Alumni news, in brief:

Whoa – LOTS of love for BPT peeps in the nominations for the 2012 BroadwayWorld Boston Awards, including John Kuntz (Best Actor in a Play, Medium Theater for The Hotel Nepenthe), Emily Kaye Lazzaro (Best Actress in a Play, Small/Fringe for Murph and Priscilla Dreams the Answer), Melinda Lopez (Best Actress in a Play, Medium Theater for The Motherf**cker with the Hat), Rick Park (Best Actor in a Play, Medium Theater for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Best Actor in a Play, Small/Fringe for The Friends of Eddie Coyle), and the entire cast of The Company We Keep (Marianna Bassham, John Kooi, Bill Mootos, and Jessica Webb). The Company We Keep was also nominated for Best Play, Small/Fringe, and director Elena Aroaz for Best Direction of a Play, Small/Fringe…

Melinda Lopez will next hit the stage as Mrs. Gibbs in The Huntington’s production of Our Town… 

MJ Halberstadt’s Peggy’s Properties goes up this weekend as part of The Brick’s Tiny Theatre Festival in Brooklyn. Closer to home, next week, his Setting Up the Kiddy Table is included in Happy Medium Theatre’s Live Your Dream Festival Part Tre: Thanks for Giving…

This season’s Munroe Saturday Nights – a monthly performance series at the Munroe Center for the Arts in Lexington – will feature readings of new plays by Michael Towers (The Contender on Dec. 8) and Deirdre Girard (Widow’s Walk on Feb. 2). For reservations and more information, e-mail...