I hope you’re all doing well. We’ve been buried under ice and snow for weeks, but the sun is out and we just tapped our maple trees and will have the first syrup of the season by the weekend.

I have a whole bunch of shows (mostly with Plays in Place) coming up this year and wanted to share the info (so you can mark your calendars).  Also, Plays in Place won the 2025 Excellence in Consulting Award from the National Council on Public History, and I’ll travel to Montreal in late March to present about our work and pick up the award.

The year starts with a concert reading of Blood on the Snow in Northampton on March 5 & 6, at 6:30pm. The initial production of this play in 2016 led to the creation of Plays in Place. We have a great cast and Brianna Sloane will direct. There are still tickets available, but don’t delay.

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers in Boston killed four unarmed civilians and wounded eight more in what is known today as the Boston Massacre. Blood on the Snow focuses on the events that took place the day after–March 6, 1770—when the leaders of Boston gathered in the Council Chamber of what is now the Old State House and made decisions that placed Massachusetts on the road to revolution.

These live readings, 255 years to the day after the events took place, will be the first time this play has been performed outside of Boston.

Here’s the mostly complete list of my plays for 2025:

• March 5 & 6. A reading of Blood on the Snow, in partnership with Historic Northampton, at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence.  Tickets are available now.  Directed by Brianna Sloane.
• April 2 & 3. A reading of A Light Under the Dome, in partnership with Historic Northampton, at the Unitarian Society of Florence and Northampton.  Directed by Brianna Sloane.
• April 5 & 6. A reading of Hot Love in the Moonlight, part of a celebration of the Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence program, Cambridge, MA. Directed by Frances Hellums.
• April 18. A reading of Revolution’s Edge in Boston, in partnership with Old North Illuminated. FREE. More info here. Directed by Jess Meyer.
• May 10.  A panel discussion on dramatizing sports history, at Boston’s West End Museum. I will be discussing The Kittie Knox Plays.
• May 18.  MassBike’s Kittie Knox Ride, which fosters awareness of Kittie Knox, a young biracial cyclist in the 1890s who fought against race and gender-based limitations. The ride will help raise funds for The Kittie Knox Plays. Register for the ride here.
• June 26-29.  Mox Nox will receive a workshop production in Moonbox’s Boston New Works Festival. Alexandra Smith will direct. This play was scheduled to go on tour in May 2020 but COVID had other plans. I’m thrilled it will finally grace the stage in Boston.
• August 27-September 6.  Production of A New Era by Miranda ADEkoje, for the National Parks of Boston, at the King’s Chapel Parish House on Beacon Hill. Shows Wed-Sat, FREE but will fill up fast. This play explores the first National Convention of Colored Women, held in Boston in 1895, led by Josephine St. Pierre-Ruffin.  Directed by Summer L. Williams. I’m one of the producers on this Plays in Place project.
• September 6-27. Production of The Kittie Knox Plays by me, Claire Gardner, and Kirsten Greenidge. Shows on Saturdays at 11am, 2pm, 5pm, in Boston, Cambridge, and Milton.  A fun “bike-specific” set of plays, in partnership with MassBike. Directed by Michelle Aguillon.
• November 12-15. Concert reading of A Revelation of Character, at the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall. (FREE, tickets will go fast.) This is my new play about the Boston abolition movement and the fractured friendship of Lydia Maria Child and Maria Weston Chapman. Directed by Lisa Rafferty. In partnership with the Associates of the Boston Public Library.

I’m excited about all these productions and events.

I hope to see you at some of them. For most of the projects, your presence (or even an email of encouragement) is all the support needed. But for The Kittie Knox Plays, we’re still raising funds to make them happen. Please check out our fundraising page. Anything you donate will make a difference. We are in a moment where stories like Kittie’s are being actively suppressed and our team at Plays in Place is doing everything we can to keep bringing them to life.

Thanks so much for your support. I hope to see you soon!