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12 Q&A WITH SET DESIGNER WILSON CHIN

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35 Emergency Exits 38 Guide to Local 43 Dining Guide Jon Norman Schneider and Ruibo Qian in Tiger Style!; 46 Dining Out: Top of the Hub Photo: Greg Mooney

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE 3 BACKSTAGE BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS Bill Truslow THE SOUNDS AND SIGHTS OF SUMMER: Beverly’s beloved North Shore Music Theatre (pictured) begins its 2017 season in with the classic musical The Music Man.

A Sneak Peek at 2017 for Two, in which two actors play 13 different The Cape Playhouse in Dennis and North roles. Returning are The Foreigner, a heartwarm- Shore Music Theatre in Beverley have each ing tale of misunderstanding and mischief, and announced their 2017 season lineups. North Jule Styne and ’s stunningly Shore Music Theatre is bookending its season scored musical, . For more information, visit with classic musicals from decades past, starting capeplayhouse.com and nsmt.org. with The Music Man in June and finishing with 42nd Street next fall. In between is something Celebrating Christmas with for everyone, including the fairy-tale love story Cirque Dreams Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Young Frankenstein, Citi Performing Arts Center hosts Cirque and Evita, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s story about Dreams Holidaze this holiday season. Now in Argentine political leader Eva Perón. The focus its eighth year, Cirque Dreams Holidaze, which is on new material next summer at the Cape makes its Boston debut beginning December Playhouse, whose six-production season includes 9, is a family-friendly Christmas extravaganza. four Playhouse premieres: Yasmine Reza’s Art; Featuring 20 acts, 30 artists, and more than 300 the hilarious musical The 25th Annual Putnam costumes, this variety show is a visual feast com- County Spelling Bee; Red, John Logan’s winner bining snowmen, acrobatics, toy soldiers, seasonal of six based on the life of abstract songs, and, of course, Santa Claus himself! Go to expressionist painter Mark Rothko; and Murder citicenter.org for more information and tickets. 4 TIGER STYLE! BACKSTAGE (continued)

The Rockwell Rocks in Somerville Since mid-September, Somerville’s Davis Square Theatre has had a new lease on life as The Rockwell. Still serving the region’s emerg- ing and established artists, The Rockwell’s name change in part helps to announce the venue’s updated look, which involves new flooring, fresh paint, and new theatre curtains and light- THE BUTLER DID IT: Octavia Butler’s Parable of ing for an improved experience. Beyond the the Sower, Toshi Reagon’s stage adaptation of facelift are even further changes. While con- the science fiction novel, comes to the Emerson/ Paramount Mainstage March 23–26. tinuing to welcome local acts and offer the space to patrons, comedians, and theatrical companies, the theatre will begin to produce science fiction novel brings a dystopian world original content as well. marred by climate change and violence to the As for the story behind the name itself, The stage. The story centers on Lauren Olamina, a Rockwell honors the life of late owner Ken young woman who has lost her family and must Kelly, who attended school at Rockwell College venture out into the world unprotected. With in Ireland before moving to the . a strong score grounded in African-American Kelly’s family continues to own and operate musical traditions, Parable of the Sower medi- the venue. For a complete schedule of shows, visit tates on nothing less than human destiny. therockwell.org. Parable of the Sower is replacing the originally announced March show, Claudia Rankine’s ArtsEmerson Swaps Out Shows Citizen: An American Lyric, which will move to ArtsEmerson has added Parable of the Sower ArtsEmerson’s 2017–2018 season in order to this March to complement its already power- allow the project more time to develop. Visit ful season. This adaption of Octavia E. Butler’s artsemerson.org for tickets.

WHAT’S ON STAGE in October Our picks for the hottest plays and musicals on local stages this month

A GENTLEMAN’S MALA GUIDE TO LOVE & ARTSEMERSON MURDER October 27– November 23 October 18–23 The newest work by Boston The 2014 Tony Award win- playwright Melinda Lopez ner for Best Musical, this (pictured) is a one-woman turn-of-the-20th-century show exploring family life, tale follows anti-hero Monty death and survival in a Navarro as he closes in on Cuban-American context. a distant inheritance, one Refer to listing, page 38. murder at a time. Refer to listing, page 38. WARRIOR CLASS TWELFTH NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LYRIC STAGE COMPANY ANTHEM THEATRE COMPANY October 21–November 13 October 27–November 5 Fascinated by the spectacle this election season is provid- Brian MacInnis Smallwood’s zombie-ridden take on ing? Then Kenneth Lin’s (TV’s “House of Cards”) new politi- Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night arrives just in time for cal stage drama is just the ticket for you. Refer to listing, Halloween. Refer to listing, page 41. page 41.

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TIGER STYLE!

by Mike Lew Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel

Costume Design Scenic Design Junghyun Lighting Design Wilson Chin Lee Matthew Richards

Sound Design & Original Music Projection Design Palmer Hefferan Alex Koch

Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Meg Tracy Leddy Jeremiah Mullane

We gratefully acknowledge the Huntington’s 2016–2017 Season Sponsors Sherryl & Gerard Cohen Carol G. Deane J. David Wimberly

the Production Sponsor of Tiger Style! Carol B. Langer

and the Production Co-Sponsors of Tiger Style! Susan & David Leathers

The world premiere of Tiger Style! was produced by Alliance Theatre, , Georgia. Susan V. Booth, Artistic Director.

Tiger Style! was developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference in 2014. Preston Whiteway, Executive Director; Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director.

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RAISING A TIGER CUB by Shirley Fishman suzanne

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Dr. Wilbur Lew, Zayden Mirza Lew (baby), Playwright Mike Lew, Rehana Lew Mirza, and Dr. Bertha Gee-Lew

When Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua was published in 2011, controversy erupted over Chinese versus Western parenting styles and their effect on children, which became the jumping off point for playwright Mike Lew’s comedy, Tiger Style!. When I asked Mike if he was raised by tiger parents, he suggested that I speak with his mother and father, Dr. Bertha Gee-Lew, a pediatrician, and Dr. Wilbur Lew, a cardiologist. They greeted me at their La Jolla home and I learned how they emigrated from China’s Canton region to California and how their own parenting styles affected them and their children.

Shirley Fishman: Have you experienced “tiger parenting”?

Bertha Gee-Lew: When my father immigrated to America, he left behind my mother and my two older sisters. After he settled in Fresno, he sent for my mother, and my sisters emigrated later. My brother, younger sister, and I were all born in Fresno and were in middle school when my sisters arrived. One was a chemist in China, and she watched over us as we did our homework. She didn’t think we studied hard enough and “tigered up” a bit, saying, “you can do better.” She pushed her little American siblings into good study habits. We were number one in our classes; we all received scholarships and attended UC Berkeley.

Wilbur Lew: My parents were always working; they were focused on providing for us. While they weren’t greatly involved in my education, they wanted us to be able to take care of ourselves — to choose careers that would give us economic security.

BG-L: Both of us, having been to Berkeley and medical school, knew what it took to get a good education when we raised our own children. When Mike was about to start school, I had to make sure he was ready. Even though I was busy with my pediatric practice, I sat in on kindergarten classes, volunteered at the PTA, got up at 6am to cut pilgrim hats — I did everything I could to be involved.

When he was in elementary school I told him, “When your teacher asks you to do a book report, I’m going to ask you to give me three — one for the teacher and two for your mother.” Mike would complain, “I have to do three book reports, just because you’re crazed?!” When he was in high school, he had to take exams to prepare for the SAT 2. He was such a jokester; I had to get him to focus. Instead of writing his name at the top of his paper, he wrote “Attica Cell Block #3” and made some comment about me being a tiger mom.

10 TIGER STYLE! SF: Do you think you’re a tiger mom?

BG-L: I’m not. A tiger mom says, “I want a concert pianist and I’m going to make you do this, whether you’re capable of it or not.” I’m simply demanding my kids live up to what they’re capable of.

SF: You’re both physicians. Did you expect Mike to go to medical school? Did you have any inkling he was interested in the theatre?

BG-L: This child of mine was an incredible scientist. He was selected for the Westinghouse (Intel) Science Talent Search — one of only 30 kids in the nation. The only thing he did creatively in high school was a special English seminar class. He had to write a play for twenty 10th and 11th graders. I pleaded, “Don’t write the play, honey. You have to focus on your science project.” Mike said, “I really want to do it, Ma.” Afterwards, he wasn’t happy with it. Mike complained, “It didn’t go well because it only had one performance. I didn’t have a chance to work on it.”

WL: Yale has a great theatre program, and when he arrived he took a theatre class in addition to the other necessary courses. In order to get into medical school, you have to take certain required classes, including organic chemistry.

BG-L: I kept saying, “Mike, in year two you’re going to have to take organic chemistry. No medical school will take you without it.” Mike said, “Mom, I’m not going to take organic chemistry. I’m not interested.” There it was. I have to admit — I was kicking and screaming.

SF: Jennifer and Albert, the siblings in Tiger Style!, don’t feel they’ve received adequate rewards for their achievements and blame their parents. Did Mike express similar feelings?

WL: I don’t believe there was any negative social effect with either of our kids. Mike was student body vice president, the go-to person in a group of kids that looked up to him.

BG-L: They all came to our house for parlor games late into the night. But Mike did complain that he had no childhood. I told him that he had a good childhood, he was happy, he loved us, and we loved him. He replied, “You told us that if we did well in school everything would be great. I’m having a hell of a time in the theatre business. Part of it has to do with the fact that I’m Asian. Why didn’t you ever say that life would be difficult because I’m Asian?” I said, “You were raised in La Jolla, a really nice town, you did well in high school and college, received positive reinforcement and got the rewards due to you. I didn’t think I had to tell you ‘Hey, you’re Asian. Life is going to be tough out there.’” I didn’t pound this idea into my kids, but my parents pounded it into me and my siblings. “You need to be better than everybody else, because this is not an Asian country, it’s a Caucasian country. You’re not going to get what you deserve unless you’re over-qualified and work very hard.”

SF: What did you think when you saw a production of Tiger Style!?

BG-L: We thought it was hilarious, and it’s not about me, thank god.

WL: When Mike’s son was born a few months ago, he told me he has a new respect for parenting. It’s going to be interesting to see if he becomes a tiger dad.

Excerpts from this interview are reprinted with permission from Shirley Fishman and . For the full interview, visit huntingtontheatre.org/tigerstyle.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 11 Q&A WITH SET DESIGNER WILSON CHIN The set model for Tiger Style! Tiger Style! set designer Wilson Chin is known for his ability to design dramaturgically, meaning his sets compliment the of the play organically. Whether designing for opera, classics, or new plays, Chin’s designs are repeatedly lauded as handsome, atmospheric, and efficient; his work on multi-location sets that must transform quickly have often been considered his best. Tiger Style! is a fast-paced comedy that spans the globe, so Chin is a perfect fit. Recently, he answered some questions for Director of New Work Lisa Timmel, about his experience as a designer and his work on Tiger Style!

Lisa Timmel: When you are asked to design a play, what do you look for in the project?

Wilson Chin: I love a play with big ideas that surprise and confuse me. As much as I love a kitchen sink drama, I truly love the challenge of a play that hops around multiple locales and explores untapped concepts and narratives.

LT: You’ve worked on classics, opera, and new plays. How do they differ?

WC: With classic plays and operas, part of the design process is acknowledging and filtering in the expectations and history the audience brings to the production. It’s impossible to watch Romeo and Juliet or La Bohème without subliminally contrasting it with previous productions or preconceived notions of what those stories are about. So part of designing a classic is about how to subvert and/or meet expectations, and how to use those expectations to create a meaningful and dramatically alive experience. For a new play, there are no expectations or guidelines, which is liberatingly scary and invigorating. We take something that has only existed on a page and deeply, deeply examine and dissect it to identify its heart and structure in order to create a world in which it can thrive and grow.

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Ruibo Qian, Francis Jue, and Emily Kuroda in Tiger Style! at the Alliance Theatre

LT: What is the nature of the designer/director collaboration?

WC: Every collaboration is wildly different, depending on the director and the piece at hand. Some directors like to come in with concrete visual ideas and some have just emotional responses. I always try to begin with visual ideas of my own, but sometimes a piece is elusive enough that it takes a few deep conversations before anything visual arises.

LT: You designed the world premiere production of Tiger Style! at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. What kinds of discoveries did you make about the play from a design perspective in that production and how has it affected the design for this one?

WC: At the Alliance, we did the show in a much bigger theatre space and there was always the fear that the intimacy and comedy might get lost and diffused. So we took many unusual steps to push the acting space as close to the audience as possible. But even so, the show still felt perhaps a little epic. For the Huntington, the size of the auditorium and the stage/ audience relationship feels perfect for this play, so I think the design will breathe and rest a little easier here. One of the subtle, but important, changes we are making for this production is the tone of Act 2. Previously, Act 2 had moments of flash and awe that were not unlike Disneyland or Las Vegas. But we discovered that the flash was overwhelming the darker, more serious undertones. So we are working on balancing the tone.

LT: Have you ever had the chance to design the same play for two different directors?

WC: Yes, I’ve actually done that before! And it was a surprisingly interesting, but perhaps melancholy, experience. A playwright and I worked on a premiere production that went exceptionally well and we were all proud of it. A few years later we were invited to do it again with a different director, cast, and company. In many ways, the new production was just as good, if not better, than the original production. But it was interesting observing new artists discovering and wrestling with scenes and moments that I knew by heart. In those moments of struggle, I felt like I had to bite my tongue so as to not be prescriptive. It was like watching a baby I raised moving on which, as the playwright later told me, is how it feels like every time a new play gets produced.

— LISA TIMMEL

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 13 ABOUT THE COMPANY Francis Jue* (Tzi Chuan, Melvin, etc.) appeared on Broadway in , Thoroughly Modern Millie, and M. Butterfly. Favorite theatre credits include (Obie and Awards, plus Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations), In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (AriZoni TIGER STYLE! Award), (Elliot Norton Award), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Drama- Logue Award), (Bay Area Critics Circle Award), , tokyo fish story, Kung Fu, King of the Yees, and Paper Dolls. Film and television credits include Joyful Noise and recurring roles on “Madam Secretary” and “Law & Order: SVU.”

Bryan T. Donovan* (Russ the Bus, Reggie, etc.) has appeared on Broadway in Wrong Mountain and in Strike Up the Band, L’il Abner, and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with City Center Encores! His Off Broadway credits include Dream True, No Solace in Goodbyes, StreepTease, and Tiptoes. His recent Boston credits include Shear Madness (), appropriate (SpeakEasy Stage Company), A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre), and Lobstergirl (Stoneham Theatre). Regionally he has appeared in High Society (American Conservatory Theater), Fanny Hill (Goodspeed Musicals), Love! Valor! Compassion! (Uptown Players), An Inspector Calls and The Mystery of Irma Vep (WaterTower Theatre), Actor’s Nightmare (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), and Boeing-Boeing (Hot Summer Nights and Theatre Raleigh). His film credits include Steeling Magnolias, Sunset Stories, My Eleventh, and 6 Month Rule. Mr. Donovan has also produced several feature and short films that have premiered at film festivals such as Slamdance, SXSW, Film Festival, and Outfest to name a few. He has appeared on television in “Blue Bloods,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Medium,” “Law & Order,” “Nite Tales,” “Thintervention with Jackie Warner,” and “All My Children.”

Emily Kuroda* (Mom, Therapist, etc.) previously appeared in the Huntington’s production of The Woman Warrior. Her regional credits include productions at , Alliance Theatre, , Theatre, , /NYSF, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Montalbán, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Zephyr Theatre, Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. She played Mrs. Kim on “” for seven years and will be seen in Netflix’s upcoming “Gilmore Girls” revival. Other television credits include “,” “Sequestered,” and “Under One Roof” with Flavor Flav. Film credits include Maybe Someday, Red, The Sensei, and the upcoming film Take the 10.

Ruibo Qian* (Jennifer) has both New York and regional credits that include The Nether (San Francisco Playhouse), Tiger Style! (Alliance Theatre), Water by the Spoonful (The Old Globe), Henry IV, Part 1 (The Pearl Theatre Company), You for Me for You (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), and The Tempest (Continuum Company). Her film and television credits include “Broad City” (Comedy Central), “Mozart in the Jungle” (Amazon), “Jessica

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ABOUT THE COMPANY TIGER STYLE! TIGER Jones” (Netflix), and the upcoming film Manchester by the Sea. Ms. Qian holds an MFA from the Graduate Acting Program and a BFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. ruiboqian.com. Boston University and the Huntington Theatre Company Jon Norman Schneider* have partnered to train (Albert) was most the next generation of artists. recently seen in Kimber Tiger Style! features the following Lee’s tokyo fish story BU alumni and students: at The Old Globe in MICHAEL HISAMOTO San Diego. His New York credits (Assistant to the Director) include House Rules (Ma-Yi Theater BFA, Theatre Arts, 2017 Company), Awake and Sing! (National Asian American Theatre Company and J. COLLIN PRIDDY-BARNUM (Assistant to the Sound Designer) The Public Theater/NYSF), The Oldest MFA, Sound Design, 2018 Boy ( Theater), City Of (Playwrights Realm), A Map of Virtue RUIBO QIAN (13P), Boulevard (the Musical) (Jennifer) (Signature Theatre), and Durango (The BFA, Acting, 2005 Public Theater/NYSF), among others. KATHRYN SCHONDECK His international and regional credits (Costume Design Assistant) include London’s Tricycle Theatre, BFA, Costume Design, 2014 Alliance Theatre, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Actors Theatre of MORITZ VON STUELPNAGEL Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Magic (Director) Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, BFA, Theatre Studies, 2000 and The Kennedy Center. His film and GIFFORD WILLIAMS television appearances include roles (Assistant to the Lighting Designer) in The Girl in the Book, The Normals, MFA, Lighting Design, 2018 The Rebound, HBO’s Angel Rodriguez, “Jessica Jones,” “Veep,” “The Electric Company,” “30 Rock,” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

Mike Lew (Playwright) is the author of Teenage Dick (The Public Theater/NYSF, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Foundation, and Ma-Yi Theater Company workshops), Bike America (Ma-Yi Theater Company and Alliance Theatre productions), microcrisis (Ma- Yi Theater Company, InterAct Theatre Company, and Next Act productions), Stockton (AracaWorks and Ensemble Studio Theatre workshops), People’s Park ( workshop), In You Will Find Many Baguettes… and Roanoke (Humana Festival of New American Plays), and Moustache Guys. Tiger Style! has been produced by the Alliance Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse and it has also received readings at the Huntington Theatre Company, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, , The , and InterAct Theatre Company. Mr. Lew is a Dramatists Guild Council

* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 15 ABOUT THE COMPANY member and Tony Award voter, co-director of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residency Program Fellow, and recipient of the Award, Helen Merrill Award, Kendeda and AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Awards, Heideman Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He received his training from The Juilliard School and TIGER STYLE! . mikelew.com.

Moritz von Stuelpnagel (Director) directed the Broadway production of Hand to God, which received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play, a London Olivier Award nomination, Lortel and SDC Callaway Award nominations for direction, and Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for outstanding production. He previously directed Tiger Style! at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre. Mr. von Stuelpnagel is a devoted advocate for new plays. His recent New York premieres include Nick Jones’ Important Hats of the Twentieth Century ( Theatre Club), Verite (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3), and Trevor (Lesser America); Robert Askins’ Love Song of the Albanian Sous Chef (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick (The Public Theater/NYSF) and Bike America (Ma-Yi Theater Company); Mel & El (); and Michael Mitnick’s Spacebar and Adam Szymkowicz’s My Base and Scurvy Heart (Studio 42). Regionally, his work has been seen at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. He proudly returns to the Huntington after serving as assistant director to four productions shortly after graduating from Boston University. He is also the former artistic director of Studio 42, ’s producer of “unproducible” plays. moritzvs.com.

Wilson Chin (Scenic Design) has designed numerous world premieres including Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts (Broadway and Geffen Playhouse), by (/Williamstown Theatre Festival), by Joe DiPietro (La Jolla Playhouse), Aubergine by Julia Cho (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Lewiston by Samuel D. Hunter (Long Wharf Theatre), My Mañana Comes by Elizabeth Irwin (Playwrights Realm), Too Much, Too Much, Too Many by Meghan Kennedy (Roundabout Theatre Company), Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally (Bucks County Playhouse), By the Water by Sharyn Rothstein (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Engagements by Lucy Teitler (Second Stage Theatre). His opera credits include Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of ) and Eine Florentinische Tragodie and Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award winner). Mr. Chin is a graduate of Yale School of Drama. wilsonchin.com.

Junghyun Georgia Lee (Costume Design) is a Korean born designer based in New York. Her previous designs for the Huntington include Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like and the world premiere of Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People. Her regional work includes productions at such as the Guthrie Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Triad Stage, Playmakers Repertory Company, , Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, and . In New York, she has designed for productions at Second Stage Theatre, The PlayCo., and the . She also has worked with choreographers such as Jo Stromgren, Hofesh Shechter, Crystal Pyte, and Shen Wei. Ms. Lee holds an MFA

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ABOUT THE COMPANY TIGER STYLE! TIGER from the Yale School of Drama, is a founding member of Chance Magazine, and a member of New Neighborhood, a theatre and television company.

Matthew Richards (Lighting Design) returns to the Huntington having previously designed Good People, Third, and What the Butler Saw. His Broadway credits include Holland Taylor’s Ann. Off Broadway, he has designed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (MCC Theater), Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (), Informed Consent (Primary Stages), and Tamburlaine and The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience). He has also designed productions for Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, , Second Stage Theatre, and Theatreworks USA. His regional theatre credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, , Center Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and . MatthewRichardsDesign.com.

Palmer Hefferan (Sound Design & Original Music) has Off Broadway sound design credits that include Friend Art (Second Stage Theatre Uptown), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep), Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club), A Delicate Ship (The Playwrights Realm), The Film Society (Keen Company), and I Am the Wind (). Select regional credits include Romance Novels for Dummies (Williamstown Theatre Festival),

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 17 ABOUT THE COMPANY Tiger Style! (Alliance Theatre), Guards at the Taj, Women Laughing Alone with Salad, and Cherokee (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Twelfth Night (Center Stage), American Night (Yale Repertory Theatre Company), Heroes (American Players Theatre), Moment, Sorry, Regular Singing, Bad Jews, and Edgar & Annabel (Studio Theatre), and Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill (Signature Theatre). She TIGER STYLE! has her MFA from Yale School of Drama. palmerhefferan.com.

Alex Koch (Projection Design) previously designed the Huntington’s production of Invisible Man. He has designed on Broadway for Irena’s Vow (Walter Kerr Theatre). Recent New York credits include Goodbar (with Waterwell for Under the Radar 2012), Feeder (TerraNOVA Collective), En el Tiempo de las Mariposas and La Casa de los Espiritus (Repertorio Espanol), ReEntry and The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Urban Stages Theater), and Lenin’s Embalmers (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regionally, his work has been seen in Invisible Man (Court Theatre), ReEntry (Center Stage, Round House Theatre, and Actors Theater of Louisville), and La Casa de los Espiritus (Mori Theater). He has also designed for The Directors Company, Theater Mitu, Electric Pear, Shalimar, SummerStage, Little Opera Theater, and The New Ensemble. alexbascokoch.com.

Meg Tracy Leddy* (Production Stage Manager) has previous credits that include Arnie Louis and Bob, Julius Caesar, The Glass Menagerie, and A Lie of the Mind (Trinity Repertory Company), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), The Rant ­and Hedda Gabler (The Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre), Out of Sterno (Gloucester Stage Company), West Side Story and Sister Act (Assistant Stage Manager, Theatre By The Sea), Guys & Dolls (Assistant Stage Manager, Ocean State Theatre Company), The Seagull (The Chekhov Project at Lake Lucille), The Traveling Companion and A White Substance (Absolute Theater Festival: Dublin, Ireland), and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and The Stairs to the Roof (ART/MXAT Institute).

Jeremiah Mullane* (Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington having previously stage managed How I Learned What I Learned, Disgraced, Choice, The Second Girl, Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Seagull, The Cocktail Hour, The Jungle Book, and Invisible Man. He has regional credits that include Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Blood on the Snow at Boston’s Old State House (The Bostonian Society), First You Dream and (The Kennedy Center), Really Really, The Boy Detective Fails, Chess, [title of show], and Giant (Signature Theatre), and As You Like It, The Alchemist, The Way of the World, Julius Caesar, and Major Barbara (Shakespeare Theatre Company). He is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in drama and computer science.

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,

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ABOUT THE COMPANY TIGER STYLE! TIGER 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 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 production of Can You Forgive Her? at the . 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,

* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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ABOUT THE COMPANY TIGER STYLE! TIGER 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 , Time Out, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsday, Variety, , The Evening Standard, The Boston Globe, and Improper Bostonian, and he received an Honorable Mention for 2013 Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe Magazine.

Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington’s administrative and financial operations since 1982, 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 th 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 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 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.

Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 16th season at the Huntington. 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 (), The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn), Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), Desdemona (), 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 award-winning 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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WBUR_NIBP_HAND_Huntington_475x775nb_adƒ.indd 1 1/29/16 11:59 AM 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 33,000 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.

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David R. Epstein James J. Dillon James Petosa Chairman Betsy Banks Epstein Bryan Rafanelli Peter Fiedler Mitchell J. Roberts Sharon Malt William Finard Joseph V. Roller II President David Firestone Robert H. Scott John Frishkopf John D. Spooner Carol B. Langer Thomas Hamilton III Wendell Taylor Treasurer Cassandra Hyland Linda H. Thomas Henderson Linda Waintrup Sherryl Cohen Arthur C. Hodges J. David Wimberly Clerk Frederick Jamieson Veronica Wiseman Susan B. Kaplan Mary Wolfson Carole Alkins Michelle Karol Fancy Zilberfarb David Altshuler Seth Kaufman Neal Balkowitsch David Leathers Warren R. Radtke Michael Brown William P. McQuillan Trustee Emeritus John Cini Ann Merrifield Gerard H. Cohen Sandra Moose John Cohen Anne M. Morgan Carol G. Deane Cokie Perry

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John Cohen Paul Greenfield Noel McCoy Tania Phillips Ann T. Hall Thalia Meehan Co-Chairs Ann-Ellen Hornidge Daniel A. Mullin Janice Hunt Sally C. Reid Nancy S. Adams Alan S. Johnson Gail Roberts Kitty Ames Katherine Jones Juliet Schnell Turner Nancy Brickley Nada Despotovich Kane Tracey A. West Jim Burns Linda Kanner Caleb White Suzanne Chapman Christopher Kimball John Taylor Williams Bette Cohen Victoria Knox Bertie Woeltz J. William Codinha Christine Kondoleon Christopher R. Yens Tenney Cover Loren Kovalcik Linda Zug Elizabeth Cregger Sherry Lang Catherine Creighton Joie Lemaitre JoAnne W. Dickinson Debbie Lewis Susan Ellerin Tracie Longman Deborah First Nancy Lukitsh as of September 23, 2016 Anne H. Fitzpatrick Rumena Manolova-Senchak Maria Farley Gerrity Charles Marz

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 25 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 Cokie and Lee Perry J. William Codinha and ($100,000+) Howard and Veronica Carolyn Thayer Ross Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Wiseman Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts Carol G. Deane 1 anonymous gift Betsy and David Cregger Albert W. Merck Laura and Neil Cronin 1997 Family Trust Directors Circle Amey A. Defriez Nancy and Edward Roberts ($10,000-$14,999) Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Mr. J. David Wimberly Neal Balkowitsch and Margaret and Donald Nelson Eliezer Rapaport Executive Producers Circle Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes Jennifer Eckert and ($50,000-$99,999) Fay Chandler‡ Richard D’Amore Dr. John and Bette Cohen Karen and David Firestone Mr. Robert Fine and Betsy and David Epstein John Frishkopf Mr. Matthew Fine Gardner C. Hendrie Karen and Gary Gregg Debbie and Bob First, and Karen Johansen Julie and Jordan Hitch in memory of Susan Spooner Carol B. Langer Nada Despotovich Kane Donald Fulton Sharon and Brad Malt Marjie and Robert Kargman Ann and John Hall Jane and Neil Pappalardo Loren B. Kovalcik/ Tom and Nancy Hamilton Mitchell and Jill Roberts Inte Pros Consulting Scottie Held Linda and Daniel Waintrup Joie Lemaitre Ned Murphy and 2 anonymous gifts Alan and Harriet Lewis Ann-Ellen Hornidge Mr. and Mrs. David Long Alan Johnson Artistic Producers Circle Tracie L. Longman and Seth and Mary Kaufman ($25,000-$49,999) Chaitanya Kanojia Vicki and Northrup Knox Arthur C. and Paula and Bill O’Keeffe Christine Kondoleon and Eloise W. Hodges Jeffrey Dover and Frederic Wittmann Barbara and Amos Hostetter Tania Phillips David A. Kronman Jane and Fred Jamieson Robert M. Rosenberg, Cecile and Fraser Lemley Susan and David Leathers in honor of Mary Wolfson John and Jean Lippincott William and Helen Pounds Jan and Joe Roller The Mancuso Family John D. Spooner Marie Rotti Marion Martin, in memory of Faith and Joseph Tiberio Dr. Paul S. Russell Travis John Martin Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan Sharon Miller Linda and Brooks Zug Linda H. Thomas Daniel A. Mullin Anonymous, celebrating 1 anonymous gift Dr. and Mrs. John the Huntington’s William Poduska, Sr. President Sharon Malt and Playwrights Circle Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson Chairman David Epstein ($5,000-$9,999) Sally C. Reid and Nancy Adams and John D. Sigel Associate Producers Circle John Burgress Gail Roberts ($15,000-$24,999) Charles and Kathleen Ames Darin S. Samaraweera Stephen Chapman Camilla Bennett Marilyn and Jay Sarles Denise and William Finard Coralie Berg and M. H. Sirvetz Cassandra Hyland Henderson Steve Schwartz Wendell Taylor Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Carolyn Birmingham Jean C. Tempel Family Foundation, Inc./ Amy and Joshua Boger John Travis Susan B. Kaplan and Susan and Michael Brown Juliet Schnell Turner Nancy and Mark Belsky Jim Burns Roberta and Stephen R. Adrienne Kimball Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Weiner Bill and Linda McQuillan Suzanne Chapman Mary Wolfson Wayne Davis and Brant Cheikes and Justin and Genevieve Wyner Ann Merrifield Janine Papesh Christopher R. Yens Ms. Anne M. Morgan John Cini and Star Lancaster and Temple V. Gill

26 TIGER STYLE! THE HUNTINGTON CIRCLE (continued)

Dr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Janice and Roger Hunt Jeffrey L. Zilberfarb Owen W. Robbins Margaret Jackson and 1 anonymous gift Darin S. Samaraweera Peter Harrington Vivian and Lionel Spiro Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Designers Circle Bruce and Emily Stangle T. Hibbard, in honor of ($2,500-$4,999) Estate of Demetre J. Steffon‡ David Wimberly Bruce and Denise Bauman Helen and Jack Stewart Holly and Bruce Johnstone, Nancy and Richard Brickley Beth and Michael Stonebraker in honor of John D. Spooner Kevin and Virginia Byrne Joanna and Nigel Travis Kathy and Hubie Jones Betsy Cabot Drs. Stephen and Beth Trehu Jill and Stephen Karp Suzanne and Bert Capone Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Paul and Elizabeth Kastner Julian and Barbara Cherubini Pamela Tucker and Susan Kirk Nancy Ciaranello George Pettee Paul and Tracy Klein McLane and Tenney Cover Elizabeth and Caleb White Louise Kwan Catherine and Peter Creighton Ike Williams Jon Levy Charles and JoAnne Dickinson Bertie and Anthony Woeltz Ann D. Macomber Ellen and Kevin Donoghue Sally and Richard Zeckhauser Stuart and Yvonne Madnick Virginia Drachman and Shelley and Brad Marcus Douglas Jones Actors Circle Mike and Mary McConnell Susan Ellerin ($1,500-$2,499) Louise and Sandy McGinnes Winifred Ewing Alice and Walter Abrams Sarah M. McGinty Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Carole and Leonard Alkins Anik and Sita Mercheas Anne H. Fitzpatrick Liliana and Hillel Bachrach Neal and Lynne Miller Newell Flather Kate and Gordon Baty Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, Maria and Daniel Gerrity Deborah L. Benson and in memory of Paul Greenfield and Frederic J. Marx Virginia Wimberly Sandy Steele Jeff and Jody Black Mr. and Mrs. William Mullin Betsy and David Harris Joseph L. Bower and Bob and Alison Murchison Estate of Carmella M. Hilbert‡ Elizabeth Potter Joy Pak and David Deutsch Prof. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Morton Z. Hoffman Rosalie Florence Cohen Dr. Gerald Pier Linda and Steven Kanner Ken and Ginny Colburn Meredith and Bob Pitts Mary S. and Duncan David Dalena and Steven J. Ralston and Kennedy Brian Patton William Robert Hair Richard and Dorothy Koerner Lynn and Bruce Dayton Christine and David Root Susan and David Kohen Dean K. Denniston, Jr. Diane Rosenberg Alvin and Barbara Krakow Tim and Linda Diering Susan and Geoffrey Rowley Ted and Ann Kurland Richard Donoho Irvine and Louise Rusk Sherry Lang Jonathan Dyer and Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Thomas Foran Jane E. Shattuck Deborah Lewis and Stephen Elman and Gilda Slifka Robert Grinberg Joanne D’Alcomo The Spector Family Nancy Lukitsh Jerome and Vivien Facher John H. Straus and Joseph Machera Barbara and Larry Farrer Liza Ketchum Rumena and Alexander Norman and Madeleine Gaut Lise and Myles Striar Senchak Eric P. Geller and Cathy Thorn Ben and Kate Taylor Charles Marz Mark E. Glasser and Kenneth R. Traub and Jack Fabiano and Noel McCoy Frank G. McWeeny Pamela K. Cohen Thalia Meehan and Drs. Laura Green and Mindee Wasserman Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw David Golan Jerold and Abbe Beth Young Amy Merrill Mary Beth and Chris Gordon 3 anonymous gifts Charles Merrill and Peter and Jacqueline Gordon Julie Boudreaux Phil Gormley & Erica Bisguier s Member of The Hunt, the Jonette Nagai and Katherine Haltom Huntington’s young donor program Stephen O’Brien Jay and Donna Hanflig Jerry Nelson H. Patricia Hanna ‡ Deceased Coleen and David Pantalone Mr. and Mrs. Jackie and Bob Pascucci James L. Hartmann This list reflects gifts received during Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell Barbara Hirshfield and the 14 months prior to Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy Cary Coen, in honor of September 23, 2016. Victoria and John Rizzi Gerry and Sherry Cohen

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Featured Role ($500 - $749) Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler • Auli and Ken Batts • Richard R. Beaty • Danielle Belanger and Robert Sparkes • Martin S. Berman and Mary Ann Jasienowski • William Bloor • Stephen and Traudy Bradley • Frank B. Mead • Jeremiah J. Bresnahan • Lee and Pam Bromberg • Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch • Thomas Burger and Andree Robert • Diane Burns • Robert Capliss • A. William and Carol Caporizzo • Carol Chandler • John Clippinger • Connie Coburn and James Houghton • Alison Conant and Richard Frank • Anne Crowley • Lloyd and Gene Dahmen • Dammann Boston Fund • Marguerite Davoren • Terry O. Decima • Judy DeFilippo • George Dhionis • Maggi Farrell • Sara and James Feldman • Donald and Catherine Frederico • Edward Glazer • Rimma Gluzman • Deborah Goddard • Amy Gould • Amelia and William Graham • Irene and Stephen Grolnic • Steven and Barbara Grossman, in honor of Michael Maso • David Grossman • Gail and Jan Hardenbergh • Eunice Harps • Terry Rockefeller and William Harris • Dr. Galen Henderson and Dr. Vanessa Britto • Kathleen Henry and Kim Maarkand • Andrew Himmelblau • Laura Hodges and Scott Taylor • Sherry Jacobs • Ernest and Madeline Jacquet • Peter Jenney • Molly Johnston • Julia Karols • Jane Katims • Michael and Dona Kemp • Gail King and Christopher Condon • Jason Knutson • John and Sharon Koch • Jeanne and Allen Krieger • Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik • Anne LaCourt • Stewart and Rhonda Lassner • Jenny and Jay Leopold • Babette and Peter Loring • Priscilla Krey Loring • Mary McFadden • Annette and Daniel McIntyre • Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold • Joseph Misdraji • Harry and Ruth Montague • John W. Moore • Mark Nelke • Constance Page • Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt • Katharine Reardon • Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs • Margaret Ridge • Lily and Gerald Riffelmacher • Richard Roberts • Sue Robinson • Churchill and Suzanne Rood, in honor of David Wimberly • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg • Robert and Pauline Rothenberg • Kathleen and William Rousseau • Rohini Sakhuja • Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels • Diane and Richard Schmalensee • William Schutten • Mark Smith and John O’Keefe • Robert Stuart • Richard A. Sweeney • Mary Verhage • Scott and Brenda Warner • Mrs. Lewis R. Weintraub • Constance V. R. White • Karolye White • Dr. Elaine Woo • 8 anonymous gifts

Supporting Role ($250 - $499) Marilyn and Bill Adams • James Alexander • Michael Ansara • Tom Austin • Jeannine M. Ayotte • Robert Banker • Michelle Barbera, in honor of Theodore Barbera • Robin Barnes and David Bor • Beth Barrett • Elizabeth Barrett • David Barry • Molly and John Beard • Kathleen Beckman • K. Michael Bent • Jonas Berman • Clark and Susana Bernard • Jerry M. Bernhard • Ky and Christina Bertolis • Robert Bienkowski • Clinton Blackburns • Donald and Ellen Bloch • Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom • Scott Chisholm and Afshan Bokhari • S. Britt • Barry and Ellen Brown • Teresa Brown • Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld • Allan and Rhea Bufferd • Eric Butlers • Bismarck and Ingrid Cadet • Charles Carr • Carrig Kitchens LLC • Elyse D. Cherry • Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. • Mary E. Chin • Andrea and Jon Clardy • Grace D. Clark

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 29 FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued)

• Priscilla Cogan • 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 • Josh and Jennifer Davis • Ray and Debra De Rise • Arlene Delaney • Charlotte Delaney and Steve Pattyson • Sara Delano • David Delany • Suzanne DelVecchio • Jane and Stephen Deutsch • Dr. William Dickens • Reed Dickinson • Beatrice and William Dole • Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey • Alice E. Downing • Owen Doyle • David and Eleanor Drachman • Mary Ann Driscoll • Mr. Glenn Edelson • Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak • Andrew Eschtruth and Elana Varon • Jose Estabil • Dr. Charles Fine • Kathleen McGrath Fitts • Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Flusberg • Judy Foster • Patricia A. Fraser, M.D., in memory of Ivy Markes Fraser • David Frink • Leslie and Michael Gaffin • William Gault • Jack and Maureen Ghublikian • Lori and Michael Gilman • Ronald Goldstein • David Govonlus • 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 • Rosalind Hill • Jim Hoben • Wanda Holland Greene, in honor of Ken Berman • Mark and Cindy Holthouse • Mary Horvath • Bruce Howlett • Maggie Huff-Rousselle • Mrs. Donald Hunsicker • Robert Hutchison, Jr. • Patricia and David Immen • Mr. and Mrs. Howard • Maggie Jacksons • Toini and Carl Jaffe • Norman W. Johnson • Jessica Kadar • John Quackenbush and Mary Kalamaras • Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski • Nancy R. Karp • Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet • Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard • Paul Kelly • Jill Kneerim • Nancy F. Korman • Charlotte Krentzel • Joan Kuhn • George Langer • Carol Lazarus • Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape • Stacey and David Lee • Naomi Leeper • Patricia Leighfield • Richard and Kathleen Leitermann • Timothy Leland and Julie Hatfield • Ms. Susan Lincoln • Mark H. Lippolt • Virginia Litle • Jim and Allie Loehlin • Dr. Jo Loughnane • Dennis and Nancy Lynch • Peter and Yvette Madany • James D. Maupin • Dr. Rosemary Mazanet • Michael and Barbra Ann McCahill • Kevin McCarthy • Robert McCarty • Lindsay McNair • Lynne Menichetti • Ronald Mignery • Forrest and Sara Milder • Michael and Debby Miller • Mrs. Fermo A. Bianchi • Lacie and Michael Milton • Saro and Elizabeth Minassian • Paula Monbouquette and Kevin McElroy • Gloria and Deborah Monosson • Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan • Eileen Murray • Fred Nagle

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• Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Newbury, Jr. • Mary Norato-Indeglia • Richard Belin and Rosanne O’Brien • Kathryn O’Connell • Chris and Nancy Oddleifson • Roy and Kathleen Olesky • James Orleans and Nancy Walker • RADM and Mrs. J. Clarke Orzalli • Mary Owens • William Pananos • Edith Parekh, in honor of Anissa Parekh • Ellen C. Perrin • Barbara and Harry Photopoulos • Martha and Joel Pierce • Mr. and Mrs. Eric Pilsmaker • Russell Pollock • James and Jeanette Post • James Poterba and Nancy Rose • Allison Powers • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx • Kathleen Quillard, in honor of Kara Amelia Quillard’s acting career • Kerry Mulligan Railey • Robert Raymond • Lynn and John Reichenbach • Helen Robertson • Patricia Robinson • Barbara Roby • Leila Joy Rosenthal • Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Magi McKinnies • Farley Sullivan and Jeff Roy • Debra Ruder • Susan Rushfirth • Dr. Lucienne Sanchez • Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Sandler • Mr. Frank Santangelo • Robert and Susan Schechter • Kim and Eric Schultz • Ivy and Fran Scricco • Irene Sege • Mark Seliber • Jim A. Sersich • Michael Seward • Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline • Elisabeth Shields • James Shields and Gayle Merling • David W Shukra and Clifford S Wunderlich • David Siegel • Ellen Simons • Donald S. Sisson • Peter L. Smith and Donna J. Coletti • Rachel Smith • Paula and Joseph Spound • Martha Stanton • Naomi Stearns, in honor of Bill & Dee Finard • Lee Steele • Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle • Bob Stevenson • Laurin Stoler • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Glenn and Katherine Strehle • Darline Lewis and Marshall Sugarman • Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit • David Swartz and Lisa Fitzgerald • Jane Talcott • Patrick Tally • Jacob Taylor and Jean Park • Nancy Temple • Janet Testa • Patricia Tibbetts • Edwin and Joan Tiffany • Dawn Tucker • Judith Tucker • Mr. and Mrs. Mario Umana • Rosamond B. Vaule • Daniel Wakabayashi • Rabbi and Mrs. Frank Waldorf • Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther • Harvey and Joelle Wartosky • Susan Weiler • Scott Weiss • Richard and Frances Winneg • Elizabeth P. Wolf • Pamela Wood and Bruce Kirch • 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 • 10 anonymous gifts This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to September 23, 2016.

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 31 CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT DONORS

The Huntington Theatre Company is grateful to receive support from a wide range of corporations, foundations, and government agencies that support the Huntington’s annual operations, as well as our award-winning productions and education and community programs. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Diana Jacobs-Komisar, Institutional Giving Manager, at 617 273 1514 or [email protected].

Grand Patron Associate Producers Circle Designers Circle Boston University ($15,000-$24,999) ($2,500-$4,999) BPS Arts Expansion Fund at Boston Cultural Council Lead Producers Circle EdVestors Cambridge Savings Bank ($100,000+) Harold and Mimi Steinberg Jackson and Irene Golden The Andrew W. Mellon Charitable Trust 1989 Charitable Trust Foundation MEDITECH Nixon Peabody The Barr Foundation Danversbank Charitable Klarman Family Foundation Directors Circle Foundation and with the Barr-Klarman ($10,000-$14,999) People’s United Bank Arts Capacity Alfred E. Chase Roy A. Hunt Foundation Building Initiative Charitable Foundation Wilson Butler Architects The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Lucy R. Sprague Memorial Fund Actors Circle Executive Producers Circle Santander ($1,500-$2,499) ($50,000-$99,999) TDC Bank of America* AAFCPAs The Tiny Tiger Foundation Massachusetts Cultural Staples Foundation Council* Playwrights Circle ($5,000- Surdna Foundation Theatre Communications $9,999) Group Cue Ball Group * Education & community Goodwin Procter LLP programs donor Artistic Producers Circle Nutter McLennen & Fish ** Includes in-kind support ($25,000-$49,999) Proskauer Rose LLP The Boston Foundation Ropes & Gray LLP Edgerton Foundation Vertex Pharmaceuticals Hershey Family Foundation Worldwide Kingsbury Road Schrafft Charitable Trust Charitable Foundation WilmerHale Liberty Mutual Insurance National Endowment for the Arts

32 TIGER STYLE! 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 Joie Lemaitre Howard H. Bengele Sharon and Brad Malt Suzanne Chapman Bill and Linda McQuillan Brant A. Cheikes Mary C. O’Donnell Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Linda and Daniel Waintrup Carol G. Deane Margaret J. White Susan Ellerin Mr. J. David Wimberly Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Veronica and Howard Wiseman Jane and Fred Jamieson Justin and Genevieve Wyner Carol B. Langer 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 David Dalena, Senior Director of External Relations, at 617 273 1547 or [email protected].

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 33 CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA • GENERAL INFORMATION

Contact Information Refreshments for the Huntington Theatre Company Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available The Huntington Theatre Company performs in before opening curtain and during intermission in the three beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston main lobby. Food is not permitted inside the theatre. neighborhoods. The 890-seat Boston University Theatre Drinks purchased at concessions are permitted inside is on the Avenue of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), the theatre. diagonally across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and 250-seat Roberts Studio Babes in Arms Theatre are part of the Calderwood Pavilion in the Children under the age of five are not permitted in historic South End, on the campus of the Boston Center the theatre. for the Arts (527 ). Cameras Website: huntingtontheatre.org The use of all cameras and recording devices, including Box Office: 617 266 0800 cell phone cameras, in the theatre is strictly prohibited. Box Office fax: 617 421 9674 Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Pagers and Cellular Phones Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during Administrative office fax: 617 353 8300 the performance. Calderwood Theatre Lost and Found: 617 933 8608 BU Theatre Lost and Found: 617 266 1666 Wheelchair Accessibility The Calderwood Pavilion is fully accessible, Box Office Hours and can accommodate The Box Office is generally open Tuesday-Saturday, both wheelchair and companion noon-curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon-curtain (or 4pm). seating in the orchestra and mezzanine Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, sections. Please notify us when you purchase your please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office tickets if wheelchair accommodations will be required at 617 266 0800. and confirm arrangements with the House Manager at 617 933 8672. Huntington Group Discounts Discounts available for groups of 10 or more, plus Hearing Enhancement groups have access to backstage tours, talks with artists, The Calderwood Pavilion is equipped and space for receptions. Contact Jon Slater for more with an FM hearing enhancement system. information at 617 273 1657 or Wireless headphones are available free of [email protected]. charge at the coat check in the main lobby for your use during a performance. Public Transportation We encourage patrons to use public transportation Restrooms to the Calderwood Pavilion whenever possible. The Located in the main lobby and mezzanine lobby. Pavilion is located near the MBTA Green Line Copley All restrooms are wheelchair-accessible. and Arlington Stations; Orange Line and Commuter Rail Back Bay Station; and the Tremont Street & Union Park Coat Check stop on the #43 Bus which travels between Park Street Located in the main lobby. and Ruggles Station. For more information, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office. If You Arrive Late In consideration of our actors and other audience Parking near the Calderwood Pavilion members, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of Parking is available at the Atelier 505 Parking Garage the management. located next to the Calderwood Pavilion at 505 Tremont Street (entrance on Warren Avenue), the If Your Plans Change Garage @ 100 Clarendon Street, and other nearby We hate to see empty seats when so many of our locations. For more information about parking, please performances sell out. Please consider donating any visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office at tickets you can’t use. For more information please call 617 266 0800. the Box Office at 617 266 0800. Please note that these parking options are independently Large Print Programs owned and operated, and are not affiliated with the Large print programs are free of charge and are available Huntington or the Calderwood Pavilion. at the coat check.

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 35 STAFF

Peter DuBois Michael Maso Norma Jean Calderwood Managing Director Artistic Director

ADMINISTRATION Box Office Associates...... Brittany Bonnell, Brenton Thurston General Manager...... Sondra R. Katz Full-Time Customer Service Reps...... Christine Lefter, Associate General Manager...... Conwell Worthington III Tasha Matthews, Ellie Solomon, Nicole Williams Company Manager...... Jazzmin Bonner Customer Service Reps...... Victoria Barry, Nick Boonstra, Assistant Company Manager...... Meagan Garcia Lizzie Benway, Katelyn Burkhart, Victoria Cunha, Assistant to the Managing Director...... Gabrielle Jaques Sue Dietlin, Taylor Granger, Mary Olsen, Katelyn Reinert, Management Assistant...... Annie Walsh Katie Sumi, Regine Vital, Yurika Watanabe BU Theatre ARTISTIC BU Theatre House Manager...... Daniel Morris Producing Director...... Christopher Wigle Assistant House Managers...... Meg Ciabotti, Brian Dudley Director of New Work...... Lisa Timmel Front of House Staff...... Julie Cameron, Associate Producer...... M. Bevin O’Gara Michael Choueiri, Jailyn Duong, Kendrick Terrell Evans, Artistic Programs & Dramaturgy...... Charles Haugland Ariana Goldsworthy, Robin Goldberg, Dalton Gordon, Assistant to the Artistic Director...... Stephanie LeBolt Sierra Grabowska, Zachary McPheeters, Neil Novello, Playwright-In-Residence...... Melinda Lopez Brianna Randolph, Ivy Ryan, Kathleen Sansone, Literary Apprentice...... Sarah Schnebly Geri Spanek, Madeline Wigon Producing Apprentice...... Justin Samoy Maintenance...... Ronald Belmonte, Huntington Playwriting Fellows...... Mia Chung, Kenneth Carter, Gary Santos Thom Dunn, John J King, Sam Marks, Nina Louise Morrison, Deborah Salem Smith Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA BU Graduate Directors...... Zohar Fuller, Kelly Galvin, Calderwood Pavilion Manager...... Joey Riddle Calderwood Pavilion Rentals Coordinator...... Katie Most Adam Kassim, Jeremy Ohringer, Calderwood Pavilion House Manager...... Katrina Alix Stephen Pick, Jillian Robertson Calderwood Pavilion Management Assistant...... Gabe Hughes EXTERNAL RELATIONS House Electrician...... Mercedes Roman-Manson Senior Director of External Relations...... David Dalena House Sound Operator...... Jesse McKenzie Director of Annual Giving & House Carpenter...... Mike Hamer Development Operations...... Joy Pak Wardrobe Run...... Barbara Crowther Director of Major Gifts...... Margaret J. White Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice...... Dalton Zogleman Major Gifts Officer...... Celina Valadao Assistant House Managers...... Paul Fox, Ksenia Lanin, Special Events Manager...... Kirsten Doyle Maura Neff Institutional Giving Manager...... Diana Jacobs-Komisar Front of House Staff...... Natasha Bonfield, Annual Fund & Research Coordinator...... Annalise Baird Mia Buchsbaum, Robert Caplis, Nick Coccoma, Development Database Coordinator...... Lisa McColgan Barbara Crowther, Talia Curtin, Linnea Donnelly, Development Associate...... Elizabeth MacLachlan Matt Feldman, Katie Flanagan, Madeleine Gibbons, Development Apprentice...... Sam Buntich Ryan Impagliazzo, Terry McCarthy, Laura Meilman, Maura Neff, Nick Perron, Phaedra Scott, Director of Marketing...... Temple Gill Ciera-Sadé Wade, Dalton Zogelman Associate Director of Marketing...... Meredith Mastroianni Custodians...... Jose Andrade Communications Manager...... Desiree Barry Security Coordinator...... Greg Haugh Tessitura Analytics Manager...... Derrick Martin Digital Content Manager...... Carolyn MacLeod Finance Promotions & Community Coordinator...... James Boyd Director of Financial Management...... Glenda Fishman Community Membership Accounting Manager...... June Zaidan Coordinator...... Candelaria Silva-Collins Accounting Coordinator...... Laura Casavant Creative Services Coordinator...... Dan Pecci Accountants...... Alexander, Aronson, Finning, CPA Marketing Associate...... Katie Iafolla Human Resources Marketing Apprentice...... Leah Reber Marketing Interns...... Phoebe North, Director of Human Resources...... Peggy J. Novello Human Resources Coordinator...... Michael Comey Sabrina Katz Payroll and Reporting Specialist...... April Swiniuch EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Administrative Support Assistant...... Kendrick Terrell Evans Director of Education...... Donna J. Glick Manager of Education Operations...... Meg O’Brien Information Technology Manager of Curriculum & Instruction...... Alexandra Smith IT Director...... Scott Poole Education Associate...... Marisa Jones Helpdesk Specialist...... Jevon Foster Education Interns...... Elizabeth Botelho, Daniella Forero Subscription and Box Office Teaching Artists...... Kortney Adams, Pascale Florestal, Audience Services Manager...... Jon Slater Naheem Garcia, Lydia Graeff, Keith Mascoll, Assistant Audience Services Manager...... Katie Catano Allie Meek, Anneke Reich BU Theatre Box Office Coordinator...... Victoria Swindle Pavilion Box Office Coordinator...... Noah Ingle Subscriptions Coordinator...... Amy Klesert

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PRODUCTION Costumes Production Manager ...... Todd D. Williams Costume Director...... Nancy Hamann Associate Production Manager...... Bethany Ford Assistant Costume Director...... Virginia V. Emerson Stage Management Apprentice...... Billy Cowles Costume Design Assistant...... Mary Lauve Graduate Assistant...... Emily Vaughn Head Draper...... Anita Canzian Costume Crafts Artisan/Dyer...... Denise M. Wallace-Spriggs Scenery First Hand...... Rebecca Hylton Technical Director...... Dan Ramirez Wardrobe Coordinator...... Christine Marr Associate Technical Director...... Adam Godbout Hair & Wig Run...... Susie Moncousky Assistant Technical Director...... Dan Oleksy Costume Apprentice...... Becky Thorogood Master Carpenter...... Larry Dersch Costume Intern...... Lauren Reuter Scenery Mechanic...... Jesse Washburn Carpenters...... Andrew Cancellieri, Electrics Milosz Gassan, Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon Master Electrician...... Katherine Herzig Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...... Carolyn Daitch Assistant Master Electrician...... Alisa Hartle Stage Carpenter...... Chris Largent Electrics Apprentice...... Paige Johnson Scenery Apprentice...... Grayson Basina Sound Properties Sound Supervisor...... Ben Emerson Properties Master...... Kristine Holmes Sound Engineer...... J. Jumbelic Assistant Properties Master...... Justin Seward Sound Apprentice...... Terrence Dowdye Properties Artisan...... Ian Thorsell Graduate Assistants...... Collin Barnum, Aubrey Dube Properties Run...... Andrew DeShazo BU SCHOOL OF THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF Properties Student Assistant...... Madison Suvunrungsi Theatre Complex Paints Production Manager...... Johnny Kontogiannis Charge Scenic Artist...... Kristin Krause Senior Staff Assistant Lead Scenic Artist...... Romina Diaz-Brarda Design & Production...... Renee Yancey Scenic Artist...... Chelsey Erskin Scene Shop Supervisor...... Paul Mayer BU Certificate Interns...... Katherine Keaton, Costume Shop Supervisor...... Karen Martakos Jaqueline Kemp, Lauren White

Additional Staff for Tiger Style!

Fight Consultant...... Angie Jepson Assistant to Lighting Designer...... Gifford Williams Assistant to the Director...... Michael Hisamoto Electricians....Carman Alfaro, Kevin Barnett, Alex Brandt, Harrison Production Assistants...... Sam Layco, Sammy Landau Burke, Shane Cassidy, Evey Connerty-Marin, Carpenters...... Bill Balmer, Ben Frechette, Rachael Hasse, Emily Crochetiere, Sumner Ellsworth, Kevin Fulton, Danny Hochster, Ana Weiss, Sid Wolf Aaron Henry, Kirt Kaminski, Becky Marsh, Taylor Ness, Properties Run...... Katie Sumi Brian Shaw, Slava Tchoul, Ali Witten Scenic Artist...... Hannah Joy Smith Deck Electrician...... Emma Soucy Costume Design Assistant...... Kathryn Schondek Assistant to Sound Designer...... J. Collin Priddy-Barnum Draper...... Therese Tresco Projections Programmer...... Taylor Ness Stitchers...... Michelle Villada, Jill Coleman Projections Technician...... Danny Carr

Special thanks to Alaine Alldaffer, Harriet Bass, and Jody Feldman.

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.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 37 GUIDE to LOCAL THEATRE OCTOBER– NOVEMBER 2016 Matthew Murphy

DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT FRENCH ACCENT: The Tony Award-winning stage AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, Citi Performing Arts Center, The adaptation of the classic, Oscar-winning film musical , 270 Tremont St., 800-982-2787. Oct 25–Nov An American in Paris debuts its national tour at The 6. Inspired by the Academy Award-winning film, this winner of Wang Theatre October 25–November 6. four Tony Awards opens its national tour in Boston and tells the romantic story about an American soldier, a mysterious French LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. AKEELAH AND THE BEE, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The Riverway, 617-879-2300. Oct 21–Nov 20. Akeelah is an BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., independent, 11-year-old girl with a razor-sharp mind and 800-BLUE-MAN. Ongoing. This giddily subversive off-Broad- an aptitude for spelling. Her courage and tenacity inspire the way hit serves up outrageous and inventive theatre where people of her neighborhood and might just take her all the way three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both contemporary from a Chicago housing development to the national spelling art and modern technology. Wry commentary and bemusing bee in this stage adaptation of the 2006 film. antics are matched only by the ingenious ways in which music and sound are created. APPROPRIATE, Trinity Repertory Company, The Dowling Theater, 201 Washington St., Providence, R.I., 401-351-4242. A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER, Citi Performing Oct 6–Nov 6. In this biting comic-drama, the estranged mem- Arts Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348- bers of the Lafayette family return home to their run-down 9738. Oct 18–23. The Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Arkansas estate after the passing of the family patriarch. this is the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir to As they sort through a lifetime of mementos, they discover a family fortune who sets out to jump the line of succession a gruesome relic that turns their reunion into an escalating by any means necessary. All the while, he’s got to juggle his series of shocks, showdowns and revelations. mistress (she’s after more than just love), his fiancée (she’s his cousin but who’s keeping track?) and the constant threat BEDROOM FARCE, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston of landing behind bars. University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-266-0800. Nov 11–Dec 11. Four couples and three bedrooms equals one MALA, Emerson/Jackie Liebergott Black Box at the Paramount hilarious night. Trevor and Susannah, with their marriage on Center, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Oct 27–Nov 20. the rocks, invade three bedrooms of their family and friends For her mother, Melinda is the bad daughter, “la mala.” But as over the course of an evening, spreading chaos in their wake. life would have it, she’s the most available daughter to accom- pany her mother through her last days. Funny, brutally honest BIG THE MUSICAL, The Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica and ultimately cathartic, Boston playwright Melinda Lopez’s new Plain, 617-524-3200. Nov 5–19. Meet Josh Baskin, a work puts a sharp focus on what it means to put our loved ones 12-year-old who grows up overnight after making a wish to first right to the very end. the Zoltar machine. Find out how he copes with his new world in this adaptation of the hit 1988 film. SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 the Shear Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Oct 13–16. Based on the hit gets knocked off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience film about con man Frank Abagnale, Jr., this musical features matches wits with the suspects to catch the killer in this music by , lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott wildly popular comedy. Wittman, and a book by Terrence McNally.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Trinity Repertory Company, The Chace Stage Theater, 201 Washington St., Providence, R.I., 401-351-4242. Spotlight Nov 5–Dec 31. Ebenezer Scrooge—a greedy, sour business- Building Audiences for man, infamous for his lack of Christmas cheer—is visited by three ghosts that give him the chance to examine his life. Greater Boston’s Outstanding Inspired to change his ways, Scrooge is wholly transformed by Not-For-Profit Performing Arts the spirit of Christmas in Dickens’ holiday classic. Organizations THE DONKEY SHOW, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Ongoing. Bringing the ultimate disco experience to Boston, this crazy circus of mirror balls, feathered divas, roller skaters and hustle queens tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through great ’70s anthems you know by heart. Catch Me if You Can • October 13–16 A musical based on the hit film. Music by EVERY 28 HOURS, Company One, Remis Auditorium, Museum Marc Shaiman. Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., 800-440-6975. Nov 5. Scott Wittman. Book by Terrence McNally. Every 28 hours in the U.S., a man, woman or child who identi- fies as black is murdered at the hands of a vigilante, security guard or police officer. Born in Ferguson, Mo., this project From the Ground Up • November 3–6 consists of 80 one-minute plays inspired by the work and New works by Sidra Bell, Omar Carrum and message of Black Lives Matter, written by 40-plus playwrights Claudia LaVista, Stephanie Martinez, and Tommie- who are part of a national movement initiated by theatre com- Waheed Evans. Cathy Young, artistic director. panies across the country. Tickets: 617-912-9222 or visit , Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Church of the bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/events Covenant, 67 Newbury St., 617-776-2200. Oct 5–Nov 6. A brilliant young man discovers himself at the intersection of devastating betrayals. If he acts, when? Hamlet straddles a fault line of family treachery, a chasm stretching out before LYRIC STAGE his conscience, in the Bard’s timeless masterwork.

HOW SOFT THE LINING, Bad Habit Productions, Wimberly A cracklingly smart political Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for thriller just in time for the the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Nov 5–20. Inspired climax of a suprising by the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckly, Mrs. election season. Lincoln’s freed black seamstress, the story is set in the White House after the assassination of the 16th president. This play by local writer Kirsten Greenidge explores both women’s lives and the primary events that brought them together during a October 21– critical moment in our nation’s history. November 13, 2016

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmount Ave., Hyde Park, 866-811-4111. Oct 28–Nov 6. Andrew Lloyd Webber and ’s groundbreaking rock Lyric Stage • Copley Square opera based on the final days in the life of Jesus Christ fea- 617-585-5678 • lyricstage.com tures such classic songs as “Everything’s Alright,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Superstar.” TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (IN SPACE), Theatre@First, Unity Somerville, 6 William St., Somerville, 888-874-7554. Nov Southern New England’s 11–19. Ferdinand of Space Station Navarre and his friends favorite holiday tradition! vow to avoid all terrestrial pleasures to pursue a life of study for the next three years, but when the of Aquitaine Charles and her ladies arrive at Space Station Navarre, the previously made oaths prove to be impossible to hold. Dickens’ A Christmas Carol , Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781-279- at Trinity Rep 2200. Nov 25–Dec 23. This unforgettable Tony Award-winning classic Broadway musical centers on the irrepressibly eccentric November 5– Mame Dennis, who lives a carefree life in 1920s New York December 31, 2016 until she unexpectedly becomes to her 10-year- old nephew, Patrick. Rather than change her ways, Mame For tickets and information visit trinityrep.com, introduces Patrick to all the wonder of her wild bohemian world call 401-351-4242 or visit the box office at while discovering the joy of having a family of her own. 201 Washington St., Providence

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MURDER FOR TWO, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-585-5678. Nov 25–Dec 24. In this witty, winking and musical homage to old-fashioned closed-room murder myster- ies, everyone is a suspect. One actor plays the detective, while another plays all the suspects—and they both play the piano!

MURPH, Open Theatre Project, Studio 52, 52 Everett St., Allston, [email protected]. Oct 20–29. Written by BEETHOVEN Dorchester playwright Catherine M. O’Neill, this political play puts ambitions, loyalty, the spin room and lots of secrets front EROICA in center as Rep. Kevin “Murph” Murphy, a member of the Massachusetts state legislature, reaches for higher office. Gary and Katie, his staffers, must decide if they are reaching with him, and if they do, what will it cost? RICHARD EGARR, CONDUCTOR OUR CARNAL HEARTS, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Nov 9–12. Written and starring performance artist Rachel Mars and featuring Mendelssohn: Symphony original music composed and arranged by Louise Mothersole, No. 4, Italian this is a gleeful, musical celebration of our competitive spirits, Beethoven: Symphony a joyous call for everyone we’ve ever wanted to be and every- No. 3, Eroica thing we’ve ever wanted to own.

FRI, OCT 28 AT 7:30PM PLANET OF WARRIOR-BUNNIES, Unreliable Narrator Theater SUN, OCT 30 AT 3:00PM Group, Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster St., Arlington, 781-648-6220. Oct 21–29. Intergalactic adventurer K’Tharr, SYMPHONY HALL a solemn and powerful warrior-bunny, returns to his home planet of Trepmalthok to find its honor under threat. The HANDELANDHAYDN.ORG Champion, a calculating demagogue, has hatched a scheme 617 266 3605 to wage war against Earth—making herself Emperor in the process. As civil war looms and friendships are tested, K’Tharr must save the Earth and hold the Empire together while figur- ing out who to trust.

REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN., Company One, Plaza The Best View Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933- 8600. Oct 21–Nov 19. Through vignettes that move at rapid- of Boston— fire pace, this New England premiere by Alice Birch morphs language and explodes boundaries to explore the myriad ways at Home or on the Go! women are styled, shaped and confined to fit society’s expecta- tions, asking the question: What happens when we rebel?

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Roberts Studio Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Oct 21–Nov 19. In Kander and Ebb’s final collaboration, they bring to light one of the most infamous events in American history: the shocking true story of nine African American boys jailed in Alabama in 1931 for a crime they did not commit. Featuring a period-specific mix of gospel, jazz and vaudeville, this audacious musical uses the construct of a minstrel show to tell the harrowing true story that provoked a national out- rage and helped launch the American civil rights movement.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company, Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley St., Roxbury, 800-838-3006. Oct 14–30. This playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute the official site of and socially vulnerable.

TOMES OF TERROR: CAMPFIRE TALES, The Post-Meridian The official guide To bosTon Radio Players, Responsible Grace Church, 204 Elm St., Somerville, 800-838-3006. Oct 21–29. This annual Halloween show featuring a shared ensemble cast performing an anthol- 40 TIGER STYLE! GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) ON SALE NOW! ogy of urban legends, ghost stories and other creepy campfire stories woven together with interstitial dialogue and presented as stories told by campers around a campfire. Playwright Melinda Lopez performs TOP EYE OPEN: THE ESCAPE OF SHADRACH, Hibernian Hall, a moving and humorous exploration 184 Dudley St., Roxbury, 617-541-3900. Nov 10–19. This play with music tells the story of the first person arrested of LOVE, LOSS, and family. in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Law in 1851, his forc- ible abduction from the federal courthouse by the League of Freedom and his flight toward Canada.

TWELFTH NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Anthem Theatre Company, Plaza Black Box Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Oct 27–Nov 5. Just in time for Halloween comes this zombie-laden twist to Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. This campy, gory adap- tation brings the undead to Illyria and begs the question, “If music be the food of love, why are you eating my arm?”

UNCANNY VALLEY, Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781-279-2200. Oct 6–23. Meet Julian, the robotic product of a life extension laboratory, and Claire, the neurosci- entist tasked with teaching him to be human. This mesmer- izing examination of the future travels to the ethical heart of humankind’s bid to outrace mortality. Filled with moral ambi- guity, this taut, smart drama asks how far are we willing to go to forget, while insisting on never being forgotten? TICKETS START AT WARRIOR CLASS, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., $20 617-585-5678. Oct 21–Nov 13. In this taut political drama by Kenneth Lin, Julius Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants and a decorated war veteran, has a seemingly limitless political career ahead of him. When someone from his past, however, threatens to reveal a college transgression, it may destroy everything he has built.

WEST SIDE STORY, North Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Road, Beverly, 978-232-7200. Nov 1–20. The Montagues MALA and the Capulets become the Jets and the Sharks in this New York City-set classic inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and MELINDA LOPEZ Juliet. Potential lovers Maria and Tony try to connect against a backdrop of gang violence and bitter rivalry, all set to a classic Leonard Bernstein score with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

WHEN JANUARY FEELS LIKE SUMMER, Underground Railway Theater, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., OCT 27 – NOV 20 Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Oct 20–Nov 13. In Central Harlem EMERSON/JACKIE LIEBERGOTT during a mysteriously warm winter, the Hindu God Ganesh BLACK BOX presides over the destinies of five people on paths of self- discovery and transformation as their disparate lives intersect. ARTSEMERSON.ORG , The Hub Theatre Company of Boston, First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., 877-849-5327. Nov 4–19. Margaret 617.824.8400 Edson’s powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning play exam- ines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence’s unifying experiences—mortality—while she also OR CHOOSE YOUR OWN probes the vital importance of human relationships. 4-SHOW PACKAGE YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, The Longwood Players, Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Massachusetts Ave., STARTING AT $74 Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Nov 11–19. When Tony Kirby falls in love with Alice Sycamore, he brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore’s home—on exactly the wrong evening. Familial conflict ensues as the Kirbys balk at the seemingly crazy antics of the Sycamores and their circle in this classic musical by and George S. Kaufman. HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 41 NOMINATED FOR (continued) 11 TONY AWARDS GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE

DANCE FROM THE GROUND UP, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Nov 3–6. This program features new works created for conservatory dancers by acclaimed choreographers Sidra Bell, Omar Carrum and Claudia LaVista, Stephanie Martinez and Tommie-Waheed Evans, and a classical pas de deux accompanied by Boston Conservatory Orchestra.

LE CORSAIRE, Boston Ballet, , 539 Washington St., 617-695-6955. Oct 27–Nov 6. This classical ballet is steeped in swashbuckling adventure and passionate romance. A dashing pirate battles to rescue his beloved from the Pasha’s harem with danger looming at every turn—in opulent palaces, secret caves and on the turbulent sea.

THE NUTCRACKER, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539 music & lyrics by book by & DAVID THOMPSON Washington St., 617-695-6955. Nov 25–Dec 31. Boston’s original direction & choreography by favorite holiday tradition returns. Join Clara on her magical SUSAN STROMAN journey through an enchanted winter wonderland to a palace directed by musical direction by choreography by PAUL DAIGNEAULT MATTHEW STERN ILYSE ROBBINS of sugary confections, featuring choreography by Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen and Tchaikovsky’s classic score.

STARTS OCT 21 VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY, Citi Performing Arts Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Oct 29 & 30. The Jerusalem-based company has become internation- BE A PART OF ally celebrated not only for its artistic innovation but also for their unwavering commitment to the intersections of creativity, social responsibility and ecological sustainability. SPEAKEASYSTAGE.COM OPERA ALCINA, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Nov 17–20. Magic spells, mistaken identities, romantic obsessions, missing loved ones and illusions shat- tered by truth comprise the landscape of the enchanted island belonging to the sister sorceresses Alcina and Morgana in this beloved opera seria sung in Italian and featuring music by George Frideric Handel.

GREEK, Boston Lyric Opera, Emerson/Paramount Center Mainstage, 559 Washington St., 617-542-6772. Nov 16–20. Set in London’s East End during the tumultuous 1980s, this SUPPORTING retelling of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King follows Eddy as he explores London, murder and sex before discovering the fam- ily ties that seal his fate. With music influences that range HEALTHY OUTCOMES from jazz to daring percussion to sounds of the streets, this tragedy based on Steven Berkoff’s stage play is a defiant, profane detonation of a story millennia old.

FREE 3-DAY PASS OPERA BITES, Boston Opera Collaborative, Edward M. Pickman COME IN FOR A TOUR TODAY! Hall at Longy School of Music of Bard College, 27 Garden St., Cambridge, 617-517-5883. Nov 11–13. Eight short works by This pass entitles an individual or family to Jonathan Bailey Holland, Tom Cipullo, Daniela DeMatos, John experience the YMCA for one week before Greer, Eva Kendrick, Rhiannon Randle, Tony Solitro and Jeremy 12/31/2016. Valid for new free trial participants Van Buskirk are presented in this feast of 10-minute operas. over the age of 18. Government issued VERSAILLES, Boston Early Music Festival, New England identification is required to enter the YMCA. Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., 617-585-1260. Nov 26 & 27. In this all-new production, King Louis XIV has transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that serves as the seat of government and HUNTINGTON AVENUE YMCA culture in . Enjoy two chamber operas—Charpentier’s 316 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02110 Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles—exalting the splendor and majesty of the palace and its gardens, along with excerpts from Lully’s Atys.

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ARAGOSTA BAR & BISTRO, Three Battery Wharf, 617- 994-9001. 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.

BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-670- 0320. 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 backyard- inspired 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 inspira- tion 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 spec- tacular floor-to-ceiling windows, blu is perfect for a pre-show dinner, corporate events, weddings, cocktail receptions and private dining. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., D Mon–Sat NEW ENGLAND’S 5–10 p.m. blurestaurant.com. BEST VIEW CITYPLACE, On Stuart Street between Tremont and S. Charles streets in the State Transportation Building. Enjoy handcrafted BOSTON’S MOST ROMANTIC beers at Rock Bottom Brewery, delicious treats from Panera FINE DINING EXPERIENCE 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. BRUNCH / LUNCH CLINK, The Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., 617-224-4004. COCKTAILS / DINNER Clink serves the freshest North Atlantic seafood, seasonal New England fare and delicious artisanal meats, highlights of 52ND FLOOR OF PRUDENTIAL TOWER a menu that artfully marries European culinary tradition with TOPOFTHEHUB.NET contemporary American innovation. The dining room features CALL: (617) 536-1775 vestiges of original jail cells and an open kitchen, while gold leather seats, butcher block tables and granite accents add to HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 43 BOSTON DINING GUIDE (continued) the contemporary style. Nightly, Clink’s lobby bar draws urban & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 dwellers and hotel guests to an energetic and social nightlife p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. 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. THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a two- story townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor DARRYL’S CORNER BAR & KITCHEN, 604 Columbus Ave., patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French coun- 617-536-1100. Home to some of the best Southern-style com- try cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include fort food in the city, Daryl’s also features a lively assortment venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private of live jazz, soul and R&B music and the “Best of Boston”- dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. awarded, all-you-can-eat Sunday Jazz Brunch. D Tue–Thu 5 p.m.–midnight, Fri 4 p.m.–2 a.m.; L & D Sat noon–2 a.m.; SB JASPER WHITE’S SUMMER SHACK, 50 Dalton St., 617-867- & D Sun 10 a.m.–10 p.m. C. dcbkboston.com. 9955; 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, 617-520-9500. Enjoy top-notch seafood such as pan-roasted lobster, award- DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington St., winning fried chicken and an impressive raw bar in a casual 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park Square, setting. L, D. summershackrestaurant.com. within walking distance to all theatres. The Northern Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade pastas and LEGAL SEA FOODS, 558 Washington St., 617-692-8888; Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch pork chop, 26 Park Plaza, Park Square Motor Mart, 617-426-4444; 255 Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s classics and State St., Long Wharf, 617-227-3115; Prudential Center, 800 selection of fresh seafood, before or after the theatre. Enjoy a Boylston St., 617-266-6800; 270 Northern Ave., Liberty Wharf, lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor area. D Sun–Tue 617-477-2900; other locations. Legal Sea Foods, a Boston 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m., L Mon–Fri. VP. davios.com. tradition for more than 50 years, features more than 40 variet- ies of fresh fish and shellfish as well as an award-winning FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in wine list. Named “Boston’s Most Popular Restaurant” (Zagat 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that 2010/2011). L & D. legalseafoods.com. features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the MASSIMINO’S CUCINA ITALIANA, 207 Endicott St., 617-523- walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts 5959. Owner/chef Massimino—former head chef of Naples’ some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon Hotel Astoria and ’s Metropolitan Hotel—offers

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44 TIGER STYLE! BOSTON DINING GUIDE (continued) specialties like the veal chop stuffed with arugula, prosciutto, RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE, 45 School St., 617-742-8401. smoked mozzarella and black olives, amongst numerous other At Ruth’s Chris Steak House, each steak is hand-selected from delights. L, D, C. Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 11 the top 2% of the country’s beef, broiled to perfection at 1,800 p.m. massiminosboston.com. degrees and served in the restaurant’s signature style—on a sizzling, 500-degree plate so every bite stays hot and deli- PAPAGAYO, 15 West St., 617-423-3600; 283 Summer St., 617- cious. Located at Old City Hall, Ruth’s Chris also features fresh 423-1000; other locations. This Mexican restaurant and tequila bar seafood, an award-winning wine list and a gracious environ- boasts a fun menu of south-of-the-border favorites—from tacos, ment with warm hospitality. L, D, C. ruthschris.com. enchiladas and fajitas to quesadillas, empanadas and burritos—as well as a selection of more than 180 tequilas. L & D Mon–Sat SIP WINE BAR AND KITCHEN and THE TASTING ROOM AT noon–10 p.m., Sun ’til 9 p.m.; C. papagayorestaurants.com. SIP, 581 Washington St., 617-956-0888. With a menu featur- ing tapas-style plates—from sushi to grilled oysters to steak PARKER’S RESTAURANT, Omni Parker House, 60 School skewers—and an emphasis on wine, Sip allows diners to try St. at Tremont Street, 617-725-1600. Executive chef Gerry different flavors and wines from around the world, and is per- Tice celebrates nostalgic cuisine with a contemporary­ flair at fect for gathering with friends before a show, after work or for Parker’s Restaurant, the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie, the brunch. Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–1 a.m., Sat & Sun 10 a.m.–1 a.m. Parker House Roll and Boston Scrod. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., SB available. sipwinebarandkitchen.com. 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– THE TAJ BOSTON, 15 Arlington St., 617-536-5700. This 1927 Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5–10 p.m. landmark offers dishes reflecting the seasonal flavors of New England as well as authentic Indian dishes for dinner. The ROWES WHARF SEA GRILLE, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Cafe: B, L, D, Sat & SB. The Lounge: L, D, C. The Bar: L, D, C. Wharf, 617-856-7744. Rowes Wharf Sea Grille delivers the tajhotels.com/boston. sea straight to your table. Enjoy power breakfasts and lunches followed by a vibrant after-work cocktail and dinner scene. The TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, sunlight-filled dining room or seasonal outdoor terrace is an 617-536-1775. There is nothing like sitting 52 stories above ideal spot for a leisurely lunch or special date night. B 6:30–11 Boston for dining and a spectacular view of the city. The mag- a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Afternoon Tea 2:30–4 p.m., D nificent cuisine complements the breathtaking views. Live jazz 4:30–10 p.m. roweswharfseagrille.com. seven nights a week. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net.

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TOP OF THE HUB hile the view remains as spectacular Other seafood highlights include the tender as ever, change is in the air at Top jumbo sea scallops served with parsnip puree, W of the Hub, one of Boston’s favorite edamame, salicornia, purple potato straw and fine dining destinations. And it’s all brown butter soy vinaigrette. Meat for the better. The recent addition of still gets its due with such dishes as German-born Executive Chef Stefan TOP OF THE HUB the Vermont-raised Knolls chicken Jarausch, who oversaw the transforma- 800 Boylston St. breast, grilled filet mignon and Niman tion of the Fairmont Copley Plaza’s Prudential Center Ranch 12-ounce pork chop. 617-536-1775 acclaimed Oak Long Bar & Kitchen in Refer to Dining Guide, Another thing Top of the Hub 2012, has ushered in a new era for this page 45 continues to excel at is offering an beloved eatery. unparalleled, Wine Spectator-lauded Featuring a re-tooled menu of selection of vintages from its cli- New 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 emphasis on seafood. Old favor- air at Top of as creative cocktails from the bar. ites, like the decadently creamy lob- the Hub. Nightly live music in the lounge ster bisque and the chock-full-of- area remains another mainstay. And crustaceans clam chowder, have been dessert is as sweet as ever, including re-formulated to adhere to tried- ” the cinnamon apple and mascarpone and-true tradition. Welcome newcomers include mousse served with apple sorbet 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 avail- chorizo, potatoes and a clam butter broth that able as after-dinner drinks. Regardless of how nearly bursts at the seams with fresh ocean you end your meal, it would be hard to top the offerings and encapsulates Chef Jarausch’s love engrossing vista, impeccable service and re-born of local ingredients in one dish. cuisine at this Back Bay landmark.

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