Jasmine Brooks

National New Play Network Announces Collaboration Grant Recipients and Producers in Residence

Eleven rising theater leaders comprise this year's Producers; five new projects will be supported by NNPN's Collaboration Fund. National New Play Network has announced awardees for two of its anchor programs: Producers in Residence and the Collaboration Fund.

Company One Theatre series focuses on the future of Boston neighborhoods - The Bay State Banner

Celina Colby is an arts and travel reporter with a fondness for Russian novels.... VIEW BIO Jasmine Brooks is the project's creative producer. COURTESY PHOTO On June 12, Company One Theatre (C1) launched their Better Future Series, a monthly online discussion among artists, community organizers and policymakers about the future of neighborhoods around Boston.

BWW Interview: Jasmine Brooks And Summer L. Williams of BETTER FUTURE SERIES at Company One Theatre

Summer L. Williams, associate artistic director and co-founder of Company One Theatre is, among other goals, using this time as a chance to reset. She ponders, a?oeHow do I take advantage of this chance to reimagine the way I think or work? I am finding things that I thought were internal pressures that are actually external pressures.a??

BWW Review: WOLF PLAY at Company One Theatre

For a long time within their history, Company One has cornered the market in Boston for selecting those cutting-edge new works that are able to effectively spark conversations and juxtaposing them against each other in ways that are both productive and incendiary.

NNPN Announces 2019-20 Program Awardees

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces its 2019-20 grant recipients, including the 2019 Smith Prize for Political Theatre, seven Producer Residencies, and eight Collaboration Fund awards that will support partnerships between multiple Member Theaters, playwrights, and other theater makers in various projects.

THIS PLACE/DISPLACED: A SPOTLIGHT ON DISPLACEMENT, GENTRIFICATION, AND HOUSING INEQUALITY IN BOSTON

It's almost Allston Christmastime, and you know what that means-streets crowded with moving vans! Armies of ignorant motorists driving in circles, cutting people off, and making illegal turns because they can't follow their GPS. Sidewalks littered, literally, with mountains of broken and abandoned cheap Ikea furniture.