Some Recent Accomplishments

City Stage Co. receives a sizable donation from the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation to re-do our office space so that we accommodate more volunteers and interns.  It is hoped that this will increase our capacity to serve more youth and families through our programs.

Founder Susan Gassett retires after 33 years of dedicated and visionary leadership.  Long-time Associate Director Larry Coen is named to succeed her.

2005 Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theater Critics' Association for “Thirty years of inspiring children and families to make discoveries about themselves through theater.”

Selected by the Cloud Foundation for its 2007 Paris Exchange Grant

MUSE Award from American Association of Museums for writing Getting Across to Each Other, a video about kids and racism

Arts in Education Dissemination Grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Dramatic Developments program in the Boston Public Schools.

Created Buster Has Asthma, a participatory play for families about managing asthma. More than half of adults surveyed reported changed behavior as a result of seeing the show.

Worked with the Boston Children's Museum to create the Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation KidStage, which opened in 2007 as part of the museum's expansion.

Created What's the Big Idea? a participatory play about Massachusetts' history of innovation, which has been seen in 70 elementary schools