When M. Bevin O’Gara decided not to renew her contract as producing artistic director at the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, N.Y., after her initial three-year run ended last year, she knew right where she wanted to head.
“My time in Ithaca was really wonderful,” said O’Gara by telephone recently from her home in Jamaica Plain. “I learned so much at the Kitchen Theatre Company. I was missing Boston, though, so my husband, Thom Dunn, and I decided to come back here to raise our family.”
A Long Island, N.Y., native, O’Gara had previously spent 17 years living and working in greater Boston. During that time, O’Gara served as associate producer with the Huntington Theatre Company, and, prior to that, as an artistic associate at the New Repertory Theatre.
On your screen but outside the box: Theater companies rise to a creative challenge
By Terry Byrne Globe correspondent,Updated February 24, 2021, 2:10 p.m.
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Jessica Hecht and Nael Nacer will appear in Arlekin Players Theatre s experimental Chekhov adaptation, The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop. Courtesy of Arlekin Players Theatre
Creating theater at a time when all the rules have changed has meant navigating some steep learning curves.
âWeâre building the train tracks while the train is moving,â says Igor Golyak, whose Arlekin Players Theatre is partnering with the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation for âThe Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop.â The production combines elements of film, theater, and gaming technology for a new conversation with Anton Chekhov and his final play (Feb. 26 at BACNYC.org, free but registration is required).