Alumni news, in brief:

At The How and the Why

In case you missed it, BU’s own Ilana Brownstein curated a week’s worth of posts for Howlround’s City Series on Beantown. Offerings included this interview (conducted by dramaturg Jessie Baxter) with Lydia Diamond, Melinda Lopez, and Kate Snodgrass... (Also check out Bridget O’Leary’s Q&A with Barry and Larry. Love them.)

Brian Tuttle’s Foreverendia hits the stage at Chicago’s Black Ship Co. after Thanksgiving, and runs through December…

Karmo Sanders tells The Dramatist (the journal of the Dramatists Guild of America) what membership means to her in its centennial issue. Turn to page 18...

Voltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters (featuring John Kuntz) is a Boston Globe Critics' Pick, but if you don’t have tickets already, you’re out of luck – the Nov. 1 performance is sold out...

Lydia Diamond’s new play Smart People will receive an unstaged reading at the McCarterLabFall Festival this weekend, Nov. 2…