season series, and arts…
TheaterWorks Hartford and Chester Theatre announce new seasons
Westfield News/MassLive ArtsBeat 1/27/25. Love Letters and Quartetto MOSSO at 52 Sumner, Springfield Symphony's Gershwin, Berlin and Friends, Westfield's Burrage Brothers on Broadway and ar…
NEW On The Mark TV/Radio WED 1/08/25, from Westfield Community Programming, 89.5fm/WSKB, Agawam Media and Southwick Community TV. Westfield native Michelle Joyner talks about ​direct…
Westfield News/MassLive ArtsBeat 11/18/24. Holiday fare abounds in area theatres and concert halls this season in WMass and No.CT. h
Westfield News/MassLive ArtsBeat 11/04/24. Springfield Symphony performs Echoes of the Americas, Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, Multiband Pops at UMass, La Boheme in Hartford and arts new…
My Westfield News/MassLive review of The Majestic Theater's production of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Westfield News/MassLive ArtsBeat 10/07/24. The Capitol Fools return to town. The SSO opens its season with New England Reverie. Space Panorama in the Berkshhires and arts news for WMass and …
My Westfield News/MassLive Review of "The Weir" at Berkshire Theatre Group's Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA, staged by Eric Hill. h
NEW on The Mark TV/Radio 5/15/24 from Westfield Community Programming, 89.5fm/WSKB, Southwick Community TV and Agawam Media. Meet Broadway's Mamie Parris, who stars in Goodspeed's "The Myste…
NEW ArtsBeat TV/Radio 5/03/24 from Westfield Community Programming, 89.5fm/WSKB, Southwick Community TV and Agawam Media. Season Previews: Meet Genée Coreno from WAM Theatre and Kate Maguir…
NEW ArtsBeat on Pioneer Valley Radio 11/29/23. A review of Moulin Rouge at The Bushnell (photo by Matthew Murphy of MurphyMade) segment begins at 1:11, plus arts news for WMass and No.CT. se…
NEW ArtsBeat on Pioneer Valley Radio. The Hartford Symphony and its musicians have a new agreement, Avery Sharpe hosts Jazz A La Mode on NEPM, and arts news for WMass and No.CT. Segment begi…
Westfield News MassLive Arts Beat 10/09/23. Private Jones premieres at Goodspeed.The Brass Menagerie at Holyoke Civic Symphony, The Acting Company brings The Odyssey to Great Barrington, and…
Westfield News/MassLive Arts Beat 9/25/23. "English" opens at Barrington Stage. The Hartford Symphony and Springfield Symphony celebrate their 80th season. The OutFilm CT series opens. And a…
ArtsBeat TV/Radio 6/23/23 from Westfield Community Programming and 89.5fm/WSKB. Barrington Stage's Alan Paul and "Cabaret", plus Ken Comia and Christopher Morey from KETG's "The View Upstair…
ArtsBeat TV/Radio 5/05/23 from WCPC15 and 89.5fm/WSKB. Curtain up! Light the lights! On Goodspeed's 60th season with Donna Lynn Hilton, plus musicians Ellen Redman and Alan Reid on a concert…
ArtsBeat TV/Radio 2/10/23 from WCPC15 and 89.5fm/WSKB. Peggy Pharr Wilson and Matthew Penn preview Barrington Stage Company's 10x10 New Play Festival, and a visit to the Springfield Museums …
PROGRAM NOTE: NEW ArtsBeat from WC PC15 and 89.5fm/WSKB. 2022: The Year in Review with ArtsBeat's Mark G. Auerbach, Stagestruck columnist Chris Rohmann and One Man's Opinion's Tim Leininger.
Theatre Bay Area is proud to announce the Fall 2022 awardees of our flagship grant, CA$H Theatre. This marked the inaugural year of CA$H Sustains, which funds the general operations of small…
Hello TBA community! We are thrilled to be moving to a new website in January 2023. Staff have been hard at work behind the scenes making this transition as smooth as possible " when you…
Theatre Bay Area's Arts Leadership Residency removes roadblocks to arts leadership for historically marginalized groups by funding theatremakers in residence at professional theatres where t…
Theatre Bay Area and the RHE Charitable Foundation are thrilled to announce Angel Adedokun as the 2022 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellow. Angel is a bilingual vocalist, songwriter, and dan…
Mean Girls are hanging out at The Bushnell this week. My Pioneer Valley Radio review of the hit Broadway musical with its stunning sets and projections, fabulous dance numbers and more. Segm…
We've been using this space to share a peek behind the curtain on the exciting transformation-in-process here at TBA. In the past six weeks, we have welcomed three new leaders into the fold:…
Spring Greetings, Everyone,After a busy month and a half here at TBA, it's a pleasure to re-connect with our "insiders."What a treat it was to join nearly 150 artists and administrators in B…
DEAR MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES,After participating as a Theatre Bay Area Board member for many seasons, I am delighted to be involved in leading our organization through this period of…
A fascinating but thinly written new play by Lloyd Suh
New ArtsBeat on Pioneer Valley Radio. A recap of the 2021 Arts Scene. The good. The bad. The ugly. The last ArtsBeat of 2021. Segment begins at: 4:19.
by Rotimi Agbabiaka  It?s hard to believe that it?s been five years since I first came on as features curator for Theatre Bay Area. I guess the cliche is true: time flies when you?…
by Sam Hurwitt Interim managing director Ann Marie Lonsdale comes to Theatre Bay Area at a transitional time for the organization. Brad Erickson is scheduled to end his 18-year tenure as exe…
New "On The Mark" from WCPC15 and 89.5fm/WSKB. The ArtsHub Virtual Summit will provide resources for the creative economy (artists, performing arts groups, venues). Dee Boyle-Clapp, Justin B…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka Tis the season for holiday shows and after an almost two-year hiatus, live, in-person holiday theatre is back. In keeping with the unprecedented times, many of the pro…
by Sam Hurwitt When COVID-19 pandemic precautions started closing venues in March of 2020, theaters were hungry for any information about what they could expect. That?s when consulting…
 by Sam Hurwitt Bay Area arts organizations want you to know that they?re ready. They?re ready to invite patrons back into their spaces in as safe a way as can be managed amid an ongoi…
by Jean Schiffman ?Today we are practicing the art of letting go,? said Deb?rah Eliezer, artistic director of FoolsFURY, at a recent public closure ceremony at the Mission Cultural Center…
My Westfield News review of the Tony Award winning "The Band's Visit" at The Bushnell through Sunday.
 by Edward Guthmann When COVID hit early last year, Cindy Goldfield was rehearsing Nine to Five at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. She was playing Violet Newstead, the role…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka When Brad Erickson announced this June that he would be departing his role as Theatre Bay Area executive director after 18 years of service, the organization was f…
by Edward Guthmann  Four Bay Area theatre artists have been chosen in the second round of Theatre Bay Area?s Arts Leadership Residency. Virginia Blanco, Devin Cunningham, Daniel Duque-E…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka The return of live, in-person theatre has brought new challenges to theatre staff, chief among which is the responsibility of enforcing vaccine and masking mandate…
by Nicole Gluckstern In September 2020, despite the privations of the pandemic shutdown, San Raphael-based AlterTheater announced an expanded cohort of playwrights selected for the 2020-2…
New ArtsBeat on Pioneer Valley Radio (new streaming format too). A dancer's story about Bob Fosse at The Mahaiwe, Someone Else's House at TheaterWorks, MOSSO at Symphony Hall. and more. segm…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka With the shutdown of public gatherings last March, theatre companies across the world had to figure out new ways to keep telling stories. For a wide variety of Bay Are…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka Jeffrey Lo is staying busy. Fresh off directing, Hold These Truths at San Francisco Playhouse, which was one of the first indoor, in-person shows in the Bay Area s…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka  On August 26, SB 805, or the ?Save The Performing Arts Act of 2021,? a California Senate bill that aims to help nonprofit performing arts companies, with annual re…
