Pascale Florestal, Grant Evan, and Monan Professor Dawn Meredith Simmons discuss the Front Porch Arts Collective and their current production season, theatre in Boston, and making a career in theatre, including non-performance-related fields.
The Front Porch Arts Collective is a non-profit black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theatre.
Audition for the Theatre Department's Spring productions!
Inverness Unravels
Friday, January 24th between 6:00-10:00pm. Callbacks will be held on Saturday, January 25th between 10:00am-5:00pm, both in the Bonn Studio Theater.
Since the beginning of September, the nine-person Devising class taught by Monan
Professor Dawn M. Simmons has been cooking up a brand-new contemporary adaptation of
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Now, this new work is ready for the next stage of its life —
and it needs you.
Audition to join six members of the class in finishing the script and performing the final piece in March. This unique opportunity combines a crash course in the Devising process with the chance to originate a role on the Bonn stage.
Please prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue to audition.
As You Like It
Wednesday, January 22nd from 6:00pm to 10:00pm and Thursday, January 23rd from 6:00pm to 10:00pm on the Robsham Mainstage. Callbacks will be held on Saturday, January 25th from 10:00am to 2:00pm on the Robsham Mainstage.
This far out take on the classic comedy is set in late 1960s San Francisco, where the Forest of Arden is refuge to counter-cultural peace-niks. After Orlando falls in love with Rosalind, her autocratic uncle banishes her to the forest, where she disguises herself as a boy. Orlando, fleeing an attempt on his life by his power-hungry brother, finds her in Arden but is fooled by her disguise. Meanwhile, others in the forest find themselves embroiled in unrequited love—including a love triangle between Rosalind-as-Ganymede, the shepherd Silvius, and Phoebe. Accompanied by a live rock band, the characters move between
Shakespeare's heightened language and groovy 60s music as they imagine a less corrupt, less patriarchal,more peaceful world.
If you are interested in auditioning for As You Like It, please sign up for a seven-minute slot on the spreadsheet linked here and fill out this form.
Please prepare:
1-2 minute Shakespearian monologue.
16 bars of any song, provided it is written in English and does not require you to belt.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a biting satire based on the true story of Giuseppe Pinelli, a suspected anarchist who "fell" to his death from a Milanese police headquarter in 1969. The play uses farce and physical comedy to examine our relationship with justice, government, and oppressive systems. Designed and directed by Boston College students as the Theatre Department's Spring Workshop Production.
Directed by Tyler Dean '25