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CONTENTS
MARCH–APRIL 2017
7 THE PROGRAM
10 THE CREATIVE WORLD OF PLAYWRIGHT
SUZAN LORI PARKS
10
12 DIRECTOR BILLY PORTER ON THE
RESONANCE OF TOPDOG/UNDERDOG IN 2017
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Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
4 Backstage by Olivia J. Kiers 35 Emergency Exits
38 Guide to Local Theatre 44 Boston Dining Guide
46 Dining Out: Top of the Hub
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BACKSTAGE
BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS
A New Lease of Life for
Colonial Theatre
After remaining dark for more
than a year, Emerson College’s
historic Colonial Theatre no
longer faces uncertainty. The
college announced plans to
reopen it under the operation
of Ambassador Theatre Group
(ATG) from London, with an
inaugural season expected for
January 2018. ATG co-produces
shows on Broadway, where it
operates two theatres—only
part of its more than 40 venues
around the world. Emerson president Lee Pelton told The Boston
Globe, “It’s a game-changer.
Bringing ATG to Boston…is
the theatre’s version of bringing GE to our city.” ATG will
provide internship opportunities for Emerson students, and
promises to explore making the
space available for local arts
organizations such as Boston
Lyric Opera.
A Reagle Summer
BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The historic Colonial Theatre on
Boylston Street looks to re-open in January 2018 thanks to a new
deal owner Emerson College recently struck with London-based
Ambassador Theatre Group.
Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston
recently announced its 49th summer musical
season at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
arrives in June with its family-friendly, rock
’n’ roll-styled tale of a boy in ancient Egypt
following his prophetic dreams. In July,
Reagle again travels into the past, this time
to the Mississippi River—its production
of the 1927 classic Show Boat is the latest version, as arranged and premiered by
Connecticut’s Goodspeed Opera House in
2011. Finally, the season closes in August
with the Tony Award-winning Broadway
glamor of 42nd Street, in which aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer gets an unexpected shot
at stardom. Refer to reaglemusictheatre.org for
more information.
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A Season of Change at ASP
Following the departure of artistic director Allyn
Burrows, Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP)
announced two interim co-artistic directors
to take the helm until the post is filled, which
the company hopes to do by June. In the mean
time, ASP is in good hands. Founding member
Paula Plum is a multi-award-winning actress
and playwright who has been with Actors’
Shakespeare Project since its inception. She is
joined by Maurice Emmanuel Parent, who, like
Plum, has been a recipient of both IRNE and
Elliot Norton Awards. Parent has performed in
five ASP productions, and appears in the title
role of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, ASP’s
production that runs through March 19 at the
Charlestown Working Theater. For tickets, visit
actorsshakespeareproject.org.
Enlightenment-era astronomers Johannes
A Bloody Encore
After last year’s sold-out run, Patrick Gabridge’s Kepler and Tycho Brahe; and None but the Best,
Blood on the Snow returns to the Old State a musical biography of 19th-century Boston
House this June. Presented by the Bostonian publisher Daniel Sharp Ford. For details, visit
Society, this drama recreates history where bostonhistory.org/about-the-show.
it actually happened. Blood on
the Snow takes place during the
tense hours following the Boston
Massacre on March 5, 1770, when
Governor Thomas Hutchinson
(Dale Place) and other colonial
officials took to the Old State
House’s Council Chamber for an
emergency meeting to discuss the
prevention of further violence.
A fixture in Boston’s theatre scene, Gabridge is also no
newcomer to taking a pen to
history—his full-length historical plays include Fire on Earth,
which centers on the creation
of the Tyndale Bible in Catholic
ENCORE PERFORMANCE: Dale Place reprises his role as
England; Reading the Mind of Governor Thomas Hutchinson in Patrick Gabridge’s Blood on the
God, which tells the story of
Snow, which returns to the Old State House June 1–August 20.
WHAT’S ON STAGE in March
Our picks for the hottest plays and musicals on local stages this month
GRAND CONCOURSE
SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY
March 3–April 1
Starring IRNE Awardwinning actress and playwright Melinda Lopez, Heidi
Schreck’s drama about
religious faith and compassion takes place in a Bronx
soup kitchen. Refer to listing,
page 40.
SILENT SKY
FLAT EARTH THEATRE
March 10–25
Lauren Gunderson’s play tells the true story of
Massachusetts astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, who made
great advances in her field despite not being allowed to
use Harvard’s telescope at the turn of the 20th century.
Refer to listing, page 42.
MRS. PACKARD
BRIDGE REPERTORY THEATER
March 12–April 9
Emily Mann’s play about a 19th-century woman committed
to an insane asylum for having religious beliefs that differed from her husband’s is based on true events. Refer to
listing, page 41.
ALTAR BOYZ
STONEHAM THEATRE
March 23–April 9
This award-winning musical
comedy satirizes Christian
rock and boy bands as the fictitious Altar Boyz—Matthew,
Mark, Luke, Juan and
Abraham—sing and dance to
uplift burdened souls on their
“Raise the Praise” tour. Refer
to listing, page 40.
MARCH 23 – APRIL 9, 2017
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TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Billy Porter
Scenic & Costume Design
Clint Ramos
Casting
Alaine Alldaffer
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Driscoll Otto
Leon Rothenberg
Production Stage Manager
Emily F. McMullen
Stage Manager
Kevin Schlagle
We gratefully acknowledge the
Huntington’s 2016–2017 Season Sponsors
Sherryl & Gerard Cohen
Carol G. Deane
J. David Wimberly
and the Production Sponsors of Topdog/Underdog
Jane & Neil Pappalardo
Produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, Waxman/Williams Entertainment,
Bob Boyett, Freddy De Mann, Susan Dietz, Ina Meibach, Scott Nederlander,
Ira Pittelman, Hits Magazine, Kelpie Arts, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson,
and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.
Original New York production by
The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival,
George C. Wolfe, Producer.
Topdog/Underdog is presented by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
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NEWS ABOUT THE
HUNTINGTON AVENUE
THEATRE
“The Huntington Theatre Company is here to stay,
on Huntington Avenue where it belongs.”
– BOSTON MAYOR MARTIN J. WALSH
The Huntington Theatre Company
has long been an anchor cultural
institution of Huntington Avenue,
the Avenue of the Arts. Now that our
permanent location on Huntington
Avenue is secure, we have begun plans
to convert our current theatre into a
first-rate, modern venue that enlivens
this stretch of Huntington Avenue on
a year-round basis, contributing to
the revitalization of the neighborhood
much the way the Calderwood
Pavilion at the BCA in the South End
did in 2004.
We plan to renovate our
beautiful theatre, expand our public
space and our services to patrons,
and continue to produce ambitious,
large-scale works at this location in
a way that enhances our services to
audience members, young people,
our neighborhood, and the theatre
community of Boston.
OUR 2017-2018 SEASON
The Huntington’s 2017-2018 season
will once again include 4 shows at
the Huntington Avenue Theatre and 3
shows at the Calderwood Pavilion at
the BCA in the South End — with all
the variety and artistry you’ve come
to expect. We’ll be announcing our full
season lineup very soon.
PRODUCTION & FACILITY
RELOCATION
Our production facility, currently on
Huntington Avenue next door to the
theatre, will relocate by June 2017.
We have received a tremendous
outpouring of support for our scenic,
paint, and prop shop artisans, and are
currently designing and preparing a
new home for them and will be sharing
the location of the new facility with our
audiences soon.
The Huntington is extremely grateful for the vocal support and encouragement
from our loyal audience members and supporters throughout Greater Boston.
For the latest news and information about the Huntington Avenue Theatre, visit
the frequently asked questions page of our website at huntingtontheatre.org/FAQ.
CAST
Booth..................................................................................Matthew J. Harris
Lincoln............................................................... Tyrone Mitchell Henderson
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The Huntington Theatre Company is supported in part by a major
contribution from Boston University. Additional support is provided by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by more than 6,000
individual, foundation, and corporate contributors.
“A vibrant culture-clash drama
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THE CREATIVE WORLD OF
PLAYWRIGHT SUZAN-LORI PARKS
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
“She is an original,” said August Wilson of fellow playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. “[Her]
fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and
produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh.” Inimitable is an
apt word for this boundary-crushing artist whose plays earned her the distinction of
being the first African American woman playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize. Parks’ bold
revisions of familiar figures, innovations in expressing dialogue on paper, and penchant
for exploding theatrical norms have cemented her place as a trailblazer in the field. As
Vogue magazine put it, “Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a
new theatrical language.”
Though her subversive style is often described with words that lend an air of wildness
to her work, Parks’ deconstruction is far from reckless. The playwright’s method of
transformation stems from a tradition that has a long and rich history in the world of
jazz music: repetition and revision.
Known for its improvisational structure, jazz music draws on a medley of sources for
inspiration including ragtime, blues, West African musical tradition as well as military
songs, and blends them together into a single piece of music. Often, jazz will take
a familiar tune and riff on it, altering it slightly with each iteration of the melody —
holding notes longer than expected, adding trills and musical detours to make it new.
As Henry Louis Gates, Jr. summarizes in his seminal book The Signifying Monkey,
“when you repeat a prior work of art, you bring it and all its connotations back, so that
there are always two dimensions, past and present, repetition and revision, working at
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the same time.” It is from this rhythmic and explorative aesthetic that Parks developed
the process that she has playfully renamed “Rep & Rev.”
In an essay entitled “Elements of Style,” Suzan-Lori Parks delineates how she uses Rep
& Rev to create a “drama of accumulation,” where the story does not simply move
logically from one scene to the next, but rather builds both in tension and in theme.
These tools can be used to explore the meaning of a line or phrase within the play, as
Parks illustrates when she asks:
“What does it mean for characters to say the same thing twice? 3 times? Over and over
and over and oh-vah.” Wordplay frequently punctuates Parks’ dialogue — she finds
both jokes and bleak ironies by altering a single letter in a repeated word. This process
can also be used, as with jazz, to take people and images familiar to the audience and
reimagine them within her story. “Rep & Rev are key in examining something larger
than one moment,” Parks explains. “Rep & Rev create space for metaphor.”
History serves as a fruitful excavation ground for Parks; reinvented and recast figures
from the past populate many of her plays. The Rep & Rev process, when applied to
history, allows Parks to create life in places where history is silent and to challenge
traditional stories. For this reason, many critics view her plays as efforts to reclaim a
white-washed American history, or what Parks refers to in her America Play as The
Great Hole of History. As the African American voices of the past have so frequently
gone unrecorded, and therefore unremembered, endeavors to evoke these voices
often necessitate imagination. “One of my tasks as playwright,” Parks notes, “is to…
locate the ancestral, burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones, [and]
write it down.”
The originality that critics and fellow playwrights alike have found in Parks writing lies
in her power of re-imagination. She mines the English language, American history, the
human psyche for that which is familiar and — like a jazz musician — creates in the
space around it, until it is something entirely new.
NILE HAWVER
— SARAH SCHNEBLY
Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Lincoln) and Matthew J. Harris (Booth)
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DIRECTOR
BILLY PORTER
ON THE RESONANCE OF
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
IN 2017
Director Billy Porter
Suzan-Lori Parks is perhaps the most influential writer of her generation and an artist
of particular importance to director Billy Porter. Just before rehearsals for Topdog/
Underdog began, dramaturg Charles Haugland spoke with him about the evolution of
his relationship to Parks’ most celebrated play.
Charles Haugland (Artistic Programs & Dramaturgy): What was your first encounter
with Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog /Underdog?
Billy Porter (Director): I was doing a residency at The Public Theater under George
Wolfe (the original director of Topdog) when they were remounting the play for the
Royal Court in London. So I got the opportunity to be in the room, around the play,
and around Suzan-Lori Parks.
CH: What aspect of the play did you gravitate towards initially?
BP: The relationship between the two brothers and how fractured it was. The play is
about the fracture of family, the separation of family, the systematic breakdown that
started with slavery. It captures the psychological effects of slavery that persist for
generations and generations and generations. Institutionalized racism is in the DNA
of our culture and even in the DNA of ourselves. It takes consciousness to heal that
fracture. What is so profound about this play is that the brothers never understand
that fracture and therefore never reach the consciousness they need to heal.
CH: You played the character of Booth in a 2004 production of Topdog/Underdog at
the City Theatre in Pittsburgh. What was your experience of playing that role?
BP: I remember my mother coming to the production and weeping when I saw her at
the end. I was not like Booth at all growing up. I was a good boy, sort of a goody twoshoes. Seeing me play that person onstage freaked her out. For me, because I was not
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like the character, playing the part was more about proving to myself and to the world
at large that I was an actor and I could take on that character. It never occurred to me,
until my mother pointed it out, what I was aspiring to in that role.
CH: What is it like to return to this play as a director in 2017?
BP: The play will resonate differently. It is even more urgent now than when I did it
in 2004. Portraying the complex psyches of these brothers is even more important
because now more than ever we have to come together.
CH: Why do you think it is important for us to encounter these psychological
fractures in art?
BP: You can’t heal unless you embrace the truth. No matter how dark it is. I think that’s
one of the reasons we are where we are in the country right now. The left thought they
won something. They thought the world had changed because slavery is over, because
we have marriage equality, and because we had a black president. But taxicabs didn’t
stop passing me up on the street after dark just because Obama was president. When
you assume that you can sit back and not engage with something because you think
it is over — you are forced to confront the truth. You have to get to rock bottom and
examine the truth.
CH: You chose to work with costume and scenic designer Clint Ramos again for this
production after having worked with him on The Colored Museum. Obviously this
play has a radically different world. How did you approach the design?
BP: Clint and I have a
shorthand, so it was easy to
say: “This is what we’re talking
about, this is what we mean.
Go.” What’s interesting to me
about the play is it feels like
it could be happening at any
time. Any time after Abraham
Lincoln this story could be
told. I wanted to convey that
with the set design. To have a
space that is familiar but not
necessarily specific: a room
floating in the middle of
the world.
Clint Ramos’ set model for Topdog/Underdog
CH: Audiences and critics have gravitated towards Suzan-Lori Parks’ unique use of
language. How do you find your way into that language?
BP: It’s musical, and I’m a musician. Early on in my acting career I learned that my
musical ability enables me to get inside of complicated texts whether it’s Shakespeare,
August Wilson, or Suzan-Lori Parks. The language elevates the story to a status of
importance that demands attention. This script does that right from the beginning with
the rhythms of the 3-card monte game. When you walk past a 3-card monte dealer on
the street, the rhythm of that language cuts through all the other noises of the world
and stops you and you are pulled in. That’s what Suzan-Lori Parks does.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
Matthew J. Harris* (Booth) recently appeared in Kirsten
Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar at the Huntington. He has regional
credits that include In the Heights (Walnut Street Theatre), A
Comedy of Errors (Theater at Monmouth), and Twelfth Night
(Shakesperience Productions, Inc.). Some of his New York credits
include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Classical Theatre of Harlem), Macbeth
(Pulse Ensemble Theatre), She Calls Me Firefly (New Perspectives Theatre),
and Trouble (New York Musical Theatre Festival). His television credits include
“Blindspot” and “Person of Interest.” He can be heard and seen in commercials for
Coke Zero, Verizon, Zaxby’s, Footlocker, Bounty, and more. Mr. Harris is also a hiphop dancer, teacher, and choreographer at Man in Motion. maninmotionnyc.com.
matthewjharris.net.
Tyrone Mitchell Henderson* (Lincoln) previously appeared in
Blues for an Alabama Sky at the Huntington. He also appeared
in Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk on Broadway. His Off
Broadway credits include Rancho Viejo (Playwrights Horizons),
The America Play, Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Tempest (The
Public Theater/NYSF), The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre), and The Public
Sings (New York City Center). His regional credits include Aubergine and
Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), War, The Winter’s
Tale, and The Piano Lesson (Yale Repertory Theatre), Jitney (Actors Theatre
of Louisville), Radio Golf (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Romeo & Juliet,
Antony and Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Theatre Company), and
Angels in America (Alliance Theatre and Dallas Theatre Center). His television
credits include “Elementary,” “House of Cards,” “Orange is the New Black,”
“Unforgettable,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Following,” “Suits,” and “Law &
Order.” He is the recipient of the Dallas Theater Critics Award (Leon Rabin) for
Featured Actor in Angels in America. Mr. Henderson is the founder of Quick
Silver Theater Company. QuickSilverTheater.com. tyronemitchellhenderson.com.
Suzan-Lori Parks (Playwright) is one of the most acclaimed
playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African
American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for
Topdog/Underdog in 2002), is a MacArthur “Genius” Award
recipient, was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence
in the Arts, and was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next
Wave.” Her project 365 Days/365 Plays (where she wrote a play a day for an entire
year) was produced in over 700 theatres worldwide, creating one of the largest
grassroots collaborations in theatre history. Her other plays include The Book of
Grace, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical, In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize
finalist), Venus (1996 Obie Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole
Entire World, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 Obie Award,
Best New American Play), The America Play, and Fucking A. Her adaptation of The
Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
Her newest play, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) – set during
the Civil War – was awarded the Horton Foote Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize
for Drama, and was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Ms. Parks has written numerous
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screenplays including Girl 6 for
Spike Lee, and she adapted Zora
Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were
Watching God for ABC Television’s
“Oprah Winfrey Presents.” She is
currently developing an original
Boston University and the
series for Amazon. Her first novel,
Huntington Theatre Company
Getting Mother’s Body (Random
have partnered to train the
House, 2003), is a novel with songs
next generation of artists.
and is set in the West Texas of her
Topdog/Underdog features the following
youth. Ms. Parks recently performed
BU alumni and students:
Watch Me Work, a free, weekly,
MARCELLA BARBEAU
live-streamed, writing workshop,
(Assistant to the Lighting Designer)
open to artists of all disciplines.
MFA, Lighting Design, 2019
Her plays are published by Theatre
AUBREY DUBE
Communications Group (TCG),
(Assistant to the Sound Designer)
Samuel French, and Dramatists Play
MFA, Sound Design, 2018
Service. She is also at work on a
KEVIN SCHLAGLE
stage-musical adaptation of the film
(Stage Manager)
The Harder They Come, and a new
BFA, Stage Management, 2012
musical project in collaboration with
Timbaland and Harmony Samuels.
She is a Residency One playwright at Signature Theatre for their 2016-2017 Season
and her band, Sula and the Noise, is also in residence. Ms. Parks teaches at New
York University, and serves at The Public Theater as its Master Writer Chair. She is
an alumna of New Dramatists and of Mount Holyoke College.
Billy Porter* (Director) returns to the Huntington having
previously directed The Colored Museum. He is the 2013 Tony,
Grammy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner
for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Lola in the Tony
Award-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots. He was recently seen
on Broadway in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and
All That Followed. Mr. Porter’s one-man show Ghetto Superstar (2005 GLAAD
Media Award nomination, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Performer of the Year
2003–2004) debuted at The Public Theater in conjunction with City Theatre of
Pittsburgh. His other directing credits include Company; HAM: A Musical Memoir
with Sam Harris; The Wiz; Being Alive; Twilight in Manchego; Once on This Island
(NAACP Theatre Award winner for Best Direction); The Soul of Rodgers; Five
Guys Named Moe; Altar Boyz; Rent (Associate Director, Off Broadway revival);
Patina Miller Live at The Delfonte Room (London); and Signed, Sealed, Delivered:
The Music of Stevie Wonder (starring Chaka Khan). His Broadway album, Billy’s
Back on Broadway (Concord Records) was released in 2014. His single Edelweiss:
#blessourhomeland was released on January 20 and the full album, Billy Porter
Presents the Soul of Rodgers will be released in April. Some of his film and
television credits include The Broken Hearts Club, The Humbling, Billy Porter:
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional
Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
Broadway & Soul (PBS), “Law & Order,” and “The Get Down.” As a playwright,
Mr. Porter was represented Off Broadway in 2014 with the premiere of While I
Yet Live starring S. Epatha Merkerson (Primary Stages). A Pittsburgh native, he
received his BFA in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a graduate
of UCLA’s professional program in screenwriting.
Clint Ramos (Scenic & Costume Design) previously designed sets and/or costumes
for after all the terrible things I do, The Colored Museum, A Raisin in the Sun, Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Ruined at the Huntington. Recent set and/or costume
credits include the Broadway productions of Sunday in the Park with George, In
Transit, Eclipsed, The Elephant Man (also West End), and Violet. Off Broadway
design credits include St. Joan and Here Lies Love (The Public Theater/NYSF and
London). He has over 100 regional and international design credits. His honors
include the 2016 Tony Award, the 2013 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in
Design, three Lucille Lortel Awards, two IRNE Awards, the TDF Irene Sharif Young
Master Award, two American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Design Awards, and a
Helen Hayes Award. His upcoming work includes Six Degrees of Separation on
Broadway and the West Coast tour of Here Lies Love. clintramos.com.
Driscoll Otto (Lighting Design) previously designed lights for The Colored
Museum at the Huntington. His Off Broadway credits include Under My Skin
and Solving the Riddle. His other New York credits include La Donna del Lago
(The Metropolitan Opera) and work with Ars Nova, Mint Theater Company, New
Ohio Theatre, La MaMa, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Gotham Chamber Opera.
Mr. Otto’s work is seen frequently in regional opera and theatre. Recently he
designed The Barber of Seville at Virginia Opera, Jersey Boys in the Philippines,
and Blast: The Music of Disney for KTI in Japan. His credits with regional
companies include North Carolina Opera, Opera Delaware, Opera Omaha,
Virginia Opera, The Dallas Opera, Dallas Theater Center, Houston Shakespeare
Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Hangar Theatre, Flat Rock Playhouse, and
Utah Festival Opera. He has also designed productions of Legally Blonde and
Rock of Ages for Norwegian Cruise Lines. This summer he will be designing the
projections for The Golden Cockerel at Santa Fe Opera. He received his MFA
from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Leon Rothenberg (Sound Design) returns to the Huntington having previously
designed Choice. His Broadway credits include Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The
Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Award
nomination). His New York and Off Broadway credits include performances at
The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, New York City
Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Tectonic Theater Project,
Women’s Project Theater, and The Public Theater/NYSF. His regional credits
include performances at American Conservatory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre,
Delaware Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Arena Stage, Seattle
Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, New York Stage and Film,
Two River Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, North Shore Music
Theatre, and Theatre by the Sea. Internationally he has worked with Cirque du
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Soleil, National Theatre of Cyprus, and
Dijon Festival. klaxson.net.
Alaine Alldaffer (Casting) is also
the casting director for Playwrights
Horizons, where her credits include
Grey Gardens (also for Broadway),
Clybourne Park (also for Broadway),
Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama
Desk and Obie Awards for Best
Ensemble and an Artios Award for
casting), and The Flick (Playwright
Horizons and The Barrow Street
Theater). Television credits include
“The Knights of Prosperity” (aka “Let’s
Rob Mick Jagger”) for ABC. Associate
credits include “Ed” for NBC and
“Monk” for USA. Ms. Alldaffer has also
cast productions for Arena Stage,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, and
the Humana Festival of New American
Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville,
among others. She credits Lisa Donadio
as her associate casting director.
Emily F. McMullen* (Production Stage
Manager) has previously worked on A
Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Sunday
in the Park with George, I Was Most
Alive with You, Can You Forgive Her?,
Disgraced, A Confederacy of Dunces, A
Little Night Music, after all the terrible
things I do, The Colored Museum,
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,
Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming
to Dinner, Smart People, The Seagull,
Venus in Fur, and The Cocktail Hour
for the Huntington. Ms. McMullen was
recently the production stage manager
for the Lexington Theatre Company’s
production of Disney’s Mary Poppins.
She spent nine seasons as production
stage manager at Merrimack Repertory
Theatre in Lowell and 15 summers as
production stage manager of Music
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association,
the Union of Professional Actors and
Stage Managers in the United States.
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Theatre of Wichita. Other credits include work with Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park, South Coast Repertory, North Shore Music Theatre, and Capital Repertory
Theatre, among others. She holds a BA from Emory University.
Kevin Schlagle* (Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington after previously
working on Bedroom Farce; Sunday in the Park with George; Can You Forgive
Her?; Milk Like Sugar; A Confederacy of Dunces; A Little Night Music; after all
the terrible things I do; Come Back, Little Sheba; Vanya and Sonia and Masha
and Spike; Smart People; Venus in Fur; Our Town; God of Carnage; Ruined;
and Prelude to a Kiss. Other theatre credits include American Repertory
Theater, New Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and
Williamstown Theatre Festival. His opera credits include Boston Lyric Opera,
Boston Baroque, Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera, New England
Conservatory, Boston University’s Opera Institute, and Boston Youth Symphony
Orchestras. He holds a BFA in stage management from Boston University.
Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his ninth 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, and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky
Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn; 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 The Power of Duff with
Greg Kinnear (New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse Theater); the premiere of
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 Theatre); Measure for Pleasure, Richard III
with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public
Theater/NYSF); Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and The View
From 151st Street (LAByrinth Theater Company/The Public Theater), and the
upcoming Can You Forgive Her? at the Vineyard Theatre. Regional US and UK
credits include productions at American Conservatory Theater, Trinity Repertory
Company, Humana Festival of New Plays, Manchester Opera House, and King’s
Theater Glasgow. Before arriving at the Huntington, he served for five years as
associate producer and resident director at 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 ten lists of The New York Times, Time Out, New York
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional
Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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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.
ARTIST DIRECTORY
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March/April 2017 • Vol. 38 issue 2
Art New England
Michael Maso
(Managing
Director) has led
the Huntington’s
administrative and
financial operations since 1982,
producing more than 200 plays
in partnership with three artistic
directors and leading the Huntington’s
ten-year drive to build the Stanford
Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston
Center for the Arts, which opened in
September 2004. In recognition of
these efforts, Boston Herald honored
him as 2004’s Theatre Man of the
Year. 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. He currently serves on the
Boston Cultural Planning Steering
Committee and previously served as
a member of the board of directors
of ArtsBoston; as a board member
for Theatre Communications Group
(TCG); as a site visitor, panelist, and
panel chairman for the National
Endowment for the Arts; as a member
of Mayor Menino’s Advisory Task Force
for Cultural Planning; as a trustee
of the Massachusetts Advocates for
the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities
(MAASH); as a board member of
StageSource; and as a member of
the Boston Foundation’s Cultural
Task Force. He is the recipient of the
and
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2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, 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 from the Boston Theatre Critics Association. He
has also 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. Mr. Maso is an associate
professor of theatre at Boston University.
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Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 17th season at the Huntington
where he has produced over eighty productions. He has worked on Broadway,
Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons,
the Bay Street Theatre, 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
Celebrating its 35th season, 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 is the recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award and was
named Best of Boston 2013 and 2014 by Boston magazine. Under the direction of Artistic
Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso and in residence at Boston
University, 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. By also mentoring local playwrights in
the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, educating young people in theatre, and
serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts
organizations by providing discounted access to facilities and audience services, the
Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form.
A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more
than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. It supports local writers
through a playwright residency and the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the
cornerstone of its new work activities.
Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally renowned education and community
programs, the Huntington serves 35,000 young people and underserved audience
members each year.
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 much-needed 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 was founded in 1982 by Boston University due to the vision and
leadership of President John Silber and Vice President Gerald Gross and was separately
incorporated as an independent non-profit in 1986. Its two prior artistic leaders were
Peter Altman (1982 – 2000) and Nicholas Martin (2000 – 2008). In the past 34 years,
the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (16
of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 450,000 students,
community members, and organizations.
WE THANK THE FOLLOWING HUNTINGTON FRIENDS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF
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JANE & NEIL PAPPALARDO
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
LINDA & BILL McQUILLAN
OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS
DENISE & WILLIAM FINARD
DIRECTOR’S SPONSORS
NEAL BALKOWITSCH & DONALD NELSON
SET SPONSORS
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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
Peter Fiedler
William Finard
David Firestone
John Frishkopf
Ann T. Hall
Thomas Hamilton III
Cassandra Hyland Henderson
Arthur C. Hodges
Frederick Jamieson
Nada Despotovich Kane
Michelle Karol
David Leathers
William P. McQuillan
Ann Merrifield
Sandra Moose
Anne M. Morgan
Cokie Perry
James Petosa
Bryan Rafanelli
Mitchell J. Roberts
Joseph V. Roller II
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
John Cohen
Tania Phillips
Co-Chairs
Nancy S. Adams
Kitty Ames
Nancy Brickley
Jim Burns
Suzanne Chapman
J. William Codinha
Bette Cohen
Tenney Cover
Elizabeth Cregger
Catherine Creighton
JoAnne W. Dickinson
Susan Ellerin
Deborah First
Anne H. Fitzpatrick
Maria Farley Gerrity
Paul Greenfield
Eilene Davidson Grayken
Janice Hunt
Alan S. Johnson
Katherine Jones
Linda Kanner
Christopher Kimball
Victoria Knox
Loren Kovalcik
Sherry Lang
Joie Lemaitre
Debbie Lewis
Tracie Longman
Nancy Lukitsh
Rumena Manolova-Senchak
Charles Marz
Noel McCoy
Thalia Meehan
Daniel A. Mullin
Gail Roberts
Stephen Trehu
Juliet Schnell Turner
Tracey A. West
Caleb White
John Taylor Williams
Bertie Woeltz
Christopher R. Yens
Linda Zug
as of February 17, 2017
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THE HUNTINGTON CIRCLE
The Huntington Circle recognizes our leadership donors to the Huntington Annual Fund and offers
members a range of special benefits. We are grateful to the members of the Huntington Circle and
the other donors listed below whose generous Annual Fund gifts support our artistic programs,
as well as our award-winning youth, education, and community initiatives. For information or to
become a Huntington Circle member, please call Meg White, Director of Major Gifts, at 617 273 1596.
Lead Producers Circle
($100,000+)
Sherryl and Gerard Cohen
Carol G. Deane
Betsy and David Epstein
Eilene Davidson Grayken
Albert W. Merck
1997 Family Trust
Nancy and Edward Roberts
Mr. J. David Wimberly
Executive Producers Circle
($50,000-$99,999)
Dr. John and Bette Cohen
Gardner C. Hendrie and
Karen Johansen
Carol B. Langer
Sharon and Brad Malt
Jane and Neil Pappalardo
Mitchell and Jill Roberts
Linda and Daniel Waintrup
1 anonymous gift
Artistic Producers Circle
($25,000-$49,999)
Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Jane and Fred Jamieson
Susan and David Leathers
Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield
John D. Spooner
Faith and Joseph Tiberio Charitable Foundation
Howard and Veronica Wiseman
Linda and Brooks Zug
Anonymous, celebrating the Huntington’s President Sharon Malt and
Chairman David Epstein
Associate Producers Circle
($15,000-$24,999)
Stephen Chapman
Denise and William Finard
Nicki Nichols Gamble
Tom and Nancy Hamilton
Cassandra Hyland Henderson
Rita J. and Stanley
H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc./
Susan B. Kaplan and Nancy and Mark Belsky
Adrienne Kimball
Bill and Linda McQuillan
Sandra Moose and Eric Birch
Ms. Anne M. Morgan
Cokie and Lee Perry
Dr. Paul S. Russell
Mary Wolfson
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Directors Circle
($10,000-$14,999)
Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson
Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes
Fay Chandler‡
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts
Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske
Linda L. D’Onofrio
Karen and David Firestone
John Frishkopf
Karen and Gary Gregg
Julie and Jordan Hitch
Joyce Huber and Randall Ellis
Elizabeth and Woody Ives
Nada Despotovich Kane
Marjie and Robert Kargman
Loren B. Kovalcik/
IntePros Consulting
Joie Lemaitre
Alan and Harriet Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. David Long
Tracie L. Longman and
Chaitanya Kanojia
Paula and Bill O’Keeffe
Jeffrey Dover and
Tania Phillips
Jan and Joe Roller
Robert M. Rosenberg, in honor of Mary Wolfson
Estate of Marie Rotti‡
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan
Linda H. Thomas
1 anonymous gift
Playwrights Circle
($5,000-$9,999)
Nancy Adams and
John Burgess
Charles and Kathleen Ames
Marianne Baldwin and
Eva Marie Mancuso
Camilla Bennett
Carolyn Birmingham
Amy and Joshua Boger
Susan and Michael Brown
Jim Burns
Katie and Paul Buttenwieser
Suzanne Chapman
Brant Cheikes and
Janine Papesh
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 Rappaport
Jennifer Eckert and
Richard D’Amore
Robert Fine and
Matthew Fine
Mr. and Mrs. William Fink
Debbie and Bob First, in memory of Susan Spooner
Donald Fulton
Ann and John Hall
Scottie Held
Ned Murphy and
Ann-Ellen Hornidge
Alan Johnson
Seth and Mary Kaufman
Vicki and Northrup Knox
Christine Kondoleon and
Frederic Wittmann
David A. Kronman
Cecile and Fraser Lemley
John and Jean Lippincott
Nancy Lukitsh
The Mancuso Family
Marion Martin, in memory
of Travis John Martin
Sharon Miller
Daniel A. Mullin
Dr. and Mrs.
John William Poduska, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson
Sally C. Reid and
John D. Sigel
Gail Roberts
Darin S. Samaraweera
Marilyn and Jay Sarles
Coralie Berg and
Steve Schwartz
M.H. Sirvetz
Ellie Svenson and
Mark Klempner
Wendell Taylor
Jean C. Tempel
John Travis
Drs. Beth and Stephen Trehu
Juliet Schnell Turner
Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner
Elizabeth and Caleb White
Justin and Genevieve Wyner
Christopher R. Yens and
Temple Gill
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Zilberfarb
1 anonymous gift
Designers Circle
($2,500-$4,999)
Bruce and Denise Bauman
Patricia Bellinger and
Richard Balzer
Nancy and Richard Brickley
Kevin and Virginia Byrne
THE HUNTINGTON CIRCLE (continued)
Betsy Cabot
Suzanne and Bert Capone
Nancy Ciaranello
McLane and Tenney Cover
Catherine and
Peter Creighton
Charles and JoAnne
Dickinson
Ellen and Kevin Donoghue
Virginia Drachman and Douglas Jones
Susan Ellerin
Winifred Ewing
Anne H. Fitzpatrick
Newell Flather
Maria and Daniel Gerrity
Thomas and Joanne Gill
Mark E. Glasser and
Frank G. McWeeny
Paul Greenfield and
Sandy Steele
Betsy and David Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen
T. Hibbard, in honor of David Wimberly
Estate of Carmela M. Hilbert‡
Prof. and Mrs.
Morton Z. Hoffman
Linda and Steven Kanner
Mary S. and Duncan Kennedy
Richard and Dorothy Koerner
Susan and David Kohen
Alvin and Barbara Krakow
Ted and Ann Kurland
Sherry Lang
Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky
Deborah Lewis and
Robert Grinberg
Joseph Machera
Charles Marz
Jack Fabiano and
Noel McCoy
Thalia Meehan and Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw
Amy Merrill
Charles Merrill and
Julie Boudreaux
Jonette Nagai and
Stephen O’Brien
Jerry Nelson
Coleen and David Pantalone
Jackie and Bob Pascucci
Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell
Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy
Victoria and John Rizzi
Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins
Rumena and Alexander
Senchak
Vivian and Lionel Spiro
Bruce and Emily Stangle
Estate of Demetre J. Steffon‡
Helen and Jack Stewart
Beth and Michael Stonebraker
Joanna and Nigel Travis
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman
Pamela Tucker and
George Pettee
Mindee Wasserman
Norman Weeks
Ike Williams
Bertie and Anthony Woeltz
Sally and RichardZeckhauser
Actors Circle
($1,500-$2,499)
Alice and Walter Abrams
James Alexander and
Thomas Stocker
Carole and Leonard Alkins
Dr. Ronald Arky
Liliana and Hillel Bachrach
Deborah L. Benson and
Frederic J. Marx
Jeff and Jody Black
Joseph L. Bower and
Elizabeth Potter
Kenneth Brown
Dominic Cioffoletti and
Christopher Scinto
Rosalie Florence Cohen
Ken and Ginny Colburn
Dennis Condon and
Robert Cummings
David Dalena and
Brian Patton
Lynn and Bruce Dayton
Dean K. Denniston, Jr.
Tim and Linda Diering
Richard Donoho
Jonathan Dyer and
Thomas Foran
Stephen Elman and
Joanne D’Alcomo
Jerome and Vivien Facher
Barbara and Larry Farrer
Sharon and Irving Gates
Norman and Madeleine Gaut
Eric P. Geller and
Cathy Thorn
Drs. Laura Green and
David Golan
Mary Beth and Chris Gordon
Peter and Jacqueline Gordon
Phil Gormley and
Erica Bisguier
Katherine Haltom
Jay and Donna Hanflig
H. Patricia Hanna
Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Hartmann
Barbara Hirshfield and
Cary Coen, in honor of Sherry and Gerry Cohen
Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss
Janice and Roger Hunt
Margaret Jackson and
Peter Harrington
Leonard W. Johnson, in memory of Virginia Wimberly
Holly and Bruce Johnstone
Jill and Stephen Karp
Paul and Elizabeth Kastner
John and Marilyn Keane
Susan Kirk
Paul and Tracy Klein
Louise Kwan
Barrie Landry
Jon Levy
Ann D. Macomber
Stuart and Yvonne Madnick
Mahmood Malihi
Shelley and Brad Marcus
Mike and Mary McConnell
Louise and Sandy McGinnes
Sarah M. McGinty
Neal and Lynne Miller
Mr. and Mrs.
William Mitchell, in memory of Virginia Wimberly
Bill and Ginny Mullin
Bob and Alison Murchison
Joy Pak and David Deutsch
Susan Pak
Dr. Susan E. Bennett and
Dr. Gerald Pier
Meredith and Bob Pitts
Steven J. Ralston and William Robert Hair
Christine and David Root
Diane Rosenberg
Susan and Geoffrey Rowley
Irvine and Louise Rusk
Richard Powers and Stephen Schram
Jane E. Shattuck
The Spector Family
John H. Straus and
Liza Ketchum
Lise and Myles Striar
Lisbeth Tarlow and
Stephen Kay
Ben and Kate Taylor
Kenneth R. Traub and Pamela K. Cohen
P.T. Withington
Jerold and Abbe Beth Young
3 anonymous gifts
s Member of The Hunt, the
Huntington’s young donor
program
‡ Deceased
This list reflects gifts received
during the 14 months prior to
February 17, 2017.
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Leading Role ($750-$1499)
John and Rose Ashby, in honor of Ann T. Hall • Carol Baker • George and Katharine Baker • Michael
Barza and Judith Robinson • Kate and Gordon Baty • Calvin J. Beckett • Susana and Clark Bernard •
Leonard and Jane Bernstein • Linda Cabot Black Foundation • Margaret Blackwell, in honor of David
Wimberly • Edward Boesel • Lori Bornstein and Alan Rothman • Geri and Bill Brehm • Jane BrockWilson, in honor of Carol and Disque Deane • Paul Buddenhagen • Rick and Nonnie Burnes • A. William
and Carol Caporizzo • Cara and Anthony Casendino • Ronni‡ and Ronald Casty • Peggy and Anton
Chernoff • George and Mary Chin • Beverley Cooper-Wiele • Joan Dolamore • Peggy Engel • Martha
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Garrison • Lori and Michael Gilman • Mr. K. Frank Gravitt • Garth and Lindsay Greimann • Dr. and Mrs.
George Hatsopoulos • Bucky and Clifton Helman • Kathleen Henry and Kim Maarkand • Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas High • Richard and Priscilla Hunt • Susan M. Hunziker • Terence Janericco • Andronike E. Janus
• Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis • Cathie and Clarke Keenan • John T. Kittredge • Jeanne and Allen Krieger •
Katherine Lewandowski and Adam Gurens • Anthony Lucas • Barbara A. Manzolillo • Bronwyn Martin,
in memory of Travis Martin • Joan and John McArdle • Kathy McGirr and Keith Carlson • Jack and Susan
McNamara • Marianne and Richard Moscicki • Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren • Patricia Patricelli • Kevin
Powers and John Wolfarth • Jessica and David Reed • Ellen Remmer • Michelle and Aaron Rhodess •
Michael and Jane Roberts • Sarah Rothermel • David and Anne Salant • Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers
• Susan Schiro and Peter Manus, in honor of Carol Deane • Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke • Hope and
Adam Suttin • Jared Tausig, in honor of David Wimberly • David Parker and Janet Tiampo • Mary
Verhage • Sumer and Kiran Verma • Kenneth Virgile and Helene Mayer • Robert C. Volante • Norman
Weeks • Dr. Ronald Weinger • Wendling Charitable Fund • Dr. Elaine Woo • 4 anonymous gifts
Featured Role ($500-$749)
Elizabeth Aragaos • Molly and John Beard • Richard R. Beaty • Kathleen Beckman • Danielle Belanger
and Robert Sparkes • Jonas Berman • William Bloor • Stephen and Traudy Bradley • Frank B. Mead •
Jeremiah J. Bresnahan • Pam and Lee Bromberg • Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch • Thomas Burger
and Andree Robert • Diane Burns • Robert Capliss • Carol Chandler • John Clippinger • Connie Coburn
and James Houghton • Herbert Stuart Cohen • Alison Conant and Richard Frank • Stephen Conner •
Beth and Linzee Coolidge • Anne Crowley • Lloyd and Gene Dahmen • Dammann Boston Fund • Josh
and Jennifer Davis • Marguerite Davoren • Terry O. Decima • Judy DeFilippo • Richard J. Diamond, in
honor of David Wimberly • Peter and Jan Eschauzier • Sara and James Feldman • Pierre Fleurant • Hilary
and Chris Gabrieli • Edward Glazer • Rimma Gluzman • Deborah Goddard • Irene and Stephen Grolnic •
Steven and Barbara Grossman and David Grossman • Gail and Jan Hardenbergh • Eunice Harps • Terry
Rockefeller and William Harris • John and Holliday Heine • Dr. Galen Henderson and Dr. Vanessa Britto •
Rosalind and Herbert Hill • Andrew Himmelblau • Sherry Jacobs • Ernest and Madeline Jacquet • Peter
Jenney • Molly Johnston • Julia Karols • Nancy R. Karp • Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman • Michael and
Dona Kemp • Jill Kneerim • John and Sharon Koch • Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik • Anne LaCourt •
Stewart and Rhonda Lassner • Jenny and Jay Leopold • Mark H. Lippolt • Babette and Peter Loring
• Priscilla Krey Loring • James D. Maupin • Mary McFadden • Daniel and Annette McIntyre • Joseph
Misdraji • Harry and Ruth Montague • Mark Nelke • Mary Owens • Constance Page • Marianne Pasts •
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler • Suzanne Priebatsch • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt • Edith Rea • Katharine and
William Reardon • Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs • Lynn and John Reichenbach • Sharon and Howard
Rich • Margaret Ridge • Lily and Gerald Riffelmacher • Jean and Richard Roberts • Sue Robinson •
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg • Robert and Pauline Rothenberg • Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Magi
McKinnies • Kathleen and William Rousseau • Rohini Sakhuja • Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels • Diane
and Richard Schmalensee • William Schutten • Gilda Slifka • Mark Smith and John O’Keefe • Renai
Stalzle • Nancy and Edward Stavis • Lee Steele • Bob and Dorothy Stuart • Darline Lewis and Marshall
Sugarman • Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther • Scott and Brenda Warner • Mrs. Lewis R. Weintraub •
Constance V. R. White • Karolye White • Clark Wright and Lisa Goldthwait Wright • 9 anonymous gifts
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FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued)
Supporting Role ($250-$499)
Marilyn and Bill Adams • Robert Allen • Nancy Ammerman • Michael Ansara • Tammy Arcuri • Tom
Austin • Jeannine M. Ayotte • Robert Banker • Michelle Barbera, in honor of Theodore Barbera •
Barbershop Deluxe • Emily Barclay and John Hawes • Robin Barnes and David Bor • Beth Barrett •
Elizabeth Barrett • David Barry • Auli and Ken Batts • Caitlin Bearce • Martin S. Berman and Mary
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Robert Bienkowski • Clinton Blackburns • Donald and Ellen Bloch • Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom • Scott
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• Jonathan Golding and Sally Bradley-Golding • Eric and Sandra Brenman • S. Britt • Barry Brown and
Ellen Shapiro • Teresa Brown • Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld • Allan and Rhea Bufferd • Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel C. Burnes • Eric Butlers • Bismarck and Ingrid Cadet • Missage Cadet, M.D. • Judith Carmany
• Charles R. Carr • Carrig Kitchens LLC • Elyse D. Cherry • Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. • Mary
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• Arlene Cohen • Steven Coleman and Christine Tunstall • Sarah Columbia • Janet L. Comey • Jaden
Crawford • German Crisostomo • Don and Sandy Crocker • Julie Crockford and Sheridan Haines • James
F. Crowley • Zoltan and Cristina Csimma • Paul Curtis • Sue Dahlie • Marla Daniels • Fred Davis • Karen
Davis and Randy Block • Bill and Kay DeFord • Ray and Debra De Rise • Charlotte Delaney and Steve
Pattyson • Sara Delano • David Delany • Suzanne DelVecchio • Jane and Stephen Deutsch • George
Dhionis • Reed Dickinson • Beatrice and William Dole • Soroor Dowlati • Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey
• Owen Doyle • David and Eleanor Drachman • Mary Ann Driscoll • Grace Durrani • Dunch Arts, LLC
• Harriett M. Eckstein • Mr. Glenn Edelson • Gordon Edes • Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak •
Diane F. Engel • Andrew Eschtruth and Elana Varon • Jose Estabil • Maggi Farrell • Fidler Family • Dr.
Charles Fine • Gail Flatto • Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Flusberg • Judy Foster •
Patricia A. Fraser, M.D., in memory of Ivy Markes Fraser • Michael and Leslie Gaffin • Tony and Melissa
Gallo • Kathryn M. Gallucci • Judith L. Ganz • Gisele Garraway • Clifford Garnett • William Gault •
Vincent Genest • Jack and Maureen Ghublikian • Ronald Goldstein • Michael and Sophie Gordon • David
Govonlus • Amelia and William Graham • Mr. and Mrs. Herbert P. Gray • Suzanne Greenberg • Theodore
and Sally Hansen • Patricia Hardyman and Charles H. Jones • Judith Harris • Alice H. Haveles • Alfio
Hernandez • Erin Higgins • Jim Hoben • Wanda Holland Greene, in honor of Ken Berman • Mark and
Cindy Holthouse • Ken Horn • Bruce Howlett • Maggie Huff-Rousselle • Mrs. Donald Hunsicker • Amal
Hussein • Robert Hutchison, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. Howard Israel • Maggie Jacksons • Roland Jacobson •
Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi • Peter and Adrienne Jaffe • Peter K. Jenkins • Norman W. Johnson
• Peter Jones • Jess and Aran Kadar • John Quackenbush and Mary Kalamaras • Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Kalowski • Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet • Amelia and Joshua Katzen • Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard •
Jim Keefe & Family • Paul Kelly • Judy and Dan Kennedy, in honor of Stephen Sondheim • Gail King and
Christopher Condon • Nancy F. Korman • Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn • Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel • Joan Kuhn
• George Langer • Carol Lazarus • Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape • Stacey and David Lee • Naomi Leeper •
Richard and Kathleen Leitermann • Timothy Leland and Julie Hatfield • Ms. Susan Lincoln • Virginia Litle
• Lida and Francis Lloyd • Jim and Allie Loehlin • Dennis and Nancy Lynch • Peter and Yvette Madany •
Amy and Bill Marshall • Kathy Martin • Dr. Rosemary Mazanet • Michael and Barbra Ann McCahill • Kevin
McCarthy • Terri-Lynn McCormick • Hope and Shaw McDermott • Lindsay McNair • Lynne Menichetti
• Forrest and Sara Milder • Michael Miller • Mrs. Fermo A. Bianchi • Lacie and Michael Milton • Saro
and Elizabeth Minassian • Gale Minot • Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold • Paula Monbouquette and
Kevin McElroy • Gloria and Deborah Monosson • John W. Moore • Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan •
The Munzer Family • Eileen Murray • Bob Muti, in memory of James Robinson • Mr. and Mrs. Francis W.
Newbury, Jr. • Mary Norato-Indeglia • Tom Norris • Thomas Novak • Richard Belin and Rosanne O’Brien
• Kathryn O’Connell • Nancy and Charles Oddleifson • Roy and Kathleen Olesky • James Orleans and
Nancy Walker • RADM and Mrs. J. Clarke Orzalli • William Panaros • Edith Parekh, in honor of Anissa
Parekh • Robert and Beverly Parke • Marian Pasquale • Ellen C. Perrin • Ted and Josie Petersen • Martha
and Joel Pierce • Stephen Pike • Joan Pilsmaker • Russell Pollock • James and Jeanette Post • James
Poterba and Nancy Rose • Allison Powersa • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx • Kathleen Quillard, in honor of
Kara Amelia Quillard’s acting career • Helene M. Quinn and Tony Kanopt • Kerry Mulligan Railey • Jodi
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FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued)
Rand • Robert Raymond • Gretchen Reilly • Mary Rench, in honor of David Wimberly • Helen Robertson
• Patricia Robinson • Barbara Roby • Daniel P. Romard • Anne Romney • Mathilde and Robert Ross
• Susan Rothenberg • Farley Sullivan and Jeff Roy • Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz • Debra Ruder • Sue
and Terry Rushfirth • Vinod and Gaile Sahney • Dr. Lucienne Sanchez • Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Sandler
• Robert and Susan Schechter • Molly Schen • Kim and Eric Schultz • Ivy and Fran Scricco • Irene
Sege • Mark Seliber • Jim A. Sersich • Michael Seward • Karen J. Shack • Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline
• Elisabeth Shields • James Shields and Gayle Merling • David W Shukra and Clifford S Wunderlich •
James Shuman • Omar Siddiqi • David Siegel • Ellen L. Simons • Donald S. Sisson • Peter L. Smith and
Donna J. Coletti • Rachel Smith • Edward Sonn • Paula and Joseph Spound • Renai Stalzle • Naomi
Stearns, in honor of Bill & Dee Finard • Candace Steingisser • Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle • Laurin
Stoler • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Glenn and Katherine Strehle • Dr. and Mrs. Herman D.
Suit • David Swartz and Lisa Fitzgerald • Richard A. Sweeney • Jane Talcott • Margaret M. Talcott and L.
Scott Scharer • Patrick Tally • Jacob Taylor and Jean Park • Nancy Temple • M.K. Terrell • Janet Testa •
Judy Thomson • Patricia Tibbetts • Edwin and Joan Tiffany • Dawn Tucker • Judith Tucker • Mr. and Mrs.
Mario Umana • Rosamond B. Vaule • Pat and Steve Vinter • Daniel Wakabayashi • Jennifer Stone and
Robert Waldinger • Rabbi and Mrs. Frank Waldorf • Susan Weiler • Scott Weiss • David White • Nancy
White • Leslie Wilcox • Richard and Frances Winneg • Pamela Wood and Bruce Kirch • Janis Woodman,
in honor of Christopher Woodman • Alfred Woodworth • Amy and Robert Worth • David C. Wright • Mr.
and Mrs. John Wyman • Richard Yule, in memory of Helen Yule • Robert E. Zaret • Lorena and Robert
Zeller • 15 anonymous gifts
s Member of The Hunt, the Huntington’s young donor program
‡ Deceased
This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to February 17, 2017.
HELP US MAKE THE MATCH!
Your Annual Fund gift provides critical
funding that helps the Huntington create the
world-class theatre you love.
PAUL MAROTTA
All new and increased Annual Fund gifts
up to $350,000 will be matched by
our generous board.
The cast of Sunday in the Park with George
huntingtontheatre.org/donate
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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 JacobsKomisar, Institutional Giving Manager, at 617 273 1514 or [email protected].
Grand Patron
Boston University
Lead Producers Circle
($100,000+)
The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
The Barr Foundation
Klarman Family Foundation
with the Barr-Klarman
Arts Capacity
Building Initiative
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Executive Producers Circle
($50,000-$99,999)
Bank of America*
Mabel Louise
Riley Foundation*
Massachusetts Cultural Council*
Liberty Mutual Insurance*
Theatre Communications
Group*
Artistic Producers Circle
($25,000-$49,999)
The Boston Foundation*
Hershey Family Foundation
National Endowment
for the Arts
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Associate Producers Circle
($15,000-$24,999)
BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors*
Kingsbury Road
Charitable Foundation*
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
MEDITECH
Schrafft Charitable Trust*
Directors Circle ($10,000-$14,999)
Alfred E. Chase
Charitable Foundation*
Eaton Vance
Investment Counsel
Lucy R. Sprague
Memorial Fund*
The Tiny Tiger Foundation*
Playwrights Circle
($5,000-$9,999)
Cue Ball Group
Goodwin Procter LLP
Nutter McLennen & Fish
Proskauer Rose LLP
Ramsey McCluskey Foundation
Richard Rodgers
Family Foundation
Ropes & Gray LLP
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Worldwide
WilmerHale
Designers Circle ($2,500-$4,999)
Boston Cultural Council
Cambridge Savings Bank*
Cambridge Trust Company
Jackson and Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust
Nixon Peabody
Danversbank Charitable Foundation and
People’s United Bank*
Roy A. Hunt Foundation*
Wilson Butler Architects
TJX*
Actors Circle ($1,500-$2,499)
AAFCPAs
Staples Foundation*
Surdna Foundation
* Education and community
programs donor
** Includes in-kind support
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
Robert C. Volante
Linda and Daniel Waintrup
Margaret J. White
J. David Wimberly
Veronica and Howard Wiseman
Justin and Genevieve 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
[email protected].
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BU THEATRE • 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 Boston University Theatre is on the Avenue
of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), diagonally across
from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly
Theatre and the flexible 250-seat Nancy & Edward
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).
Refreshments
Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available
before opening curtain and during intermission in
the main lobby. Drinks purchased at concessions are
permitted inside the theatre, but food is not.
Babes in Arms
Children must have their own seats. Babes in arms are
not permitted in the theatre. Children under 6 are
not permitted.
Cameras
Website: huntingtontheatre.org
Box Office: 617 266 0800
Box Office fax: 617 421 9674
Administrative office: 617 266 7900
Administrative office fax: 617 353 8300
B.U. Theatre Lost and Found: 617 266 7900, ext. 1666
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this
production is strictly prohibited.
Box Office Hours
Wheelchair Accessibility
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.
The BU Theatre is accessible by ramp and
can accommodate both wheelchair and
companion seating in the orchestra section.
Please notify us when you purchase your
tickets if wheelchair accommodations will
be required and confirm arrangements with the House
Manager at 617 266 7900, ext. 1666.
Huntington Group Discounts
Groups of 10 or more may receive a discount of up to
20% off full ticket prices and a free ticket for every 20
purchased. Space is available at the theatre for pre- or
post-performance receptions. Contact Jon Slater for
more information at 617 273 1657 or groups
@huntingtontheatre.org.
Public Transportation
Pagers and Cellular Phones
Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during
the performance.
Hearing Enhancement
The BU Theatre is equipped with an FM
hearing enhancement system. Wireless
headphones are available free of charge at
the concessions stand in the main lobby for
your use during a performance.
We encourage patrons to use public transportation
to the BU Theatre whenever possible. The Theatre is
conveniently located near the MBTA Green Line Hynes
or Symphony Stations; Orange Line/Commuter Rail Mass
Ave. Station; the No. 1 Harvard-Dudley bus via Mass Ave.
to Huntington Ave.; and the No. 39 Arborway-Copley bus
to Gainsborough Street.
Restrooms
BU Theatre Parking
If You Arrive Late
In consideration of our actors and other audience
members, latecomers will be seated at the discretion
of the management.
Parking is available at many nearby locations. For details,
please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office
at 617 266 0800.
Please note that these parking garages are
independently owned and operated and are not
affiliated with the Huntington Theatre Company or the
BU Theatre.
If Your Plans Change
We hate to see empty seats. Please consider donating
any tickets you can’t use. For more information please
call the Box Office at 617 266 0800.
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Located in the lower-level and balcony lobbies. A
wheelchair-accessible restroom is located in the main
lobby on the first floor.
Coat Check
Located in the lower lobby.
Large Print Programs
Large print programs are free of charge and are available
in the main lobby.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE • EMERGENCY EVACUATION MAP
In addition to the lobby exits
through which you entered, there
are six illuminated emergency exits
at the sides of the balcony and
mezzanine, and four in the orchestra.
= EXIT SIGN
3rd floor (balcony)
= EGRESS
2nd floor (mezzanine,
opera boxes, lobby)
1st floor
(orchestra, main lobby)
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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY35
STAFF
Peter DuBois
Michael Maso
ADMINISTRATION
General Manager................................................Sondra R. Katz
Associate General Manager.........................Conwell Worthington III
Company Manager.......................................................... Jazzmin Bonner
Assistant Company Manager.........................................Meagan Garcia
Assistant to the Managing Director........................ Gabrielle Jaques
Management Assistant..........................................................Annie Walsh
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
Community Membership
Coordinator....................................................Candelaria Silva-Collins
Creative Services Coordinator.................................................Dan Pecci
Marketing Associate................................................................ Katie Iafolla
Marketing Apprentice..............................................................Leah Reber
Marketing Interns....................................Natalie Gaber, Kaya Williams
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........................ Peggy J. Novello
Human Resources Coordinator.................................... Michael Comey
Payroll and Reporting Specialist...................................April Swiniuch
Administrative Support Assistant................. Kendrick Terrell Evans
Information Technology
IT Director.....................................................................................Scott Poole
Helpdesk Specialist................................................................Jevon Foster
ARTISTIC
Producing Director.......................................Christopher Wigle
Director of New Work.............................................................Lisa Timmel
Associate Producer..........................................................M. Bevin O’Gara
Artistic Programs & Dramaturgy............................Charles Haugland
Assistant to the Artistic Director............................ Stephanie LeBolt
Playwright-In-Residence..................................................Melinda Lopez
Literary Apprentice...........................................................Sarah Schnebly
Producing Apprentice.........................................................Justin Samoy
Huntington Playwriting Fellows.......................................... Mia Chung,
Thom Dunn, John J King, Sam Marks,
Nina Louise Morrison, Deborah Salem Smith
BU Graduate Directors................................Zohar Fuller, Kelly Galvin,
Adam Kassim, Jeremy Ohringer,
Stephen Pick, Jillian Robertson
DEVELOPMENT
Director of Annual Giving &
Development Operations......................................... Joy Pak
Director of Major Gifts................................................Margaret J. White
Major Gifts Officer..............................................................Celina Valadao
Special Events Manager......................................................Kirsten Doyle
Institutional Giving Manager...........................Diana Jacobs-Komisar
Annual Fund & Research Coordinator........................Annalise Baird
Development Database Coordinator...........................Lisa McColgan
Development Associate.....................................Elizabeth MacLachlan
Development Apprentice.................................................... Sam Buntich
Development Intern............................................................... Vicky Huang
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Director of Education......................................... Donna J. Glick
Manager of Education Operations...................................Meg O’Brien
Manager of Curriculum & Instruction..................... Alexandra Smith
Education Associate..............................................................Marisa Jones
Education Interns........................................................ Elizabeth Botelho,
Daniella Forero, Liam McParland
Teaching Artists........................... Kortney Adams, Pascale Florestal,
Naheem Garcia, Lydia Graeff,
Keith Mascoll, Allie Meek, Anneke Reich
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Managing Director
THEATRE OPERATIONS
Director of Theatre Operations.............................. Joey Riddle
BU Theatre
BU Theatre House Manager.............................................. Daniel Morris
Assistant House Managers...........................................Meg Ciabotti,
Brian Dudley, Annie Walsh
Front of House Staff................................................... Julie Cameron,
Michael Choueiri, Kendrick Terrell Evans,
Ariana Goldsworthy, Robin Goldberg, Dalton Gordon,
Sierra Grabowska, Zachary McPheeters,
Brianna Randolph, Ivy Ryan, Kathleen Sansone,
Geri Spanek, Madeline Wigon
Maintenance...................................................................Ronald Belmonte,
Kenneth Carter, Gary Santos
Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
Associate Calderwood Pavilion Manager..........................Katie Most
Calderwood Pavilion House Manager...............................Katrina Alix
Calderwood Pavilion Management Assistant..................Gabe Hughes
House Electrician.........................................Mercedes Roman-Manson
House Sound Operator.................................................. Jesse McKenzie
House Carpenter.........................................................................Mike Hamer
Wardrobe Run................................................................Barbara Crowther
Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice............................Dalton Zogleman
Assistant House Managers..........................Matt Feldman, Paul Fox,
Ksenia Lanin, Maura Neff
Front of House Staff..............................................Natasha Bonfield,
Mia Buchsbaum, Robert Caplis,
Barbara Crowther, Talia Curtin, Linnea Donnelly,
Katie Flanagan, Madeleine Gibbons, Ryan Impagliazzo,
Terry McCarthy, Laura Meilman, Maura Neff,
Maegan Passafume, Tiniqua Patrick, Nick Perron, Leah Reber,
Sarah Schnebly, Ciera-Sadé Wade, Dalton Zogleman
Custodian.................................................................................Jose Andrade
Security Coordinator...............................................................Greg Haugh
Subscription and Box Office
Audience Services Manager.....................................................Jon Slater
Assistant Audience Services Manager...........................Katie Catano
BU Theatre Box Office Coordinator......................... Victoria Swindle
Pavilion Box Office Coordinator...........................................Noah Ingle
Subscriptions Coordinator...................................................Amy Klesert
Box Office Associates..........................................Brittany Rae Bonnell,
Brenton Thurston
Full-Time Customer Service Reps.............................. Christine Lefter,
Tasha Matthews, Ellie Solomon, Nicole Williams
Customer Service Reps................................Victoria Barry, Nick Boonstra,
Lizzie Benway, Victoria Cunha, Sue Dietlin, Taylor Granger,
Mary Olsen, Katelyn Reinert, Katie Sumi, Yurika Watanabe
STAFF (continued)
PRODUCTION
Production Manager ...................................... Todd D. Williams
Associate Production Manager....................................... Bethany Ford
Stage Management Apprentice.........................................Billy Cowles
Graduate Assistant...............................................................Emily Vaughn
Scenery
Technical Director.................................................. Dan Ramirez
Associate Technical Director........................................ Adam Godbout
Assistant Technical Director..................................................Dan Oleksy
Master Carpenter....................................................................Larry Dersch
Scenery Mechanic...........................................................Jesse Washburn
Carpenters................................................................... Andrew Cancellieri,
Milosz Gassan, Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon
Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...........................Carolyn Daitch
Stage Carpenter.....................................................................Chris Largent
Scenery Apprentice..........................................................Grayson Basina
Properties
Properties Master.............................................Kristine Holmes
Assistant Properties Master.............................................Justin Seward
Properties Artisan.....................................................................Ian Thorsell
Properties Run................................................................Andrew DeShazo
Paints
Charge Scenic Artist............................................Kristin Krause
Assistant Charge Artist.........................................Romina Diaz-Brarda
Scenic Artist...........................................................................Chelsey Erskin
BU Certificate Interns..................................................Katherine Keaton,
Jaqueline Kempe, Lauren White
Costumes
Costume Director.............................................. Nancy Hamann
Assistant Costume Director................................. Virginia V. Emerson
Costume Design Assistant.....................................................Mary Lauve
Head Draper...........................................................................Anita Canzian
Costume Crafts Artisan/Dyer................Denise M. Wallace-Spriggs
First Hand............................................................................Rebecca Hylton
Wardrobe Coordinator.......................................................Christine Marr
Costume Intern..................................................................... Lauren Reuter
Electrics
Master Electrician........................................... Katherine Herzig
Assistant Master Electrician..................................................Alisa Hartle
Electrics Apprentice.......................................................... Paige Johnson
Sound
Sound Supervisor................................................. Ben Emerson
Sound Engineer.......................................................................... J. Jumbelic
Sound Apprentice.........................................................Terrence Dowdye
Graduate Assistants..............................Collin Barnum, Aubrey Dube
BU SCHOOL OF THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF
Theatre Complex
Production Manager...................................... Johnny Kontogiannis
Senior Staff Assistant
Design & Production...........................................................Renee Yancey
Costume Shop Supervisor............................................ Karen Martakos
Additional Staff for Topdog/Underdog
Fight Consultant................................................................ Ted Hewlett
Assistant to the Director...................................... Pascale Florestal
Production Assistant.......................................................... Sam Layco
Guitar Coach....................................................................... Riley Snyder
Associate Scenic Designer............................................ Bryce Cutler
Carpenter............................................................................. Gary Beisaw
Scenic Artist................................................................ Amanda Gimbel
Costume Design Assistant.......................................... Becca Jewett
Draper....................................................................................Jen Bennett
First Hands........................................... Sara Marhamo, Katie Kenna
Associate Lighting Designer.....................................Adam Honoré
Assistant to the Lighting Designer.................. Marcella Barbeau
Electricians...... Carmen Alfaro, Kevin Barnett, Shannon Clarke,
Bridget Collins, Evey Connerty-Marin, Sumner Ellsworth,
Kevin Fulton, Aaron Henry, Nate Jewett, Alex Kennedy,
Daryl Laurenza, Bill O’Donnell, Taylor Ness, Liz Ramey,
Brian Shaw, Brittany Trymbulak, Gifford Williams
Assistant Sound Designer....................................Samantha Sewell
Assistant to the Sound Designer..............................Aubrey Dube
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 is a member 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
Mike Strong
MARCH–APRIL 2017
DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT
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.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME,
Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 800-982-2787. Mar
7–19. This Tony Award-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon’s
best-selling novel tells the story of 15-year-old Christopher
and his extraordinary brain—he is exceptionally intelligent
but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under
suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify
the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery
and a journey that will change his life forever.
FINISH LINE, Boston Theater Company, Boch Center, The
Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Mar 15–26.
This documentary play about the 2013 Boston Marathon is
a story of recovery, resilience and determination that was
created verbatim from dozens of interviews with survivors,
runners, doctors, police officers, journalists, clergy, students
and many others.
GIRLS NIGHT—THE MUSICAL, Boch Center, The Shubert
Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Apr 7. Share the fun
and laughter at this hilarious, feel-good musical comedy as
five girlfriends go from heartbreak to happiness during a wild
night of karaoke that includes such favorite tunes as “Lady
Marmalade,” “It’s Raining Men,” “Man, I Feel Like a Woman,” “I
Will Survive” and many more.
THE ILLUSIONISTS—LIVE FROM BROADWAY, Boston Opera
House, 539 Washington St., 800-982-2787. Apr 4–9. This
mind-blowing spectacular showcases the jaw-dropping talents
of the most incredible illusionists on earth. This stage extravaganza has shattered box office records across the globe and
dazzled audiences of all ages with its powerful mix of the most
outrageous and astonishing acts ever to be seen on stage.
THE KING AND I, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St.,
800-982-2787. Apr 11–23. Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed
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DANCE FEVER: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its annual return to Boston this spring,
presenting a mix of classic works along with newer
material April 27–30 at The Wang Theatre.
production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic, winner of four
Tony Awards, tells the story of the relationship that develops
between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British
schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in the imperialistic
world of the 1860s, brings to Siam to teach his many wives
and children.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Emerson/
Paramount Center Robert J. Orchard Stage, 559 Washington
St., 617-824-8400. Mar 23–26. Octavia Butler’s classic AfroFuturist novel about a society driven to the brink of extinction
roars to musical life in a show highlighted by 200 years of
African-American song traditions woven into a genre-defying
concert performance that features 20 artists on stage.
PAW PATROL LIVE! RACE TO THE RESCUE, Boch Center, The
Wang Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 800-982-2787. Mar 18 & 19.
Based on the hit animated TV series on Nickelodeon, this stage
spectacular brings everybody’s favorite pups to life for an
action-packed, high-energy musical adventure. When Mayor
Goodway goes missing during the day of the Super Adventure
Race, the Ryder, Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Rubble, Zuma, Skye
and Everest come to the rescue.
RENT, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St.,
866-348-9738. Apr 11–23. In this vibrant 20th anniversary
touring production, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer
Prize-winning reimagining of Puccini’s La Bohème once again
follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out.
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Liebergott Black Box Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-8248400. Apr 19–29. The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries and the peculiarities
of airline security—it’s all covered in this miraculous, one-man
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saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global
travel become the actual journey.
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.
LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE
ALTAR BOYZ, Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham,
781-279-2200. Mar 23–Apr 9. In this foot-stomping, rafterraising musical comedy, a fictitious Christian boy band—five
all-singing, all-dancing heartthrobs from Ohio named Matthew,
Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham—utilize tight harmonies, tight
pants and spectacular choreography to try to lift the soul of
every single member of the audience on the last night of their
national tour.
BARBECUE, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-5855678. Apr 7–May 7. The O’Mallery family gather in their local
park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister.
They are the kind of family that comes to an intervention armed
with a Taser, even though their own downward spirals rival hers.
But that’s only the beginning as familial and cultural stereotypes
are stripped away in this piercingly funny new play.
BARNUM, Moonbox Productions, Roberts Studio Theatre,
Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts,
527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Apr 8–30. This dazzling show
traces the career of P.T. Barnum, America’s greatest showman,
from 1835 to 1881, the year he joined James A. Bailey to form
“The Greatest Show On Earth.” Over the objections of his wife
Charity, Barnum attempts to create a show in which the main
attractions are freaks of society, making sacrifices along the
way in this tale of hope, determinism and having the courage
of your convictions.
BECKETT IN BRIEF, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company,
Sorenson Black Box, Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson
College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. Apr 27–May
7. This presentaion of a trio of Beckett’s most autobiographical works—Rough for Radio II, The Old Tune and Krapp’s Last
Tape—explores universal questions of creativity, memory,
aging, sex, friendship and the proximity of death.
CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The
Riverway, 617-879-2300. Apr 14–May 14. In this tale of
friendship and loyalty, based on the best-selling children’s
paperback of all time by beloved author E.B. White, Charlotte
the extraordinary spider works a miracle with her web to save
Wilbur the irresistible young pig.
COYOTE ON A FENCE, The Hub Theatre Company of Boston,
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., 617-267-6730.
Mar 31–Apr 15. Illiterate but likable, Bobby Reyburn is a funny
young guy who loves to do impressions. He’s also a member of
the Aryan nation, a racist predator convicted of a horrific crime.
John Brennan is educated and arrogant, a serious writer who
may only be guilty of doing society a favor. As each awaits his
fate, one evokes sympathy, the other derision. In vivid scenes,
Bruce Graham searing drama explores the disturbing question:
Can one be innocent though proven guilty?
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EDWARD II, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Charlestown Working
Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St., 866-811-4111. Through Mar 19.
Edward II, great-grandfather of Richard II, showered favor on
his treasured friend, Gaveston, leading to bitter resentment
from the nobles with fatal consequences in Christopher
Marlowe’s tragic history play.
EVERY PIECE OF ME, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949
Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Apr 20–30. When Aine
returns home to Ireland to introduce her American fiancé to her
family, she finds her younger sister pregnant, her mother still
over-controlling and her father suffering from a bad heart. Her
departure might have been the cause, but some wounds never
heal in this play about guilt, mercy and the power of love.
EVERYMAN, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Theatre
Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617-887-2336. Apr
7–May 6. In this centuries-old cornerstone of English drama
adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, Everyman is successful, popular
and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to
abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic
search to recruit a friend, or anyone, to speak in his defence.
But Death is close behind, and time is running out.
FRANKLIN, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth
Ave., 866-811-4111. Mar 23–Apr 2. The Franklin expedition to
the Arctic in 1845 sought the Northwest Passage and instead
found ice, starvation and insanity. The ship was never found.
Modern-day underwater archaeologist Caroline has been
searching for three years, but time is running out in this play
involving two crews, two ships and one 200-year-old mystery.
GAY SHORTS, Open Theatre Project, Club Cafe, 209 Columbus
Ave., 800-838-3006. Mar 30–Apr 2. This brand-new 10-minute play festival explores the ups, downs, ins, outs, comedy
and drama of growing up gay. Written by local playwright
George Smart, these seven short works feature dozens of local
talent from Boston’s gay communnity.
GOLDA’S BALCONY, New Repertory Theatre, Charles Mosesian
Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts,
321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Mar 25–Apr 16.
Follow Golda Meir from her humble beginnings as a Wisconsin
school teacher to her meteoric rise through Israel’s early
political system to become one of the world’s first elected
female heads of state and one of the most influential women in
Jewish history in this one-woman play by William Gibson.
GRAND CONCOURSE, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Roberts
Studio Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston
Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar
3–Apr 1. Called to a life of religious service, Shelley now
struggles to find meaning in her work as the manager of a
Bronx soup kitchen. The arrival of Emma, a college dropout
looking for a sense of purpose, is at first a welcome addition,
but the girl’s erratic behavior soon pushes Shelley to the
breaking point, in this compelling drama about the mysteries of
faith, forgiveness and compassion.
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra,
Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington, 781-646-4849. Mar
24–Apr 1. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s groundbreaking rock opera tells the story of Jesus in the final days of his
life through such favorite tunes as “Everything’s Alright,” “I
Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Superstar.”
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LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, Wellesley Players, Black Box Theater,
The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321
Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Apr 14–23. Sex,
drugs and rock ’n’ roll—this isn’t your parents’ Shakespeare.
The Bard’s tale of love gone awry is presented against the
backdrop of the women’s liberation movement, the sexual
revolution and the counter culture of the late 1960s.
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MASS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St.,
617-912-9222. Apr 7–9. Leonard Bernstein’s most ambitious
theatre work, inspired by the Tridentine Mass of the Roman
Catholic Church, features a large cast of performers, including
dancers, singers, a boy chorus, rock and blues singers, actors,
two orchestras and a marching band that plays through the
audience, making for a truly unique experience.
MRS. PACKARD, Bridge Repertory Theatre and Playhouse
Creatures Theatre Company, Multicultural Arts Center, 41
Second St., Cambridge, 617-577-1400. M
​ ar 12–Apr 9. Illinois,
1861. Proclaimed insane by her husband, Elizabeth Packard
is committed against her will to an asylum. Inspired by true
events, Emily Mann’s stunning American drama chronicles one
woman’s struggle to fight for her life and, in the process, right
a system gone wrong.
NO EXIT, Exiled Theatre, The Space Studio at Auspicious
Phoenix Productions, 438 Somerville Ave., Somerville,
617-416-3132. Apr 14–30. Jean-Paul Sartre’s masterpiece
involves three damned souls locked in the same room in hell
who discover that, instead of thumbscrews and other torture
devices, “Hell is just—other people.”
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, Boston Children’s
Theatre, Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont
St., 617-933-8600. Apr 15–30. Dale Wasserman’s stage
adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel tells the story of a charming
rogue who, in manipulating a short prison sentence into what
he thinks will be an easier stay in a mental institution, comes
into conflict with a strict head nurse while trying to stir up his
fellow inmates.
OUR AMERICAN HAMLET, Commonwealth Shakespeare
Company, Carling-Sorenson Theater, Sorenson Center for the
Arts at Babson College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-8114111. Mar 23–Apr 2. In 1866, less than a year after President
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, his brother
Edwin, one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the 19th
century, decides to perform Hamlet on Broadway, a role he had
performed in the past to great acclaim. A huge crowd turns up
for the performance—but it isn’t clear whether they were there
to see the actor perform, or to exact their revenge, in this world
premiere by Jake Broder.
PETER PAN, The Post-Meridian Radio Players, Responsible
Grace Church, 204 Elm St., Somerville, 800-838-3006. Apr
21–29. This original adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s beloved
tale presents the story of the Darling children—Wendy,
John and Michael—who are whisked away to Neverland by
the boy who won’t grow up to face the danger of the cunning Captain Hook. Will the Darlings ever make it home?
Will Pan triumph at last over Hook? And most importantly—do you believe in fairies?
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in 1968, this Neil Simon-penned tuner featuring music by Burt
Bacharach is based on the 1960 film classic The Apartment
and relays the misadventures of junior executive Chuck Baxter,
who climbs the corporate ladder by letting his bosses use his
apartment for trysts. All is well, until he learns that the object
of his affection is one of the mistresses.
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, Bad Habit Productions,
Deane Hall, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston
Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar 18–
Apr 2. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdboot—the first
a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive
second stringer—are swept into the whodunit they are reviewing. A hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodrama
follows, complete with a mysterious body under the sofa. As
mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot
become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an
escaped madman.
SILENT SKY, Flat Earth Theatre, Black Box Theater, The
Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal
St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Mar 10–25. At Harvard Observatory at the turn of the 20th century, Henrietta Leavitt joins a
group of women tasked with charting the heavens without being allowed to touch a telescope. Despite restrictions placed on
her because of her sex, Henri devotes her life to the study of
celestial bodies while balancing the needs of love and family in
Lauren Gunderson’s melodious, evocative work inspired by the
real-life woman whose work allowed astronomers to measure
the distance of faraway galaxies.
STAGE KISS, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St.,
617-585-5678. Through Mar 26. Two squabbling, long-lost
loves are cast as long-lost lovers, and quickly lose touch with
reality in this romantic and revealing play-within-a-play by
Sarah Ruhl.
VIOLET, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 Arrow St.,
Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Apr 4–15. A musical ride on a
moving bus for 25 people, this show tells the story of a young
woman who travels cross-country to seek treatment for a
disfiguring scar.
WEST SIDE STORY, Moonstruck Theater Company, The
Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster St., Arlington, 800838-3006. Apr 7–9. Featuring 30 talented actors from all over
New England and the beautiful Leonard Bernstein/Stephen
Sondheim score, this beloved musical tells the story of a boy
and a girl whose very different worlds collide one night at a
dance on New York’s Upper West Side.
THE WHO & THE WHAT, Huntington Theatre Company,
Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston
Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-266-0800. Mar
31–May 7. Brilliant novelist Zarina is writing about women and
Islam when she meets Eli, a young convert who bridges the
gap between her modern life and traditional heritage. When
her conservative father discovers her controversial manuscript,
they all must confront the beliefs that define them in this
fierce and funny new play about relationships, religion and the
contradictions that make us who we are.
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Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., 800-982-2787. Apr 27–30.
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expansion of repertoire under Artistic Director Robert Battle
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Boston debut is this Argentine dance company that presents a
thrilling, percussive dance and music spectacle celebrating the
unique South American cowboy tradition of the gaucho.
KYLIÁN/WINGS OF WAX, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House,
539 Washington St., 617-695-6955. Mar 23–Apr 2. A trio of
heart-racing ballets by 20th century masters features George
Balanchine’s charming and spirited Donizetti Variations, the
return of Jiří Kylián’s sensuous and intriguing Wings of Wax
and Alexander Ekman’s surprising and witty Cacti.
LIMITLESS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway
St., 617-912-9222. Apr 27–30. Presenting iconic masterworks
by internationally renowned choreographers alongside new
work created especially for Boston Conservatory dance students, this program feature How to Pass Kick Fall and Run by
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539
Washington St., 617-695-6955. Apr 28–May 27. This quintessential production of the coming-of-age fairy tale features Tchaikovsky’s soaring music, sumptuous costumes, superlative dancing,
the triumph of good over evil and the power of a single kiss.
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THE DANGEROUS LIAISONS, Boston Opera Collaborative, Plaza
Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-9338600. Mar 24–Apr 1. Based on the scandalous 18th century novel
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, this Boston premiere by Conrad
Susa and Philip Littell explores the sexual machinations of the
Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, two French
aristocrats locked in a battle of wits, wills and sexual conquest.
DIE LUSTIGEN WEIBER VON WINDSOR (THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR), The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St.,
617-912-9222. Mar 30–Apr 2. Written in 1841, Otto Nicolai’s
delightful interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy was an
important contribution to early German romantic opera. It tells
ths story of Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page, who teach the lecherous
knight Sir John Falstaff a much-deserved lesson after they each
receive identical letters from him proposing illicit affairs.
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS, Boston Lyric Opera, Emerson/Cutler
Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-542-6772. Mar 12–19.
In a surreal battle of temptation, Tom Rakewell abandons his
suburban life to cavort in the pleasures of “sin city” with a
devilish valet at his side. But can he find his way back to the
virtuous Anne Trulove—and his sanity—before all is lost? With
influences of Mozart and the Faust myth, Igor Stravinsky’s
opera blurs the lines between the 18th and 20th centuries with
witty and wicked insight.
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L–Lunch • D­–Dinner • B–Breakfast
C–Cocktails • VP–Valet Parking
SB–Sunday Brunch • LS–Late Supper
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
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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.
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; Prudential Center, 800
Boylston St., 617-266-6800; 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’
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.
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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hile the view remains as spectacu- Other seafood highlights include the tenlar as ever, change is in the air at der sea scallops served with Himalayan black
Top of the Hub, one of Boston’s rice, roasted butternut squash, green curry
favorite fine dining destinations. And
butter and candied kumquats. Meat
it’s all for the better. The addition of
still gets its due with such dishes as
German-born Executive Chef Stefan TOP OF THE HUB the Misty Knolls Farm chicken breast,
Jarausch, who oversaw the transfor- 800 Boylston St. grilled filet mignon and butcher’s cut
mation of the Fairmont Copley Plaza’s Prudential Center Duroc pork chop.
617-536-1775
acclaimed Oak Long Bar & Kitchen Refer to Dining Guide,
Another thing Top of the Hub
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in 2012, has ushered in a new era for
continues to excel at is offering an
this beloved eatery.
unparalleled, Wine Spectator-lauded
Featuring a re-tooled menu of
selection of vintages from its cliNew England-inspired cuisine, Top Change is in the mate-controlled, glass-encased wine
of the Hub has put a particular
room near the entrance, as well
air at Top of
emphasis on seafood. Old favoras creative cocktails from the bar.
ites, like the decadently creamy lobNightly live music in the lounge
the Hub.
ster bisque and the chock-full-ofarea remains another mainstay. And
crustaceans clam chowder, have been
dessert is as sweet as ever, including
re-formulated to adhere to triedthe mocha mascarpone mousse served
and-true tradition. Welcome newcomers include with salted caramel and biscotti, and the classic
the New England fisherman’s bowl, a stick-to- crème brûlée with seasonal berries and whipped
your-ribs stew of lobster, mussels, clams and cream. There’s also a tempting array of dessert
the fresh catch of the day accented with kale, wines, premium whiskeys and liqueurs availchorizo, potatoes and a clam butter broth nearly able as after-dinner drinks. Regardless of how
bursting at the seams with fresh ocean offerings you end your meal, it would be hard to top the
that encapsulates Chef Jarausch’s love of local engrossing vista, impeccable service and re-born
ingredients in one dish.
cuisine at this Back Bay landmark.
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