FEEL MORE ALIVE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 2019-2020 SEASON | FLEXPASS HANDBOOK
WELCOME WELCOME FLEXPASS HOLDERS! THANK YOU for making the Huntington Theatre Company part of your life. Our FlexPass holders mean the world to us, and we want to make sure you have everything you need to enjoy all the benefits of your FlexPass. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FLEXPASS BENEFITS
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2019 – 2020 SEASON
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PERFORMANCE CALENDARS
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IMPORTANT DETAILS
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FLEXPASS BENEFITS ABOUT YOUR FLEXPASS A FlexPass provides you with all the benefits of a regular subscription plus the added flexibility of selecting performance dates that best suit your schedule. A FlexPass is a quantity of tickets (minimum of 4 tickets per order) that can be redeemed as you choose throughout the season. Best of all, your FlexPass tickets never expire. If you are unable to use all of your tickets this season, don’t worry — you can use them next year. • Redeem online at huntingtontheatre.org/subscribers. • Call Ticketing Services at 617 266 0800. • Visit either the Huntington Avenue Theatre at 264 Huntington Avenue or the Calderwood Pavilion at 527 Tremont Street. • Mail your request to Huntington Theatre Company Ticketing Services, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-4606.
All ticket redemptions made online or by mail will be confirmed by phone. We recommend you reserve your performance tickets as early as possible to secure the best seats.
Additional FlexPass tickets (4-ticket minimum purchase requirement) can be added to your subscription at any time by calling Ticketing Services at 617 266 0800 or online at huntingtontheatre.org/flex.
FAST, FLEXIBLE EXCHANGES No fee for exchanging your tickets! Exchange your FlexPass tickets for available seats at another performance. Simply call Ticketing Services or complete the form on our website at huntingtontheatre.org/subscribers. Exchanges can be made up to 30 minutes before curtain time by phone,
although we request 24 hours notice if possible. When exchanging online, we require at least 48 hours to process your request.
MISSED PERFORMANCE INSURANCE We know that last-minute emergencies may sometimes cause you to miss your scheduled performance. In such circumstances, Ticketing Services will do its best to assist you with seeing another performance. You can also use your missed performance tickets to see a different production.
All missed performance tickets are subject to availability, have a $10 per ticket service charge, and may not be exchanged.
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FLEXPASS BENEFITS SUBSCRIBERS ONLY WEB PAGE Exchange your tickets and stay informed of new subscriber benefits on your own exclusive web page: huntingtontheatre.org/subscribers
SPECIAL DISCOUNTS AND TICKET OFFERS Take $10 off our regular ticket prices when buying extra tickets for friends and we’ll also waive the per ticket handling fee (a savings of $4 – $8 per ticket). When ordering your tickets online please use the promotional code SUB20. FlexPass holders also save 10% on all tickets to participating theatre companies when purchasing via BostonTheatreScene.com, and the per ticket handling fees are waived (a savings of $4 – $8 per ticket). Use promotional code SUB20 when ordering your tickets online. To enhance your theatre experience, many area businesses, restaurants, and parking facilities offer discounts to Huntington subscribers. Visit the Subscribers Only web page for more information about all of our subscriber discounts.
2019 – 2020 SEASON THE PURISTS by Dan McCabe • Directed by Billy Porter August 30 – September 29, 2019 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA A TONY AND GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST DIRECTS THIS STORY OF MUSIC, MAYHEM, AND THE MAGIC THAT IS QUEENS A thrilling world premiere by an exciting new voice, The Purists brings Tony Award winner Billy Porter (Kinky Boots, “Pose” on FX) to the Huntington to direct this soaring new play by Dan McCabe. A former rapper, a DJ, and a showtunes-loving telesales director have become an unlikely group who hang out and spar about music on a stoop in Queens. But when an impromptu rap battle erupts between two younger female emcees, everything gets questioned. With raw emotion and uproarious humor, The Purists asks, what is friendship? How can we embrace new ideas? And what does it mean to be wholly yourself? 4
2019 – 2020 SEASON ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard • Directed by Peter DuBois September 20 – October 20, 2019 Huntington Avenue Theatre FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST THEATRICAL MINDS COMES A GENIUS TAKE ON A SHAKESPEARE CLASSIC Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play arrives in a marvelously funny, spectacularly beautiful new production. This modern-day classic tragicomedy imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As the story unfolds, they voice their confusion about the play that’s being performed without them, untangling bigger questions about life and death, reality and art. It’s all from the pen of Academy Award and four-time Best Play Tony Award winner Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Real Thing, Arcadia), and directed by the Huntington’s own Artistic Director, Peter DuBois.
QUIXOTE NUEVO by Octavio Solis • Directed by KJ Sanchez November 15 – December 8, 2019 Huntington Avenue Theatre DISCOVER A CONTEMPORARY SPIN ON ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT NOVELS One of literature’s most vibrant and memorable characters, Cervantes’ Don Quixote is boldly brought to life by award-winning playwright Octavio Solis and director KJ Sanchez in this hysterically funny and exceptionally poetic adaptation of the classic novel. Transported to a border town in Texas, the eccentric, brilliant knight embarks on a cross-desert quest to reunite with a long-lost love. Chased by Death himself — in the form of roving bands of mariachi Calacas — Quixote always leads with his heart in a world of people led astray by their brains. Quixote Nuevo is a triumphant celebration and a rich, contemporary, theatrical fable that has been created anew by Solis, one of the storytellers behind the Disney/Pixar film Coco.
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2019 – 2020 SEASON WE ALL FALL DOWN by Lila Rose Kaplan • Directed by Melia Bensussen January 10 – February 9, 2020 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA A HILARIOUS NEW PLAY ABOUT A FAMILY TRYING OUT TRADITION FOR THE FIRST TIME Linda and Saul Stein still live in the Westchester home where they raised their two beautiful daughters. But when Saul unexpectedly retires, Linda summons the family to celebrate Passover for the first time in decades. Linda tends slightly toward the theatrical (okay, a lot), and their family has never been particularly religious (okay, not at all). So their comic attempts to bring the Seder to life go from riotous to heartwrenching in this play from Huntington Playwriting Fellow and Somerville resident Lila Rose Kaplan, directed by Obie Award winner Melia Bensussen. Can this family come together, or will an ageold tradition tear them apart?
SWEAT by Lynn Nottage • Directed by Kimberly Senior January 31 – February 23, 2020 Huntington Avenue Theatre THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING TALE OF FRIENDS STAYING AFLOAT The Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated Best Play by Lynn Nottage (Ruined) comes alive in a moving and urgently relevant new production directed by Kimberly Senior (The Niceties). Based on interviews with the residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of close friends struggles to stay connected when their factory is at risk of collapse. In a neighborhood bar, each of them reaches for their piece of the American dream. Can their friendships survive this test? Nottage weaves a tale of trust and doubt, longtime bonds and short-term possibilities. The New York Times raves, “Superb… Nottage is writing at the peak of her powers.”
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2019 – 2020 SEASON OUR DAUGHTERS, LIKE PILLARS by Kirsten Greenidge • Directed by Kimberly Senior March 20 – April 19, 2020 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA STEP INTO THE STORY OF A SUMMER VACATION THAT VEERS DELICIOUSLY OFF COURSE It’s a surprise to everyone when Lavinia invites her sisters and their mother to a gorgeous summer house in New Hampshire for a vacation that she hopes will last forever. But when the sisters’ stepmother Missy — the woman who inherited their dad’s everything — shows up unannounced, long-simmering feuds flare up and family bonds are called into question. Where is this family heading? Can they be happy with what they’ve been given? And who invited Missy? Obie Award-winning playwright and Boston native Kirsten Greenidge (Luck of the Irish, Milk Like Sugar) and director Kimberly Senior (The Niceties) tell the incredibly funny and moving story of one whirlwind weekend in the life of a contemporary black American family.
THE BLUEST EYE Novel by Toni Morrison • Adapted by Lydia R. Diamond Directed by Awoye Timpo April 24 – May 24, 2020 Huntington Avenue Theatre EXPERIENCE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER TONI MORRISON’S NOVEL ANEW IN THIS THRILLING STAGE ADAPTATION Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s acclaimed debut novel The Bluest Eye. Brought to life as a tremendously moving theatrical event by Boston favorite Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly, Smart People), The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola, a young black girl who believes everything in her world would be made wonderful if only she had blue eyes. Enthralling, gorgeously written, and incredibly emotional, The Bluest Eye asks powerful questions concerning racism, beauty, and identity with stunning grace and subtlety.
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PERFORMANCE CALENDARS THE PURISTS
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Your theatregoing experience doesn’t have to end when the curtain goes down. The Huntington provides many opportunities for you to engage with us and our shows. Hear from our artists. Explore literary and historical angles. Connect with fellow theatre lovers.
35 BELOW AFTER PARTY/EVENT A special evening/ reception for young professionals featuring cocktails and live music (select Friday evenings).
ACTORS FORUM Participating members of the cast take your questions in this postshow discussion.
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PERFORMANCE CALENDARS AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGEINTERPRETED PERFORMANCES Discounted tickets are available to patrons who are Deaf (and a guest). To order tickets, please contact Meg O’Brien at 617 273 1558 or email mobrien@ huntingtontheatre.org.
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Get the historical and literary context of the play in a lively postshow session featuring a leading local scholar.
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Discounted tickets are available for patrons with hearing loss who may not be fluent in American Sign Language. To order tickets, please contact Meg O’Brien at 617 273 1558 or email mobrien@ huntingtontheatre.org.
POST-SHOW CONVERSATION Join your fellow audience members and a member of the Huntington staff for a dynamic conversation after the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening performances and most Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday matinee performances.
IMPORTANT DETAILS WEATHER Our commitment to audiences and artists means the Huntington rarely cancels performances due to weather conditions or other emergencies. Cancellation information can also be found at huntingtontheatre.org, by calling Ticketing Services at 617 266 0800, or through our Facebook (facebook.com/huntingtontheatre) and Twitter (twitter.com/huntington) pages.
LATE SEATING If you arrive after the performance has begun, you will be seated in available and easily accessible seats at an appropriate break in the performance. You may move to your assigned seats at the first intermission. All latecomers will be seated at the discretion of house management.
ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES The Huntington Avenue Theatre and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA are equipped with a limited number of FM headsets that are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Headsets may be picked up at the Huntington Avenue Theatre at the concession counter in the main lobby and at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA at the coat check in the main lobby. You will be asked to provide an ID to receive a headset.
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