Fall 2010 Spotlight by Huntington Theatre Company

Spotlight FALL • 2010-2011

IN THIS ISSUE: Bus Stop ...................................................................... 2 Circle Mirror Transformation .................................. 6

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Vengeance is the Lord’s ........................................... 10 Double Your Gift! ....................................................... 15 Complete Your Experience ....................................... 18

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CLASSIC COMEDY

WILLIAM INGE

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STOP by William Inge Directed by Nicholas Martin

SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 17, 2010 Boston University Theatre Nicholas Martin

A snowstorm strands a bus outside of Kansas City, and its passengers — including a stubborn, lovestruck cowboy and the nightclub singer he hopes to marry — seek shelter and warmth while at a roadside diner. The motley crew spends one night together, ﬁlled with bluster, heartache, and laughter, searching for love in this classic American comedy. Former Artistic Director Nicholas Martin returns to direct. Production Sponsors: Sherry and Gerry Cohen

“ William Inge had a timeless sense of humor, and this play, perhaps his greatest, has a very modern feeling of openness and honesty. He was celebrated in his time, but I believe his plays are just hitting their ﬁnest moment. I know that Nicholas Martin will bring his terriﬁc sense of comedy and warmth — so appreciated by Boston audiences — to bear in our production.” — Artistic Director Peter DuBois

“ William Inge was an indisputably major artist, ONE OF THIS COUNTRY’S HALF-DOZEN GREATEST PLAYWRIGHTS.” — The Wall Street Journal “ RICH, FUNNY, AND FRESH! A memorable achievement! An uproarious comedy that never strays from the truth.” — The New York Times 2 Spotlight1.v19.indd 2

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“ When I walked into this night club place and hear you singin’ my favorite song, standin’ before that orkester lookin’ like an angel, I told myself then and there, she’s fer me. I ain’t gonna leave this place without her.” — Bo (Bus Stop)

HONEST AND TRUE:

THE COMEDIC LANDSCAPE OF WILLIAM INGE The idea for the playwright William Inge’s 1955 hit Bus Stop percolated for some time. Years earlier, Inge had noticed an unusual courtship between fellow passengers on a bus from Missouri to Kansas. “There was a man pursuing a woman on the trip,” Inge recalled. “They were not sitting together, nor was she giving him much encouragement. But the romance progressed a little at each diner stop en route. When we got to Kansas City, they went away — together.”

for companionship and understanding. He lets us see that the simple truth is an astonishing thing.”

Inge wrote four Broadway hits during the 1950s, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Picnic and his early success Come Back, Little Sheba. Several were set in Kansas, where Inge was born in 1913. Inge would live both there and in Missouri until success drew him to New York, and the prairie vistas, violent weather, and sweet people of his home state were touchstones for Inge Inge imagined their backstory, turning the throughout his life. “Maybe we find beauty man into Bo, a blustering, inexperienced only in what we know,” Inge reflected. rodeo rider, and his intended into Cherie, “Mountains have never intrigued me. They William Inge, 1957; photo: Gordon Parks a sultry nightclub singer from the Ozarks. have none of the mystery of the prairie, Beyond the pair, the play expanded to other where one can always feel close to some heartaches and foibles of their fellow travelers on the bus and eternal truth concerning man and his place in the universe.” a few people of the town where they stop. “I meant the play as The level, expansive character of the prairie is present in the a composite picture of varying kinds of love,” Inge wrote. “The plays that he wrote. Though Inge was a mid-century realist, cowboy’s eagerness, awkwardness, and naivete were interesting his plays eschew the extreme highs and lows that mark those only when seen by comparison, in the same setting with the of his contemporaries Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, amorality, the depravity, the casual earthiness, the innocence, playwrights whose careers would eclipse his by the 1960s. or the defeat [of the other characters].” Inge mines his comedy (Inge, feeling his genius was forgotten, committed suicide in out of the sheer juxtaposition of this motley crew, stranded in a 1973.) Inge’s plays instead capture ordinary people in near roadside diner to wait out a snowstorm. mundane situations with a sense of the hidden passion and Great drama, Inge knew, wasn’t born out of the characters’ deep humanity that bubbles up within us all. immediate or lasting joy, but instead out of the desire and Bus Stop is a comedy in the sense that laughter is frequent, but search for it. Time Magazine later dubbed him “The Laureate also in the sense of delicate, surprising optimism; we watch of Longing,” a fitting title for a playwright who celebrates as an unlikely couple edges closer together, an innocent girl both vivid happiness that may soon fade and sadness that inches toward confident womanhood, and a corrupt man is interrupted by small flashes of hope. Brooks Atkinson decides once to do the right thing. As Time Magazine wrote on wrote in The New York Times of Inge’s “wistful awareness of the play’s opening night, “Bus Stop, for all its outward laughs, the loneliness of human beings, of the hunger people have catches an inner glow.” — Charles Haugland AT TOP: A midwestern prairie in winter; photo: Derrald Farnsworth-Livingston

learn more online: Visit the Learn & Explore section of huntingtontheatre.org/busstop for information on the four movie adaptations of William Inge’s work, including the ﬁlm version of Bus Stop starring Marilyn Monroe.

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CURTAIN CALLS NAME: Noah Bean ROLE: Bo HOMETOWN: I was born in Boston but grew up in Mystic, CT LAST SEEN AT THE HUNTINGTON IN: Love’s Labour’s Lost FAVORITE DINER: Bee Bee’s on Main Street in Mystic. All the old time locals used to hang out there and drink coffee. During the summer, I used to go at least a couple of times a week, grab a booth by the window, and get grilled tuna and cheese and chocolate milk.

CATCHING UP WITH

NICHOLAS MARTIN Former Artistic Director Nicholas Martin returns to the Huntington to helm William Inge’s Bus Stop. Recently, Martin spoke with Director Nicholas Martin of New Work Lisa Timmel about the differences between Inge and Tennessee Williams and between directing classics and new work. Did you see the original production of Bus Stop?

NAME: Will LeBow ROLE: Carl HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, New York (land of the world’s best diners) LAST SEEN AT THE HUNTINGTON IN: The Corn is Green and The Cherry Orchard FAVORITE DINER: The Parkway Diner (of Billy Joel’s “Brenda and Eddie” fame). I used to hang out there in my late teen years trying to pick up girls. My favorite diner food has to be the classic BLT or corned beef hash and eggs. NAME: Karen MacDonald ROLE: Grace HOMETOWN: Watertown, MA, a town of many great diners LAST SEEN AT THE HUNTINGTON IN: All My Sons and A Civil War Christmas MEMORABLE BUS TRIP: I got on the crowded bus at Marco Polo Airport, traveled on unfamiliar roads, through dusty, unremarkable, slightly industrial suburbs, then onto a longish bridge at the end of which is Piazzale Roma. The end of the road. Literally. On the other side, a miracle ... a city of water, gondolas, palazzos, churches, breathtaking beauty ... Venice. NAME: Nicole Rodenberg ROLE: Cherie HOMETOWN: Fargo, ND MEMORABLE BUS TRIP: I had a bus break down on the way to Minneapolis. It was the middle of November, and we all had to ﬁle onto the highway in the middle of the night. People started sharing food and blankets and stories to pass the time. Buses are so intimate.

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Visit huntingtontheatre.org/busstop for expanded interviews with the cast.

I saw Picnic. I never saw Bus Stop even though my favorite actress — Kim Stanley — was the star. You know, in a funny way, there is no star in Bus Stop. It seems to be about Cherie, but really it’s about all of them. The character that most reﬂects the audience is the young girl, Elma. Her education (this is the kind of daring they had in the 1950s) is conducted by a kind of reprobate, someone for whom Inge has enormous compassion.

Why is Inge an important American playwright? Inge was very much of his time. The plays he, Tennessee Williams, and, to a certain degree, Arthur Miller wrote; it’s unthinkable that anyone would write them today. I’m drawn to Inge’s plays not simply because they were the plays of my youth, but because I’m impressed by the unselfconscious approach to character and to emotional lives that you almost never see in current writing. Inge managed to create, in all his plays, real characters with a great deal of depth and to tell each and every one of their stories. I think that’s unusual in any period. Everything was about to change in the ’60s and, you can kind of feel, certainly in Williams and in Inge, a kind of simmering. There’s an innocence about Inge that Williams just couldn’t manage — that’s not who he was — but I’m drawn to that, too. I think Inge’s plays are a great chance for young actors and old actors to use their muscle, because the characters are so fabulous.

You’re both an elegant interpreter of classics and a champion of new plays. How have you developed such a wide range? I’ve been very lucky, because I ran theatres where I was able to do that. For me, unless you can ﬁnd a balance between doing the classics any way you choose as long as you’re faithful to the writer and bringing new work along, you’re unfulﬁlled. The collaboration is everything to me. You certainly get that with a new play, whether you like it or not! And then you can take a little rest with a classic, because the author is dead and you can just relax a little bit on that front. •

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Will LeBow, Jessica Rothenberg, Kate Burton, Sarah Hudnut, and Dick Latessa in The Cherry Orchard; photo: T. Charles Erickson

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NICHOLAS MARTIN AT THE HUNTINGTON

Nicholas Martin served as Artistic Director of the Huntington for eight seasons, directing 18 productions from 2000 to 2008. This fall will mark the 10-year anniversary of Martin’s acclaimed inaugural Huntington production, Dead End. Martin’s complete Huntington directing credits include:

(°) 35 BELOW WRAP PARTY • A special evening for young professionals aged 21-35 complete with a post-show party. Visit huntingtontheatre.org/35below for more information.

SEASON

Dead End ........................................................................................................................................ 2000-2001 Fully Committed................................................................................................................... 2000-2001 Hedda Gabler (moved to Broadway in 2001).......................................... 2000-2001 Betty’s Summer Vacation .......................................................................................... 2001-2002 Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (moved to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater in 2003) ............................................................................................................................................... 2001-2002

A Month in the Country ............................................................................................. 2002-2003 Springtime for Henry ..................................................................................................... 2002-2003

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( ) OUT AND ABOUT CLUB • A post-show party for GLBT audience members. Use code OUT to purchase discounted tickets to this performance online. (@) ASL-INTERPRETED • For Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members. Call 617 273-1558 for more information. (~) AUDIO-DESCRIBED • For blind and low-visioned audience members. Call 617 273-1558 for more information. (SM) STUDENT MATINEE • For groups of students in grades 8-12. Call 617 273-1558 for more information. (d) ACTORS FORUM • Participating members of the cast answer your questions following the performance.

Butley (moved to Broadway in 2006)................................................................. 2003-2004 The Rose Tattoo ...................................................................................................................... 2003-2004 Sonia Flew .................................................................................................................................... 2004-2005

(h) HUMANITIES FORUM • A post-performance talk on the historical and literary context of the show featuring a leading local scholar.

The Rivals...................................................................................................................................... 2004-2005 Laughing Wild ....................................................................................................................... 2004-2005 The Sisters Rosensweig ................................................................................................ 2005-2006

Tickets: $25 - $89

Love’s Labour’s Lost ......................................................................................................... 2005-2006

35 Below: $25 for those 35 and below at every performance

The Cherry Orchard........................................................................................................ 2006-2007

Student Rush: $15 for full-time college students, available 2 hours before curtain (valid ID required)

Persephone .................................................................................................................................... 2006-2007 Present Laughter (moved to Broadway in 2010 ) ............................... 2006-2007 She Loves Me

Prices include a $2/ticket Capital Enhancement fee.

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The Corn is Green ............................................................................................................... 2008-2009

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Subscribers receive $10 off any additional tickets purchased.

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ACCLAIMED NEW COMEDY

ANNIE BAKER

• 2010 OBIE and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards • Voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York

CIRCLE

MIRROR TRANSFO by Annie Baker Directed by Melia Bensussen

OCTOBER 15 - NOVEMBER 14, 2010 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA PART OF THE SHIRLEY , VT PLAYS FESTIVAL

Melia Bensussen

When the four students in Marty’s creative drama class experiment with harmless theatre games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Set in the Shirley, Vermont community center, this beautifully crafted new comedy mixes antic sadness and hilarious detail, and became a runaway hit Off Broadway. Production Sponsors: Nancy and Ed Roberts .com

“ I fell in love with the characters in these plays, and with the idea of creating a ﬁctional New England town at the Calderwood Pavilion and the BCA campus. Each of Annie’s plays stands on their own with their imagination and subtle humor, and seen together they form a striking portrait of Shirley, Vermont. The same is true for this festival; each company has their own identity and audience, but together we hope to bring out the richness of a writer’s vision in the creation of this fully imagined community.” — Artistic Director Peter DuBois

“ ABSORBING, UNBLINKING, AND SHARPLY FUNNY!” — The New York Times “ RIVETING! Circle Mirror Transformation packs a terriﬁc punch. It reminds us of our inescapable need to come together and forge human connections — it reminds us of the very power of theatre.” — Entertainment Weekly 6 Spotlight1.v19.indd 6

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“A thoughtful new play, and a potent reminder of the impact we have on each other. Annie Baker has an original voice, appealing quirkiness, and an astute sense of what makes people tick.” — New York Daily News

WELCOME TO SHIRLEY, VT “I think what keeps me coming back to Shirley is just the fact that I’ve thought about it so much, and so as a result I have a cast of like 600 characters in my mind. When I start writing a new play, it’s very tempting to use some of those characters — characters that were mentioned in passing in other plays, or characters that I’ve just come up with for fun ...” — Annie Baker, in an interview with Playwrights Horizons’ Adam Greenﬁeld

Emerging writers who generate the buzz that Annie Baker has this past year often do so by defying convention. Playwriting 101 dictates that the writer grab the audience’s attention in the first ten pages and keep hold of it through a series of surprising, yet believable, turning points. Baker consciously rejects that action-driven style for a much more subtle one of naturalistic writing that requires the kind of patience and attention hard to find in our hyper-linked, attention-deficit culture. This counterintuitive approach to storytelling requires us as audience to take a different approach. And the best approach to an Annie Baker play is to wait for it.

Circle Mirror Transformation, chronicles the relationship between five people taking a creative drama class. Instead of using a traditional plot structure, the story uses group dynamics and unfolds while the audience watches the characters perform formal theatre exercises. It can seem confusing at first, even frustrating — one of the funniest lines of the show acknowledges this awkwardness. But slowly, information about the characters comes out in unexpected and subtle ways, and by the end the audience is surprised to find they know the characters deeply. With The Aliens, Baker pushes the concept of stage silence to its limit — as written, it is intended to be fully a third silent. We watch KJ and Jasper waste their lives sitting in the back lot of a coffee shop. Along the way, they inadvertently inspire and liberate an intelligent, awkward boy. The play is a paean to small-town burnout geniuses that anyone who has done time in a rural town will immediately recognize.

playwright Annie Baker

This fall, the Huntington, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Company One will present Circle Mirror Transformation, Body Awareness, and The Aliens in concert. The plays share a common setting: Shirley, Vermont, a ﬁctional town Baker has created. Although the plays tell completely independent stories, seeing them in proximity provides an unusual opportunity for Boston audiences to experience a writer in depth and to develop an appreciation for how a writer evolves. In Body Awareness, Baker’s earliest and most traditional play, a male photographer who specializes in female nudes stays with a middle-aged lesbian couple and disrupts their lives for a while. In his ﬁrst scene, the photographer asks: “But then one day the person says something really weird and you’re like: Do I actually know you? Or are you this total stranger?” Traditionally, disruptive strangers automatically make the characters in a play re-examine their assumptions, and when the stranger leaves, the world of the play is either set right or irrevocably changed.

Baker creates these characters and their world working solely with the awkward, interrupted speech of every day interactions and silence. Her characters are drawn both from close observation and a sweeping imagination. Charles Isherwood, writing in The New York Times declared, “Ms. Baker’s means are simple, and her experimenting is less a matter of tricky games of design and structure than an imaginative consideration of how an evening of theatre can be made to echo the slow ineluctable pace of change in real life.” The result is a deeply humane, completely different yet utterly recognizable kind of theatre. — Lisa Timmel

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“The fact that I hate 90 percent of what comes out of my mouth is a large part of why I am a playwright,” says writer Annie Baker. “The way human beings speak is so heartbreaking to me — we never sound the way we want to sound. We’re always stopping ourselves in mid– sentence, because we’re so terriﬁed of saying the wrong thing. Speaking is a kind of misery.”

CAPTURING SILENCE:

ANNIE BAKER & THE NEW NATURALISM A playwright who hates the idea of talking may come as a surprise. (From Shaw to Wilde to Tennessee Williams, the history of theatre is largely the story of the eloquent.) But, tellingly, many of breakout writer Annie Baker’s best reviews focus on her ability to see the ordinary and to render halting, imperfect everyday life in a revelatory light. Adam Feldman of Time Out New York lauds how Baker “depicts major life changes in the most low-key and off-angle ways imaginable. The silences ... — and there are many — speak louder than most of the words.” Annie Baker’s characters evolve slowly, and, like all of us, they often wish they had said something less, something else, something better. To create them, the playwright cultivates listening as part of her technique. “I will record myself reading [my writing], and I will listen to it obsessively and rewrite according to how I respond to the recording of myself,” Baker says. “It’s just part of the writing. It’s really humiliating, and I would never play these recordings for anybody. I’m not a good actor.” The intense focus on the speech of real, ordinary people has led Annie Baker’s critical champions to see her as pushing to new frontiers in naturalism. Baker counts the quintessential realist Anton Chekhov as her greatest inﬂuence, but one can as easily see the echoes of Chekhov’s contemporary and ally Émile Zola,

the primary theorist of theatrical naturalism. (Zola famously said, “A play is a slice of life placed on the stage with art.”) Baker is quick to point out that we all mean something different by the word naturalism. What one person finds “natural,” another person finds “affected,” and vice versa. Yet we learn much about how a playwright views the world from the slice of life they present onstage. For Baker, those lives are often silent ones as she focuses intently on the space between her lines. A note at the beginning of Circle Mirror Transformation specifies the difference between what she means when she writes a short pause versus a pause, a silence versus a long silence. “Crazy stuff happens during silences at the theatre,” Baker believes, melding her observation of the world around her with a sophisticated view of the theatrical experience of an audience. “The audience suddenly becomes aware of itself, and a little weirded out and uncomfortable, and maybe someone coughs and whispers, but if the silence goes on long enough eventually people adjust to it and get kind of comfortable and zen and find their own way back into the reality of the play. And that moment — when an entire audience is relaxed and breathless together in a silence, when time slows down and then starts to speed up again — is very magical to me.” – Charles Haugland

AT TOP: A valley in Vermont; photo: Dusty Davis

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learn more online: Visit the Learn & Explore section of huntingtontheatre.org/circlemirror and ShirleyVTPlays.com to read about playwright Annie Baker’s imagined town and more.

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THE SHIRLEY, VT PLAYS FESTIVAL

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This fall, three Boston theatre companies will engage in a landmark local collaboration to produce breakout writer Annie Baker’s ﬁrst three plays — Body Awareness, produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company, Circle Mirror Transformation, produced by the Huntington, and The Aliens, produced by Company One — together in the ﬁrst-ever festival dedicated to the work of this remarkable young writer.

BODY AWARENESS RUN THE MARATHON! by Annie Baker See all 3 plays in one day Directed by Paul Daigneault on Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 7, Roberts Studio Theatre in the Nov. 13, or Nov. 14. Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA October 22 - November 20, 2010 Produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company

Huntington Subscriber Ticket Price: $35 (reg. $50-55)

THE ALIENS by Annie Baker Directed by Shawn LaCount Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts October 29 - November 20, 2010 Produced by Company One Huntington Subscriber Ticket Price: $30 (reg. $32-$38)

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PRE-SHOW THEATRE GAMES • Join us before the show and participate in some of the actor warm-ups featured in Circle Mirror Transformation. Starts at 6:30pm. Visit huntingtontheatre.org/circlemirror for dates. (•) POST-SHOW CONVERSATIONS • Join us for dynamic post-show conversations with fellow audience members and Huntington staff after most every performance (except select Saturday and Sunday evenings). Δ

Circle Mirror Transformation is part of the Huntington’s 7-play subscription season and Huntington subscribers can purchase tickets to either Body Awareness or The Aliens at a discount. To order your tickets online, visit BostonTheatreScene.com and enter SUB11 into the promotional code ﬁeld or call the Huntington Box Ofﬁce at 617 266-0800.

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( ) OUT AND ABOUT CLUB • A post-show party for GLBT audience members. Use code OUT to purchase discounted tickets to this performance online. (d) ACTORS FORUM • Participating members of the cast answer your questions following the performance. (h) HUMANITIES FORUM • A post-performance talk on the historical and literary context of the show featuring a leading local scholar. (SM) STUDENT MATINEE • For groups of students in grades 8-12. Call 617 273-1558 for more information.

The Plaza Theatre (left) and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (far right)

Tickets: $25 - $65 35 Below: $25 for those 35 and below at every performance Student Rush: $15 for full-time college students, available 2 hours before curtain (valid ID required) Subscribers receive $10 off any additional tickets purchased. Prices include a $2/ticket Capital Enhancement fee.

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WORLD PREMIERE

BOB GLAUDINI

VENGEANCE IS

THE LORD by Bob Glaudini Directed by Peter DuBois

NOVEMBER 12 - DECEMBER 12, 2010 Boston University Theatre CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE

Peter DuBois

The Horvath family forgives their trespassers — all but one. A mother’s call for mercy clashes with a father’s need for retribution when their daughter’s murderer comes up for parole. Sharp jokes and tough love drive this searing and funny new drama, which unfolds at dinners from Thanksgiving to Easter. A modern American family asks a classical moral question: what can we do when “justice” is not enough?

“ This will be the third play of Bob Glaudini’s I have directed, and I love returning to his work. He writes with a muscular, spare lyricism and creates such deep, meaty roles for actors. This play is propelled by magnetic characters, and takes place at the holidays where the quirkiest dynamics of everyone’s family come out at full tilt. Bob imbues this darkly comic domestic drama with a soul-stirring poignancy.” — Artistic Director Peter DuBois

“ Bob Glaudini has an incredible ear for dialogue and a good sense of how modern people interact with one another.” — East Bay Express

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VENGEANCE IS THE LORD’S:

BOB GLAUDINI’S VERSION OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY IN DRAMA If you were to go to the American drama section of the library, close your eyes, and choose a play at random, chances are that it will be a play about a family. The family romance is the meat and potatoes of our theatre, familiar yet always satisfying. This is a character trait of American drama going back to the 18th century. Families — their structures, their politics, their economics — are the idiom many writers use to illustrate the American experience and their own world view, interweaving personal stories with archetypal characters. The most enduring: domineering fathers, addicted mothers, and misunderstood sons.

In Vengeance, the scenes Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the take place on holidays — Lord’s continues in this great moments of ritual family tradition, but also breaks with reunion. In these encounters, it in many ways. Standing on the Horvaths clash over the his front porch, paterfamilias appropriate treatment of Mathew Horvath declares, their daughter’s murderer: “Inside to the warmth and granting forgiveness versus bosom of the family ...” — a exacting revenge. But, over the statement that, if we are course of the play, we learn familiar with theatre history, where the Horvaths place we suspect is irony. The the value of a human life in Horvath family is a broken comparison with the value of one: they are coping with the their business. potential parole of the man who raped and murdered their “We’re all responsible for daughter. However, they are no our part in things,” says the Beth Cole, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, and Daphne Rubin-Vega innocents themselves, having youngest son, Donald, an in the 2007 LAByrinth Theater Company production of Bob Glaudini’s built their family businesses Jack Goes Boating, directed by Peter DuBois; photo: Monique Carboni advocate for forgiveness. But of bars, strip clubs, and auto Glaudini complicates his body shops by legitimate and place as the hero of the story or its moral conscience. Unlike illegitimate means. The complicated relationship between All My Sons, this modern story dramatizes a world in which family and money, innocence and guilt, creates fertile territory everyone is complicit. If Donald has always known his father for conflict. was crooked, what rejection is possible? When the entire family is tied into the business, what space remains for personal In a prototypical American family drama, the first event is ethics? The Keller family ruptures irrevocably by the end of All often a kind of reunion. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (part of the Huntington’s previous season) begins as the Kellers are reunited My Sons because Chris wishes to preserve his sense of morality, with Ann, the girl who planned to marry their missing-in-action but the Horvath family is knit tighter by their complicity. Arthur Miller’s moralistic point of view has long since fallen and presumed dead elder son. Her presence eventually leads to the revelation of Joe Keller’s guilt in valuing the family business out of favor in the American theatre. The Horvath family’s big tragedies are past; what is left to figure out is how to over his own moral code. Joe’s son, Chris, repudiates live in a world where no one’s hands are clean, a his father, rejecting the life that his parents built strong parable for today’s America. for him. Miller uses the story, and an implicit Oedipal struggle, to make an explicit critique — Lisa Timmel of the capitalistic tendency to value profit over doing the right thing.

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DESIGNING

Marin Ireland, Michael Aronov, and James Gale in Mauritius, 2006; photo: Eric Antoniou

VENGEANCE IS THE LORD’S

Over his proliﬁc career, Tony Award winner Eugene Lee has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally, bringing his dynamic scenic designs all around the country. He designed sets for Mauritius and The Cry of the Reed at the Huntington, for the Broadway production of Wicked and the original production of Sweeney Todd, and is a production designer for “Saturday Night Live.” Assistant to the Artistic Director Chris Carcione sat down with Lee to ask him a few questions about his career and his innovative design for the world premiere production of Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s. What made you become a scenic designer? Every year in high school they took us to see a play in Chicago. I was always fascinated by those commercial plays. After high school, I went off the University of Wisconsin. They had no design program, but they had a fabulous theatre. I took a class in set design and the guy who ran the theatre gave us a tour. On stage, there was the set for The Bad Seed — I remember it like it was yesterday — sitting on the stage. Someone asked, “Who does these sets?” and the guy said, “You want to do the next one?” So I said I’d love to do the next one, he told me to come see him the next morning, and suddenly I was.

the kitchen, the hallways, the front closet, and the hall closet. Then I did something I’ve never done before — I put it on a turntable. Usually turntables are good for adding motion, but I haven’t really used them much to change scenery. I don’t know if it’s right, but I’ve never done anything quite like it.

What made you decide to use a turntable?

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I’ve always been a big fan of rearranging theatres. It’s only in my old age I ﬁnd myself working in a proscenium theatre. With my friend, director Andre Gregory, we do shows where about 25 people ﬁt in the audience. I love that. I feel much happier when I’m arranging seats and arranging the whole space and can put the audience closer to the action and around it. I prefer that, but you can’t always do that. On the other hand, I love designing big musicals like Wicked.

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(Listed events are FREE with the purchase of a ticket.)

(•) POST-SHOW CONVERSATIONS • Join us for dynamic post-show conversations with fellow audience members and Huntington staff after most every performance (except select Saturday and Sunday evenings). (°) 35 BELOW WRAP PARTY • A special evening for young professionals aged 21-35 complete with a post-show party. Visit huntingtontheatre.org/35below for more information. Δ

learn more online: Visit the Learn & Explore section of huntingtontheatre.org/vengeance to read about Bob Glaudini and Peter DuBois’ previous collaborations.

Tickets: $25 - $89 35 Below: $25 for those 35 and below at every performance Student Rush: $15 for full-time college students, available 2 hours before curtain (valid ID required) Subscribers receive $10 off any additional tickets purchased. Prices include a $2/ticket Capital Enhancement fee. ▲ A detail from one of Eugene Lee’s plans for the rotating set of Vengeance is the Lord’s — including a 32-foot-wide circular turntable at the center of the stage

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DEVELOPMENT

HUNTINGTON BOARD TO BE LED BY

CAROL DEANE AND MITCHELL J. ROBERTS It is with great pleasure that we announce the election of Carol G. Deane as Chairman and Mitchell (Mitch) J. Roberts as President of the Huntington’s Board of Trustees. Carol Deane has been a Huntington Trustee since 2001 and has served on numerous committees. For the past two years, she has served as co-chair of the Spotlight Spectacular!, the Huntington’s annual gala beneﬁt event. Mitch Roberts has been a Trustee since 1999 and has also been a vital part of a variety of Board efforts and committees, including serving as co-chair of the Marketing Task Force. Carol succeeds J. David Wimberly, Huntington Chairman since 1996, and Mitch takes over for William (Bill) P. McQuillan, former Vice-Chairman (2001-2007) and President since 2007. Says Mitch Roberts, “David and Bill have put the theatre on such strong footing, having done the heavy lifting and the hard work over the last decade and a half. Thanks to their remarkable work, the Huntington has a strong Board of Trustees, Council of Overseers, a beautiful new second stage at the Calderwood Pavilion, and an endowment for increased ﬁnancial stability.”

Managing Director Michael Maso, President Mitchell J. Roberts, Chairman Carol Deane, and Artistic Director Peter DuBois

All of us at the Huntington are also deeply grateful for David and Bill’s tireless efforts on behalf of the company – for their time and dedication, for their contribution to the community, and for the great friendship they have shown us all. The Huntington could not be more fortunate to have Carol and Mitch, astute and energetic members of the community, at the helm of our institution. We are grateful for their service — past and future! •

2010 SPOTLIGHT SPECTACULAR!

RAISES $625,000 The 2010 Spotlight Spectacular!, the Huntington’s annual beneﬁt event, took place at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers on Sunday, April 25, 2010. Co-chaired by Huntington Trustee (and new Board Chairman) Carol Deane and Huntington Overseer Bryan Rafanelli, this year’s event raised $625,000 to help support the Huntington’s productions and programs, including our award-winning youth, education, and community initiatives. It was a spectacular event, during which the 8th annual Wimberly Award was presented to director Kenny Leon and Bank of America, in recognition of their signiﬁcant contributions to the Huntington. Actress Jasmine Guy (from TV’s “A Different World” and the Broadway revivals of Chicago and Grease) delivered two powerhouse performances, supported by members of the Boston Pops Gospel Choir.

▲ Jasmine Guy performs “His Eye is on the Sparrow” with the Boston Pops Gospel Choir; photo: Laura Wulf

FOR MORE INFORMATION, or to reserve a table for next year’s event, please contact Michelle Cicerano, Special Events Manager, at MCicerano@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu or 617 273-1536.

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JOIN THE CIRCLE As you contemplate your support of the Huntington this season, we hope you will consider joining or renewing your membership in the Huntington Circle. This important group of donors who contribute $1,500 or more annually are the cornerstone of the Huntington’s Annual Fund. Huntington Circle members provide the vital support necessary to sustain the artistic, education, and community programs that make the Huntington one of the best regional theatres in the country. They also enjoy behind-the-scenes access, invitations to exclusive events, and the opportunity to become personally involved in the Huntington’s productions and programs.

FOR MORE INFORMATION about joining the Huntington Circle, please contact Meg White, Director of Major Gifts at 617 273-1596 or MWhite@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW

OVERSEERS Nine new Huntington Overseers were elected to the Council at May’s Board meeting: Barbara Boger, Anne Fitzpatrick Cucchiaro, Dr. John Cohen, Marsha Feinberg, Dr. Paul Greenﬁeld, Katherine Jones, Victoria Knox, Deborah Lewis, and Dr. Tania Phillips. We warmly welcome these newest members of the Huntington family!

CALDERWOOD MATCHING CHALLENGE UPDATE —

THE FINAL YEAR TO DOUBLE YOUR GIFT! In 2008, the Huntington announced the Calderwood Charitable Foundation Matching Challenge. Through this generous three-year Challenge, our friends at the Calderwood Charitable Foundation agreed to match all new individual gifts to the Huntington as well as increased contributions from current supporters that are made through June 2011. The response to the Challenge during the ﬁrst two years has been remarkable! Thank you to everyone who has responded. Because of your generosity, we have secured $1 million from the Foundation. But there’s still one more year to have your gift matched as you support the Huntington and its programs! The Calderwood Challenge will continue to double your new or increased contributions during the 2011 Annual Fund Campaign, helping us to continue to stage awardwinning productions and programs, to train and support the next generation of theatre artists, to provide arts education programs to our community’s young people, and to operate the Calderwood Pavilion.

WE HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for great theatre in Boston by making a gift to the 2011 Annual Fund today.

There are easy ways to contribute to the 2011 Annual Fund: 1. SEND A CHECK TO: Huntington Theatre Company, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Attn: Development Department

2. MAKE YOUR GIFT ONLINE AT: huntingtontheatre.org/support

3. CONTRIBUTE VIA PHONE: by calling the Development Office at 617 273-1546 ▲ (l-r) Bank of America’s Wimberly Award recipient Boston Market President Bob Gallery and his wife Jill; Huntington Trustee Doris Kearns Goodwin and Wimberly Award recipient director Kenny Leon; photos: Laura Wulf

THANK YOU for helping us to make this final year of the Calderwood Matching Challenge a success!

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EDUCATION

AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS This season marks the tenth anniversary of the Huntington’s Department of Education and Community Programs’ partnership with Dorchester’s Codman Academy Public Charter School. The theatre and literacy collaboration ofﬁcially began on September 14, 2001 when 25 youth comprising the ﬁrst Codman class arrived on Huntington Avenue with Codman founder and executive director Meg Campbell and Humanities teacher and new Headmaster Thabiti Brown. The students came for hands-on experience in reading and analyzing plays, as well as training in acting, directing, and theatre production. Nine years later, over 500 Boston students have spent every other Friday during their freshman and sophomore years onsite at the Huntington Theatre Company in the “reverse residency” program. Unique in its 360-degree concentration on both understanding and experiencing the world of theatre, Codman students study texts being produced by the Huntington in the classroom and attend productions at the theatre. In addition, they work with Huntington staff and teaching artists twice each month to immerse themselves in the workings of a professional theatre. The partnership engages and inspires students from neighborhoods often excluded from Boston’s dynamic cultural life, enabling them to develop both an understanding of and appreciation for the theatre. Teachers leverage that engagement to improve performance in academic areas, particularly literacy, and to develop social capital by building core skills such as teamwork and priority-setting. The Huntington/Codman partnership has grown to include a summer Shakespeare production featuring students and alumni, participation in the Massachusetts State Finals for both Poetry Out Loud and the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare Competition, and professional internship opportunities at the Huntington. This fall, Codman will join ten other Boston schools to participate in the inaugural August Wilson Monologue Competition. And appropriately marking the culmination of the collaboration, Codman graduation ceremonies are held on either the Boston University Theatre (the Huntington’s main stage) or in the Wimberly Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, which is owned and operated by the Huntington. The Huntington’s partnership with Codman Academy is the showcase of the theatre’s acclaimed and wide-reaching youth and education initiatives that have reached over 250,000

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HUNTINGTON/CODMAN PARTNERSHIP ENTERS 10TH YEAR

The cast and crew of the Huntington-Codman Summer Theatre Institute’s The Taming of the Shrew, 2010

students since 1982. The collaboration has been recognized both locally and nationally as a model for improving urban students’ reading, speaking, writing, and presentation skills. The partnership was recently honored with the Commonwealth Award, the state’s highest award in arts and culture given by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Codman Academy is the only public school to have received this recognition. “Our partnership has demonstrated that performance-based drama and poetry are powerful, life-transforming strategies for improving adolescent literacy and self-awareness,” says Campbell. “For adolescents, drama is a face-saving way to study Shakespeare and other great playwrights.” Thanks in part to the programs designed and administered by the Huntington, 99% of Codman Academy’s 10th graders pass the English Language Arts portion of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam, a requirement for graduation. 100% of Codman’s ﬁve graduating classes have been accepted to college. Donna Glick, the Huntington’s Director of Education and Community, points out the ripple effect of a 10-year partnership. “This collaboration has meant so much to the Huntington Theatre Company as a whole. So many artists and professional staff have taken time to meet with Codman students over the years, sharing their expertise, mentoring the kids, and acting as ambassadors throughout the many communities that the theatre touches. The Education Department staff is expected to brag about our programs, but it’s incredibly gratifying to hear praiseworthy kudos from other staff, visiting artists, and board members, which has increased the visibility and inﬂuence of the program.”

WATCH ALL SEASON for more Huntington/Codman events and celebrations of this special milestone. •

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POETRY OUT LOUD 2011:

REGISTER NOW! Hold a poetry competition at your school as part of the 6th Annual Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. A national spelling bee-style poetry contest, Poetry Out Loud encourages students in grades 9-12 to memorize and perform great poems and explore the dynamic aspects of slam poetry, spoken work, and theatre in their English and drama classes. The Huntington facilitates this national contest in conjunction with The Massachusetts Cultural Council. Last year more than 14,000 students at 64 schools from Great Barrington to Provincetown participated in the 2010 competition. Schools will administer the ﬁrst round by staging classroomand school-wide contests in February. School-wide winners will compete at a regional semi-ﬁnal

Wilmene Hercule, the 2009 and 2010 Poetry Out Loud Massachusetts State Champion, and her mother, Marte.

round in early March at locations across the state. The state ﬁnals will be held on March 13, 2011. The winner receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. to represent Massachusetts at the national ﬁnals in April. The deadline to register your school for Poetry Out Loud 2011 is December 23, 2010.

FOR MORE INFORMATION and to view a video about Poetry Out Loud, visit huntingtontheatre.org/poetry or e-mail poetryoutloud@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu.

2010-2011 STUDENT MATINEES All student matinee performances start at 10am and include a lively post-show Actors Forum with members of the cast. Student groups are also welcome at regularly scheduled performances.

BUS STOP* September 24, 2010 Boston University Theatre

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION

ARE YOU A TEACHER OR A PARENT? Make the Huntington part of your school’s experience this year!

SONS OF THE PROPHET April 8, 2011 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

RICHARD III

November 4, 2010 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

May 26, 2011 Boston University Theatre

RUINED*

COMEDY OF ERRORS

January 14, 2011 Boston University Theatre

June, 10, 2011 Boston University Theatre

EDUCATING RITA March 24, 2011 Boston University Theatre

*ASL-interpreted and Audio-described performance

TICKETS are $15 per student. Additional subsidies or free tickets available. For more information and to reserve tickets, please contact Education Manager Meg Wieder at 617 273-1558 or MWieder@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu.

ACCESS FOR ALL The Huntington Theatre Company continues its commitment to accessible theatre by offering American Sign Language-interpretation and Audio Description for select performances of both Bus Stop and Ruined. To purchase $15 tickets to any of our ASL-Interpreted or Audio Described performances, contact our Education Manager and Access Coordinator, Meg Wieder at 617 273-1558 or MWieder@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu.

BUS STOP ASL: Friday, October 8 at 8pm AD: Saturday, October 9 at 2pm

RUINED ASL: Friday, January 21 at 8pm AD: Saturday, January 29 at 2pm

Education and Access Partner:

learn more online: Visit huntingtontheatre.org/studentmatinee.

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COMPLETE YOUR EXPERIENCE

Your theatregoing experience can begin long before the show and doesn’t have to end when the curtain goes down. The Huntington provides many opportunities for you to engage with us and our shows. Hear from our artists. Explore literary and historical angles. Connect with fellow theatre lovers.

STAY AFTER THE SHOW Take sides. Join us for dynamic post-show conversations with fellow audience members and Huntington staff after most every performance (except select Saturday and Sunday evenings). Form new ideas. The Humanities Forum explores the context and signiﬁcance of the play with a leading expert. Past forms have featured historians Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals) and Beverly Morgan-Welch (Museum of African-American History), playwrights Paula Vogel and Lydia R. Diamond, Boston Globe columnists, and accomplished scholars. Interact with artists. Meet the cast and ask them your questions at the Actors Forum. Join the party. Out & About Club includes a post-show party for GLBT audience members and 35 Below Wrap Parties provide special evenings for young professionals. Both feature cocktails and live music from local acts.

GO BEHIND THE SCENES AT huntingtontheatre.org There’s plenty to do online from your home, as well. With our new and improved Huntington website, you can now plan your visit to the Huntington and interact with us like never before. Visit our terriﬁc backstage blog led by Production Manager Todd Williams (now in its 4th year), watch our indepth videos with artist interviews and scenes from the shows, read extended articles from our publications, listen to our new podcast series featuring conversations with Artistic Director Peter DuBois, post-show forums, and much more. Interact with us! Become a fan on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get the scoop on breaking news and backstage details Join our e-list and receive helpful reminders about your upcoming tickets including pre-show reminders about each show and the venue to help you enjoy your experience more, e-mails in case you miss your scheduled performance (subscribers only), as well as news and discount information.

CHECK OUT THE PERFORMANCE CALENDARS on pages 5, 9, and 13 to see when these events will be held for Bus Stop, Circle Mirror Transformation,and Vengeance is the Lord’s. We hope you’ll join us! AT TOP (clockwise from top left): A backstage tour of the B.U. Theatre; Elliott Norton Award-winning actress Karen MacDonald with patrons at the All My Sons Out & About Club party; The 35 Below Wrap Party for Prelude to a Kiss (photo: Anitra Rakel); Presidential historian and Huntington Trustee Doris Kearns Goodwin, playwright Paula Vogel, and Charles Haugland at the Humanities Forum for A Civil War Christmas; Peter DuBois and Michael Maso discuss the Huntington’s season at a reception for subscribers.

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DERRICK MARTIN, Calderwood Pavilion Box Ofﬁce Coordinator

WHAT DO YOU DO “OUTSIDE THE BOX”? I am a big geek, so I enjoy all things geeky. Additionally, I’m always up for anything fun and creative — from theatrical performances to outdoor scavenger hunts. ■

JON SLATER, Audience Services Manager

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT YOUR JOB? I like the many different aspects of the job that I might face in any given day, and I enjoy ﬁnding creative solutions to technical and logistical challenges. The people working in the Box Ofﬁce are wonderful, and it’s a joy to work as a team and to share our accomplishments. •

(l-r) Box Ofﬁce staff members Derek Fraser, Jon Slater, Derrick Martin, Barbara Crowther, Bridget Frey, Katie Catano, and Amy Klesert

MEET THE HUNTINGTON Do you ever wonder who is on the other end of the telephone when you call the Box Ofﬁce or behind the window at our curtains? We invite you to learn a bit more about our hard-working and dedicated Huntington Box Ofﬁce staff! ■

KATIE CATANO, Box Ofﬁce Associate

WHAT DO YOU DO “OUTSIDE THE BOX”? The thing that takes up most of my spare time is photography. I love to ﬁnd new and interesting things to do in Boston with my friends and try to spend as much time with my family in New Hampshire as possible. ■ BARBARA CROWTHER, B.U. Theatre Box Ofﬁce Coordinator

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN AT THE HUNTINGTON? This will be my third season. I started as the Professional Intern in the costume shop and then joined the Box Ofﬁce the following season. FAVORITE HUNTINGTON SHOW? I love so many of them — but since working here, I think my favorite was Stick Fly because I was able to run wardrobe for it. ■ BRIDGET FREY, Associate Audience Services Manager

WHAT DO YOU DO “OUTSIDE THE BOX”? I’m a dramaturg and worked at Emerson College last year advising their students. I’m also a mom, and I love to garden, cook, make ice cream, and sew, although since my son was born I haven’t had much time to work on any sewing projects. WHAT IS ONE THING PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU? I’ve had season tickets for the Red Sox since 1998!

learn more online: Learn more about the staff at huntingtontheatre.org/meet.

HUNTINGTON PRODUCTIONS

SWEEP SPRING AWARDS Many recent Huntington productions were honored by the Independent Reviewers of New England and the Elliot Norton Awards Committee this past spring. In February, the Huntington received a record 29 IRNE Award nominations for productions in the 2009 calendar year, far more than any company in the region. Fences led the pack with nine nominations, followed by Pirates, (or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d) with six. On Monday, April 19, we received eleven awards, including Best Production, Director, Actor, Actress, Lighting Design, and Sound Design for Fences, Best Solo Performance for Maureen McGovern’s A Long and Winding Road, and Best New Play for The Miracle at Naples. Best Supporting Actress went to Jacqui Parker for her performance in A Civil War Christmas. In April, we learned that we’d been nominated for eleven Elliot Norton Awards. Huntington productions took all nominations in the Outstanding Production category (Fences, All My Sons, and Stick Fly), and we were acknowledged in the Director, Design, Actor, Actress, and Ensemble categories. On the Monday, May 17 ceremony, Fences was named Outstanding Production and Crystal Fox Outstanding Actress. In addition, Karen MacDonald (A Civil War Christmas, All My Sons, and the upcoming Bus Stop) received the 2010 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. Also, our very own managing director Michael Maso received StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award for his service, inspiration, and role as a champion to Boston area theatres and the arts. Read his acceptance speech on our blog at huntingtontheatre.org/theatrehero.

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our nominees and winners!

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Michael Maso

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THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY’S 2010-2011 SEASON. VENGEANCE IS THE LORD’S

SONS OF THE PROPHET

by Bob Glaudini Directed by Peter DuBois Nov. 12 – Dec. 12, 2010 B.U. Theatre

by Stephen Karam Directed by Peter DuBois April 1 – May 1, 2011 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

WORLD PREMIERE

Commissioned and produced by special arrangement with Roundabout Theatre Company WORLD PREMIERE

RUINED BUS STOP by William Inge Directed by Nicholas Martin Sept. 17 – Oct. 17, 2010 B.U. Theatre CLASSIC COMEDY Part of The Shirley, VT Plays Festival

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION

Keira Naughton in Becky Shaw; photo: T. Charles Erickson

by Annie Baker Directed by Melia Bensussen Oct. 15 – Nov. 14, 2010 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA ACCLAIMED NEW COMEDY

by Lynn Nottage Directed by Liesl Tommy Jan. 7 – Feb. 6, 2011 B.U. Theatre In cooperation with La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2009 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

EDUCATING RITA by Willy Russell Directed by Maria Aitken March 11 – April 10, 2011 B.U. Theatre OLIVIER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST COMEDY Artists, repertoire, and dates subject to change.

RICHARD III and COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare Directed by Edward Hall May 18 – June 19, 2011 B.U. Theatre Propeller Theatre Company Presented in association with Boston University’s School of Theatre SHAKESPEARE IN REPERTORY

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YOU’RE INVITED: SUBSCRIBER AND FRIENDS RECEPTION Monday, September 20, 2010 5:30 - 7:30pm Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue

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Join us for a wine and cheese reception with Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso. Meet Huntington staff, take a backstage tour of the B.U. Theatre, and get a preview of our 2010-2011 Season. Please RSVP by September 16 at huntingtontheatre.org/reception.

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