10 Important Colonial Theatre Events Every Theatre Nerd Must Know

Playbill.com: For over 100 years, our greatest artists have inhabited every staircase and corner and seat of the Colonial Theatre, creating important work that has changed both the theatre the world. The oldest continually operating theater in Boston (since 1900) may be turned into an Emerson College student activity center and dining hall. From George M. Cohan to Barbra Streisand, from Neil Simon to Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, the stage professionals who have worked at the Colonial are a veritable Who’s Who of The American Theatre. From Oklahoma! to Porgy and Bess to Follies, some of the most significant theatre ever created has premiered on the Colonial stage.