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7 THE PROGRAM 10 10 THE CREATIVE WORLD OF PLAYWRIGHT SUZAN LORI PARKS

12 DIRECTOR ON THE RESONANCE OF TOPDOG/UNDERDOG IN 2017

PLUS: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks 4 Backstage by Olivia J. Kiers 35 Emergency Exits 38 Guide to Local Theatre 44 Dining Guide 46 Dining Out: Top of the Hub

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE 3 BACKSTAGE BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS

A New Lease of Life for Colonial Theatre After remaining dark for more than a year, ’s historic Colonial Theatre no longer faces uncertainty. The college announced plans to reopen it under the operation of (ATG) from , with an inaugural season expected for January 2018. ATG co-produces shows on Broadway, where it operates two —only part of its more than 40 venues around the world. Emerson pres- ident Lee Pelton told , “It’s a game-changer. Bringing ATG to Boston…is the theatre’s version of bring- ing GE to our city.” ATG will provide internship opportuni- ties for Emerson students, and promises to explore making available for local arts organizations such as Boston BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The historic Colonial Theatre on Boylston Street looks to re-open in January 2018 thanks to a new Lyric . deal owner Emerson College recently struck with London-based Ambassador Theatre Group. A Reagle Summer Reagle Music Theatre of A Season of Change at ASP recently announced its 49th summer musical Following the departure of artistic director Allyn season at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham. Burrows, Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat announced two interim co-artistic directors arrives in June with its family-friendly, rock to take the helm until the post is filled, which ’n’ roll-styled tale of a boy in ancient the company hopes to do by June. In the mean following his prophetic dreams. In July, time, ASP is in good hands. Founding member Reagle again travels into the past, this time Paula Plum is a multi-award-winning actress to the Mississippi River—its production and playwright who has been with Actors’ of the 1927 classic Show Boat is the lat- Shakespeare Project since its inception. She is est version, as arranged and premiered by joined by Maurice Emmanuel Parent, who, like Connecticut’s Goodspeed Opera House in Plum, has been a recipient of both IRNE and 2011. Finally, the season closes in August Elliot Norton Awards. Parent has performed in with the Tony Award-winning Broadway five ASP productions, and appears in the title glamor of 42nd Street, in which aspiring cho- role of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, ASP’s rus girl Peggy Sawyer gets an unexpected shot production that runs through March 19 at the at stardom. Refer to reaglemusictheatre.org for Charlestown Working Theater. For tickets, visit more information. actorsshakespeareproject.org. 4 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG BACKSTAGE (continued)

A Bloody Encore Enlightenment-era astronomers Johannes After last year’s sold-out run, Patrick Gabridge’s Kepler and Tycho Brahe; and None but the Best, Blood on the Snow returns to the Old State a musical biography of 19th-century Boston House this June. Presented by the Bostonian publisher Daniel Sharp Ford. For details, visit Society, this drama recreates history where bostonhistory.org/about-the-show. it actually happened. Blood on the Snow takes place during the tense hours following the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, when Governor Thomas Hutchinson (Dale Place) and other colonial officials took to the Old State House’s Council Chamber for an emergency meeting to discuss the prevention of further violence. A fixture in Boston’s the- atre scene, Gabridge is also no newcomer to taking a pen to history—his full-length histori- cal plays include Fire on Earth, which centers on the creation Nile Hawver/Nile Scot Shots of the Tyndale Bible in Catholic ENCORE PERFORMANCE: Dale Place reprises his role as England; Reading the Mind of Governor Thomas Hutchinson in Patrick Gabridge’s Blood on the God, which tells the story of Snow, which returns to the Old State House June 1–August 20.

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TOPDOG/UNDERDOG

by Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Billy Porter

Scenic & Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Clint Ramos Driscoll Otto Leon Rothenberg

Casting Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Alaine Alldaffer Emily F. McMullen Kevin Schlagle

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

and the Production Sponsors of Topdog/Underdog Jane & Neil Pappalardo

Produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, Waxman/Williams Entertainment, Bob Boyett, Freddy De Mann, Susan Dietz, Ina Meibach, Scott Nederlander, Ira Pittelman, Hits Magazine, Kelpie Arts, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, and The Public Theater/New Shakespeare Festival.

Original New York production by The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, George C. Wolfe, Producer.

Topdog/Underdog is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 7 NEWS ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE

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There will be one 10-minute intermission. “The Huntington Theatre Company is here to stay, on Huntington Avenue where it belongs.” – BOSTON MAYOR MARTIN J. WALSH

The Huntington Theatre Company OUR 2017-2018 SEASON has long been an anchor cultural The Huntington’s 2017-2018 season institution of Huntington Avenue, will once again include 4 shows at the Avenue of the Arts. Now that our the Huntington Avenue Theatre and 3 permanent location on Huntington shows at the Calderwood Pavilion at Avenue is secure, we have begun plans the BCA in the South End — with all to convert our current theatre into a the variety and artistry you’ve come first-rate, modern venue that enlivens to expect. We’ll be announcing our full this stretch of Huntington Avenue on season lineup very soon. a year-round basis, contributing to the revitalization of the neighborhood PRODUCTION & FACILITY much the way the Calderwood RELOCATION Pavilion at the BCA in the South End Our production facility, currently on did in 2004. Huntington Avenue next door to the theatre, will relocate by June 2017. We plan to renovate our We have received a tremendous beautiful theatre, expand our public outpouring of support for our scenic, space and our services to patrons, paint, and prop shop artisans, and are and continue to produce ambitious, currently designing and preparing a large-scale works at this location in new for them and will be sharing a way that enhances our services to the location of the new facility with our audience members, young people, audiences soon. our neighborhood, and the theatre community of Boston.

The Huntington is extremely grateful for the vocal support and encouragement from our loyal audience members and supporters throughout Greater Boston. For the latest news and information about the Huntington Avenue Theatre, visit the frequently asked questions page of our website at huntingtontheatre.org/FAQ. CAST Booth...... Matthew J. Harris Lincoln...... Tyrone Mitchell Henderson PLACE Here TIME Now

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Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks

“She is an original,” said of fellow playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. “[Her] fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh.” Inimitable is an apt word for this boundary-crushing artist whose plays earned her the distinction of being the first African American woman playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize. Parks’ bold revisions of familiar figures, innovations in expressing dialogue on paper, and penchant for exploding theatrical norms have cemented her place as a trailblazer in the field. As Vogue magazine put it, “Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language.”

Though her subversive style is often described with words that lend an air of wildness to her work, Parks’ deconstruction is far from reckless. The playwright’s method of transformation stems from a tradition that has a long and rich history in the world of jazz music: repetition and revision.

Known for its improvisational structure, jazz music draws on a medley of sources for inspiration including , blues, West African musical tradition as well as military songs, and blends them together into a single piece of music. Often, jazz will take a familiar tune and riff on it, altering it slightly with each iteration of the melody — holding notes longer than expected, adding trills and musical detours to make it new. As Henry Louis Gates, Jr. summarizes in his seminal book The Signifying Monkey, “when you repeat a prior work of art, you bring it and all its connotations back, so that there are always two dimensions, past and present, repetition and revision, working at

10 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG the same time.” It is from this rhythmic and explorative aesthetic that Parks developed the process that she has playfully renamed “Rep & Rev.”

In an essay entitled “Elements of Style,” Suzan-Lori Parks delineates how she uses Rep & Rev to create a “drama of accumulation,” where the story does not simply move logically from one scene to the next, but rather builds both in tension and in theme. These tools can be used to explore the meaning of a line or phrase within the play, as Parks illustrates when she asks:

“What does it mean for characters to say the same thing twice? 3 times? Over and over and over and oh-vah.” Wordplay frequently punctuates Parks’ dialogue — she finds both jokes and bleak ironies by altering a single letter in a repeated word. This process can also be used, as with jazz, to take people and images familiar to the audience and reimagine them within her story. “Rep & Rev are key in examining something larger than one moment,” Parks explains. “Rep & Rev create space for metaphor.”

History serves as a fruitful excavation ground for Parks; reinvented and recast figures from the past populate many of her plays. The Rep & Rev process, when applied to history, allows Parks to create life in places where history is silent and to challenge traditional stories. For this reason, many critics view her plays as efforts to reclaim a white-washed American history, or what Parks refers to in her America Play as The Great Hole of History. As the African American voices of the past have so frequently gone unrecorded, and therefore unremembered, endeavors to evoke these voices often necessitate imagination. “One of my tasks as playwright,” Parks notes, “is to… locate the ancestral, burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones, [and] write it down.”

The originality that critics and fellow playwrights alike have found in Parks writing lies in her power of re-imagination. She mines the English language, American history, the human psyche for that which is familiar and — like a jazz musician — creates in the space around it, until it is something entirely new. — SARAH SCHNEBLY NILE HAWVER Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Lincoln) and Matthew J. Harris (Booth)

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 11 DIRECTOR BILLY PORTER ON THE RESONANCE OF TOPDOG/UNDERDOG IN 2017

Director Billy Porter

Suzan-Lori Parks is perhaps the most influential writer of her generation and an artist of particular importance to director Billy Porter. Just before rehearsals for Topdog/ Underdog began, dramaturg Charles Haugland spoke with him about the evolution of his relationship to Parks’ most celebrated play.

Charles Haugland (Artistic Programs & Dramaturgy): What was your first encounter with Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog /Underdog? Billy Porter (Director): I was doing a residency at The Public Theater under George Wolfe (the original director of Topdog) when they were remounting the play for the Royal Court in London. So I got the opportunity to be in the room, around the play, and around Suzan-Lori Parks.

CH: What aspect of the play did you gravitate towards initially? BP: The relationship between the two brothers and how fractured it was. The play is about the fracture of family, the separation of family, the systematic breakdown that started with slavery. It captures the psychological effects of slavery that persist for generations and generations and generations. Institutionalized racism is in the DNA of our culture and even in the DNA of ourselves. It takes consciousness to heal that fracture. What is so profound about this play is that the brothers never understand that fracture and therefore never reach the consciousness they need to heal.

CH: You played the character of Booth in a 2004 production of Topdog/Underdog at the City Theatre in . What was your experience of playing that role? BP: I remember my mother coming to the production and weeping when I saw her at the end. I was not like Booth at all growing up. I was a good boy, sort of a goody two- shoes. Seeing me play that person onstage freaked her out. For me, because I was not

12 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG like the character, playing the part was more about proving to myself and to the world at large that I was an actor and I could take on that character. It never occurred to me, until my mother pointed it out, what I was aspiring to in that role.

CH: What is it like to return to this play as a director in 2017? BP: The play will resonate differently. It is even more urgent now than when I did it in 2004. Portraying the complex psyches of these brothers is even more important because now more than ever we have to come together.

CH: Why do you think it is important for us to encounter these psychological fractures in art? BP: You can’t heal unless you embrace the truth. No matter how dark it is. I think that’s one of the reasons we are where we are in the country right now. The left thought they won something. They thought the world had changed because slavery is over, because we have marriage equality, and because we had a black president. But taxicabs didn’t stop passing me up on the street after dark just because Obama was president. When you assume that you can sit back and not engage with something because you think it is over — you are forced to confront the truth. You have to get to rock bottom and examine the truth.

CH: You chose to work with costume and scenic designer Clint Ramos again for this production after having worked with him on The Colored Museum. Obviously this play has a radically different world. How did you approach the design? BP: Clint and I have a shorthand, so it was easy to say: “This is what we’re talking about, this is what we mean. Go.” What’s interesting to me about the play is it feels like it could be happening at any time. Any time after Abraham Lincoln this story could be told. I wanted to convey that with the set design. To have a space that is familiar but not necessarily specific: a room floating in the middle of Clint Ramos’ set model for Topdog/Underdog the world.

CH: Audiences and critics have gravitated towards Suzan-Lori Parks’ unique use of language. How do you find your way into that language? BP: It’s musical, and I’m a musician. Early on in my acting career I learned that my musical ability enables me to get inside of complicated texts whether it’s Shakespeare, August Wilson, or Suzan-Lori Parks. The language elevates the story to a status of importance that demands attention. This script does that right from the beginning with the rhythms of the 3-card monte game. When you walk past a 3-card monte dealer on the street, the rhythm of that language cuts through all the other noises of the world and stops you and you are pulled in. That’s what Suzan-Lori Parks does.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 13 ABOUT THE COMPANY Matthew J. Harris* (Booth) recently appeared in Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like at the Huntington. He has regional credits that include In the Heights (Walnut Street Theatre), A Comedy of Errors (Theater at Monmouth), and (Shakesperience Productions, Inc.). Some of his New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Classical Theatre of Harlem), Macbeth (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), She Calls Me Firefly (New Perspectives Theatre), TOPDOG/UNDERDOG and Trouble (New York Festival). His credits include “Blindspot” and “Person of Interest.” He can be heard and seen in commercials for Coke Zero, Verizon, Zaxby’s, Footlocker, Bounty, and more. Mr. Harris is also a hip- hop dancer, teacher, and choreographer at Man in Motion. maninmotionnyc.com. matthewjharris.net.

Tyrone Mitchell Henderson* (Lincoln) previously appeared in Blues for an Alabama Sky at the Huntington. He also appeared in Bring in ‘ Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk on Broadway. His Off Broadway credits include Rancho Viejo (), The America Play, Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Tempest (The Public Theater/NYSF), (Signature Theatre), and The Public Sings ( Center). His regional credits include Aubergine and Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), War, The Winter’s Tale, and The Piano Lesson (Yale Repertory Theatre), (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Radio Golf ( Repertory Theater), Romeo & Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Theatre Company), and (Alliance Theatre and Dallas Theatre Center). His television credits include “Elementary,” “House of Cards,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Unforgettable,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Following,” “Suits,” and “Law & Order.” He is the recipient of the Dallas Theater Critics Award (Leon Rabin) for Featured Actor in Angels in America. Mr. Henderson is the founder of Quick Silver Theater Company. QuickSilverTheater.com. tyronemitchellhenderson.com.

Suzan-Lori Parks (Playwright) is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African American woman to receive the (for Topdog/Underdog in 2002), is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts, and was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next Wave.” Her project 365 Days/365 Plays (where she wrote a play a day for an entire year) was produced in over 700 theatres worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theatre history. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical, In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (1996 ), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 Obie Award, Best New American Play), The America Play, and Fucking A. Her adaptation of The Gershwin’s won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Her newest play, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) – set during the Civil War – was awarded the Horton Foote Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, and was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Ms. Parks has written numerous

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ABOUT THE COMPANY TOPDOG/UNDERDOG screenplays including Girl 6 for Spike Lee, and she adapted Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God for ABC Television’s “Oprah Winfrey Presents.” She is currently developing an original series for Amazon. Her first novel, Boston University and the Huntington Theatre Company Getting Mother’s Body (Random have partnered to train the House, 2003), is a novel with songs next generation of artists. and is set in the West Texas of her Topdog/Underdog features the following youth. Ms. Parks recently performed BU alumni and students: Watch Me Work, a free, weekly, MARCELLA BARBEAU live-streamed, writing workshop, (Assistant to the Lighting Designer) open to artists of all disciplines. MFA, Lighting Design, 2019 Her plays are published by Theatre AUBREY DUBE Communications Group (TCG), (Assistant to the Sound Designer) Samuel French, and Dramatists Play MFA, Sound Design, 2018 Service. She is also at work on a KEVIN SCHLAGLE stage-musical adaptation of the film (Stage Manager) The Harder They Come, and a new BFA, Stage Management, 2012 musical project in collaboration with Timbaland and Harmony Samuels. She is a Residency One playwright at Signature Theatre for their 2016-2017 Season and her band, Sula and the Noise, is also in residence. Ms. Parks teaches at , and serves at The Public Theater as its Master Writer Chair. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and of Mount Holyoke College.

Billy Porter* (Director) returns to the Huntington having previously directed The Colored Museum. He is the 2013 Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner for in a Musical for his portrayal of Lola in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots. He was recently seen on Broadway in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. Mr. Porter’s one-man show Ghetto Superstar (2005 GLAAD Media Award nomination, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Performer of the Year 2003–2004) debuted at The Public Theater in conjunction with City Theatre of Pittsburgh. His other directing credits include Company; HAM: A Musical Memoir with Sam Harris; The Wiz; Being Alive; Twilight in Manchego; Once on This Island (NAACP Theatre Award winner for Best Direction); The Soul of Rodgers; Five Guys Named Moe; Altar Boyz; (Associate Director, Off Broadway revival); Live at The Delfonte Room (London); and Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Music of Stevie Wonder (starring Chaka Khan). His Broadway album, Billy’s Back on Broadway (Concord Records) was released in 2014. His single Edelweiss: #blessourhomeland was released on January 20 and the full album, Billy Porter Presents the Soul of Rodgers will be released in April. Some of his film and television credits include The Broken Hearts Club, The Humbling, Billy Porter: * Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the .

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 15 ABOUT THE COMPANY Broadway & Soul (PBS), “Law & Order,” and “The Get Down.” As a playwright, Mr. Porter was represented Off Broadway in 2014 with the premiere of While I Yet Live starring S. Epatha Merkerson (Primary Stages). A Pittsburgh native, he received his BFA in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a graduate of UCLA’s professional program in screenwriting.

Clint Ramos (Scenic & Costume Design) previously designed sets and/or costumes TOPDOG/UNDERDOG for after all the terrible things I do, The Colored Museum, A in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and at the Huntington. Recent set and/or costume credits include productions of Sunday in the Park with George, In Transit, Eclipsed, (also West End), and . Off Broadway design credits include St. Joan and Here Lies Love (The Public Theater/NYSF and London). He has over 100 regional and international design credits. His honors include the 2016 Tony Award, the 2013 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design, three Awards, two IRNE Awards, the TDF Irene Sharif Young Master Award, two Henry Hewes Design Awards, and a Award. His upcoming work includes Six Degrees of Separation on Broadway and the West Coast tour of Here Lies Love. clintramos.com.

Driscoll Otto (Lighting Design) previously designed lights for The Colored Museum at the Huntington. His Off Broadway credits include Under My Skin and Solving the Riddle. His other New York credits include La Donna del Lago (The Metropolitan Opera) and work with Ars Nova, Mint Theater Company, New Ohio Theatre, La MaMa, Jazz at , and Gotham Chamber Opera. Mr. Otto’s work is seen frequently in regional opera and theatre. Recently he designed The Barber of Seville at Virginia Opera, Jersey Boys in the Philippines, and Blast: The Music of Disney for KTI in . His credits with regional companies include North Carolina Opera, Opera Delaware, Opera Omaha, Virginia Opera, The Dallas Opera, , Houston Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, , Flat Rock Playhouse, and Utah Festival Opera. He has also designed productions of Legally Blonde and Rock of Ages for Norwegian Cruise Lines. This summer he will be designing the projections for The Golden Cockerel at Santa Fe Opera. He received his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Leon Rothenberg (Sound Design) returns to the Huntington having previously designed Choice. His Broadway credits include Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Award nomination). His New York and Off Broadway credits include performances at The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, , Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Tectonic Theater Project, Women’s Project Theater, and The Public Theater/NYSF. His regional credits include performances at American Conservatory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, , Seattle Repertory Theatre, , The Old Globe, New York Stage and Film, Two River Theater, , McCarter Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, and Theatre by the Sea. Internationally he has worked with Cirque du

16 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG ABOUT THE COMPANY Soleil, National Theatre of Cyprus, and Dijon Festival. klaxson.net.

Alaine Alldaffer (Casting) is also the casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where her credits include (also for Broadway), (also for Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios Award for casting), and (Playwright Horizons and The Barrow Street Theater). Television credits include “The Knights of Prosperity” (aka “Let’s Rob Mick Jagger”) for ABC. Associate credits include “Ed” for NBC and “Monk” for USA. Ms. Alldaffer has also cast productions for Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. She credits Lisa Donadio as her associate casting director.

Emily F. McMullen* (Production Stage Manager) has previously worked on A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Sunday in the Park with George, I Was Most Alive with You, Can You Forgive Her?, Disgraced, A Confederacy of Dunces, , after all the terrible things I do, The Colored Museum, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Smart People, The Seagull, Venus in Fur, and The Cocktail Hour for the Huntington. Ms. McMullen was recently the production stage manager for the Lexington Theatre Company’s production of Disney’s Mary Poppins. She spent nine seasons as production stage manager at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell and 15 summers as production stage manager of Music

* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 17 ABOUT THE COMPANY Theatre of Wichita. Other credits include work with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, South Coast Repertory, North Shore Music Theatre, and Capital Repertory Theatre, among others. She holds a BA from Emory University.

Kevin Schlagle* (Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington after previously working on Bedroom Farce; Sunday in the Park with George; Can You Forgive Her?; Milk Like Sugar; A Confederacy of Dunces; A Little Night Music; after all TOPDOG/UNDERDOG the terrible things I do; Come Back, Little Sheba; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Smart People; Venus in Fur; ; ; Ruined; and Prelude to a Kiss. Other theatre credits include American Repertory Theater, New Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His opera credits include Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera, New England Conservatory, Boston University’s Opera Institute, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He holds a BFA in stage management from Boston University.

Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include ’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music; the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples; the regional premieres of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible the things I do, Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff, and Gina Gionfriddo’s and Rapture, Blister, Burn; and ’ Prelude to a Kiss. His West End/ London credits include Sex with Strangers and Rapture, Blister, Burn (), All New People with (Duke of York’s Theatre), and Becky Shaw (). 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, finalist); Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Modern Terrorism, Becky Shaw, Trust with , All New People, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theatre); Measure for Pleasure, Richard III with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public Theater/NYSF); Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and The View From 151st Street (LAByrinth Theater Company/The Public Theater), and the upcoming Can You Forgive Her? at the Vineyard Theatre. Regional US and UK credits include productions at American Conservatory Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Humana Festival of New Plays, Opera House, and King’s Theater . Before arriving at the Huntington, he served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague. His productions have been on the annual top ten lists of , Time Out, New York * Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

18 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG ABOUT THE COMPANY 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 Tue-Sat 10-6, until 9 on Thurs these efforts, Boston Herald honored 100 Pier 4 Blvd, Boston, MA societyofcrafts.org him as 2004’s Theatre Man of the Year. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League

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ABOUT THE COMPANY TOPDOG/UNDERDOG 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, the Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor) in the category of Catalyst, and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence from 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 . Mr. Maso is an associate professor of theatre at Boston University.

Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 17th season at the Huntington where he has produced over eighty productions. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Bay Street Theatre, and the . Working primarily as a stage manager, his credits include the original productions or New York premieres of Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare), subUrbia (Eric Bogosian), The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn), Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), Desdemona (Paula Vogel), (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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Globe.com ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY Celebrating its 35th season, the Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets since its founding in 1982. The Huntington is the recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award and was named Best of Boston 2013 and 2014 by Boston magazine. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso and in residence at Boston University, the Huntington brings world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond together with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. By also mentoring local playwrights in the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, educating young people in theatre, and serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts organizations by providing discounted access to facilities and audience services, the Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form.

A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. It supports local writers through a playwright residency and the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstone of its new work activities.

Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally renowned education and community programs, the Huntington serves 35,000 young people and underserved audience members each year.

The Huntington built the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2004 as a home for its new works activities and to provide a much-needed resource for the local theatre community. At the Calderwood Pavilion, the Huntington provides first-class facilities and audience services at significantly subsidized rates to dozens of organizations each year, including some of Boston’s most exciting small and mid-sized theatre companies.

The Huntington was founded in 1982 by Boston University due to the vision and leadership of President John Silber and Vice President Gerald Gross and was separately incorporated as an independent non-profit in 1986. Its two prior artistic leaders were Peter Altman (1982 – 2000) and Nicholas Martin (2000 – 2008). In the past 34 years, the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (16 of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 450,000 students, community members, and organizations.

WE THANK THE FOLLOWING HUNTINGTON FRIENDS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF TOPDOG/UNDERDOG JANE & NEIL PAPPALARDO  PRODUCTION SPONSORS  LINDA & BILL McQUILLAN DENISE & WILLIAM FINARD OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS  DIRECTOR’S SPONSORS NEAL BALKOWITSCH & DONALD NELSON SET SPONSORS

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY TRUSTEES & OVERSEERS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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 Ann T. Hall Wendell Taylor Treasurer Thomas III Linda H. Thomas Cassandra Hyland Linda Waintrup Sherryl Cohen Henderson J. David Wimberly Clerk Arthur C. Hodges Veronica Wiseman Frederick Jamieson Mary Wolfson Carole Alkins Nada Despotovich Kane Fancy Zilberfarb David Altshuler Michelle Karol 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

COUNCIL OF OVERSEERS

John Cohen Eilene Davidson Grayken Juliet Schnell Turner Tania Phillips Janice Hunt Tracey A. West Co-Chairs Alan S. Johnson Caleb White Katherine Jones John Taylor Williams Nancy S. Adams Linda Kanner Bertie Woeltz Kitty Ames Christopher Kimball Christopher R. Yens Nancy Brickley Victoria Knox Linda Zug Jim Burns Loren Kovalcik Suzanne Chapman Sherry Lang J. William Codinha Joie Lemaitre Bette Cohen Debbie Lewis Tenney Cover Tracie Longman Elizabeth Cregger Nancy Lukitsh Catherine Creighton Rumena Manolova-Senchak JoAnne W. Dickinson Charles Marz Susan Ellerin Noel McCoy Deborah First Thalia Meehan Anne H. Fitzpatrick Daniel A. Mullin Maria Farley Gerrity Gail Roberts Paul Greenfield Stephen Trehu as of February 17, 2017

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 Directors Circle Jennifer Eckert and ($100,000+) ($10,000-$14,999) Richard D’Amore Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Neal Balkowitsch and Robert Fine and Carol G. Deane Donald Nelson Matthew Fine Betsy and David Epstein Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Eilene Davidson Grayken Fay Chandler‡ Debbie and Bob First, Albert W. Merck Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts in memory of Susan Spooner 1997 Family Trust Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Donald Fulton Nancy and Edward Roberts Linda L. D’Onofrio Ann and John Hall Mr. J. David Wimberly Karen and David Firestone Scottie Held John Frishkopf Ned Murphy and Executive Producers Circle Karen and Gary Gregg Ann-Ellen Hornidge ($50,000-$99,999) Julie and Hitch Alan Johnson Dr. John and Bette Cohen Joyce Huber and Randall Ellis Seth and Mary Kaufman Gardner C. Hendrie and Elizabeth and Woody Ives Vicki and Northrup Knox Karen Johansen Nada Despotovich Kane Christine Kondoleon and Carol B. Langer Marjie and Robert Kargman Frederic Wittmann Sharon and Brad Malt Loren B. Kovalcik/ David A. Kronman Jane and Neil Pappalardo IntePros Consulting Cecile and Fraser Lemley Mitchell and Jill Roberts Joie Lemaitre John and Jean Lippincott Linda and Daniel Waintrup Alan and Harriet Lewis Nancy Lukitsh 1 anonymous gift Mr. and Mrs. David Long The Mancuso Family Tracie L. Longman and Marion Martin, in memory Artistic Producers Circle Chaitanya Kanojia of Travis John Martin ($25,000-$49,999) Paula and Bill O’Keeffe Sharon Miller Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Jeffrey Dover and Daniel A. Mullin Barbara and Amos Hostetter Tania Phillips Dr. and Mrs. Jane and Fred Jamieson Jan and Joe Roller John William Poduska, Sr. Susan and David Leathers Robert M. Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield in honor of Mary Wolfson Sally C. Reid and John D. Spooner Estate of Marie Rotti‡ John D. Sigel Faith and Joseph Tiberio Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan Gail Roberts Charitable Foundation Linda H. Thomas Darin S. Samaraweera Howard and Veronica Wiseman 1 anonymous gift Marilyn and Jay Sarles Linda and Brooks Zug Coralie Berg and Anonymous, celebrating Playwrights Circle Steve Schwartz the Huntington’s ($5,000-$9,999) M.H. Sirvetz President Sharon Malt and Nancy Adams and Ellie Svenson and Chairman David Epstein John Burgess Mark Klempner Charles and Kathleen Ames Wendell Taylor Associate Producers Circle Marianne Baldwin and Jean C. Tempel ($15,000-$24,999) Eva Marie Mancuso John Travis Stephen Chapman Camilla Bennett Drs. Beth and Stephen Trehu Denise and William Finard Carolyn Juliet Schnell Turner Nicki Nichols Gamble Amy and Joshua Boger Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Tom and Nancy Hamilton Susan and Michael Brown Elizabeth and Caleb White Cassandra Hyland Henderson Jim Burns Justin and Genevieve Wyner Rita J. and Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Christopher R. Yens and H. Kaplan Family Suzanne Chapman Temple Gill Foundation, Inc./ Brant Cheikes and Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Zilberfarb Susan B. Kaplan and Janine Papesh 1 anonymous gift Nancy and Mark Belsky John Cini and Star Lancaster Adrienne Kimball J. William Codinha and Designers Circle Bill and Linda McQuillan Carolyn Thayer Ross ($2,500-$4,999) Sandra Moose and Eric Birch Betsy and David Cregger Bruce and Denise Bauman Ms. Anne M. Morgan Laura and Neil Cronin Patricia Bellinger and Cokie and Lee Perry Amey A. Defriez Richard Balzer Dr. Paul S. Russell Margaret Eagle and Nancy and Richard Brickley Mary Wolfson Eliezer Rappaport Kevin and Virginia Byrne

26 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG THE HUNTINGTON CIRCLE (continued)

Betsy Cabot Norman Weeks Louise Kwan Suzanne and Bert Capone Ike Williams Barrie Landry Nancy Ciaranello Bertie and Anthony Woeltz Jon Levy McLane and Tenney Cover Sally and RichardZeckhauser Ann D. Macomber Catherine and Stuart and Yvonne Madnick Peter Creighton Actors Circle Mahmood Malihi Charles and JoAnne ($1,500-$2,499) Shelley and Brad Marcus Dickinson Alice and Walter Abrams Mike and Mary McConnell Ellen and Kevin Donoghue James Alexander and Louise and Sandy McGinnes Virginia Drachman and Thomas Stocker Sarah M. McGinty Douglas Jones Carole and Leonard Alkins Neal and Lynne Miller Susan Ellerin Dr. Ronald Arky Mr. and Mrs. Winifred Ewing Liliana and Hillel Bachrach William Mitchell, Anne H. Fitzpatrick Deborah L. Benson and in memory of Virginia Newell Flather Frederic J. Marx Wimberly Maria and Daniel Gerrity Jeff and Jody Black Bill and Ginny Mullin Thomas and Joanne Gill Joseph L. Bower and Bob and Alison Murchison Mark E. Glasser and Elizabeth Potter Joy Pak and David Deutsch Frank G. McWeeny Kenneth Brown Susan Pak Paul Greenfield and Dominic Cioffoletti and Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Sandy Steele Christopher Scinto Dr. Gerald Pier Betsy and David Harris Rosalie Florence Cohen Meredith and Bob Pitts Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ken and Ginny Colburn Steven J. Ralston and T. Hibbard, in honor of Dennis Condon and William Robert David Wimberly Robert Cummings Christine and David Root Estate of Carmela M. Hilbert‡ David Dalena and Diane Rosenberg Prof. and Mrs. Brian Patton Susan and Geoffrey Rowley Morton Z. Hoffman Lynn and Bruce Dayton Irvine and Louise Rusk Linda and Steven Kanner Dean K. Denniston, Jr. Richard Powers and Mary S. and Duncan Kennedy Tim and Linda Diering Stephen Schram Richard and Dorothy Koerner Richard Donoho Jane E. Shattuck Susan and David Kohen Jonathan Dyer and The Spector Family Alvin and Barbara Krakow Thomas Foran John H. Straus and Ted and Ann Kurland Stephen Elman and Liza Ketchum Sherry Lang Joanne D’Alcomo Lise and Myles Striar Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Jerome and Vivien Facher Lisbeth Tarlow and Deborah Lewis and Barbara and Larry Farrer Stephen Kay Robert Grinberg Sharon and Irving Gates Ben and Kate Taylor Joseph Machera Norman and Madeleine Gaut Kenneth R. Traub and Charles Marz Eric P. Geller and Pamela K. Cohen Jack Fabiano and Cathy Thorn P.T. Withington Noel McCoy Drs. Laura Green and Jerold and Abbe Beth Young Thalia Meehan and David Golan 3 anonymous gifts Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw Mary Beth and Chris Gordon Amy Merrill Peter and Jacqueline Gordon Charles Merrill and Phil Gormley and s Member of The Hunt, the Julie Boudreaux Erica Bisguier Huntington’s young donor Jonette Nagai and Katherine Haltom 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 Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell Barbara Hirshfield and during the 14 months prior to Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy Cary Coen, in honor of February 17, 2017. Victoria and John Rizzi Sherry and Gerry Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss Rumena and Alexander Janice and Roger Hunt Senchak Margaret Jackson and Vivian and Lionel Spiro Peter Harrington Bruce and Emily Stangle Leonard W. Johnson, Estate of Demetre J. Steffon‡ in memory of Virginia Helen and Jack Stewart Wimberly Beth and Michael Stonebraker Holly and Bruce Johnstone Joanna and Nigel Travis Jill and Stephen Karp Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Paul and Elizabeth Kastner Pamela Tucker and John and Marilyn Keane George Pettee Susan Kirk Mindee Wasserman Paul and Tracy Klein

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 27 CAMBRIDGE, MA $1,595,000

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Leading Role ($750-$1499) John and Rose Ashby, in honor of Ann T. Hall • Carol Baker • George and Katharine Baker • Michael Barza and Judith Robinson • Kate and Gordon Baty • Calvin J. Beckett • Susana and Clark Bernard • Leonard and Jane Bernstein • Linda Cabot Black Foundation • Margaret Blackwell, in honor of David Wimberly • Edward Boesel • Lori Bornstein and Alan Rothman • Geri and Bill Brehm • Jane Brock- Wilson, in honor of Carol and Disque Deane • Paul Buddenhagen • Rick and Nonnie Burnes • A. William and Carol Caporizzo • Cara and Anthony Casendino • Ronni‡ and Ronald Casty • Peggy and Anton Chernoff • George and Mary Chin • Beverley Cooper-Wiele • Joan Dolamore • Peggy Engel • Martha A. Erickson • Dave and Kelly Frederickson • Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardiner • Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Garrison • Lori and Michael Gilman • Mr. K. Frank Gravitt • Garth and Lindsay Greimann • Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos • Bucky and Clifton Helman • Kathleen Henry and Kim Maarkand • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High • Richard and Priscilla Hunt • Susan M. Hunziker • Terence Janericco • Andronike E. Janus • Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis • Cathie and Clarke Keenan • John T. Kittredge • Jeanne and Allen Krieger • Katherine Lewandowski and Adam Gurens • Anthony Lucas • Barbara A. Manzolillo • Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Travis Martin • Joan and John McArdle • Kathy McGirr and Keith Carlson • Jack and Susan McNamara • Marianne and Richard Moscicki • Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren • Patricia Patricelli • Kevin Powers and John Wolfarth • Jessica and David Reed • Ellen Remmer • Michelle and Aaron Rhodess • Michael and Jane Roberts • Sarah Rothermel • David and Anne Salant • Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers • Susan Schiro and Peter Manus, in honor of Carol Deane • Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke • Hope and Adam Suttin • Jared Tausig, in honor of David Wimberly • David Parker and Janet Tiampo • Mary Verhage • Sumer and Kiran Verma • Kenneth Virgile and Helene Mayer • Robert C. Volante • Norman Weeks • Dr. Ronald Weinger • Wendling Charitable Fund • Dr. Elaine Woo • 4 anonymous gifts

Featured Role ($500-$749) Elizabeth Aragaos • Molly and John Beard • Richard R. Beaty • Kathleen Beckman • Danielle Belanger and Robert Sparkes • Jonas Berman • William Bloor • Stephen and Traudy Bradley • Frank B. Mead • Jeremiah J. Bresnahan • Pam and Lee Bromberg • Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch • Thomas Burger and Andree Robert • Diane Burns • Robert Capliss • Carol Chandler • John Clippinger • Connie Coburn and James Houghton • Herbert Stuart Cohen • Alison Conant and Richard Frank • Stephen Conner • Beth and Linzee Coolidge • Anne Crowley • Lloyd and Gene Dahmen • Dammann Boston Fund • Josh and Jennifer Davis • Marguerite Davoren • Terry O. Decima • Judy DeFilippo • Richard J. Diamond, in honor of David Wimberly • Peter and Jan Eschauzier • Sara and James Feldman • Pierre Fleurant • Hilary and Chris Gabrieli • Edward Glazer • Rimma Gluzman • Deborah Goddard • Irene and Stephen Grolnic • Steven and Barbara Grossman and David Grossman • Gail and Jan Hardenbergh • Eunice Harps • Terry Rockefeller and William Harris • John and Holliday Heine • Dr. Galen Henderson and Dr. Vanessa Britto • Rosalind and Herbert Hill • Andrew Himmelblau • Sherry Jacobs • Ernest and Madeline Jacquet • Peter Jenney • Molly Johnston • Julia Karols • Nancy R. Karp • Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman • Michael and Dona Kemp • Jill Kneerim • John and Sharon Koch • Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik • Anne LaCourt • Stewart and Rhonda Lassner • Jenny and Jay Leopold • Mark H. Lippolt • Babette and Peter Loring • Priscilla Krey Loring • James D. Maupin • Mary McFadden • Daniel and Annette McIntyre • Joseph Misdraji • Harry and Ruth Montague • Mark Nelke • Mary Owens • Constance Page • Marianne Pasts • Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler • Suzanne Priebatsch • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt • Edith Rea • Katharine and William Reardon • Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs • Lynn and John Reichenbach • Sharon and Howard Rich • Margaret Ridge • Lily and Gerald Riffelmacher • Jean and Richard Roberts • Sue Robinson • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg • Robert and Pauline Rothenberg • Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Magi McKinnies • Kathleen and William Rousseau • Rohini Sakhuja • Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels • Diane and Richard Schmalensee • William Schutten • Gilda Slifka • Mark Smith and John O’Keefe • Renai Stalzle • Nancy and Edward Stavis • Lee Steele • Bob and Dorothy Stuart • Darline Lewis and Marshall Sugarman • Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther • Scott and Brenda Warner • Mrs. Lewis R. Weintraub • Constance V. R. White • Karolye White • Clark Wright and Lisa Goldthwait Wright • 9 anonymous gifts

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 29 FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued)

Supporting Role ($250-$499) Marilyn and Bill Adams • Robert Allen • Nancy Ammerman • Michael Ansara • Tammy Arcuri • Tom Austin • Jeannine M. Ayotte • Robert Banker • Michelle Barbera, in honor of Theodore Barbera • Barbershop Deluxe • Emily Barclay and John Hawes • Robin Barnes and David Bor • Beth Barrett • Elizabeth Barrett • David Barry • Auli and Ken Batts • Caitlin Bearce • Martin S. Berman and Mary Ann Jasienowski • Jerry M. Bernhard • Christina and Ky Bertolis • Gregory Bialecki and Mary Herlihy • Robert Bienkowski • Clinton Blackburns • Donald and Ellen Bloch • Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom • Scott Chisholm and Afshan Bokhari • Sandy Bornstein • Richard and Dorothy Botnick • Payne/Bouchier Inc. • Jonathan Golding and Sally Bradley-Golding • Eric and Sandra Brenman • S. Britt • Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro • Teresa Brown • Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld • Allan and Rhea Bufferd • Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Burnes • Eric Butlers • Bismarck and Ingrid Cadet • Missage Cadet, M.D. • Judith Carmany • Charles R. Carr • Carrig Kitchens LLC • Elyse D. Cherry • Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. • Mary E. Chin • Maria Church • Andrea and Jon Clardy • Grace D. Clark • Valerie Cloutier • Priscilla Cogan • Arlene Cohen • Steven Coleman and Christine Tunstall • Sarah Columbia • Janet L. Comey • Jaden Crawford • German Crisostomo • Don and Sandy Crocker • Julie Crockford and Sheridan Haines • James F. Crowley • Zoltan and Cristina Csimma • Paul Curtis • Sue Dahlie • Marla Daniels • Fred Davis • Karen Davis and Randy Block • Bill and Kay DeFord • Ray and Debra De Rise • Charlotte Delaney and Steve Pattyson • Sara Delano • David Delany • Suzanne DelVecchio • Jane and Stephen Deutsch • George Dhionis • Reed Dickinson • Beatrice and William Dole • Soroor Dowlati • Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey • Owen Doyle • David and Eleanor Drachman • Mary Ann Driscoll • Grace Durrani • Dunch Arts, LLC • Harriett M. Eckstein • Mr. Glenn Edelson • Gordon Edes • Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak • Diane F. Engel • Andrew Eschtruth and Elana Varon • Jose Estabil • Maggi Farrell • Fidler Family • Dr. Charles Fine • Gail Flatto • Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Flusberg • Judy Foster • Patricia A. Fraser, M.D., in memory of Ivy Markes Fraser • Michael and Leslie Gaffin • Tony and Melissa Gallo • Kathryn M. Gallucci • Judith L. Ganz • Gisele Garraway • Clifford Garnett • William Gault • Vincent Genest • Jack and Maureen Ghublikian • Ronald Goldstein • Michael and Sophie Gordon • David Govonlus • Amelia and William Graham • Mr. and Mrs. Herbert P. Gray • Suzanne Greenberg • Theodore and Sally Hansen • Patricia Hardyman and Charles H. Jones • Judith Harris • Alice H. Haveles • Alfio Hernandez • Erin Higgins • Jim Hoben • Wanda Holland Greene, in honor of Ken Berman • Mark and Cindy Holthouse • Ken Horn • Bruce Howlett • Maggie Huff-Rousselle • Mrs. Donald Hunsicker • Amal Hussein • Robert Hutchison, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. Howard • Maggie Jacksons • Roland Jacobson • Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi • Peter and Adrienne Jaffe • Peter K. Jenkins • Norman W. Johnson • Peter Jones • Jess and Aran Kadar • John Quackenbush and Mary Kalamaras • Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski • Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet • Amelia and Joshua Katzen • Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard • Jim Keefe & Family • Paul Kelly • Judy and Dan Kennedy, in honor of Stephen Sondheim • Gail King and Christopher Condon • Nancy F. Korman • Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn • Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel • Joan Kuhn • George Langer • Carol Lazarus • Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape • Stacey and David Lee • Naomi Leeper • Richard and Kathleen Leitermann • Timothy Leland and Julie Hatfield • Ms. Susan Lincoln • Virginia Litle • Lida and Francis Lloyd • Jim and Allie Loehlin • Dennis and Nancy Lynch • Peter and Yvette Madany • Amy and Bill Marshall • Kathy Martin • Dr. Rosemary Mazanet • Michael and Barbra Ann McCahill • Kevin McCarthy • Terri-Lynn McCormick • Hope and Shaw McDermott • Lindsay McNair • Lynne Menichetti • Forrest and Sara Milder • Michael Miller • Mrs. Fermo A. Bianchi • Lacie and Michael Milton • Saro and Elizabeth Minassian • Gale Minot • Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold • Paula Monbouquette and Kevin McElroy • Gloria and Deborah Monosson • John W. Moore • Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan • The Munzer Family • Eileen Murray • Bob Muti, in memory of James Robinson • Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Newbury, Jr. • Mary Norato-Indeglia • Tom Norris • Thomas Novak • Richard Belin and Rosanne O’Brien • Kathryn O’Connell • Nancy and Charles Oddleifson • Roy and Kathleen Olesky • James Orleans and Nancy Walker • RADM and Mrs. J. Clarke Orzalli • William Panaros • Edith Parekh, in honor of Anissa Parekh • Robert and Beverly Parke • Marian Pasquale • Ellen C. Perrin • Ted and Josie Petersen • Martha and Joel Pierce • Stephen Pike • Joan Pilsmaker • Russell Pollock • James and Jeanette Post • James Poterba and Nancy Rose • Allison Powersa • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx • Kathleen Quillard, in honor of Kara Amelia Quillard’s acting career • Helene M. Quinn and Tony Kanopt • Kerry Mulligan Railey • Jodi

30 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued)

Rand • Robert Raymond • Gretchen Reilly • Mary Rench, in honor of David Wimberly • Helen Robertson • Patricia Robinson • Barbara Roby • Daniel P. Romard • Anne Romney • Mathilde and Robert Ross • Susan Rothenberg • Farley Sullivan and Jeff Roy • Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz • Debra Ruder • Sue and Terry Rushfirth • Vinod and Gaile Sahney • Dr. Lucienne Sanchez • Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Sandler • Robert and Susan Schechter • Molly Schen • Kim and Eric Schultz • Ivy and Fran Scricco • Irene Sege • Mark Seliber • Jim A. Sersich • Michael Seward • Karen J. Shack • Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline • Elisabeth Shields • James Shields and Gayle Merling • David W Shukra and Clifford S Wunderlich • James Shuman • Omar Siddiqi • David Siegel • Ellen L. Simons • Donald S. Sisson • Peter L. Smith and Donna J. Coletti • Rachel Smith • Edward Sonn • Paula and Joseph Spound • Renai Stalzle • Naomi Stearns, in honor of Bill & Dee Finard • Candace Steingisser • Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle • Laurin Stoler • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Glenn and Katherine Strehle • Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit • David Swartz and Lisa Fitzgerald • Richard A. Sweeney • Jane Talcott • Margaret M. Talcott and L. Scott Scharer • Patrick Tally • Jacob Taylor and Jean Park • Nancy Temple • M.K. Terrell • Janet Testa • Judy Thomson • Patricia Tibbetts • Edwin and Joan Tiffany • Dawn Tucker • Judith Tucker • Mr. and Mrs. Mario Umana • Rosamond B. Vaule • Pat and Steve Vinter • Daniel Wakabayashi • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Rabbi and Mrs. Frank Waldorf • Susan Weiler • Scott Weiss • David White • Nancy White • Leslie Wilcox • Richard and Frances Winneg • Pamela Wood and Bruce Kirch • Janis Woodman, in honor of Christopher Woodman • Alfred Woodworth • Amy and Robert Worth • David C. Wright • Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman • Richard Yule, in memory of Helen Yule • Robert E. Zaret • Lorena and Robert Zeller • 15 anonymous gifts

s Member of The Hunt, the Huntington’s young donor program ‡ Deceased

This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to February 17, 2017.

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huntingtontheatre.org/donate The cast of Sunday in the Park with George 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 Diana Jacobs- Komisar, Institutional Giving Manager, at 617 273 1514 or [email protected].

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

32 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG 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 Robert C. Volante Carol G. Deane Linda and Daniel Waintrup Susan Ellerin Margaret J. White Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges J. David Wimberly Jane and Fred Jamieson Veronica and Howard Wiseman Mary Ellen Kiddle 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 Celina Valadao, Major Gifts Officer, at 617 273 1536 or [email protected].

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 33 BU THEATRE • 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 three before opening curtain and during intermission in beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston neighborhoods. the main lobby. Drinks purchased at concessions are The 890-seat Boston University Theatre is on the Avenue permitted inside the theatre, but food is not. of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), diagonally across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Babes in Arms Theatre and the flexible 250-seat Nancy & Edward Children must have their own seats. Babes in arms are Roberts Studio Theatre are part of the Calderwood not permitted in the theatre. Children under 6 are Pavilion in the historic South End, on the campus of the not permitted. Boston Center for the Arts (527 ). Cameras Website: huntingtontheatre.org The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this Box Office: 617 266 0800 production is strictly prohibited. Box Office fax: 617 421 9674 Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Pagers and Cellular Phones Administrative office fax: 617 353 8300 Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during B.U. Theatre Lost and Found: 617 266 7900, ext. 1666 the performance.

Box Office Hours Wheelchair Accessibility The Box Office is generally open Tuesday-Saturday, The BU Theatre is accessible by ramp and noon-curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon-curtain (or 4pm). can accommodate both wheelchair and Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, companion seating in the orchestra section. please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office Please notify us when you purchase your at 617 266 0800. tickets if wheelchair accommodations will be required and confirm arrangements with the House Huntington Group Discounts Manager at 617 266 7900, ext. 1666. Groups of 10 or more may receive a discount of up to 20% off full ticket prices and a free ticket for every 20 Hearing Enhancement purchased. Space is available at the theatre for pre- or The BU Theatre is equipped with an FM post-performance receptions. Contact Jon Slater for hearing enhancement system. Wireless more information at 617 273 1657 or groups headphones are available free of charge at @huntingtontheatre.org. the concessions stand in the main lobby for your use during a performance. Public Transportation We encourage patrons to use public transportation Restrooms to the BU Theatre whenever possible. The Theatre is Located in the lower-level and balcony lobbies. A conveniently located near the MBTA Green Line Hynes wheelchair-accessible restroom is located in the main or Symphony Stations; Orange Line/Commuter Rail Mass lobby on the first floor. Ave. Station; the No. 1 Harvard-Dudley bus via Mass Ave. to Huntington Ave.; and the No. 39 Arborway-Copley bus Coat Check to Gainsborough Street. Located in the lower lobby.

BU Theatre Parking If You Arrive Late Parking is available at many nearby locations. For details, In consideration of our actors and other audience please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office members, latecomers will be seated at the discretion at 617 266 0800. of the management.

Please note that these parking garages are Large Print Programs independently owned and operated and are not Large print programs are free of charge and are available affiliated with the Huntington Theatre Company or the in the main lobby. BU Theatre.

If Your Plans Change We hate to see empty seats. Please consider donating any tickets you can’t use. For more information please call the Box Office at 617 266 0800.

34 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE • EMERGENCY EVACUATION MAP

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Peter DuBois Michael Maso Norma Jean Calderwood Managing Director Artistic Director

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

36 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG STAFF (continued)

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 Costume Intern...... Lauren Reuter Assistant Technical Director...... Dan Oleksy Master Carpenter...... Larry Dersch Electrics Scenery Mechanic...... Jesse Washburn Master Electrician...... Katherine Herzig Carpenters...... Andrew Cancellieri, Assistant Master Electrician...... Alisa Hartle Milosz Gassan, Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon Electrics Apprentice...... Paige Johnson Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...... Carolyn Daitch Sound Stage Carpenter...... Chris Largent Sound Supervisor...... Ben Emerson Scenery Apprentice...... Grayson Basina Sound Engineer...... J. Jumbelic Properties Sound Apprentice...... Terrence Dowdye Properties Master...... Kristine Holmes Graduate Assistants...... Collin Barnum, Aubrey Dube Assistant Properties Master...... Justin Seward BU SCHOOL OF THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF Properties Artisan...... Ian Thorsell Theatre Complex Properties Run...... Andrew DeShazo Production Manager...... Johnny Kontogiannis Paints Senior Staff Assistant Charge Scenic Artist...... Kristin Krause Design & Production...... Renee Yancey Assistant Charge Artist...... Romina Diaz-Brarda Costume Shop Supervisor...... Karen Martakos Scenic Artist...... Chelsey Erskin BU Certificate Interns...... Katherine Keaton, Jaqueline Kempe, Lauren White

Additional Staff for Topdog/Underdog

Fight Consultant...... Ted Hewlett Associate Lighting Designer...... Adam Honoré Assistant to the Director...... Pascale Florestal Assistant to the Lighting Designer...... Marcella Barbeau Production Assistant...... Sam Layco Electricians...... Carmen Alfaro, Kevin Barnett, Shannon Clarke, Guitar Coach...... Riley Snyder Bridget Collins, Evey Connerty-Marin, Sumner Ellsworth, Associate Scenic Designer...... Bryce Cutler Kevin Fulton, Aaron Henry, Nate Jewett, Alex Kennedy, Carpenter...... Gary Beisaw Daryl Laurenza, Bill O’Donnell, Taylor Ness, Liz Ramey, Scenic Artist...... Amanda Gimbel Brian Shaw, Brittany Trymbulak, Gifford Williams Costume Design Assistant...... Becca Jewett Assistant Sound Designer...... Samantha Sewell Draper...... Jen Bennett Assistant to the Sound Designer...... Aubrey Dube First Hands...... Sara Marhamo, Katie Kenna

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  Stage Building Audiences for Spotlight LOCAL Greater Boston’s Outstanding Not-For-Profit Performing Arts Organizations THEATRE Orchestra • March 10 Bruce Hangen, conductor. Featuring Boston Conservatory Chorale and Women’s Chorus. MARCH–APRIL 2017 Sanders Theatre at Harvard University Tickets: 617-496-2222

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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic, winner of four COMMONWEALTH , 539 Washington St., 800-982-2787. Mar , tells the story of the relationship that develops SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 7–19. This Tony Award-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon’s between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British SHAKESPEARE COMPANY best-selling novel tells the story of 15-year-old Christopher schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in the imperialistic MereMere months months after after President President ULTRASONIC ROCK ORCHESTRA and his extraordinary brain—he is exceptionally intelligent world of the 1860s, brings to Siam to teach his many wives Lincoln’sLincoln’s assassination,assassination, John performs but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under and children. JohnWilkes Wilkes Booth’s Booth’s brother brother Ed- suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify win—oneEdwin—one of ofthe the greatest greatest actors JESUS CHRIST the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Emerson/ ofactors the of19th the century—returns19th century— to and a journey that will change his life forever. Paramount Center Robert J. Orchard Stage, 559 Washington thereturns stage to in the a sold-out stage in a produc - St., 617-824-8400. . Octavia Butler’s classic Afro- tion of Hamlet in an attempt to SUPERSTAR Mar 23–26 sold-out production of “Phenomenal... ” FINISH LINE, Boston Theater Company, , The Futurist novel about a society driven to the brink of extinction A World Premiere reclaim the family name. Hamlet in an attempt to —Show of the Month Club , 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Mar 15–26. roars to musical life in a show highlighted by 200 years of by Jake Broder Directed by Steven Maler reclaim the family name. This documentary play about the 2013 Boston Marathon is African-American song traditions woven into a genre-defying March 23–April 2, 2017 55 Shows:SHOWS: MarchMARCH 24–April 24th - APRIL 1, 2017 1st a story of recovery, resilience and determination that was concert performance that features 20 artists on stage. March 23-April 2, 2017 781-646-4849 M www.regenttheatre.com created verbatim from dozens of interviews with survivors, Carling Sorenson Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington Carling SorensonBabson Theatre, College, Babson College,Wellesley Wellesley 781-646-48497 medford street • regenttheatre.com, arlington, ma runners, doctors, police officers, journalists, clergy, students PAW PATROL LIVE! RACE TO THE RESCUE, Boch Center, The Save $7.50 per ticket — use code “”! and many others. Wang Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 800-982-2787. 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In this vibrant 20th anniversary THE ILLUSIONISTS—LIVE FROM BROADWAY, Boston Opera touring production, ’s Tony Award and Pulitzer House, 539 Washington St., 800-982-2787. Apr 4–9. This Prize-winning reimagining of Puccini’s La Bohème once again mind-blowing spectacular showcases the jaw-dropping talents follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists strug- Melinda Lopez and Thomas Derrah star of the most incredible illusionists on earth. This stage extrava- gling to follow their dreams without selling out. in this acclaimed drama that explores ganza has shattered box office records across the globe and “A brilliant comedy!” —NY Post the mysteries of faith and forgiveness. dazzled audiences of all ages with its powerful mix of the most 17 BORDER CROSSINGS, Emerson/Paramount Center Jackie Life imitates art and art imitates life in Sarah outrageous and astonishing acts ever to be seen on stage. Liebergott Black Box Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-824- Ruhl’s hilarious, romantic backstage comedy. March 3–April 1, 2017 8400. Apr 19–29. The history of passports, smuggling Ken- February 24–March 26, 2017 , Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., tucky Fried Chicken into other countries and the peculiarities Lyric Stage • Copley Square Tickets from $25 800-982-2787. Apr 11–23. Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed of airline security—it’s all covered in this miraculous, one-man 617-585-5678 • lyricstage.com 617-933-8600 • SpeakEasyStage.com 38 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Stage Building Audiences for Spotlight Greater Boston’s Outstanding Not-For-Profit Performing Arts Organizations

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saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global EDWARD II, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Charlestown Working travel become the actual journey. Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St., 866-811-4111. Through Mar 19. Edward II, great-grandfather of Richard II, showered favor on SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton his treasured friend, Gaveston, leading to bitter resentment St., 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at the from the nobles with fatal consequences in Christopher Shear Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs gets Marlowe’s tragic history play. knocked off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience matches wits with the suspects to catch the killer in this wildly EVERY PIECE OF ME, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 popular comedy. Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Apr 20–30. When Aine returns home to Ireland to introduce her American fiancé to her family, she finds her younger sister pregnant, her mother still LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE over-controlling and her father suffering from a bad heart. Her ALTAR BOYZ, Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham, departure might have been the cause, but some wounds never 781-279-2200. Mar 23–Apr 9. In this foot-stomping, rafter- heal in this play about guilt, mercy and the power of love. raising musical comedy, a fictitious Christian boy band—five all-singing, all-dancing heartthrobs from Ohio named Matthew, EVERYMAN, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham—utilize tight harmonies, tight Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617-887-2336. Apr pants and spectacular choreography to try to lift the soul of 7–May 6. In this centuries-old cornerstone of English drama every single member of the audience on the last night of their adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, Everyman is successful, popular national tour. and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic BARBECUE, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-585- search to recruit a friend, or anyone, to speak in his defence. 5678. Apr 7–May 7. The O’Mallery family gather in their local But Death is close behind, and time is running out. park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister. They are the kind of family that comes to an intervention armed FRANKLIN, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth with a Taser, even though their own downward spirals rival hers. Ave., 866-811-4111. Mar 23–Apr 2. The Franklin expedition to But that’s only the beginning as familial and cultural stereotypes the Arctic in 1845 sought the Northwest Passage and instead are stripped away in this piercingly funny new play. found ice, starvation and insanity. The ship was never found. Modern-day underwater archaeologist Caroline has been BARNUM, Moonbox Productions, Roberts Studio Theatre, searching for three years, but time is running out in this play Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, involving two crews, two ships and one 200-year-old mystery. 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Apr 8–30. This dazzling show traces the career of P.T. Barnum, America’s greatest showman, GAY SHORTS, Open Theatre Project, Club Cafe, 209 Columbus from 1835 to 1881, the year he joined James A. Bailey to form Ave., 800-838-3006. Mar 30–Apr 2. This brand-new 10-min- “The Greatest Show On Earth.” Over the objections of his wife ute play festival explores the ups, downs, ins, outs, comedy Charity, Barnum attempts to create a show in which the main and drama of growing up gay. Written by local playwright attractions are freaks of society, making sacrifices along the George Smart, these seven short works feature dozens of local way in this tale of hope, determinism and having the courage talent from Boston’s gay communnity. of your convictions. GOLDA’S BALCONY, New Repertory Theatre, Charles Mosesian BECKETT IN BRIEF, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, Sorenson Black Box, Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Mar 25–Apr 16. College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. Apr 27–May Follow Golda Meir from her humble beginnings as a Wisconsin 7. This presentaion of a trio of Beckett’s most autobiographi- school teacher to her meteoric rise through Israel’s early cal works—Rough for Radio II, The Old Tune and Krapp’s Last political system to become one of the world’s first elected Tape—explores universal questions of creativity, memory, female heads of state and one of the most influential women in aging, sex, friendship and the proximity of death. Jewish history in this one-woman play by William Gibson.

CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The GRAND CONCOURSE, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Roberts Riverway, 617-879-2300. Apr 14–May 14. In this tale of Studio Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston friendship and loyalty, based on the best-selling children’s Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar paperback of all time by beloved author E.B. White, Charlotte 3–Apr 1. Called to a life of religious service, Shelley now the extraordinary spider works a miracle with her web to save struggles to find meaning in her work as the manager of a Wilbur the irresistible young pig. Bronx soup kitchen. The arrival of Emma, a college dropout looking for a sense of purpose, is at first a welcome addition, COYOTE ON A FENCE, The Hub Theatre Company of Boston, but the girl’s erratic behavior soon pushes Shelley to the First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., 617-267-6730. breaking point, in this compelling drama about the mysteries of Mar 31–Apr 15. Illiterate but likable, Bobby Reyburn is a funny faith, forgiveness and compassion. young guy who loves to do impressions. He’s also a member of the Aryan nation, a racist predator convicted of a horrific crime. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra, John Brennan is educated and arrogant, a serious writer who Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington, 781-646-4849. Mar may only be guilty of doing society a favor. As each awaits his 24–Apr 1. Tim Rice and ’s groundbreak- fate, one evokes sympathy, the other derision. In vivid scenes, ing rock opera tells the story of Jesus in the final days of his Bruce Graham searing drama explores the disturbing question: life through such favorite tunes as “Everything’s Alright,” “I Can one be innocent though proven guilty? Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Superstar.”

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LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, Wellesley Players, Black Box Theater, “TECHNICALLY The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Apr 14–23. Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll—this isn’t your parents’ Shakespeare. BRILLIANT, The Bard’s tale of love gone awry is presented against the backdrop of the women’s liberation movement, the sexual DIZZYINGLY SO.” revolution and the counter culture of the late 1960s. -THE STAGE (UK)

MASS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Apr 7–9. Leonard Bernstein’s most ambitious theatre work, inspired by the Tridentine Mass of the Roman Catholic Church, features a large cast of performers, including dancers, singers, a boy chorus, rock and blues singers, actors, two orchestras and a marching band that plays through the audience, making for a truly unique experience.

MRS. PACKARD, Bridge Repertory Theatre and Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company, Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., Cambridge, 617-577-1400. Mar​ 12–Apr 9. Illinois, 1861. Proclaimed insane by her husband, Elizabeth Packard is committed against her will to an asylum. Inspired by true events, Emily Mann’s stunning American drama chronicles one woman’s struggle to fight for her life and, in the process, right a system gone wrong. 2 WEEKS NO EXIT, Exiled Theatre, The Space Studio at Auspicious Phoenix Productions, 438 Somerville Ave., Somerville, ONLY! 617-416-3132. Apr 14–30. Jean-Paul Sartre’s masterpiece involves three damned souls locked in the same room in hell who discover that, instead of thumbscrews and other torture devices, “Hell is just—other people.” Imaginary lines.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, Boston Children’s Real consequences. Theatre, Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont True border crossings. St., 617-933-8600. Apr 15–30. Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of ’s novel tells the story of a charming rogue who, in manipulating a short prison sentence into what he thinks will be an easier stay in a mental institution, comes into conflict with a strict head nurse while trying to stir up his fellow inmates. 17 BORDER OUR AMERICAN HAMLET, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Carling-Sorenson Theater, Sorenson Center for the crossings Arts at Babson College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811- 4111. Mar 23–Apr 2. In 1866, less than a year after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, his brother Edwin, one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the 19th century, decides to perform Hamlet on Broadway, a role he had APR 19 - 29 performed in the past to great acclaim. A huge crowd turns up EMERSON/PARAMOUNT CENTER for the performance—but it isn’t clear whether they were there JACKIE LIEBERGOTT BLACK BOX THEATRE to see the actor perform, or to exact their revenge, in this world premiere by Jake Broder.

PETER PAN, The Post-Meridian Radio Players, Responsible FROM USA/COLOMBIA Grace Church, 204 Elm St., Somerville, 800-838-3006. Apr 21–29. This original adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s beloved tale presents the story of the Darling children—Wendy, ARTSEMERSON.ORG John and Michael—who are whisked away to Neverland by the boy who won’t grow up to face the danger of the cun- 617.824.8400 ning Captain Hook. Will the Darlings ever make it home? Will Pan triumph at last over Hook? And most important- ly—do you believe in fairies?

PROMISES, PROMISES, The Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3200. Apr 7–22. Set in New York City

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 41 GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) in 1968, this Neil Simon-penned tuner featuring music by Burt STAGE KISS, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., Bacharach is based on the 1960 film classic The Apartment 617-585-5678. Through Mar 26. Two squabbling, long-lost and relays the misadventures of junior executive Chuck Baxter, loves are cast as long-lost lovers, and quickly lose touch with who climbs the corporate ladder by letting his bosses use his reality in this romantic and revealing play-within-a-play by apartment for trysts. All is well, until he learns that the object Sarah Ruhl. of his affection is one of the mistresses. VIOLET, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 Arrow St., THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, Bad Habit Productions, Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Apr 4–15. A musical ride on a Deane Hall, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston moving bus for 25 people, this show tells the story of a young Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar 18– woman who travels cross-country to seek treatment for a Apr 2. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdboot—the first disfiguring scar. a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer—are swept into the whodunit they are re- , Moonstruck Theater Company, The viewing. A hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodrama Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster St., Arlington, 800- follows, complete with a mysterious body under the sofa. As 838-3006. Apr 7–9. Featuring 30 talented actors from all over mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot New England and the beautiful Leonard Bernstein/Stephen become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an Sondheim score, this beloved musical tells the story of a boy escaped madman. and a girl whose very different worlds collide one night at a dance on New York’s Upper West Side. SILENT SKY, Flat Earth Theatre, Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal THE WHO & THE WHAT, Huntington Theatre Company, St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Mar 10–25. At Harvard Obser- Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston vatory at the turn of the 20th century, Henrietta Leavitt joins a Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-266-0800. Mar group of women tasked with charting the heavens without be- 31–May 7. Brilliant novelist Zarina is writing about women and ing allowed to touch a telescope. Despite restrictions placed on Islam when she meets Eli, a young convert who bridges the her because of her sex, Henri devotes her life to the study of gap between her modern life and traditional heritage. When celestial bodies while balancing the needs of love and family in her conservative father discovers her controversial manuscript, Lauren Gunderson’s melodious, evocative work inspired by the they all must confront the beliefs that define them in this real-life woman whose work allowed astronomers to measure fierce and funny new play about relationships, religion and the the distance of faraway galaxies. contradictions that make us who we are.

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BE DEVOTED. SUN TIMES DANCE ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER, Boch Center, The Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., 800-982-2787. Apr 27–30. The magnificent Ailey company continues its exciting new expansion of repertoire under Artistic Director Robert Battle while celebrating the core works that have made it the world’s leading modern dance company.

CHE MALAMBO, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Mar 31 & Apr 1. Making its Boston debut is this Argentine dance company that presents a thrilling, percussive dance and music spectacle celebrating the unique South American cowboy tradition of the gaucho.

KYLIÁN/WINGS OF WAX, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 617-695-6955. Mar 23–Apr 2. A trio of heart-racing ballets by 20th century masters features George Balanchine’s charming and spirited Donizetti Variations, the return of Jirˇí Kylián’s sensuous and intriguing Wings of Wax and Alexander Ekman’s surprising and witty Cacti.

LIMITLESS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Apr 27–30. Presenting iconic masterworks by internationally renowned choreographers alongside new BE A PART OF work created especially for Boston Conservatory dance stu- dents, this program feature How to Pass Kick Fall and Run by Merce Cunningham, Dancing Spirit by Ronald K. Brown, Happy Little Things (Waiting on a Gruff Cloud of Wanting) by Aszure SPEAKEASYSTAGE.COM Barton and a world premiere by Yury Yanowsky. @speakeasystage THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 617-695-6955. Apr 28–May 27. This quintes- sential production of the coming-of-age fairy tale features Tchai- kovsky’s soaring music, sumptuous costumes, superlative dancing, the triumph of good over evil and the power of a single kiss.

OPERA THE DANGEROUS LIAISONS, Boston Opera Collaborative, Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933- 8600. Mar 24–Apr 1. Based on the scandalous 18th century novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, this Boston premiere by Conrad Susa and Philip Littell explores the sexual machinations of the SUPPORTING Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, two French aristocrats locked in a battle of wits, wills and sexual conquest. HEALTHY OUTCOMES DIE LUSTIGEN WEIBER VON WINDSOR (THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR), The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Mar 30–Apr 2. Written in 1841, Otto Nicolai’s delightful interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy was an FREE 3-DAY PASS important contribution to early German romantic opera. It tells ths story of Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page, who teach the lecherous COME IN FOR A TOUR TODAY! knight Sir John Falstaff a much-deserved lesson after they each This pass entitles an individual or family to receive identical letters from him proposing illicit affairs. experience the YMCA for one week before 12/31/2016.6/30/2017 Valid for new free trial participants THE RAKE’S PROGRESS, Boston Lyric Opera, Emerson/Cutler over the age of 18. Government issued Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-542-6772. Mar 12–19. In a surreal battle of temptation, Tom Rakewell abandons his identification is required to enter the YMCA. suburban life to cavort in the pleasures of “sin city” with a devilish valet at his side. But can he find his way back to the virtuous Anne Trulove—and his sanity—before all is lost? With influences of Mozart and the Faust myth, Igor Stravinsky’s HUNTINGTON AVENUE YMCA opera blurs the lines between the 18th and 20th centuries with 316 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02110 witty and wicked insight.

43 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 43 dinner, corporate events, weddings, cocktail receptions and private dining. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., D Mon–Sat BOSTON 5–10 p.m. blurestaurant.com. CITYPLACE, On Stuart Street between Tremont and S. Charles streets in the State Transportation Building. Enjoy handcrafted beers at Rock Bottom Brewery, delicious treats from Panera Bread and gourmet Chinese at P.F. Chang’s as well as flatbread sandwiches, specialty pizzas, custom burritos and more in the DINING Food Court. B, L, D, C. cityplaceboston.com. CLINK, The Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., 617-224-4004. Clink serves the freshest North Atlantic seafood, seasonal New England fare and delicious artisanal meats, highlights of a menu that artfully marries European culinary tradition GUIDE with contemporary American innovation. The dining room features vestiges of original jail cells and an open kitchen, while gold leather seats, butcher block tables and granite L–Lunch • D­–Dinner • B–Breakfast accents add to the contemporary style. Nightly, Clink’s lobby C–Cocktails • VP–Valet Parking bar draws urban dwellers and hotel guests to an energetic SB–Sunday Brunch • LS–Late Supper and social nightlife scene in the heart of Boston. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m., D 5–11 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–3 p.m. clinkrestaurant.com.

49 SOCIAL, 49 Temple Pl., 617-338-9600. This eclectic bar DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington and restaurant at serves refined modern St., 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park American cuisine. The seasonal dinner menu draws inspiration Square, within walking distance to all theatres. The Northern from around the globe while also incorporating ingredients Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade from local New England farms. D, C. 49social.com. pastas and Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch pork chop, Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s ARAGOSTA BAR & BISTRO, Three Battery Wharf, 617-994- classics and selection of fresh seafood, before or after the the- 9001. This latest addition to Boston’s vibrant waterfront atre. Enjoy a lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor restaurant community offers a new take on Italian cuisine by area. D Sun–Tue 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m., L Mon–Fri. award-winning chef David Daniels who shows his signature VP. davios.com. flair through hand-made pastas, prime meats and classic New England seafood. Using quality, local farm-raised ingredients, FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in Aragosta offers a warm, social atmosphere in a stunning 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that waterfront setting. Also offering an open kitchen with Chef’s features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain Counter and an outdoor terrace. B, L, D. Mon–Sun 6:30 a.m.– prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the 10 p.m.; Sat & SB 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m. aragostabistro.com. walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon AVENUE ONE RESTAURANT, Hyatt Regency, One Avenue de & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 Lafayette, 617-912-1234. Newly renovated and located in p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. the heart of the Theatre District, Avenue One restaurant and lounge serves contemporary New England cuisine in a relaxed THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a two- atmosphere. Enjoy a refreshing cocktail, three-course prix fixe story townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor dinner or a delectable dessert. Discounted parking available. B patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French coun- 6:30–11:30 a.m., L noon–3 p.m., D 5–10 p.m. C, VP try cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include regencyboston.hyatt.com. venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-670- 0320. With three deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused JASPER WHITE’S SUMMER SHACK, 50 Dalton St., 617-867- favorites, Back Deck invites everyone to gather around patio 9955; 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, 617-520-9500. tables and chairs for a charcoal-cooked meal and backyard- Enjoy top-notch seafood such as pan-roasted lobster, award- inspired cocktails. Its ambiance brings the outdoors inside with winning fried chicken and an impressive raw bar in a casual floor-to-ceiling open windows, carriage lighting, lush green setting. L, D. summershackrestaurant.com. planters, glazed brick and an open kitchen. Drawing inspiration from a roof deck, this restaurant is the ultimate urban retreat. LEGAL SEA FOODS, 558 Washington St., 617-692-8888; L, D, Sat & SB, C. BackDeckBoston.com. 26 Park Plaza, Park Square Motor Mart, 617-426-4444; 255 State St., Long Wharf, 617-227-3115; Prudential Center, 800 BLU, 4 Avery St., 617-375-8550. Located in the heart of the Boylston St., 617-266-6800; 270 Northern Ave., Liberty Wharf, Theatre District next door to Carlton on the fourth floor, 617-477-2900; other locations. Legal Sea Foods, a Boston blu Restaurant and Bar is celebrating its 15th anniversary tradition for more than 50 years, features more than 40 variet- with a feast for the senses. Its contemporary American menu ies of fresh fish and shellfish as well as an award-winning includes the all-time favorite lobster club. Featuring spec- wine list. Named “Boston’s Most Popular Restaurant” (Zagat tacular floor-to-ceiling windows, blu is perfect for a pre-show 2010/2011). L & D. legalseafoods.com.

44 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG MASSIMINO’S CUCINA ITALIANA, 207 Endicott St., 617-523- 5959. Owner/chef Massimino—former head chef of Naples’ Hotel Astoria and Switzerland’s Metropolitan Hotel—offers specialties like the veal chop stuffed with arugula, prosciutto, smoked mozzarella and black olives, amongst numerous other delights. L, D, C. Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 11 p.m. massiminosboston.com.

MERITAGE RESTAURANT + WINE BAR, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-439-3995. Known for its excellence in wine and food pairings, Meritage enters a new era with an exciting transformation featuring a stylish, refined dining room, sophisticated wine bar and the addition of two new private dining rooms overlooking Boston Harbor. To complement the bold and elegant interiors, Chef Daniel Bruce has introduced a unique vineyard-to-table menu. D Tue–Sat 5–10 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–2 p.m. C, VP. meritagetherestaurant.com.

PARKER’S RESTAURANT, Omni Parker House, 60 School St. at Tremont Street, 617-725-1600. Executive chef Gerry Tice celebrates nostalgic cuisine with a contemporary­ flair at Parker’s Restaurant, the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie, the Parker House Roll and Boston Scrod. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., Sat–Sun 7–11:30 a.m., offering an elaborate buffet in addition to a la carte selections. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.; D Mon– Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5–10 p.m.

ROWES WHARF SEA GRILLE, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-856-7744. Rowes Wharf Sea Grille delivers the sea straight to your table. Enjoy power breakfasts and lunches followed by a vibrant after-work cocktail and dinner scene. The sunlight-filled dining room or seasonal outdoor terrace is an ideal spot for a leisurely lunch or special date night. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Afternoon Tea 2:30–4 p.m., D 4:30–10 p.m. roweswharfseagrille.com.

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE, 45 School St., 617-742-8401. At Ruth’s Chris Steak House, each steak is hand-selected from the top 2% of the country’s beef, broiled to perfection at 1,800 degrees and served in the restaurant’s signature style—on a sizzling, 500-degree plate so every bite stays hot and deli- cious. Located at Old City Hall, Ruth’s Chris also features fresh seafood, an award-winning wine list and a gracious environ- ment with warm hospitality. L, D, C. ruthschris.com.

THE TAJ BOSTON, 15 Arlington St., 617-536-5700. This 1927 landmark offers dishes reflecting the seasonal flavors of New England as well as authentic Indian dishes for dinner. The Cafe: B, L, D, Sat & SB. The Lounge: L, D, C. The Bar: L, D, C. tajhotels.com/boston. NEW ENGLAND’S TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, 617-536-1775. Located 52 stories above the city, Top of BEST VIEW the Hub is Boston’s special occasion favorite. With upscale American cuisine, live entertainment nightly, a spectacular BOSTON’S MOST ROMANTIC view and romantic atmosphere, Top of the Hub promises a FINE DINING EXPERIENCE unique experience for both visitors and native Bostonians alike. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net.

YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE, 41 Union St., 617-227- BRUNCH / LUNCH 2750. America’s oldest restaurant, now celebrating 191 COCKTAILS / DINNER years, serves Yankee-style seafood, beef and chicken, and is famed for the oyster bar where Daniel Webster dined daily. 52ND FLOOR OF Specialties include clam chowder and fresh lobster. L & D TOPOFTHEHUB.NET Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 10 p.m. C ’til mid- CALL: (617) 536-1775 night. unionoysterhouse.com.

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$2,699 pp/do Top of the Hub Including Round-trip Airfare from Boston! hile the view remains as spectacu- Other seafood highlights include the ten- lar as ever, change is in the air at der sea scallops served with Himalayan black W Top of the Hub, one of Boston’s rice, roasted butternut squash, green curry favorite fine dining destinations. And butter and candied kumquats. Meat it’s all for the better. The addition of still gets its due with such dishes as German-born Executive Chef Stefan TOP OF THE HUB the Misty Knolls Farm chicken breast, Jarausch, who oversaw the transfor- 800 Boylston St. grilled filet mignon and butcher’s cut mation of the Fairmont Copley Plaza’s Prudential Center Duroc pork chop. 617-536-1775 INCLUDES: acclaimed Oak Long Bar & Kitchen Refer to Dining Guide, Another thing Top of the Hub page 45 in 2012, has ushered in a new era for continues to excel at is offering an Round-trip regularly scheduled flights this beloved eatery. unparalleled, Wine Spectator-lauded from Boston to Naples, via Rome Featuring a re-tooled menu of selection of vintages from its cli- Seven nights’ four-star accommodations 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 2017 DEPARTURES: Fifteen meals, seven buffet breakfasts, emphasis on seafood. Old favor- air at Top of as creative cocktails from the bar. four lunches, four dinners with wine ites, like the decadently creamy lob- Nightly live music in the lounge the Hub. Sept 23—Oct 1, 2017 Escorted, private, round-trip airport/ ster bisque and the chock-full-of- area remains another mainstay. And hotel transfers crustaceans clam chowder, have been dessert is as sweet as ever, including Oct 7—15, 2017 re-formulated to adhere to tried- ” the mocha mascarpone mousse served Services of professional local guides and-true tradition. Welcome newcomers include with salted caramel and biscotti, and the classic during all excursions including the New England fisherman’s bowl, a stick-to- crème brûlée with seasonal berries and whipped Capri, Positano, Pompeii and Ravello 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- Call 617-338-1111 or visit chorizo, potatoes and a clam butter broth nearly able as after-dinner drinks. Regardless of how bursting at the seams with fresh ocean offerings you end your meal, it would be hard to top the showofthemonth.com/amalfi to book your trip today! that encapsulates Chef Jarausch’s love of local engrossing vista, impeccable service and re-born ingredients in one dish. cuisine at this Back Bay landmark. The Travel Club is a service of Show of the Month Club, a subsidiary of New Venture 46 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG Media Group publisher of Playbill, Theatrebill and Art New England magazines. THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME THE AMALFI COAST

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