The Boston Globe’s coverage of the 36th Elliot Norton Awards includes mention of theater faculty member Summer Williams’s win for outstanding director for Lyric Stage’s Barbecue, and the Conservatory Theater Division’s receipt of the 2018 Elliot Norton Arts Education Award.
 

The ARTery’s review of The Sound of Music’s national tour praises alumna Lauren Kidwell (M.F.A. '14, musical theater), who “brings to it a voice as large as those looming Alps” in her role as Mother Abbess.

Alumna Lauren Kidwell (M.F.A. '14, musical theater) discusses how her impulsive decision to audition for the M.F.A. in musical theater at Boston Conservatory changed her life and steered her toward a path of stage performance. Kidwell is now playing Mother Abbess in the national tour of The Sound of Music.

The Bay State Banner highlights the world premiere of “A Rose Out of Concrete,” which was performed at the Conservatory’s Spring Dance Concert: Limitless. The project was a collaboration between pop icon Nona Hendryx, music producer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Hank Shocklee, and Boston Conservatory hip-hop instructor Duane Lee Holland Jr.