{"id":5615,"date":"2024-02-22T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:28:35","slug":"emily-w-arts-at-bu-and-the-boston-theatre-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2024\/02\/22\/emily-w-arts-at-bu-and-the-boston-theatre-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily W: Arts at BU and the Boston Theatre Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up right outside New York City, I became obsessed with theatre. I\u2019m not sure when I got bit by the bug: whether it was when my parents took me to see my first Broadway show, when I became obsessed with \u201cWicked,\u201d or when I auditioned for my first musical in freshman year of high school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, at some point I started buying into the old saying that when you\u2019re inside a theatre, everyone\u2019s heart beats in rhythm. A huge part of the reason I chose BU over other schools was because of the strong presence of the arts on campus \u2014 and in the city. I wanted to be somewhere where I could keep the arts as a part of my life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My second semester, I got involved with BU on Broadway as part of the lighting team on \u201cHeathers: The Musical.\u201d I met two of my dearest friends in the process \u2014 they keep me grounded and remind me what\u2019s really important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From that point on, I made an effort to get more involved with the Boston theatre scene. BU has four main theatre groups: BU on Broadway, which focuses mainly on musicals, Stage Troupe, which puts up straight plays and musicals, Wandering Minds, which produces indie straight play works, and Shakespeare Society, which I hope is self explanatory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right on West Campus is the Boston Playwrights\u2019 theatre. The theatre produces lots of new indie works each season, and student tickets run as low as $10. The school of theatre\u2019s productions, which often run at The Booth, are consistently impressive as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also loads of national tours that come through Boston, and professional theatres like Moonbox Productions in Cambridge. Lots of my friends caught \u201cSix\u201d at the Emerson Colonial downtown; I saw \u201cInto the Woods\u201d on press night for The Daily Free Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My point being: if you want to get involved in the theater scene in Boston, it will welcome you with open arms, and even if you didn\u2019t grow up a Broadway baby, it\u2019s a great way to get out into the city and involved on campus in a really strong community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up right outside New York City, I became obsessed with theatre. I\u2019m not sure when I got bit by the bug: whether it was when my parents took me to see my first Broadway show, when I became obsessed with \u201cWicked,\u201d or when I auditioned for my first musical in freshman year of high … Continue reading Emily W: Arts at BU and the Boston Theatre Scene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44631],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}