Who Is Eartha Mae?

MTA Lecturer Olivia D'Ambrosio is the Producing Artistic Director of Bridge Repertory Theater and is in residence at the East Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Olivia and her team are currently producing WHO IS EARTHA MAE? A One-Woman Play With Music About the Life + Times of Eartha Kitt, which enjoyed a featured preview in the Boston Globe, and will play through February 23rd. Read The Globe Article

Ken Urban Wins 2024 Blue Ink Award

As part of the award, Urban receives a $3,000 cash prize, a staged reading directed by Artistic Affiliate Dexter Bullard at American Blues Theater, and the opportunity to further develop his script with our artists.

Composing for 37 Years at MIT

In the intimate but acoustically reassuring Killian Hall, with the cooperation of Collage New Music, the Institute’s Music Department hosted an evening of Peter Child’s recent works.

MTA Associate Professor Emily Richmond Pollock Named 2024 MacVicar Fellow

Role models both in and out of the classroom, Berggren, Campbell, Pollock, and Vaikuntanathan join an elite academy of scholars from across the Institute who are committed to curricular innovation; exceptional teaching; collaboration with colleagues; and supporting students through mentorship, leadership, and advising.

Play It Again, Spirio

A piano that captures the data of live performance offers the MIT community new possibilities for studying and experimenting with music