Laura Amico

From theaters to galleries, arts coverage reveals what communities value and how people connect across a city. On Local News Day, we tend to talk about accountability reporting, city hall coverage, and the steady, essential work of keeping the public informed. What we often leave behind, though, is the equally

What Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous reveals about experiencing plays for the first time. Correction: The number of actors in Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous has been corrected. It is four. Last year, I saw Our Town for the first time. Not “for the first time since high school.” Not

Inside the Neuroscience of Live Performance In this episode of Scene in Boston, hosts Laura Amico and Lisa Thalhamer take a step back from individual productions to explore a bigger question: what’s happening in our brains when we sit in an audience—and how do we get better at

Theater gives us a place to exercise our emotional brains, practicing how we understand other people One of Boston's best programs is Boston Family Days, which provides free admission to local attractions (the aquarium, for example), on select days to Boston Public Schools families. Amazingly, the program also

Why documenting Boston’s theater community matters right now and how you can help. I fell into Scene in Boston almost by accident. Or, as much by accident as you can when you launch a website and a podcast. Three years ago this week I left my job as a

What does it mean to build a life between cultures, languages, and generations? In this episode of Scene in Boston, hosts Laura Amico and Lisa Thalhamer step inside one of the most ambitious projects unfolding in Boston theater right now: Nigerian American playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle. This