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JANUARY 2018
7 THE PROGRAM 10 A NOTE FROM MELINDA LOPEZ
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12 SNOWMAGEDDON: A LOOK BACK AT A LEGENDARY BOSTON WINTER
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BACKSTAGE BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS
Gala Season in Beantown The New Year has barely begun and winter still holds New England in its icy grip, yet already Boston’s theatre devotees are marking their calendars as gala season begins to heat up. Established in 1998, The Longwood Players celebrate two decades of community development and cultural enrichment in Greater Boston at its annual cabaret fundraiser on February 3. “A Night at the Cabaret” takes place at Chelsea Theatre Works, home to The Longwood Players’ current season in CTW’s brand-new black box theatre. Previously, The Longwood Players performed at the
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Trustee Neal Balkowitsch (above left) and director Liesl Tommy (right) are the honorees at the Huntington Theatre Company’s 2018 Spotlight Spectacular fundraising gala at Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama (top). 4
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Cambridge YMCA. For more information, visit longwoodplayers.org. Later this upcoming spring, the Huntington Theatre Company ’s Spotlight Spectacular occurs on May 7 at Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama. This year’s honorees include trustee Neal Balkowitsch and director Liesl Tommy, who will be presented with the prestigious Wimberly Award. Notable for entertainment provided by theatre luminaries and for attracting glamorous attendees, the Spotlight Spectacular always lives up to its name. For tickets, go to huntingtontheatre.org. A New Season for Hub Theatre Company The Hub Theatre Company of Boston announced the three plays that comprise its sixth season. Sam Shepard’s tale of sibling rivalry between a Hollywood screenwriter and his thieving older brother, True West, kicks off the 2018 season in April. July sees the Boston premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s comedy The Taming, about a Miss America pageant contestant with political ambitions that draws inspiration from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Finally, the Tony Award-winning prequel to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Peter and the Starcatcher, ends the season in November. For more details, go to hubtheatreboston.org.
BACKSTAGE (continued) More Opera in Boston Boston is becoming a burgeoning hub for all things opera, especially when it comes to the development of exciting new operatic projects. In December, the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) held its first-ever public appearance at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. The inaugural Run AMOC! Festival of new works by AMOC company members premiered three pieces. A Study on Effort matched the music of Bach and Westhoff in a collaboration between dancerchoreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and violinist and poet Keir GoGwilt. Cage Match featured a series of duets between pianists, violinists, and baritones in music by Telemann, Donati, Wolff, and Monteverdi, as well as an original piece by AMOC artistic director Matthew Aucoin. Finally, Were You There invited the audience to participate in a theatrical presentation of hymns and spirituals on themes of police brutality and black lives lost. With no permanent home, AMOC describes itself as “at once a traveling theatre
MEN WITH A PLAN: Artistic directors Matthew Aucoin (pictured above left) and Zack Winokur (above right) helm American Modern Opera Company, a new Boston-based opera troupe.
troupe, new-music ensemble and artists’ collective” that will focus on producing boundary-breaking projects. Aucoin explained that, “for [AMOC], the essence of opera is to be the field where all artistic disciplines collide.” The company will be in residence at Harvard University in February, before traveling to New York and San Francisco. Visit runningamoc.org for details.
WHAT’S ON STAGE in January BAD DATES HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY January 26–February 25 One of the most popular plays in the Huntington’s history returns in this 15th anniversary production of the comedy by Theresa Rebeck (actress Haneefah Wood pictured) about a string of hilariously horrible dates. Refer to listing, page 40. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY January 12–February 10 The New England premiere of the stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film features mistaken identities, courtly intrigue and a young William Shakespeare. Refer to listing, page 42.
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Our picks for the hottest plays and musicals on local stages this month ROAD SHOW LYRIC STAGE COMPANY January 12–February 11 Stephen Sondheim’s latest musical is inspired by the true-life stories of the Mizner brothers’ fortune-seeking journeys across America, from the Klondike gold rush to a Florida real-estate boom. Refer to listing, page 42. THREE SISTERS APOLLINAIRE THEATRE COMPANY Through January 21 This very intimate production of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy is staged in three locations within the theatre space, all for an audience limited to 30. Refer to listing, page 42. HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 5
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MALA Written and Performed by Melinda Lopez Directed by David Dower Dramaturg P. Carl
Scenic Design Kristine Holmes
Lighting Design Scott Pinkney
Projection Design Ari Herzig
Sound Design Arshan Gailus
Production Stage Manager Debra A. Acquavella
Stage Manager Lizzy Gordon
Mala will be performed without an intermission. The Huntington is pleased to present the ArtsEmerson production of Mala which premiered in Boston at the Emerson Paramount Center in October 2016. The Huntington Theatre Company is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and by more than 6,000 individual, foundation, and corporate contributors.
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by Theresa Rebeck Directed by Jessica Stone Jan. 26 – Feb. 25, 2018 Huntington Avenue Theatre IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY
by Dominique Morisseau Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian Mar. 2 – 31, 2018 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA RIVETING & TIMELY NEW PLAY
by Caryl Churchill Directed by Liesl Tommy Apr. 20 – May 20, 2018 Huntington Avenue Theatre DAZZLING CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC
by Bernard Weinraub Directed by Peter DuBois May 18 – Jun. 16, 2018 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA FASCINATING UNTOLD STORY OF ARTHUR MILLER
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Draft rendering of the Huntington Avenue redevelopment project.
HUNTINGTON AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WINS APPROVAL On December 14, 2017 the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) voted to approve the proposed redevelopment of 254-264 Huntington Avenue, which includes the renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre and the theatre’s support wing, as well as a new apartment building next to the theatre.
This approval sets in motion a donation by commercial developers QMG Huntington LLC of the historic Huntington Avenue Theatre and its support wing to the Huntington Theatre Company for its ownership in perpetuity. It will also lead to the creation of a new, 14,000 square feet of cultural space expanding the theatre at the base of their apartment building, with a 100-year lease for the price of $1. The Huntington will be responsible for outfitting the new contemporary space, which will serve as the Huntington Avenue Theatre’s new entrance and will provide public amenities including increased
gathering spaces, an expansive second floor lobby that will double as an event space and intimate performance venue, and more restrooms! The Huntington will expand its programming to provide year-round activity in the theatre and lobbies, and will make these new spaces available for use by the community. This critical moment would not have been possible without our deep and loyal community of supporters. We are excited to fulfill our bold dream, and we hope we can continue to count on your support until it is fully realized.
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A NOTE FROM MELINDA LOPEZ:
I don’t usually perform my own work. I write my plays, and other people act in them. But I am also a performer; so when I wrote Mala, it seemed this play was a story that I should tell, because it is so personal to me.
T. CHARLES ERICKSON
I caught myself off guard with it. The first parts of Mala were notes that I wrote to myself on my iPhone during the Boston winter of 2015, a historically epic winter for New England that was also epic in more personal ways for my family. I wrote the notes when I felt like I was losing my mind in the back of a cab or sitting in a waiting room; I’d jot off a note and then dive back into the moment.
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Amelia Alvarez, Will LeBow, and Carmen Roman in Melinda Lopez’s Sonia Flew, the inaugural production of the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in 2004.
I didn’t discover them again on my phone until much later, and they surprised me, because the notes suggested a story. As I worked on it, it started to become a character, Mala, and I started to find the distance that I needed — because I never wanted the audience to like this character too much; she makes big mistakes, the kind we all do. I want the play to remind us that however poorly you may have behaved in your life, I behaved worse, and there’s camaraderie there, honesty and humor. I knew early on that the play had to be funny. Funny in the way that the truth is funny, that families are funny, that honesty is funny, even sometimes sad things are funny. An honest laugh can give us some space together, and then maybe we’ll talk about things we never talk about. I performed this play a year ago at ArtsEmerson, and then last fall, we took the play to the Guthrie in Minneapolis; it is great to be back in Boston with it now. The best comments have been about how the play made someone feel a little less alone, and that’s my point; we’re in this together. — MELINDA LOPEZ
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SNOWMAGEDDON: A LOOK BACK AT A LEGENDARY BOSTON WINTER The winter of 2015 notched 108.5 inches of snow in Boston, and Lowell topped out at a whopping 120.6 inches, the highest total since the weather service started keeping records. Sidewalks turned into surreal and narrow corridors of ice, and the snow drifts crept up the sides of buildings. It became a season that we will all remember for where we were when the flakes fell. •
The first snow of the winter was November 27, 2014, a scant .3 inches in the late hours of the evening.
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Even by January 23, 2015, only 5.5 inches had fallen in total for the year.
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Named Winter Storm Juno, the first blizzard of the year dropped an extraordinary 24.6 inches on January 26–27. Streets flooded in communities like Scituate, and a cascade of major storms began, progressively called Kari, Linus, Marcus, Neptune, Octavia and Pandora.
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From January 24 to February 10, 72.5 inches fell in just 10 days, smashing the record for the fastest period of accumulation on record, and the stretch was dubbed “the Great Snow of 2015.”
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Days on end below freezing prevented any snow melt, sometimes stretching four or five days of temperatures below 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The final snow of the season landed on March 21, a relatively minor 1.2 inches.
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On July 14, 2015, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced that the last snowflake of the winter had melted, and commemorated the winter with a city-wide barbecue. — CHARLES HAUGLAND
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ABOUT THE COMPANY Melinda Lopez* (Playwright, Performer) is the playwrightin-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company. Mala won the 2017 Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play, and recently ran at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Upcoming projects include a translation of Yerma (Federico García Lorca) for the American Conservatory Theater. Her award-winning play Sonia Flew (Elliot Norton Award, IRNE Award) had its world premiere as the Huntington’s inaugural production in the Wimberly Theatre, and has since been produced all over the country, including at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Contemporary American Theater Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and many others. Other plays include Becoming Cuba (Huntington Theatre Company), Back the Night (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Caroline in Jersey (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Orchids to Octopi (Central Square Theater, commissioned by the National Institutes of Health for the Darwin bicentennial), Gary (Steppenwolf First Look Repertory and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Alexandros (Laguna Playhouse), Midnight Sandwich/Medianoche (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Coconut Grove Playhouse), and multiple short plays. Ms. Lopez is among the first cohort of playwrights to receive a three-year residency grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and she was the first recipient of the Charlotte Woolard Award, given by The Kennedy Center to a “promising new voice in American theatre.” She has served as a panel member for the City of Boston, the National Education Association, and the Cambridge Arts Panel, and she has enjoyed residencies with Sundance, the Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, and Harvard University. Ms. Lopez is also an actress and has appeared in regional theatre (Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Guthrie Theater and Portland Stage), film, and radio. She teaches theatre studies at Wellesley College and playwriting at Boston University. Ms. Lopez was mentioned by President Obama in his joint address to the Cuban and American people, and Mayor Marty Walsh declared October 29, 2016 “Melinda Lopez Day” in the City of Boston. She is active in the local Cuban American community and works to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba. For more information, visit friendsofcaritascubana.com and melindalopez.com. David Dower (Director) is artistic director at ArtsEmerson, where he staged the world premiere of Mala, as well as Guillermo and Calderon’s Kiss, Marc Kudisch’s Baritones Unbound, Daniel Beaty’s Breath and Imagination, Mr. Joy, and Emergency. He has directed new works at Arena Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and dozens of world premieres in the San Francisco Bay area. He spent six seasons as associate artistic director at Arena Stage, leading the artistic development team on over 50 productions, including the Tony Award-winning productions of 33 Variations, Next to Normal (Pulitzer Prize), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He is a co-founder of HowlRound and a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY P. Carl (Dramaturg) is a distinguished artist in residence at Emerson College in Boston. He is also a writer and lecturer on theatre, gender, inclusive practices, and innovative models for building community and organizations. He is an accomplished theatre artist, most recently serving as a key creative collaborator (dramaturg and producer) on a range of diverse projects, including Claudia Rankine’s new play The White Card, Melinda Lopez’s Mala (2017 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script), Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s How to Be a Rock Critic, and Deborah Stein and Suli Holum’s The Wholehearted. Dr. Carl is the founder of the journal HowlRound and co-founder of the subsequent online platform HowlRound Theatre Commons. In 2017, Dr. Carl was given a prestigious Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, was named Theatre Person of the Year in 2015 (National Theatre Conference), and was named an alum of notable distinction from the University of Minnesota. His former positions include director of HowlRound Theatre Commons, co-artistic director of ArtsEmerson (Emerson College), director of artistic development at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and producing artistic director at The Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis. Dr. Carl holds a PhD in comparative studies in discourse and society from the University of Minnesota, and is currently working on his memoir, Becoming a White Man. Kristine Holmes (Scenic Design) is the full-time prop shop manager at the Huntington Theatre Company, where she has been employed for 25 years. She has put her designer skills to work, assisting others in realizing their designs for over 175 productions, some of which, including Hedda Gabler and Private Lives, have made their way to Broadway. Her latest design endeavor was Kiss at ArtsEmerson. Summer vacations find her traveling with PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” as the set decorator. Scott Pinkney (Lighting Design) was represented on Broadway by Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy. Off Broadway credits include Vincent, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Majestic Kid, Divine Fire, Nymph Errant, and The World is Made of Glass. Regional credits include Mala for the Guthrie Theater, Don Juan for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Denver Critics Circle Award), My Fair Lady for TheatreVirginia (Phoebe Award), The Best of Enemies for George Street Playhouse, Secret Garden for the Olney Theatre, and Texas Flyer for Theatre Under The Stars. He has designed more than 30 productions for Barrington Stage Company (named an associate artist in 2014), including American Son, Whipping Man, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, Carousel, Follies, and West Side Story. For Bristol Riverside Theatre, he designed more than 30 productions, including Balkan Women (Barrymore Award nomination), Hamlet, The Dresser, Evita, Chicago, Alive and Well, and Dear World. Internationally, he designed Art and Kiss of the Spider Woman for Singapore Repertory Theatre, and concerts for Club Mohamed-Ali in Cairo. In Boston, he has recently designed Ulysses on Bottles for Israeli Stage (IRNE Award nomination); The Comedy of Errors for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Elliot Norton Award); Don Giovanni for New England Conservatory Opera; Freud’s Last Session, Broken Glass, Race, and Opus for New Repertory Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, Side Show, and Adrift in Macao for Lyric Stage Company; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Merrily We Roll Along at the Majestic
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Theatre. His company, Pinkney Associates, LLC, counts among its clients IBM, Estee Lauder, BMW, and the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Pinkney is a professor at Emerson College. slpinkney.com. Ari Herzig (Projection Design) previously designed Ryan Landry’s “M” for the Huntington Theatre Company. Other credits include Albatross (Poets’ Theatre); The Bridges of Madison County and Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Fast Company, Dear Elizabeth, and Chinglish (Lyric Stage Company); and The Snow Queen (New Repertory Theatre). They received an IRNE Award for Projection Design for a Small Stage in 2016 for Albatross at the New Repertory Theatre. They work as the lighting and projection supervisor for the Office of the Arts at Emerson College and graduated from Emerson College in 2008 with a BFA in theatre design/technology. ariherzig.com. Arshan Gailus (Sound Design) previously designed and composed original music for Becoming Cuba for the Huntington Theatre Company. He has designed sound and created original music for companies including Shakespeare & Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, ART Institute, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Brandeis University, New Repertory Theatre, The Nora Theatre Company, Lyric Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Gloucester Stage Company, and Company One Theatre. He was awarded the 2016 IRNE Award for Best Sound Design (Small Theatre) for his design of appropriate
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ABOUT THE COMPANY (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and was a member of the Elliot Norton Awardwinning design teams for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Company One Theatre, 2012) and Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2011). Mr. Gailus teaches sound design at Emerson College where he serves as resident sound designer for Emerson Stage, and he has designed sound and composed original music for independent video games in the Boston area and internationally. Mr. Gailus holds a BS in music from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. arshangailus.com. Debra A. Acquavella* (Production Stage Manager) has previous Huntington credits that include Good People and Betrayal as a substitute stage manager. On Broadway, she was production stage manager of the long-running Metamorphoses at Circle in the Square Theatre, Master Harold…and the boys, and Jane Eyre, The Musical. Off Broadway credits include Radio Macbeth, directed by Anne Bogart; Falsettos at Playwrights Horizons; The Thing About Men at the Promenade Theatre; and Metamorphoses at Second Stage Theater. Regional credits include 15 seasons as production stage manager of Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she stage managed dozens of premieres in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, and, currently, 12 seasons at Contemporary American Theater Festival. Other credits include four seasons at Baltimore Center Stage, ArtsEmerson, Guthrie Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, and Shakespeare Theatre Company, among others. Lizzy Gordon* (Stage Manager) previously worked as a production assistant on Ripcord for the Huntington Theatre Company in 2017. In the fall of 2016, she stage managed Mala for ArtsEmerson in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box. During the production of Circus 1903’s time in Boston, she substituted as their assistant stage manager. Ms. Gordon is currently a senior stage and production management major at Emerson College. Recent Emerson Stage credits include Middletown, We Are Pussy Riot or Everything is P.R., Guys and Dolls, and Getting Out. She also works as a guest service manager for Broadway In Boston. ArtsEmerson (Producer) is Boston’s leading presenter of contemporary world theatre. It is dedicated to engaging all communities through stories that reveal and deepen connections to each other. By cultivating diversity in the art and in the audience, ArtsEmerson ignites public conversation around the most vexing societal challenges as a catalyst for overcoming them. ArtsEmerson is committed to welcoming everyone into its landmark venues, located in Boston’s downtown Theatre District, for a diverse program of contemporary theatre, film, and music from around the city and around the world. In addition, ArtsEmerson engages in a range of community partnerships and produces a series of initiatives that make visible the rich diversity of cultural activity in the region. These programs are core to ArtsEmerson’s mission and expresses commitment to civic responsibility to create a more cohesive society. ArtsEmerson is the professional presenting and producing organization of the Office of the Arts at Emerson College and is led by Artistic Director David Dower and Executive Director David Howse. For more information, visit ArtsEmerson.org.
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his 10th season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music; the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples; the regional premieres of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible the things I do, Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff, Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn, Moliére’s Tartuffe and Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss. His West End/ London credits include Sex with Strangers and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre); All New People with Zach Braff (Duke of York’s Theatre); and Becky Shaw (Almeida Theatre). His New York credits include Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard Theatre); The Power of Duff with Greg Kinnear (New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse Theater); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Modern Terrorism, Becky Shaw, Trust with Sutton Foster, All New People, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theater); Measure for Pleasure, Richard III with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public Theater/NYSF); and Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and The View From 151st Street (LAByrinth Theater Company/The Public Theater). He served for five years as associate producer and resident director at
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The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague. His productions have been on the annual top 10 lists of The New York Times, Time Out, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsday, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, The Evening Standard, The Boston Globe, and Improper Bostonian, and he received an Honorable Mention for 2013 Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe Magazine. Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington’s administrative and financial operations since 1982. He has produced more than 200 productions in partnership with three artistic directors and is one of the most well-regarded managing directors in the theatre industry. Under his tenure, the Huntington has received over 140 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Mr. Maso received the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, the Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor) in the category of Catalyst, and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. In 2004, the Boston Herald honored him as Theatre Man of the Year. Mr. Maso led the Huntington’s 10-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004, and is currently leading the redevelopment and renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre. He currently serves on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and previously served as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and StageSource, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 70 of the country’s major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. Prior to the Huntington, he served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico. Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 18th season at the Huntington where he has produced over 80 productions. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Bay Street Theater, and the Royal National Theatre. Working primarily as a stage manager, his credits include the original productions or New York premieres of Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare), subUrbia (Eric Bogosian), The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn), Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), Desdemona (Paula Vogel), Racing Demon (David Hare), Sex and Longing (Christopher Durang), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Alfred Urhy), and Sophistry (Jonathan Marc Sherman). Additional credits include the awardwinning Broadway revivals of The Heiress and The Most Happy Fella, as well as two seasons as workshop director for the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets. Since its founding in 1982, the Huntington has received over 140 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. In the past 35 years, the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (18 of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 500,000 students, community members, and other cultural organizations. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington brings world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond together with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. Long an anchor cultural institution of the Avenue of the Arts, the Huntington’s primary home will remain on Huntington Avenue on a permanent basis. The Huntington plans to renovate and expand the current theatre into a first-rate, modern, state-of-the-art venue with enhanced services for audiences, artists, and the community. The Huntington built the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2004 as a home for its new works activities and to provide a muchneeded resource for the local theatre community. At the Calderwood Pavilion, the Huntington provides first-class facilities and audience services at significantly subsidized rates to dozens of organizations each year, including some of Boston’s most exciting small and mid-sized theatre companies. The Huntington serves 200,000 audience members each year at the Huntington Avenue Theatre and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally renowned education and community programs, the Huntington reaches 36,000 young people and underserved audience members each year. These programs include the Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest, the August Wilson Monologue Competition, the Huntington Community Membership Initiative, and the student matinee series. The Huntington is a founding partner of Codman Academy Charter Public School and has collaborated with Codman year-round for 16 years to create and teach its innovative, interdisciplinary Humanities curriculum. A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. Through the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstone of its new work activities, the Huntington supports local writers through two-year fellowships and is also proud to serve as a home for Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez. The Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form and is committed to mentoring local playwrights, educating young people in theatre, and serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts organizations.
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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY TRUSTEES & OVERSEERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES David R. Epstein Chairman Sharon Malt President Carol B. Langer Treasurer Sherryl Cohen Clerk Carole Alkins David Altshuler Neal Balkowitsch Michael Brown John Cini Gerard H. Cohen John Cohen Carol G. Deane
James J. Dillon Betsy Banks Epstein William Finard David Firestone John Frishkopf Ann T. Hall Thomas Hamilton III Arthur C. Hodges Frederick Jamieson Nada Despotovich Kane Michelle Karol David Leathers Rumena Manolova- Senchak William P. McQuillan Ann Merrifield Sandra Moose Anne M. Morgan Cokie Perry Bryan Rafanelli
Mitchell J. Roberts Robert H. Scott John D. Spooner Wendell Taylor Linda H. Thomas Linda Waintrup J. David Wimberly Veronica Wiseman Mary Wolfson Fancy Zilberfarb Warren R. Radtke Trustee Emeritus
COUNCIL OF OVERSEERS Nancy S. Adams Kitty Ames Steven M. Bauer Camilla Bennett Nancy Brickley Jim Burns Suzanne Chapman J. William Codinha Bette Cohen Elizabeth Cregger Catherine Creighton Deborah First Anne H. Fitzpatrick Maria Farley Gerrity Eilene Davidson Grayken Paul Greenfield Janice Hunt
Alan S. Johnson Katherine Jones Linda Kanner Loren Kovalcik Sherry Lang Joie Lemaitre Tracie Longman Nancy Lukitsh Charles Marz Noel McCoy Thalia Meehan Daniel A. Mullin Tania Phillips Gail Roberts Valerie Shey Ben Taylor Kate Taylor
Stephen M. Trehu Juliet Schnell Turner Tracey A. West John Taylor Williams Bertie Woeltz Christopher R. Yens Linda Zug
as of December 15, 2017
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BENEFACTORS CIRCLE The Benefactors Circle recognizes our lead Annual Fund donors and offers its members a range of special benefits. We are deeply grateful to the members of the Benefactors Circle and to all donors whose generous Annual Fund gifts support our artistic programs, and our award-winning youth, education, and community initiatives. Please visit huntingtontheatre.org/support to learn about making a gift or contact the Development Office at 617 273 1523.
$100,000+ Dr. John and Bette Cohen Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield Carol G. Deane Betsy and David Epstein Denise and William Finard Eilene Davidson Grayken Jane and Fred Jamieson
Carol B. Langer Susan and David Leathers Sharon and Brad Malt Bill and Linda McQuillan Jill and Mitchell Roberts Mr. J. David Wimberly 1 anonymous gift
$50,000-$99,999 Karen and David Firestone Gardner C. Hendrie and Karen Johansen Ms. Anne M. Morgan
Jane and Neil Pappalardo Nancy and Ed Roberts 1 anonymous gift
$25,000-$49,999 Nancy Adams and John Burgess Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes Stephen Chapman Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Ann and John Hall Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Barbara and Amos Hostetter Nancy Lukitsh
Sandra Moose and Eric Birch Cokie and Lee Perry John D. Spooner Faith and Joseph Tiberio Charitable Foundation Linda and Daniel Waintrup Howard and Veronica Wiseman Linda and Brooks Zug
$10,000-$24,999 Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Fay Chandler‡ Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts Linda L. D’Onofrio Debbie and Bob First, in memory of Susan Spooner John Frishkopf Nicki Nichols Gamble Karen and Gary Gregg Tom and Nancy Hamilton Cassandra Hyland Henderson Joyce Huber and Randall Ellis Elizabeth and Woody Ives Nada Despotovich Kane Marjie and Robert Kargman
Shelley and Steve Karol Loren B. Kovalcik / IntePros Consulting Mr. and Mrs. David Long Tracie L. Longman and Chaitanya Kanojia Paula and Bill O’Keeffe Jeffrey Dover and Tania Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson Jan and Joe Roller Dr. Paul S. Russell Darin and Debbie Samaraweera Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan Linda H. Thomas Mary Wolfson Genevieve and Justin Wyner
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PATRONS PROGRAM $5,000-$9,999 Alice and Walter Abrams Steven M. Bauer Charles and Kathleen Ames Marianne Baldwin and Eva Marie Mancuso Coralie Berg and Steve Schwartz Amy and Joshua Boger Susan and Michael Brown Jim Burns Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Susan and Alfred Chandler Suzanne Chapman Nancy Ciaranello John Cini and Star Lancaster J. William Codinha and Carolyn Thayer Ross Betsy and David Cregger Laura and Neil Cronin Amey A. DeFriez Margaret Eagle and Eliezer Rapaport Steve Elman and Joanne D’Alcomo Robert Fine and Matthew Fine $2,500-$4,999 Patricia Bellinger and Richard Balzer‡ Michael Barza and Judith Robinson Carolyn Birmingham Edward Boesel Nancy and Richard Brickley Kevin and Virginia Byrne McLane and Tenney Cover Catherine and Peter Creighton Ellen and Kevin Donoghue Jonathan Dyer and Thomas Foran Norman and Madeleine Gaut Thomas and Joanne Gill Mark E. Glasser and Frank G. McWeeny Paul Greenfield and Sandy Steele Betsy and David Harris
Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Anne H. Fitzpatrick, in honor of Dan Mullin Donald Fulton Maria and Daniel Gerrity Mary Beth and Chris Gordon Donna and Jay Hanflig Ned Murphy and Ann-Ellen Hornidge Paul and Tracy Klein David A. Kronman Sherry Lang Joie Lemaitre Cecile and Fraser Lemley John and Jean Lippincott Gregory Maguire Jack Fabiano and Noel McCoy Thalia Meehan and Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw Sharon Miller Daniel A. Mullin Brant Cheikes and Janine Papesh
Gail Roberts Robert M. Rosenberg, in honor of Mary Wolfson Marilyn and Jay Sarles Rumena and Alexander Senchak Valerie Shey Bruce and Emily Stangle Ellie Svenson and Mark Klempner Ben and Kate Taylor Jean C. Tempel John Travis Drs. Stephen and Beth Trehu Juliet Schnell Turner Elizabeth and Caleb White Ike Williams Bertie and Anthony Woeltz Christopher R. Yens and Temple Gill Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Zilberfarb 1 anonymous gift
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Hibbard, in honor of David Wimberly Carmela M. Hilbert Prof. and Mrs. Morton Z. Hoffman Emily Hughey Janice and Roger Hunt Linda and Steven Kanner Seth and Mary Kaufman Susie and David Kohen Ted and Ann Kurland Anthony Lucas Ann D. Macomber Charles Marz Mike and Mary McConnell Amy Merrill, in honor of Donna Glick Charles Merrill‡ Paul Odland Coleen and David Pantalone
Jackie and Bob Pascucci Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel Victoria and John Rizzi Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins Richard Powers and Stephen Schram Vivian and Lionel Spiro Helen and Jack Stewart Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Pamela Tucker‡ and George Pettee Mary Verhage Mindee Wasserman Norman Weeks 2 anonymous gifts
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PATRONS PROGRAM (continued) $1,000-$2,499 James Alexander and Thomas Stocker Carole and Leonard Alkins Dr. Ronald Arky Carol Baker George and Katharine Baker Kate and Gordon Baty Bruce and Denise Bauman Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Dr. Gerald Pier Susana and Clark Bernard Jerry M. Bernhard Christina and Ky Bertoli♌ Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon C. Bolton III Lori Bornstein and Alan Rithman Joseph L. Bower and Elizabeth Potter Geri and Bill Brehm Jane Brock-Wilson, in honor of Carol Deane Kenneth Brown Paul Buddenhagen Betsy Cabot Ronald G. Castly Peggy and Anton Chernoff Dominic Cioffoletti and Christopher Scinto Dorothy Coffin Kenneth R. Traub and Pamela K. Cohen Rosalie Florence Cohen Ken and Ginny Colburn Dennis Condon and Robert Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dayton Dean K. Denniston, Jr. George Dhionis Linda and Tim Diering Virginia Drachman and Douglas Jones Jerome and Vivien Facher Barbara and Larry Farrer Newell Flather Donna and Harley Frank Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardiner Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Garrison Sharon and Irving Gates
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Lori and Michael Gilman Peter and Jacqueline Gordon Phil Gormley and Erica Bisguier Mr. K. Frank Gravitt Garth and Lindsay Greimann Irene and Stephen Grolnic Katherine Haltom H. Patricia Hanna Theodore and Sally Hansen Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hartmann Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High Barbara Hirshfield and Cary Coen, in honor of Sherry and Gerry Cohen Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss Richard and Priscilla Hunt Susan M. Hunziker Terence Janericco Alan Johnson Leonard W. Johnson Holly and Bruce Johnstone Katherine and Hubie Jones Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis Paul and Elizabeth Kastner John Keane Cathie and Clarke Keenan Dorothy and Richard Koerner Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik Barrie Landry Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Jon A. Levy Ms. Susan Lincoln Janet Mack Stuart and Yvonne Madnick Mahmood Malihi The Mancuso Family Joan and John McArdle Louise and Sandy McGinnes Kathy McGirr and Keith Carlson Jack and Susan McNamara Mary Rivet and Christopher Meyer Neal and Lynne Miller Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, in memory of Virginia Wimberly
Bill and Ginny Mullin Bob and Alison Murchison Jonette Nagai and Stephen O’Brien Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren Mary Owens Joy Pak and David Deutsch Susan Pak Dr. and Mrs. John William Poduska, Sr. Warren R. Radtke and Judith Lockhart-Radtke Jessica and David Reed Lynn and John Reichenbach Ellen Remmer Sharon and Howard Rich Jean and Richard Roberts Sarah Rothermel Susan and Geoffrey Rowley Rohini Sakhuja Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers Jane E. Shattuck Ellen Sheehy and Scott Aquilina Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke Rebecca Jean Smith Beth and Michael Stonebraker John H. Straus and Liza Ketchum Hope and Adam Suttin Lise and Myles Striar Jared Tausig, in honor of David Wimberly David Parker and Janet Tiampo Robert C. Volante Dr. Ronald Weinger Scott and Jacqueline Wellman Wendling Charitable Fund Tracey Allyson West Wilson Butler Architects Dr. Elaine Woo Jerold and Abbe Beth Young 5 anonymous gifts
SUPPORTERS PROGRAM $500-$999 Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler Elizabeth Aragao♦ John and Rose Ashby, in honor of Ann T. Hall Robin Barnes and David Bor Molly and John Beard Louis and Nancy Beckerman Kathleen Beckman Howard H. Bengele Jonas Berman Martin S. Berman and Mary Ann Jasienowski Leonard and Jane Bernstein Margaret and James Blackwell, in honor of David Wimberly Stephen and Traudy Bradley Pam and Lee Bromberg Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch Thomas Burger and Andree Robert Eric Butler♦ A. William and Carol Caporizzo Carrig Kitchens LLC Cara and Anthony Casendino Patricia Chadwick and Norman Cantin George and Mary Chin John Clippinger Herbert Stuart Cohen Janet L. Comey Alison Conant and Richard Frank Stephen Conner Paul Curtis Lloyd and Gene Dahmen Josh and Jennifer Davis Marguerite Davoren Judy DeFilippo‡ Joan Dolamore Mr. Glenn Edelson Gordon Edes Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak Martha A. Erickson Peter and Jan Eschauzier Maggi Farrell Gail Flatto Pierre Fleurant Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd Hilary and Chris Gabrieli Tony and Melissa Gallo William Gault Drs. Laura Green and David Golan Suzanne Greenberg Tracy Griffin and David Long Gail and Jan Hardenbergh
Terry Rockefeller and William Harris Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos John and Holliday Heine Dr. Galen Henderson and Dr. Vanessa Britto Kathleen Henry and Kim Maarkand Peggy and Ronald Hillegass, in honor of Nancy and Tom Hamilton Rosalind and Herbert Hill Peter K. Jenkins Peter Jenney Mr. and Mrs. Paul Karofsky Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Karon Nancy R. Karp Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman Amelia and Joshua Katzen Michael and Dona Kemp John T. Kittredge Jill Kneerim Edgar Knudson John and Sharon Koch Cheryl and James Kolb Dale Koppel Jeanne and Allen Krieger Patricia Leighfield, in memory of Robert Crisp Jenny and Jay Leopold Nancy Levy Katherine Lewandowski and Adam Guren♦ June K. Lewin, in memory of Ted Kazanoff Elizabeth Lintz Mark H. Lippolt Babette and Peter Loring Barbara A. Manzolillo Amy and Bill Marshall Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Travis Martin Kathy Martin and David Johnson James D. Maupin Kenneth Virgile and Helene Mayer Geraldine McManus and Richard Hand Frank B. Mead Dan Miller Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold Nicole Moceri Mary Ellen Moore Kevin Morris The Munzer Family Eileen Murray Fred and Julie Nagle Tom Norris
Janet and David Offensend Ray O’Neill William Pananos Marianne Pasts Patricia Patricelli Ellen C. Perrin Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler Suzane Priebatsch Margaret Ramsey Robert Raymond Edith Rea Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs Gretchen Reilly Michelle and Aaron Rhodes♦ Audrey Rideout Christina Rifkin Michael and Jane Roberts Sue Robinson Christine and David Root Diane Rosenberg Sari Rosman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg Pauline and Robert Rothenberg Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Magi McKinnies Kathleen and William Rousseau Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz Diane and Richard Schmalensee William Schutten David W. Shukra and Clifford S. Wunderlich Omar Saddiqi Gilda Slifka Mark Smith and John O’Keefe Edward Sonn Nancy and Edward Stavis Lee Steele Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger Bob and Dorothy Stuart Darline Lewis and Marshall Sugarman Beth and Larry Sulak Margaret M. Talcott and L. Scott Scharer Todd Trehubenko Rosamond B. Vaule Sumer and Kiran Verma Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther Scott and Brenda Warner Constance V.R. White Karolye and Fernando Cunha P.T. Withington Clark Wright and Lisa Goldthwait Wright Robert E. Zaret 5 anonymous gifts
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SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued) $250-$499 Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein Rosanna Alfaro Fidler Family David and Holly Ambler Robert Allen Nancy T. and Jack W. Ammerman Michael Ansara Tammy Arcuri Tom Austin Carolyn Baird Mr. and Mrs. James Banker Emily Barclay and John Hawes Marilyn Barrett Peter Barrett David Barry Nancy Barry Caitlin Bearce Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Berglund James Berkman Gregory Bialecki and Mary Herlihy Robert Bienkowski Clinton Blackburn and Michelle Lessly♌ Donald and Ellen Bloch Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom Scott Chisolm and Afshan Bokhari Anthony Boral and Leah Rugen Sandy Bornstein Richard and Dorothy Botnick Payne/Bouchier Inc. Jonathan Golding and Sally Bradley-Golding Eric and Sandra Brenman Ellen and Jeremiah Bresnahan S. Britt Deborah B. Brown Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld Allan and Rhea Bufferd Diane Burman Daniel C. Burnes Pauline H. Bynum Missage Cadet, M.D. Cathy Campbell and Jack Orrock Colleen Campion Judith Carmany Charles R. Carr Frank Carrano Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. Mary Chin Maria Church Krista Clouse Valerie Cloutier Priscilla Cogan Steven Cohen Stuart Cole Steven Coleman and Christine Tunstall Silvia Coulter Robert Crone Anne Crowley
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Howard S. Crowley James F. Crowley Zoltan and Cristina Csimma Karen Davis and Randy Block Bill and Kay DeFord Charlotte Delaney and Steve Pattyson Raymond De Rise Joel Desilets Jane and Stephen Deutsch Mary L. Dill Soroor Dowlati Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey Owen Doyle Raya Dreben Grace Durrani Harriett M. Eckstein Diane F. Engel Mr. and Mrs. James Feldman Roger Ferguson and Chris Gaucher Mr. and Mrs. Barry Fireman Kathleen McGrath Fitts Thomas M. Formicola and Lenny Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frumkin Stephen Gaal Michael and Leslie Gaffin Michael Gallerstein Kathryn M. Gallucci Judith L. Ganz Clifford Garnett Gisele Garraway Vincent Genest Jack and Maureen Ghublikian Celia and Walter Gilbert Silvia Glick Michael and Sophie Gordon Amelia and William Graham Susan Greco Thomas Greeley Paul and Martha Green Dr. William and Susan Griever Steven and Barbara Grossman and David Grossman Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Groves Stella M. Hammond Eunice Harps Judith Harris Mary Hayes Lizbeth Hedstrom Margaret N. Henderson and Loretta Henderson Alfio Hernandez Erin Higgins David Hollowell Ken Horn Lyle Howland Andrea Humez Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hunsicker Barbara Bradlee
Amal Hussein Mr. and Mrs. Howard Israel Jill Jackson Maggie Jackson and Pat Mawn♌ Roland Jacobson Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi Toini and Carl Jaffe Peter and Adrienne Jaffe Norman W. Johnson The Jolly Family Peter Jones Jess and Aran Kadar Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski Jane Kamer Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet Yetta Katz Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard Jim Keefe and Family Glenn Kelly Paul Kelly Judy and Dan Kennedy, in honor of Stephen Sondheim Margie Kern David Kettner Gail King and Christopher Condon Remsen M. Kinne Jason Knutson Nancy Korman and Ken Elgart Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel Drs. Carol and Ben Kripke Joan Kuhn Oldrich Kyn Andreas Laddis Susan Lane and William Kane Carol Lazarus Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape Michelle Lewis Dr. and Mrs. David Lhowe Virginia Litle Lida and Francis Lloyd Jim and Allie Loehlin Ms. Barbara Lurvey Kim and Paul Mahoney David and Christine Manns Arthur Mattuck Stephen T. McAvinn Kevin McCarthy Terri-Lynn McCormick Hope and Shaw McDermott Robert McOwen Gabriella Meyer Forrest and Sara Milder Gale Minot Joseph Misdraji Adam and Denise Moehring Margaret Mone Barbershop Deluxe Michael and Donna Moskow
SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued) Bob Muti, in memory of James Robinson Thomas Novak Chukwuemeka Nwanze Richard Belin and Rosanne O’Brien Kathryn O’Connell Nancy and Chris Oddleifson Linda Ordoukhanian Robert and Beverly Parke Marian Pasquale Ted and Josie Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Harry Photopoulos Stephen Pike Josephine Pizzuto, in memory of Pat Pizzuto James Poterba and Nancy Rose Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx Helene M. Quinn and Tony Kanopt Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt Jennifer Rabold Kerry Mulligan Railey Tom Redburn Jodi Rand Peter and Suzanne Read Katharine and William Reardon Mary Rench, in honor of David Wimberly Suzanne Ricco Roger Riggs Patricia Robinson Barbara Roby Daniel P. Romard Anne Romney Jean Rosenberg and Peter Southwick
Abby Rosenfeld Leila Joy Rosenthal Mathilde and Robert Ross Susan Rothenberg Debra Ruder Ryan Ruopp George and Faye Russell Nancy L. Russell Jeremy Ryan Vinod and Gaile Sahney David and Anne Salant Robert and Susan Schechter Molly Schen Kim and Eric Schultz Eric Searls and April Levin Karen J. Shack Tom Shapiro Elisabeth Shields James Shields and Gayle Merling James Shuman David Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Edward Siegel Drs. Margaret and Michael Simon Ellen L. Simons Nancy Sklar Dr. and Mrs. Carl Soderland Renai Stalzle Candace Steingisser Bob and Susan Stevenson Glenn and Katherine Strehle Debbie London and Ted Sturman Ellen Beth Suderow Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit Linda Sutter and Stephen Centore Kenneth Sweder Richard A. Sweeney
Patrick Tally Jacob Taylor and Jean Park M.K. Terrell Janet Testa Mary Anne Thadeu Karen Thompson Judy Thomson Patricia Tibbetts Mr. Robert Toomey Mr. and Mrs. Mario Umana Thomas and Barbara Van Dyke Barbara Van Zoeren Pat and Steve Vinter Lori and Christopher Wadsworth, in appreciation of Dave Wimberly Mr. and Mrs. David Wahr Carolyn Walton Jerry Warshaw Susan Weiler David White Nancy White Leslie Wilcox Richard and Frances Winneg Elizabeth P. Wolf Janis Woodman, in honor of Christopher Woodman Alfred Woodworth David C. Wright Natalie Wright Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zafft Lorena and Robert Zeller Carolyn Zern 13 anonymous gifts
This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to December 15, 2017.
♦ Member of The Hunt, the Huntington’s community of young donors. For more information or to join, visit huntingtontheatre.org/thehunt. ‡ Deceased
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Every effort has been made to assure accuracy of listings. Please bring errors or omissions to the attention of Elizabeth MacLachlan at 617 273 1523 or emaclachlan@huntingtontheatre.org.
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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT DONORS The Huntington Theatre Company is grateful to receive support from a wide range of corporations, foundations, and government agencies that support the Huntington’s annual operations, as well as our award-winning productions and education and community programs. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Diana Jacobs-Komisar, Institutional Giving Manager, at 617 273 1514 or =djkomisar@huntingtontheatre.org. Executive Season Producers ($100,000+) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Barr Foundation Liberty Mutual Insurance** Massachusetts Cultural Council The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Season Co-Producers ($50,000-$99,999) Hershey Family Foundation Production Sponsors ($25,000-$49,999) Bank of America** Edgerton Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Benefactors ($15,000-$24,999) BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors** Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Foundation
Kingsbury Road Charitable Foundation** Lucy R. Sprague Memorial Fund** MEDITECH Schrafft Charitable Trust** Patrons ($10,000-$14,999) Eaton Vance Investment Counsel The Tiny Tiger Foundation** Supporters ($5,000-$9,999) Berkshire Partners Cue Ball Group Goodwin Nixon Peabody Proskauer LLP Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation** Rodgers Family Foundation Ropes & Gray LLP Theatre Communications Group WilmerHale
Members ($2,500-$4,999) Boston Cultural Council Bruner/Cott & Associates* Cambridge Savings Bank** Jackson and Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust** Roy A. Hunt Foundation** Surdna Foundation Thank you to our in-kind contributors Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP High Output MAX Ultimate Food Noble Ford Productions
** Education and community programs donor
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THE HUNTINGTON LEGACY SOCIETY BUILDING A LEGACY OF GREAT THEATRE — The Huntington Legacy Society recognizes those who play a lasting role in securing the Huntington’s strong, successful future beyond their lifetime by making a bequest or other planned gift. We are grateful to these members of the Huntington Legacy Society:
Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Howard H. Bengele Suzanne Chapman Brant A. Cheikes Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Carol G. Deane Susan Ellerin Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Jane and Fred Jamieson Mary Ellen Kiddle Carol B. Langer Joie Lemaitre
Sharon and Brad Malt Bill and Linda McQuillan Mary C. O’Donnell Steve Stelovich Robert C. Volante Linda and Daniel Waintrup Margaret J. White J. David Wimberly Veronica and Howard Wiseman Genevieve and Justin Wyner 1 anonymous
THE HUNTINGTON LEGACY SOCIETY BUILDING A LEGACY OF GREAT THEATRE
“Our participation is not only a legacy we leave for the Huntington, it’s a legacy we leave our family as well. We want them to think about the mark they will leave on society and culture.” — SHARON & BRAD MALT
If you have already included the Huntington as part of your will or estate plans, or if you wish to discuss how you can participate, please contact Celina Valadao, Major Gifts Officer, at 617 273 1536 or cvaladao@huntingtontheatre.org.
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CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA• GENERAL INFORMATION Contact Information for the Huntington Theatre Company The Huntington Theatre Company performs in three beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston neighborhoods. The 890-seat Huntington Avenue Theatre is on the Avenue of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), diagonally across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and 250-seat Roberts Studio Theatre are part of the Calderwood Pavilion in the historic South End, on the campus of the Boston Center for the Arts (527 Tremont Street). Website: huntingtontheatre.org Box Office: 617 266 0800 Box Office email: tickets@huntingtontheatre.org Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Administrative office email: thehuntington@huntingtontheatre.org Lost and Found: 617 933 8608
Box Office Hours The Box Office is generally open Tuesday-Saturday, noon-curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon-curtain (or 4pm). Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office at 617 266 0800.
Huntington Group Discounts Discounts available for groups of 10 or more, plus groups have access to backstage tours, talks with artists, and space for receptions. Contact Victoria Swindle for more information at 617 273 1657 or groups@huntingtontheatre.org.
Public Transportation
Refreshments Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available before opening curtain in the main lobby. Food is not permitted inside the theatre. Drinks purchased at concessions are permitted inside the theatre.
Babes in Arms Children under the age of five are not permitted in the theatre.
Cameras The use of all cameras and recording devices, including cell phone cameras, in the theatre is strictly prohibited.
Pagers and Cellular Phones Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during the performance.
Wheelchair Accessibility The Calderwood Pavilion is fully accessible, and can accommodate both wheelchair and companion seating in the orchestra and mezzanine sections. Please notify us when you purchase your tickets if wheelchair accommodations will be required and confirm arrangements with the House Manager at 617 933 8672.
Hearing Enhancement The Calderwood Pavilion is equipped with an FM hearing enhancement system. Wireless headphones are available free of charge at the coat check in the main lobby for your use during a performance.
Restrooms Located in the main lobby and mezzanine lobby. All restrooms are wheelchair-accessible.
We encourage patrons to use public transportation to the Calderwood Pavilion whenever possible. The Pavilion is located near the MBTA Green Line Copley and Arlington Stations; Orange Line and Commuter Rail Back Bay Station; and the Tremont Street & Union Park stop on the #43 Bus which travels between Park Street and Ruggles Station. For more information, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office.
Coat Check
Parking near the Calderwood Pavilion
We hate to see empty seats when so many of our performances sell out. Please consider donating any tickets you can’t use. For more information please call the Box Office at 617 266 0800.
Parking is available at the Atelier 505 Parking Garage located next to the Calderwood Pavilion at 505 Tremont Street (entrance on Warren Avenue), the Garage @ 100 Clarendon Street, and other nearby locations. For more information about parking, please visit huntingtontheatre. org or call the Box Office at 617 266 0800.
Please note that these parking options are independently owned and operated, and are not affiliated with the Huntington or the Calderwood Pavilion.
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Located in the main lobby.
If You Arrive Late In consideration of our actors and other audience members, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the management.
If Your Plans Change
Large Print Programs Large print programs are free of charge and are available at the coat check.
CALDERWOOD PAVILION EMERGENCY EVACUATION MAP
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ADMINISTRATION General Manager................................................Sondra R. Katz Associate General Manager.........................Conwell Worthington III Assistant General Manager..................................................Annie Walsh Company Managers........................Jazzmin Bonner, Meagan Garcia Assistant to the Managing Director........................ Gabrielle Jaques
Theatre Operations Associate Director of Theatre Operations — Calderwood Pavilion................................Katie Most Calderwood Pavilion Management Assistant.................Matt Feldman Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice...................................Micaela Slotin Calderwood Pavilion Custodians................................................Jose Andrade, Mike Brown
Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director
Finance Director of Financial Management................. Glenda Fishman Accounting Manager.............................................................. June Zaidan Accounting Coordinator.................................................Laura Casavant Accountants....................................Alexander, Aronson, Finning, CPA Human Resources Director of Human Resources.......................... Nina E. Nicolosi Human Resources Coordinator.................................... Michael Comey Payroll and Reporting Specialist...................................April Swiniuch Administrative Support Assistant...............................Sarah Schnebly Information Technology IT Director....................................................................................Scott Poole Network Administrator....................................................... Dan Moloney Patron Services Associate Director of Theatre Operations - Patron Services............................... Stephen Reinstein Calderwood Pavilion House Manager........................Julie Cameron Calderwood Pavilion Assistant House Managers..........................................Paul Fox, Gabe Hughes, Ksenia Lanin, Maura Neff, Dalton Zogleman Calderwood Pavilion Front of House Staff..........................................Chabreah Alston, Natasha Bonfield, Ellie Brelis, Robert Caplis, Mia Coffin, Barbara Crowther, Talia Curtin, Linnea Donnelly, Katie Flanagan, Madeleine Gibbons. Ryan Impagliazzo, Josh Luckens, Kerry Lydon, Terry McCarthy, Laura Meilman, Tiniqua Patrick, Nick Perron, Sarah Schnebly, Katharine Silva, Ciera-Sadé Wade Huntington Avenue Theatre House Manager................Andrew Elk Huntington Avenue Theatre Assistant House Manager............................................................. Annie Walsh Huntington Avenue Theatre Front of House Staff............. Sebastian Alberdi, Charlie Carr, Terrence Dowdye, Kristina Dugas, Robin Goldberg, Ariana Goldsworthy, Ruth Killisch, Kat Klein, Annalise Lamberty, Patrick Mahoney, Tommy Melvin, Will Morrison, Samantha Myers, Katie O’Connor, Sarah Patterson, Evan Pott, Margot Spanu, Padraig Sullivan, Dan Victor Assistant Manager — Ticketing Systems......................Katie Catano Assistant Manager — Patron Services.................... Victoria Swindle Calderwood Pavilion Ticketing Coordinator..........................................................Noah Ingle Huntington Avenue Theatre Ticketing Coordinator............................................ Brenton Thurston Subscriptions Coordinator...................................................Amy Klesert Full-Time Customer Service Reps........................... Michaela Buccini, Shana Jackson Customer Service Reps......................................Nick Boonstra, Sue Dietlin, Katelyn Reinert, Brittany Schmitke, Yurika Watanabe
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Associate Director of Theatre Operations — Huntington Avenue Theatre...............Katrina Alix Huntington Avenue Theatre Management Assistant................................ Kendrick Terrell Evans Huntington Avenue Theatre Custodians....................Jose Andrade, Nelson DaSilva, Calvin Traylor III Security Coordinator...............................................................Greg Haugh
ARTISTIC Producing Director.......................................Christopher Wigle Associate Producer................................................... Rebecca Bradshaw Director of New Work.................................................Charles Haugland Assistant to the Artistic Director.......................................Billy Cowles Playwright-In-Residence..................................................Melinda Lopez Literary Apprentice..................................................J. Sebastian Alberdi Producing Apprentice..................................................................Kat Klein Huntington Playwriting Fellows................................. MJ Halberstadt, Brenda Withers DEVELOPMENT Chief Development Officer................................Elisabeth Saxe Director of Major Gifts................................................Margaret J. White Major Gifts Officer..............................................................Celina Valadao Special Events Manager......................................................Kirsten Doyle Institutional Giving Manager...........................Diana Jacobs-Komisar Individual Giving Manager...............................................Annalise Baird Development Database Coordinator...........................Lisa McColgan Development Associate.....................................Elizabeth MacLachlan Development Assistant........................................................ Sam Buntich EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Interim Co-Directors of Education.......................Meg O’Brien, Alexandra Smith Education Associate..............................................................Marisa Jones Education Apprentices..................................Lauren Brooks, Ivy Ryan Teaching Artists...............................Kortney Adams, Naheem Garcia, Lydia Graeff, Keith Mascoll, Allie Meek, Trinidad Ramkissoon MARKETING Director of Marketing.............................................. Temple Gill Associate Director of Marketing...................... Meredith Mastroianni Communications Manager.................................................Desiree Barry Tessitura Analytics Manager........................................... Derrick Martin Digital Content Manager............................................Carolyn MacLeod Promotions & Community Coordinator.......................... James Boyd Graphic Design Coordinator............................................Lauren Calder Community Membership Coordinator.....................................................Candelaria Silva-Collins Communications Associate...................................................Leah Reber Marketing Associate.......................................................... Clare Lockhart Co-op Student, Northeastern University........................... Carla Mirabal Rodríguez
STAFF (continued) PRODUCTION Director of Production................................... Todd D. Williams Associate Director of Production................................... Bethany Ford Stage Management Apprentice.........................................Jamie Carty Production Management Apprentice..........................Rachael Hasse
Paints Charge Scenic Artist............................................Kristin Krause Assistant Charge Scenic Artist...........................Romina Diaz-Brarda Scenic Artist...........................................................................Chelsey Erskin Scenic Painting Apprentice...................................................... Molly Hall
Scenery Technical Director.................................................. Dan Ramirez Associate Technical Director........................................ Adam Godbout Assistant Technical Director..................................................Dan Oleksy Scene Shop Foreman..............................................................Mike Hamer Master Carpenter....................................................................Larry Dersch Scenery Mechanic...........................................................Jesse Washburn Carpenters................................................................... Andrew Cancellieri, Milosz Gassan, Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...........................Carolyn Daitch Huntington Avenue Theatre Stage Carpenter................................................................Chris Largent
Costumes Costume Director.............................................. Nancy Hamann Assistant Costume Director................................. Virginia V. Emerson Costume Design Assistant.....................................................Mary Lauve Head Draper...........................................................................Anita Canzian Draper...............................................................................................Sarah Pak Costume Crafts Artisan/Dyer................Denise M. Wallace-Spriggs First Hand............................................................................Rebecca Hylton Wardrobe Supervisor..........................................................Christine Marr Associate Wardrobe Supervisor.............................Barbara Crowther Wigmaster...............................................................................Troy Siegfried
Properties Properties Master.............................................Kristine Holmes Assistant Properties Master.............................................Justin Seward Properties Artisan.....................................................................Ian Thorsell Properties Run................................................................Andrew DeShazo Properties Apprentice...................................................Margot Adolphe
Electrics Lighting & Projections Supervisor................. Katherine Herzig Assistant Lighting Supervisor....................................... Bridget Collins Calderwood Pavilion House Electrician............................Taylor Ness Huntington Avenue Theatre House Electrician.............. Sean Baird Sound Sound Supervisor................................................. Ben Emerson Sound Engineer.......................................................................... J. Jumbelic Calderwood Pavilion House Sound Operator............................................. Jesse McKenzie Sound Apprentice...............................................................Valentin Frank
Additional Staff for Mala Production Assistant....................................................................................................Elizabeth Kamla Sound Board Operator..................................................................................................Jennifer Timms Assistant Lighting Designer.............................................................................................Tyler Ericson
The Huntington Theatre Company is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of the nation’s leading resident professional theatres; Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre; StageSource, a regional alliance of theatre artists and producers; and ArtsBoston, the voice and resource for the arts in Greater Boston. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The director and choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
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GUIDE to LOCAL THEATRE DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT ANTIGONE PROJECT: A PLAY IN 5 PARTS, Emerson Stage, Semel Theater, Tufte Performance & Production Center, 10 Boylston Place, 617-824-8400. Feb 22–25. Five award-winning female playwrights bring five very different explorations of Sophocles’ tragedy to life. With such settings as World War I, a modern African village and the underworld of Hades, this work presents a sister’s love and devotion through many lenses. BRAZEN, Emerson Stage, Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington St., 617-8248400. Feb 1–4. In this tale loosely based on the work of English novelist Angela Carter and American photographer Sally Mann as well as the French Bluebeard folktale, Cameron, a brilliant photographer, uses fairy tales as a basis for her work and her ever-changing daughter Miranda as a model. When Miranda joins a feminist girls’ band in order to escape her upbringing, she finds herself in trouble in part due to her mother’s work. BRODSKY/BARYSHNIKOV, Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. Jan 17–21. This one-man show based on the poems of Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky and performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov is an emotional journey deep into the poet’s visceral and complex compositions. Performed in Russian, Brodsky’s mother tongue, Baryshnikov recites a selection of his long-time friend’s poignant and eloquent works. BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., 800-BLUE-MAN. Ongoing. This giddily subversive offBroadway hit serves up outrageous and inventive theatre where three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both contemporary art and modern technology. Wry commentary and bemusing antics are matched only by the ingenious ways in which music and sound are created. IN THE ERUPTIVE MODE, Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre, Robert J. Orchard Stage, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Jan 24–28. In 2011, democratic uprisings erupted all over the Arab world. Citizens challenged their leadership and questioned regimes. Internationally acclaimed Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director Sulayman Al-Bassam presents six monologues of ordinary citizens—all women— caught in the violence and chaos of the Arab Spring. LOVE NEVER DIES, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 866-523-7469. Jan 30–Feb 11. The hit sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera transports the action to 1907 New York, where the Phantom has escaped to a new life living amongst the screaming joy rides and freak 38 MALA
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shows of Coney Island while still yearning for his one true love and musical protégée, Christine Daaé, who is now one of the world’s finest sopranos. SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at the Shear Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs gets knocked off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience matches wits with the suspects to catch the killer in this wildly popular comedy. TORREY PINES, Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Feb 14–17. Based on a true story, this trans-queer-punk comingof-age tale is rich with ’90s pop-culture references in the likes of “Star Trek,” Nintendo and MTV. The Seattle band Your Heart Breaks performs the vivid score live in tandem with the film, with original music recorded in collaboration with Kimya Dawson and Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie). WAITRESS, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 866523-7469. Feb 20–Mar 4. Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film and featuring original music and lyrics by five-time Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles, this new hit musical tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and loveless marriage. THE WHITE CARD, ArtsEmerson and American Repertory Theater, Robert J. Orchard Stage, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Feb 24–Mar 25. At a dinner party thrown by an influential Manhattan couple for an up-and-coming artist, questions arise about what—and who—is actually on display. Claudia Rankine’s 2014 New York Times best-selling book Citizen unpacked the insidious ways in which racism manifests itself in everyday situations. Now, this world-premiere play poses the question, “Can American society progress if whiteness stays invisible?”
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GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE BAD DATES, Huntington Theatre Company, Huntington Avenue Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-266-0800. Jan 26–Feb 25. Restaurant manager and shoe connoisseur Haley Walker is finally ready to re-enter the dating world. From the privacy of her bedroom, she relates a series of hilarious tales while preparing for, and recovering from, one dreadful date after another in Theresa Rebeck’s sweet and sharp comedy. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The Riverway, 617-879-2300. Feb 2–Mar 4. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, this “tale as old as time” follows Belle, a young woman who doesn’t quite fit in her village, and the Beast, a cursed prince, who, if he can learn to love and be loved, will have his curse lifted and be transformed into his former self. CABARET, Moonbox Productions, Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Apr 14–29. Kander and Ebb’s iconic musical, set in the world of the Kit Kat Klub on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, tells the story of Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin who falls in love with cabaret singer Sally Bowles. Their romance sizzles amid the back room culture of the club and the tumultuous atmosphere of pre-Nazi Germany. DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Sorenson Black Box, Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. Jan
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GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) HEAR WORD! NAIJA WOMAN TALK TRUE, American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Jan 26–Feb 11. Featuring a cast of leading Nigerian actresses, this work combining song and dance with intimate portraits of resilience and resistance is inspired by multi-generational stories of inequality and transformation. The show grapples with the issues affecting the lives of women across Nigeria, and the factors that limit their potential for independence, leadership and meaningful contribution in society. HYPE MAN: A BREAK BEAT PLAY, Company One Theatre, Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-9338600. Jan 26–Feb 24. After years of struggle, Pinnacle and his rap crew finally have the world’s attention, but on the eve of their globetrotting tour, the shooting of an unarmed black teenager shakes the dynamics of the group. The latest work from break beat poet and playwright Idris Goodwin (How We Got On) asks: Who has the privilege of staying silent in the face of social injustice? IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY, The Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3200. Feb 2–17. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat “hysterical” women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. THE LIAR, Wellesley Repertory Theatre, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, 106 Central St., Wellesley, 781-283-2000. Jan 11–Feb 4. One of the Western world’s greatest comedies—a sparkling
urban romance as fresh as the day Pierre Corneille wrote it in the 17th century—is brilliantly adapted for today by All in the Timing’s David Ives. LONELY PLANET, New Repertory Theatre, Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Feb 3–Mar 4. This 25th anniversary revival of Steven Dietz’s humorous and touching play about friendship, loss and hope tells the story of two friends during the height of the AIDS epidemic in America. While Carl is able to see beyond the confines of Jody’s map store, Jody refuses to acknowledge what’s happening. NOMAD AMERICANA, Fresh Ink Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Feb 2–17. Bridgette Echo didn’t grow up in a typical American family. Her father sells soap sculptures, her mother is a yoga guru, her younger sister plays with tarot cards and they all live together under one roof in a continuously mobile RV. When the family decides to put down temporary roots in a Texas trailer park, this whimsical family soon discovers there’s a lot under the hood that they’ve been suppressing. ORLANDO, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617585-5678. Feb 23–Mar 25 . After a particularly wild night in 17th-century Constantinople, Orlando the man wakes up to find himself a woman, and abandons herself to five centuries of change with an insatiable appetite to discover what it means to live fully in the present, in her own skin and in her own time in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel.
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GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) PROOF, The Nora Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Jan 18–Feb 18. After the discovery of a groundbreaking proof, Catherine is confronted with the question of how much of her mathematician father’s brilliance did she inherit—and is that the only thing he passed on to her? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, David Auburn’s play is a moving exploration of the nature of genius, women in mathematics and fatherdaughter relationships. RIPE FRENZY, New Repertory Theatre and Boston Center for American Performance, Studio ONE, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Feb 24–Mar 11. Winner of the National New Play Network’s 2016 Smith Prize for Political Theatre, this site-specific premiere brings us to Tavistown, New York, where a recent tragedy has rocked the community to its core. Narrator and town historian Zoe recounts the days leading up to the incident as the high school prepares for the semi-annual production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. ROAD SHOW, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-585-5678. Jan 12–Feb 11. Stephen Sondheim’s true boom-and-bust story of two of the most colorful and outrageous fortune-seekers in American history takes the audience from the Alaskan Gold Rush to the Florida real estate boom in the 1930s with entrepreneur Addison Mizner and his fast-talking brother Wilson, who were proof positive that the road to the American Dream is often a seductive, treacherous tightrope walk. ROMEO AND JULIET, The Underlings Theatre Co., Black Box, Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617887-2336. Feb 23–Mar 3. This classic tale of star-crossed lovers divided by their families’ hatred is presented in its original pronunciation, a recreation of how Shakespeare and his contemporaries pronounced their speech. Expect a high school setting and costumes a la Heathers, where everything’s funny until it’s not anymore. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Jan 12–Feb 10. Based on the Academy Award-winning film, this stage adaptation tells the story of young Will Shakespeare, who, in the midst of a severe case of writer’s block, meets the headstrong Viola. When the playwright and his muse fall in love, the plot undergoes some surprising rewrites as mistaken identities, courtly intrigue and backstage bickering become part of the fun. STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT, New Repertory Theatre and Boston Center for American Performance, Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617923-8487. Jan 27–Mar 3. In apartheid South Africa, where intimate interracial relationships are illegal, a black man and a white woman share more than just their love, baring all in the face of oppression and uncertainty. THREE SISTERS, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617-887-2336. Through Jan 21. This intimate staging presents Chekhov’s compelling comic tragedy about Olga, Masha and Irina, who all deal with their disappointment with life while dreaming of returning to Moscow, where they all grew up. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, imaginary beasts, Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St., Charles42 MALA
town, 866-811-4111. Jan 13–Feb 4. This tongue-in-cheek send-up of Jules Verne’s classic work follows a motley crew of adventurers as they navigate some mighty troubled waters under the command of mad genius Captain Nemo. Join young Yves, the fisher lad, and his Salty Cat as they set out to explore the wonders of the world, only to discover the true meaning of heroism and friendship along the way. UNVEILED, New Repertory Theatre and Greater Boston Stage Company; Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617923-8487, Jan 10–28; 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781-2792200, Feb 7–16. Racism. Hate crimes. Love. Islam. Culture. Language. Life. Five Muslim women in a post-9/11 world serve tea and uncover what lies beneath the veil in this critically acclaimed one-woman show.
DANCE LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL, Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. Feb 2 & 3. The internationally renowned repertory company defies categories with its blend of hip, funky moves infused with infectious energy, humor and imagination. Led by artistic director Louis Robitaille, the troupe presents the Boston premiere of O Balcão de Amor by choreographer Itzak Galili, inspired by Pérez Prado’s classic Cuban mambo music. COMPAGNIE ACCRORAP, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Feb 2 & 3. Artistic director, dancer and choreographer Kader Attou is a leading representative of the French hip-hop dance movement. Emphasizing humanistic engagement and cultural blending, his troupe embodies a unique alchemy of hip hop, circus and contemporary dance. GRUPO CORPO, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Jan 26–28. With its seductive movement, scintillating music, vibrant costuming, sets and lighting, Grupo Corpo reflects the amazing diversity and rich color of Brazil. The company is renowned for its stunning physicality, dynamic ability and rich visual finesse.
OPERA AS ONE, Boston Opera Collaborative, Edward M. Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music of Bard College, 27 Garden St., Cambridge, 617-517-5883. Jan 25–28. Accompanied by a string quartet, a mezzo-soprano and a baritone share the journey of a sole transgender protagonist—Hannah before and Hannah after transition—as she strives to reconcile the discord between her identity with the outside world. CARMEN, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, 617-496-2222. Jan 28. This semi-staged performance of Bizet’s fiery opera about seduction and betrayal features professional vocal soloists and the BYSO Opera Chorus. JEANNE D’ARC AU BÛCHER, Odyssey Opera, Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, 617-496-2222. Feb 17. This largescale dramatic production takes place during Joan of Arc’s last minutes on the stake, with flashbacks to her trial and her younger days. The work is a dramatic mix of Swiss/French composer Arthur Honegger’s eclectic score and sung/spoken libretto by poet/playwright Paul Claudel.
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49 SOCIAL, 49 Temple Pl., 617-338-9600. This eclectic bar and restaurant at Downtown Crossing serves refined modern American cuisine. The seasonal dinner menu draws inspiration from around the globe while also incorporating ingredients from local New England farms. D, C. 49social.com. ARAGOSTA BAR & BISTRO, Three Battery Wharf, 617-9949001. This latest addition to Boston’s vibrant waterfront restaurant community offers a new take on Italian cuisine by award-winning chef David Daniels who shows his signature flair through hand-made pastas, prime meats and classic New England seafood. Using quality, local farm-raised ingredients, Aragosta offers a warm, social atmosphere in a stunning waterfront setting. Also offering an open kitchen with Chef’s Counter and an outdoor terrace. B, L, D. Mon–Sun 6:30 a.m.– 10 p.m.; Sat & SB 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m. aragostabistro.com. AVENUE ONE RESTAURANT, Hyatt Regency, One Avenue de Lafayette, 617-912-1234. Newly renovated and located in the heart of the Theatre District, Avenue One restaurant and lounge serves contemporary New England cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy a refreshing cocktail, three-course prix fixe dinner or a delectable dessert. Discounted parking available. B 6:30–11:30 a.m., L noon–3 p.m., D 5–10 p.m. C, VP regencyboston.hyatt.com. BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-6700320. With three deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused favorites, Back Deck invites everyone to gather around patio tables and chairs for a charcoal-cooked meal and backyardinspired cocktails. Its ambiance brings the outdoors inside with floor-to-ceiling open windows, carriage lighting, lush green planters, glazed brick and an open kitchen. Drawing inspiration from a roof deck, this restaurant is the ultimate urban retreat. L, D, Sat & SB, C. BackDeckBoston.com. BLU, 4 Avery St., 617-375-8550. Located in the heart of the Theatre District next door to the Ritz Carlton on the fourth floor, blu Restaurant and Bar is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a feast for the senses. Its contemporary American menu includes the all-time favorite lobster club. Featuring spectacular floor-to-ceiling windows, blu is perfect for a pre-show dinner, corporate events, weddings, cocktail receptions and private dining. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., D Mon–Sat 5–10 p.m. blurestaurant.com. 44 MALA
CITYPLACE, On Stuart Street between Tremont and S. Charles streets in the State Transportation Building. Enjoy handcrafted beers at Rock Bottom Brewery, delicious treats from Panera Bread and gourmet Chinese at P.F. Chang’s as well as flatbread sandwiches, specialty pizzas, custom burritos and more in the Food Court. B, L, D, C. cityplaceboston.com. CLINK, The Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., 617-224-4004. Clink serves the freshest North Atlantic seafood, seasonal New England fare and delicious artisanal meats, highlights of a menu that artfully marries European culinary tradition with contemporary American innovation. The dining room features vestiges of original jail cells and an open kitchen, while gold leather seats, butcher block tables and granite accents add to the contemporary style. Nightly, Clink’s lobby bar draws urban dwellers and hotel guests to an energetic and social nightlife scene in the heart of Boston. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m., D 5–11 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–3 p.m. clinkrestaurant.com. DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington St., 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park Square, within walking distance to all theatres. The Northern Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade pastas and Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch pork chop, Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s classics and selection of fresh seafood, before or after the theatre. Enjoy a lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor area. D Sun–Tue 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m., L Mon–Fri. VP. davios.com. FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a twostory townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French country cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. JASPER WHITE’S SUMMER SHACK, 50 Dalton St., 617-8679955; 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, 617-520-9500. Enjoy top-notch seafood such as pan-roasted lobster, awardwinning fried chicken and an impressive raw bar in a casual setting. L, D. summershackrestaurant.com. LEGAL SEA FOODS, 558 Washington St., 617-692-8888; 26 Park Plaza, Park Square Motor Mart, 617-426-4444; 255 State St., Long Wharf, 617-227-3115; Copley Place, 100 Huntington Ave., 617-266-7775; 270 Northern Ave., Liberty Wharf, 617-477-2900; other locations. Legal Sea Foods, a Boston tradition for more than 50 years, features more than 40 varieties of fresh fish and shellfish as well as an award-winning wine list. Named “Boston’s Most Popular Restaurant” (Zagat 2010/2011). L & D. legalseafoods.com. MASSIMINO’S CUCINA ITALIANA, 207 Endicott St., 617-5235959. Owner/chef Massimino—former head chef of Naples’
BOSTON DINING GUIDE (continued) Hotel Astoria and Switzerland’s Metropolitan Hotel—offers specialties like the veal chop stuffed with arugula, prosciutto, smoked mozzarella and black olives, amongst numerous other delights. L, D, C. Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 11 p.m. massiminosboston.com. MERITAGE RESTAURANT + WINE BAR, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-439-3995. Known for its excellence in wine and food pairings, Meritage enters a new era with an exciting transformation featuring a stylish, refined dining room, sophisticated wine bar and the addition of two new private dining rooms overlooking Boston Harbor. To complement the bold and elegant interiors, Chef Daniel Bruce has introduced a unique vineyard-to-table menu. D Tue–Sat 5–10 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–2 p.m. C, VP. meritagetherestaurant.com. PARKER’S RESTAURANT, Omni Parker House, 60 School St. at Tremont Street, 617-725-1600. Executive chef Gerry Tice celebrates nostalgic cuisine with a contemporary flair at Parker’s Restaurant, the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie, the Parker House Roll and Boston Scrod. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., Sat–Sun 7–11:30 a.m., offering an elaborate buffet in addition to a la carte selections. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.; D Mon– Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5–10 p.m.
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ROWES WHARF SEA GRILLE, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-856-7744. Rowes Wharf Sea Grille delivers the sea straight to your table. Enjoy power breakfasts and lunches followed by a vibrant after-work cocktail and dinner scene. The sunlight-filled dining room or seasonal outdoor terrace is an ideal spot for a leisurely lunch or special date night. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Afternoon Tea 2:30–4 p.m., D 4:30–10 p.m. roweswharfseagrille.com. RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE, 45 School St., 617-742-8401. At Ruth’s Chris Steak House, each steak is hand-selected from the top 2% of the country’s beef, broiled to perfection at 1,800 degrees and served in the restaurant’s signature style—on a sizzling, 500-degree plate so every bite stays hot and delicious. Located at Old City Hall, Ruth’s Chris also features fresh seafood, an award-winning wine list and a gracious environment with warm hospitality. L, D, C. ruthschris.com. THE TAJ BOSTON, 15 Arlington St., 617-536-5700. This 1927 landmark offers dishes reflecting the seasonal flavors of New England as well as authentic Indian dishes for dinner. The Cafe: B, L, D, Sat & SB. The Lounge: L, D, C. The Bar: L, D, C. tajhotels.com/boston. TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, 617-536-1775. Located 52 stories above the city, Top of the Hub is Boston’s special occasion favorite. With upscale American cuisine, live entertainment nightly, a spectacular view and romantic atmosphere, Top of the Hub promises a unique experience for both visitors and native Bostonians alike. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net. YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE, 41 Union St., 617-2272750. America’s oldest restaurant, now celebrating 191 years, serves Yankee-style seafood, beef and chicken, and is famed for the oyster bar where Daniel Webster dined daily. Specialties include clam chowder and fresh lobster. L & D Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 10 p.m. C ’til midnight. unionoysterhouse.com.
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