New Chapter for Theater opens with "Everybody"

W97, Theater Arts new faculity, opens with six performances of Everybody, directed by Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler.

Everybody "is a 2017 play based on 'Everyman,' the venerable 15th century English morality play. As performed last week at MIT, 'Everybody' at once updates a masterwork from the distant past, and represents the future — the great range of new arts opportunities that the new Building W97 is making possible at MIT.

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Images by Jon Sachs.

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