The Lowell Offering at Merrimack Repertory Theatre

MRT, MCC, and UMass Lowell Announce Partnership on RED RIDING HOOD

February 03, 2023

The Merrimack Repertory Theatre has announced the production of Allison Gregory's Red Riding Hood will be produced in collaboration with Middlesex Community College (MCC) and the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML).

​​​​​​Berkshire Theatre Group Announces Casting For Late Summer 2022 Season

June 09, 2022

​​​​​​Berkshire Theatre Group has announced casting for shows in BTG’s Late Summer 2022 Season. The full season will feature B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching, a world premiere play and an award recipient of the GRANTS FOR ARTS PROJECTS from the National Endowment for the Arts; Once, a Tony Award-winning musical; Songs For a New World, the first musical by a Tony Award winner; Dracula, a classic gothic tale of horrors; and Edward Albee's Seascape, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. 

Merrimack Repertory Theatre Announces Changes To the 2020-21 Season

August 20, 2020

Due to the global pandemic, Courtney Sale, the Nancy L. Donahue Artistic Director, and Bonnie J. Butkas, Executive Director, today announced major changes to the schedule for the upcoming season at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. 

Merrimack Repertory Theatre Young Company Goes Virtual With Online Theatre Classes Start July

May 15, 2020

Merrimack Repertory Theatre's professional training program for high school students, the MRT Young Company, goes virtual this year with classes online from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for three weeks, July 13-31. Renowned Chicago educator, director, and actor Robert Cornelius returns to lead the intensive.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre Announces 2020-21 Season - YOUNG AMERICANS By Lauren Yee, and More

April 10, 2020

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) today announced six of the seven plays for the 2020-21 Season, including the world premiere of Young Americans by Lauren Yee, as well as two of the plays originally scheduled for the current season, according to new Nancy L. Donahue Artistic Director Courtney Sale and Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas.

MRT Postpones Productions

March 14, 2020

Due to the rapidly changing public health recommendations around COVID-19, Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) will postpone its upcoming productions of The Lowell Offering and Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End.

UMass Lowell Professors to Appear at Talkbacks for THE LOWELL OFFERING

March 06, 2020

Drs. Robert Forrant and Bridget M. Marshall of the University of Massachusetts Lowell will appear in free post-show talkbacks on March 26 and March 29 after performances of the world premiere of The Lowell Offering at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

MRT Presents the Premiere of THE LOWELL OFFERING

February 11, 2020

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) will present the world premiere of The Lowell Offering by Andy Bayiates and Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, the galvanizing true story of Lowell's a?oeMill Girls,a?? from March 18 to April 12 at the Nancy L. Donahue Theatre at Liberty Hall, according to Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas and Interim Artistic Director Terry Berliner. Jess Hutchinson directs.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre Will Bring NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN Home to Lowell

January 17, 2020

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) will present its critically acclaimed production of Nina Simone: Four Women, first staged last spring with Northlight Theatre in Chicago, to Lowell from February 12 to March 8 only at the Nancy L. Donahue Theatre, according to Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas and Interim Artistic Director Terry Berliner.

MRT Lowell Will Offer Reading With UMass Lowell And National Park Service

November 06, 2019

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) and the UMass Lowell English Department will present a dramatic reading of The Lowell Offering, a work in progress by Andy Bayiates and Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 15, at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street. Jess Hutchinson will direct.

MRT Offers New Discounts For Students/Military/Educators - Extends 2 For 40

August 26, 2019

Back by popular demand! Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) today announced last season's a?oe2 Tickets for $40a?? special, created last year in honor of its 40th Anniversary Season, will continue for the 2019-20 Season, which opens September 11 with Tiny Beautiful Things. The theatre will also introduce a subscription for students and expand its discount periods for educators and military families.

MRT Announces Cast For TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

August 20, 2019

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) today announced the cast for the buoyant Tiny Beautiful Things, Nia Vardalos' stage adaptation of The New York Times' bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed, directed by Jen Wineman, from September 11 to October 6 at the Nancy L. Donahue Theatre, according to Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas and Interim Artistic Director Terry Berliner.

MRT Announces ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END For a Full Season Written by Women

August 12, 2019

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) today announced a lineup change to the 2019-20 Season with the addition of Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End by Allison Engel and Margaret Engel. A one-woman tour-de-force, At Wit's End celebrates the life of one of the 20th Century's most beloved humorists, who wrote more than 4,000 columns for 900 newspapers and 30 million readers.