Dawn M. Simmons
FRONT PORCH PUSHES THEATRICAL DIVERSITY
A new black-led Boston theater company prepares its inaugural season
The hard truth about Boston is that it’s a fairly racist city. It’s evident in its social dynamics and made painfully (in)visible in its cultural scene. At least Dawn M. Simmons, the artistic director of the city’s first black-led professional theater ...
A MODERN VERSE MACBETH THIS WAY COMES
★★★☆☆
This new season at Actors’ Shakespeare Project—the first under artistic director Christopher V. Edwards, who took over from Allyn Burrows last year—is a welcome change of pace for the troupe that has of late been presenting, well, mostly Shakespeare.
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MANIFEST DESTINY, MINUS THE MEN
Director Dawn M. Simmons talks Men on Boats at SpeakEasy Stage
