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Nathan Alan Davis will run BU’s MFA Playwriting Program, while Megan Sandberg-Zakian is the new artistic director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

While many nonprofits furloughed staff and cut programs during COVID, CATA expanded, offering 450 programs entirely for free, and also built a beautiful, fully accessible Arts Center in Great Barrington . Community Access to the Arts (CATA) in Great Barrington thrived despite COVID and expanded its programs to empower disabled artists.

Kate Snodgrass, a BU professor of the practice of playwriting, retires after decades teaching at BU, running its Playwriting Program and the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre returns to the stage, live, with five MFA plays you should have seen last year.

What’s happening in the arts world Updated April 22, 2021, 8:00 p.m. Email to a Friend MUSIC Pop & Rock ONCE VIRTUAL VENUE Things are getting fuzzy at Once Virtual Venue this weekend with a triple bill of doomy punks the Freqs, the starry shoegaze of Lilac Queen, and the high-spirited, noisy Horsehands. April 23, 8 p.m. April 29, 7 p.m. Classical MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD The Boston-based period instrument band gathers at Worcester’s Trinity Lutheran Church for a livestream season finale, featuring the energetic and eminently danceable music of the French Baroque period. Ap...