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Danny Bryck (left) and Minou Pourshariati (right) in a performance of “The Fig Tree, and The Phoenix, and The Desire to Be Reborn.” The show, which was written by Boston University master’s student Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens, will run at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre from Feb. 20 to March 9. COURTESY OF BENJAMIN ROSE PHOTOGRAPHY

‘The Fig Tree, and The Phoenix, and The Desire to be Reborn’ reimagines what has been into what could be

Ellen Dong February 26, 2025
A story of history and mythology meets 1980’s Iran in Boston University playwright Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens’ latest play “The Fig Tree, and The Phoenix, and The Desire to be Reborn,” which is showing at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
Boston Playwrights Theatre

Glitter, gators and singing in the swamp: ‘Alligator-a-Phobia in 3D!’ takes the stage at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

Joanna Malvas April 10, 2023
“Alligator-a-Phobia in 3D!,” a Boston Playwrights’ Theatre production, opened on Thursday, April 6 and will run through Sunday, April 16 at 949 Commonwealth Ave.
In the third installment of the Boston Playwright Theater’s “BPT Talks” series, BPT playwright Cayenne Douglass took her audience behind the scenes of her thesis play “Beasts.” COURTESY OF BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER

Student playwright captures complex familial bonds in thesis project

Molly Farrar November 12, 2020
BU's Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is hosting weekly “BPT Talks,” during which a third-year Master of Fine Arts playwright at BPT discusses their latest work.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has declared Oct. 29 as “Melinda Lopez Day” to honor the College of Fine Arts professor's cultural contributions to the city. PHOTO COURTESY MELINDA LOPEZ

City names Oct. 29 after BU professor, playwright Melinda Lopez

Ellie French November 3, 2016

When Melinda Lopez, a Boston University College of Fine Arts adjunct professor, first heard that the City of Boston declared Oct. 29 as Melinda Lopez Day, she thought it was a joke. “I thought...

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