Sara Schreur
Cognoscenti contributor
Sara Schreur is a Boston-based writer, marketer and music enthusiast. She’s an alumna of the 2022-23 GrubStreet Essay Incubator program.
Recently published
On ‘Wicked,’ friendship and being changed for good
Jon M. Chu, who directed the movie adaptation of "Wicked" has said the story, at its core, is about friendship, and Sara Schruer agrees. Watching the relationship between the two...
Finding ‘the real thing’ with U2 at Sphere
I had no way of knowing that as The Edge strummed the arpeggios of “Where The Streets Have No Name,” I would experience something entirely new, writes Sara Schreur. And...
I still reach for Elliott Smith, 20 years after his death
My 2023 concert calendar has been packed with reunion tours, but my favorite artist, Elliott Smith, died 20 years ago, writes Sara Schreur. His story has always been more than...
‘Everything will change’ — except the music we fall in love with when we’re young
Sara Schreur discovered Death Cab for Cutie when she was 13 -- right when she needed them. Watching them perform the same album 20 years later, she writes, in the...