The national conference of the Theater Communications Group brings together more than a thousand theater professionals — and this year they came to Boston. 

Written by John Kuntz, “The Hotel Nepenthe” is about as trippy, witty, snappy, funny, and creepy a production as you could hope to find. At its core, the play tells the story of several different characters that orbit the Hotel Nepenthe.

1 Voice, 1 Play, 1 Day, is an awareness campaign of Project 1 Voice, a national performing arts service organization. Their goal is to use one day and one voice to cultivate an audience for black playwrights and to capture the African American experience in theatre.

Anthony Rapp, star from the Broadway hit Rent, brings a one-man show to Boston this week about his struggle to balance family and career while his mother battled cancer. His performance continues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

A language, whether signed, spoken, written, or sung, is a critical, complex communicative tool and that certainty is front and center in Love Person.