Bard at the Gate is a startup play series presented by Paula Vogel.
The plays in this new series have been chosen by Ms. Vogel from among the hundreds and hundreds of scripts she has read and/or mentored over four decades: works that have been overlooked and never produced, along with plays that deserve a wider audience.
See the previous plays presented by Bard at the Gate. →
Plays will premiere on the Bard at the Gate YouTube channel. Click the button below to subscribe.
Bard at the Gate Press
Read The New York Times profile about Kernel of Sanity and Bard at the Gate: A 1978 Play Plucked From the Slush Pile Gets a Timely New Reading
Read the Playbill.com feature on Kernel of Sanity: Matthew Hancock, Abigail Breslin, More Set For Kernel of Sanity Stream
Read Matthew Wexler’s Broadway Blog feature: Bard At The Gate: PAULA VOGEL CHAMPIONS PLAYWRIGHTS
Listen to Paula Vogel’s interview on WGBH: Paula Vogel: Theaters May Be Closed, But The Show Must Go On
Read David Gordon’s interview on Theatermania: Paula Vogel: "Crisis Is Always an Opportunity for Change"
Read The New York Times profile on Bulrusher’s Kara Young: For Kara Young, a Zooming Career is Followed by a Zoom Role
Read the Playbill.com feature on Origin Story: Anula Navlekar, Brandon E. Burton, Edmund Donovan, and Zoe Mann to Star in Virtual Reading of Origin Story
Watch Paula Vogel on WGBH: Paula Vogel: “Art Becomes An Essential Worker” In This Moment
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Black Lives Matter.
The stories of Black lives must be on our stages.
It is hard to think of theater in this moment when black communities are under siege from systemic racism. All of us have witnessed the obscenity of violence against black bodies in our streets; we know of the horrific violence black people suffer in their very homes from police, and that for every cell phone that records, there is so much obscenity committed that we do not see.
The very word theater comes from the Greeks, a place to behold.
It is critical that we behold the experiences and voices of our remarkable black artists on stage, in film and on television. There can be no excuses when we reopen our theaters to suppress the visibility of black lives and black artists.
I support young artists of color to redefine identity through their writing; I believe that young black audience members will want to see 21st century theatre because they are seen.
— Paula
About Bard at the Gate
We may not want to admit it, but new plays, are produced by theatre companies in a factory process.
Three and a half weeks of rehearsal, and then onto the stage; four weeks, and strike the set, while preparing the next play in three and a half weeks.
Well, now the factory is closed down.
Bard at the Gate offers a simple glance at plays that are ground-breaking: plays that were too ambitious, too quirky and too smart to be contained. Strong scripts. Raw talent. New audiences. New Bards.
BARD AT THE GATE Production Team
Executive Producer: Paula Vogel
Producer: Rosey Strub
Associate Producers: BJ Evans and Ryan Pointer
Press Representative: Sam Rudy