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Nile Hawver BACKSTAGE BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS Ryan Maxwell BARD YARD: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company recently announced that it will stage Richard III for its annual free Shakespeare on the Common performances next summer.

A New Season of Shakespeare Summer Slate Set at Cape Playhouse Commonwealth Shakespeare Company It’s already time to get out your calendars for next (CSC) recently announced a 2017–18 sea- summer—The Cape Playhouse has announced son full of intrigue and political drama. A entertainment galore for its 2018 season on Cape staged reading of Bertolt Brecht’s Fear and Cod. Among the six productions scheduled Misery in the Third Reich and full-scale pro- for the historic playhouse’s 92nd year, the New ductions of Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the England premiere of , a new stage adapta- Maiden and Wendy Wasserstein’s Old Money tion of the cult classic film and board game, is of join Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard special note, but there is plenty more. The season III, the latter of which will be performed as opens with love and loss in Robert Harling’s Steel part of CSC’s annual free Shakespeare on Magnolias, followed by Sylvia, a marital comedy the Common performances next summer. by two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominee A. R. Gurney. CSC founding artistic director Steven Maler Musicals include the classic, Tony Award- and explained that the choice of plays that span Pulitzer Prize-winning South Pacific alongside many different time periods all relate to the two Cape Playhouse premieres, the irreverent contemporary moment. “I wanted to look Altar Boyz, and Million Dollar Quartet. The latter at how great writers responded to mercu- is about the afternoon in 1956 that Elvis Presley, rial times, how they captured the fleeting Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins moments of civic and personal decisions recorded together at Sun Records, and includes when history was not yet inexorably fixed, ’50s rock ’n’ roll standards like “Hound Dog,” when a change of direction was still possible.” “Blue Suede Shoes,” and “Walk the Line.” Visit For details, visit commshakes.org. capeplayhouse.com for more information.

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Boston Playwrights’ Theatre New Shows Come to the Announces New Season Theatre District Celebrating its 36th season of producing excit- In Boston’s Downtown ing new plays, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Theatre District, two has announced a promising lineup of new musicals have been works. The season opens on a musical note with added to the upcoming Cliff Odle’s Lost Tempo, a play about a gifted season that give fami- yet tormented jazz saxophonist in Paris. The lies great reasons to company also dips its toes into opera with the look forward to 2018. New England premiere of The Rosenbergs (An Escape New England’s Opera), which was recognized as Denmark’s Best winter weather with Opera of 2015. There will also be two perfor- a jaunt down the OVER THE RAINBOW: mances that should strike a chord with local Yellow Brick Road Dorothy and friends Broadway return to the Hub when audiences: Molly Smith Metzler’s Elemeno Pea when the Boston Opera sets sisterly drama on Martha’s Vineyard, while In Boston brings House hosts a new Walt McGough’s Brawler is a take on the ancient everyone’s favorite production of The Ajax The Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz, based on Greek play as filtered through the mod- to the classic film version ern world of hockey. As it has for the past two the Opera House in from 1939. decades, the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre rounds January. In May, the out its season with the anticipated Boston hills are alive with The Theater Marathon at the Calderwood Pavilion Sound of Music, a new production of Rodgers at the BCA, a 10-hour extravaganza of no fewer and Hammerstein’s truly beloved classic at the than 50 short plays by New England play- Boch Center’s Wang Theatre. For tickets, go to wrights. For more information, visit bu.edu/bpt. boston.broadway.com and bochcenter.org.

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

KISS SOUVENIR ARTSEMERSON LYRIC STAGE COMPANY October 26– October 20–November 19 November 19 Anyone who missed the recent A play-within-a-play film on the life of Florence Foster about cultural misun- Jenkins—or Lyric Stage’s previous derstanding, this is the acclaimed production—deserves to first production written experience this heartwarming story in English by Chile’s about the woman whose “majesti- acclaimed contemporary cally awful” concerts were sell-out playwright, Guillermo affairs in the 1930s and ’40s. Refer to listing, page 41. Calderón (pictured).

Refer to listing, page 38. American Theatre TOMES OF TERROR: LENORE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO PLAYERS DEATH OF A SALESMAN October 20–28 TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY Three spooky radio dramas based on Gothic horror tales Through November 26 are performed live just in time for Halloween: Edith Nesbit’s Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning elegy to the American Hurst of Hurstcote and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Dream is as relevant today as it was in 1949. Refer to Burial and Hop Frog, along with a reading of the title poem. listing, page 40. Refer to listing, page 42.

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Everett City Council Member Michael McLaughlin, Ed Owens, Sr., Ed Owens, Jr., Everett City Council Member Fred Capone, Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois, Huntington Board Chairman David R. Epstein, Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Everett Kevin O’Donnell, Huntington Managing Director Michael Maso, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Everett Catherine Rollins, Everett Representative Joe McGonagle officially open the new Huntington Theatre Company Production Center. HUNTINGTON’S ARTISANS LAUNCH A NEW HOME IN EVERETT The Huntington Theatre Company Production dedication of this Production Center in Center began operations in Everett, Everett,” said Managing Director Michael Maso Massachusetts in July and officially opened as he welcomed the crowd. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in August. The Huntington’s former production facility, The new production center includes 25,000 located at 252-258 Huntington Avenue next square feet of production space; 18,000 door to the Huntington Avenue Theatre and square feet of storage space; and 4,000 previously owned by Boston University, will square feet of office space, housing the become the site of a new building developed company’s prop, paint, and scenery shops. by QMG Huntington LLC who purchased the It features open and flexible work areas and lot in May 2016. onsite prop, costume, and scenery storage, and will allow our staff to produce more “This is the first step of the journey to complex design work in a more efficient transform the Huntington Theatre Company,” workspace, as as serve other arts said Board Chairman David R. Epstein to organizations and companies. Huntington supporters and stakeholders at the August ribbon-cutting ceremony. “We’ve “We are open for business,” declared Artistic been a successful organization in Boston Director Peter DuBois at the ribbon-cutting. for 35 years, and we have ambitious plans “The Huntington Production Center is going to about how to create the kind of facility that enable us to expand our community mission, will entertain not just our children but our and the Huntington will be able to serve grandchildren.” “This is the extraordinary first more theatre companies in the Boston area. step in the re-invention, the re-capitalization, We will also be able to serve the burgeoning, and the re-imagination of the Huntington expanding, growing television and film Theatre Company, starting here with the community and our special events community.”

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Original Music Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design & Sound Design William Boles Kara Harmon Russell H. Champa Lindsay Jones

Casting Dramaturg Dialect Coach Alaine Alldaffer Jeremy Stoller Amy Stoller

Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Adele Nadine Traub Jeremiah Mullane

A Guide for the Homesick was developed by the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and commissioned by Epic Theatre Ensemble.

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BRILLIANT CLASSIC COMEDY RIVETING & TIMELY NEW PLAY TARTUFFE SKELETON CREW by Molière by Dominique Morisseau Translated by Ranjit Bolt Directed by Directed by Peter DuBois Megan Sandberg-Zakian Nov. 10 – Dec. 10, 2017 Mar. 2 – 31, 2018 Huntington Avenue Theatre Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

POWERFUL PERSONAL DRAMA DAZZLING CONTEMPORARY MALA CLASSIC Written & performed by TOP GIRLS Melinda Lopez by Directed by David Dower Directed by Liesl Tommy Originally produced by Apr. 20 – May 20, 2018 ArtsEmerson Huntington Avenue Theatre Jan. 6 – 28, 2018 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA FASCINATING UNTOLD STORY OF ARTHUR MILLER IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY FALL BAD DATES by Bernard Weinraub by Theresa Rebeck Directed by Peter DuBois Directed by Jessica Stone May 18 – June 17, 2018 Jan. 26 – Feb. 25, 2018 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Huntington Avenue Theatre PICK ANY 4 PLAYS FOR JUST $199 huntingtontheatre.org/intro 617 266 0800 CAST (in alphabetical order) Teddy...... McKinley Belcher III Jeremy...... Samuel H. Levine

SETTING & TIME Amsterdam. Teddy’s . Evening and the following morning. January 2011.

A Guide for the Homesick will be performed without an intermission.

FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT “To have a friend is to know that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die. [This is] the mourning that we expect from the very beginning.” — PHILOSOPHER JACQUES DERRIDA

“The hardest thing about coming home [from the field] was feeling like I wasn’t important anymore because I wasn’t helping people. It made me hate friends. I hated hearing them complain. How could I go back to living this life after seeing what I’d seen over there? It took time before I could be a friend again.” — PERSONAL INTERVIEW WITH DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) VOLUNTEER

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 9 KEN URBAN ON RESEARCHING AND REPRESENTING TRUTH

Ken Urban ONSTAGE

Playwright Ken Urban is becoming a regular on the Boston theatre scene. While this is his Huntington mainstage premiere, he was a Huntington Playwriting Fellow from 2007 to 2009, and his play A Future Perfect was seen at SpeakEasy Stage Company in 2015. He was recently appointed Senior Lecturer in Dramatic Writing at MIT. Here, he discusses his process for developing A Guide for the Homesick.

What inspired me to write this play: I write plays to make sense of what feels senseless. I read about the violence against LGBT people in Uganda. Then I interviewed a number of international aid workers. During the interviews, I saw how these men and women were haunted by what they experienced. They all spoke about the difficulty of coming home and re-adjusting to life after their experiences overseas.

And I was moved by those things. I couldn’t stop thinking about them. I was haunted. And research, journalism, those give you the facts, and when I write a play, I need to move beyond the facts to get inside those events to understand in a real way, at a cellular level, if that makes sense.

What I read and watched: In addition to the interviews I conducted with Doctors Without Borders participants, I looked at a couple of books about aid workers, Dr. Michael Gerber’s continent-spanning Sweet Teeth and Loose Bowels and married couple Karin Moorhouse and Wei Cheng’s No One Can Stop the Rain about their time in South Africa. Though the violence that they encountered during their service is handled differently in the books, all three writers feel a sense of disillusionment. They all undertook their work with the idea that they could help and heal, and all three left their time as aid workers feeling that the problems were so vast, the violence so complex, that any solution was beyond them.

10 A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK These memoirs reminded me of Graham Greene’s classic A Burnt-Out Case. Greene’s protagonist has the inverse journey of the aid workers; they move from belief to disillusionment, while [Greene’s central character] Queery’s indifference evolves into genuine concern. Yet, the demand of salvation ultimately imposes itself on both the cynical and earnest alike: a weight of expectation to transcend human limitations, even though impossible.

And then I saw a Channel 4 documentary called “Africa’s Last Taboo” about the rising tide of anti-gay violence in Uganda and that really was how the research all came together, to make the Jeremy/Nicholas storyline in the play.

What I discovered from my research: Part of the fun of writing these plays is having the chance to understand history and culture in a more complicated way. What was surprising to me watching “Africa’s Last Taboo” was that I assumed the Ugandan government had always been very strict about regulating gay men and women. And what was fascinating to learn from my research was clearly that wasn’t the case. While gay men and women were never celebrated in a country like Uganda, they weren’t persecuted, and the recent uprising of anti-gay violence was really brought upon by the West, and by pastors from American mega-churches. That was interesting, because then I thought, well, it’s just another legacy of colonialism. Uganda’s anti-gay amendment is a part of that legacy of colonialism.

Writing from memory: I had a very personal experience in my 20s with a friend, which was one inspiration for the Teddy and Ed story. My friend was manic depressive, but we had no idea, and he went untreated or the drugs weren’t working. We all thought he was going to just get better. We told him that. And then one night, he was in a manic phase and we didn’t know what to do. I had never seen a person act like that before — speaking a mile a minute, laughing one moment, crying the next. In a split second decision, a friend and I drove him to a psychiatric hospital where he was admitted right away. Was it the right thing to do? The look on his face when the doctors restrained him — I will never forget that. That memory is a big part of writing this play.

What has changed in the script: In earlier versions I thought there had to be a very clear trigger for why we go from the present to the past. And I think as I became bolder with writing the play, it became clearer to me that there didn’t always have to be a direct correlation between the present and the past moments that we are seeing. It could be an emotional logic. The play follows the emotional logic of the two characters, Teddy and Jeremy, and that’s the way into the past.

What theatre can and can’t accomplish in documenting real-life events: Theatre is always bound to fail in capturing the largeness of world historical events. But what I’ve learned is that a play can give us memories of an event that we didn’t undergo in order for us to understand. That’s what theatre does. We can be swept up in someone else’s world.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 11 WRESTLING WITH THE PAST, AND SEARCHING FOR HOME Like much of playwright Ken Urban’s work, A Guide for the Homesick is peopled with characters whose preoccupation with the past overwhelms their present lives. Jeremy and Teddy continually return to the question “what happened?,” but the answer to this seemingly direct question is hard to come by.

The history they grapple with is both personal and global, recent and centuries-old, so “what McKinley Belcher III happened?” is in fact an immense query. plays Teddy At the center of A Guide for the Homesick are two Americans who have traveled abroad and struggled in different ways to grasp the complexity of a culture about which they are ill-informed. Without an understanding of the territory in which they find themselves, their moves become dangerous to others.

Urban explores how this failure of understanding repeats throughout the history of civilization. Jeremy and Teddy followed a basic human impulse that Samuel H. Levine societies, individuals, and the heroes in our stories plays Jeremy have felt across time: to venture away from home in search of something that home could not provide — sustainability, acceptance, fulfillment. These journeys to foreign lands can lead to discoveries and coalitions, but also to conquests and wars, all of which we see borne out in this play, on a personal and a political scale.

Despite placing Jeremy and Teddy on this traditional hero's journey, Urban does not present them as heroes. They are driven variously by selfish inclinations and philanthropic ones — and yet Urban shows us their intent only counts for so much. In conveying not just the risks they take and miles they cover, but the impact their attitudes and actions have on others, Urban breaks apart the traditional framing of a hero narrative in favor of something richer and more lifelike. He constructs a world in which their journeys cannot be considered separately from those who are offstage, out of view. Those other lives fill the space like ghosts; only two actors are onstage, but the players in this story are numerous.

Throughout Urban’s canon are characters haunted by the past: two soon-to- be-divorcees in his comedy The Remains host a final dinner party that becomes

12 A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK an opportunity to replay what went wrong. In Nibbler, a man questions why his life has stalled while he imagines a revisionist version of the final summer he spent with his childhood friends (complete with a hypersexualized creature from the beyond). In The Correspondent, a widower is consumed by a desire to communicate with the wife he lost. Sense of an Ending follows a journalist to Rwanda as he interviews Hutus and Tutsis about the genocide, and finds members of both peoples tormented by what they experienced.

The spaces or moments these characters occupy are never as they appear: one world drops into another; the dead linger, absent loved ones return or remain. The audience for these works must question its understanding alongside the characters onstage; to ask, “what else haven’t I seen? What else don’t I know?”

Why pose these questions? Why create these challenging theatrical landscapes? Certainly, many of Urban’s plays are filled with light — humor, music, love, sex; all of these elements are part of A Guide for the Homesick. But there is clearly a deep investigation of humanity within even of the most joyful moments. To reckon with the past, as these characters do, is to face the most essential truths about ourselves, our capabilities for both creation and destruction, and the recurring behavior patterns that define our existence. Urban spoke in a recent interview about his career-long interest in “ethics, responsibility and what it means to be a friend,” and those concerns are visible in this play. In exploring these topics over the past two decades, Urban has offered a bracing view of humanity, fearless in its gaze at our darkest tendencies and yet hopeful in its presentation of a path forward for those willing to peer into that darkness.

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nile Samuel H. Levine, Director Colman Domingo, Playwright Ken Urban, and McKinley Belcher III HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 13 ABOUT THE COMPANY McKinley Belcher III* (Teddy) previously appeared in Smart People and Invisible Man at the Huntington. He has appeared Off Broadway in The Royale (Lincoln Center Theater), Fidelis (/NYSF), and Romeo & Juliet (Classic Stage Company). Regionally he has appeared in Macbeth (Shakespeare Theatre Company), the world premiere of Rear Window and (Hartford Stage), Trouble in Mind (Two River Theater), As You Like It (Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles), the world premiere adaptation of Macbeth 1969 (), To Kill a Mockingbird (Bay Street Theatre), and Medal of Honor Rag (Shadowland Theatre), among others. Mr.

A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK Belcher made his film debut in John Sayles’ most recent independent feature Go for Sisters and just wrapped an indie film about titled Mapplethorpe, directed by Sundance favorite Ondi Timoner. He currently recurs as Agent Trevor Evans in Jason Bateman’s Netflix crime drama “Ozark.” He spent two seasons as Samuel Diggs in Ridley Scott’s PBS Civil War medical drama “Mercy Street” and appeared in David Simon’s HBO miniseries “.” His other television credits include “Power,” “ PD,” “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Louie,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” and “Law & Order: LA.” Mr. Belcher has an MFA in acting from USC School of Dramatic Arts where he was the recipient of the Ava Greenwald Memorial Award and a BA from Belmont University.

Samuel H. Levine* (Jeremy) has Off Broadway credits that include Kill Floor (LCT3, directed by Lila Neugebauer) and Alligator (New Georges and the Sol Project), as well as the reading of The Inheritance (The Public Theater/NYSF, directed by Stephen Daldry). His film credits include The Transfiguration, Indignation, and Yinz. His television credits include “Big Dogs” (Choice Films), “Red Oaks” (Amazon), and “Elementary” (CBS). Mr. Levine attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and studied acting at the Institute of the Arts.

Ken Urban (Playwright) is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and his plays include Nibbler, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. His plays have been produced at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Amoralists Theatre Company, 59E59 Theaters, The Summer Play Festival at The Public Theater/NYSF, Theatre503 (), and SpeakEasy Stage Company. His awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. Mr. Urban is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a core writer at the Playwrights’ Center. He wrote the screenplay for the feature-film adaptation of The Happy Sad, and his “The Art of Listening” was optioned by ITV. His upcoming projects include The Remains at Studio Theatre in May 2018. His band Occurrence released The Past Will Last Forever in 2016 and is completing a new album. This fall, he was named a senior lecturer of theatre arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he runs the playwriting program.

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ABOUT THE COMPANY A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK THE FOR GUIDE A Colman Domingo (Director) is a Tony and Olivier Award nominated theatre, film, and television artist. Recent direction credits include the West Coast premiere of Barbecue by Robert O’Hara for the Geffen Playhouse, Seven Guitars for the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Off Broadway Alliance Award-winning musical A Band of Angels for the Children’s Theater. Mr. Domingo has directed for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Working Theater, New Professional Theater, and Intersection for the Arts, among others. As a playwright, his plays and musicals include Dot, Wild with Happy, A Boy and His Soul, The Brother(s), Up Jumped Springtime, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Lights Out: Nat King Cole. His work has been produced at The Public Theater/NYSF, , and Humana Festival of New American Plays, among others. His theatre work spans the West End, Broadway, Off Broadway, Australia, France, and regional theatres across America. Mr. Domingo stars on television as Victor Strand in AMC’s “. He is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel, Obie, Audelco, and GLAAD Awards for his work in the theatre.

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 15 ABOUT THE COMPANY William Boles (Scenic Design) recently designed the Off Broadway production of If Only (Cherry Lane Theatre). His regional credits include King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre/Center Theatre Group), She Kills Monsters, reWILDing Genius, Midnight City, and How Long Will I Cry? (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Angels in America, Peter and the Starcatcher, Seven Guitars, and the Humana Festival of New Plays 2014-2016 (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and The Sneetches (Children’s Theatre Company). His other credits include work with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Skylight Music Theatre, The Second City, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater,

A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites, American Theater Company, A Red Orchid Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company, Steep Theatre, and First Floor Theater. Mr. Boles’ international credits include Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. He received his MFA from Northwestern University. williambolesdesign.com.

Kara Harmon (Costume Design) previously designed Dot (Vineyard Theatre) Off Broadway and has regional credits that include In the Heights (Geva Theatre Center), Native Gardens (Guthrie Theatre and Arena Stage), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Marin Theatre Company), The Mountaintop (Trinity Repertory Theatre), Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse), The Rape of Lucretia (Wolf Trap Opera), Ethel and God of Carnage (Alliance Theatre), Seven Guitars (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Safehouse (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), and Clybourne Park and The Trip to Bountiful (The Hangar Theatre). Her assistant costume design credits for Broadway include The Crucible, Magic Bird, First Date, and Memphis, as well as “Daredevil” (Netflix) and “” (HBO) for television. Ms. Harmon earned her MFA from NYU Tisch. KaraHarmonDesign.com.

Russell H. Champa (Lighting Design) previously designed Now or Later and Captors for the Huntington. His current and recent projects include Shakespeare in Love (Cleveland Play House), Sacred Valley (New York Stage and Film), Imaginary Invalid (Fiasco Theater/The Old Globe), Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard Theatre), The Light Years (The Debate Society/Playwrights Horizons), The Hard Problem (American Conservatory Theater), and Thresh|Hold (Pilobolus). Broadway credits include China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theater), In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater), and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). Work with New York companies includes Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater/NYSF, Second Stage Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, and The Juilliard School. Regional credits include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Wilma Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Mark Taper Forum, and The Kennedy Center.

Lindsay Jones (Original Music & Sound Design) has Broadway credits that include A Time to Kill and Bronx Bombers. Off Broadway, he has designed Privacy, Dry Powder, and Barbecue (The Public Theater/NYSF), Bella and

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ABOUT THE COMPANY A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK THE FOR GUIDE A Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Mr. Joy (LCT3), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop), Discord and Rx (Primary Stages), and many others. His regional credits include production at the , Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, , Arena Stage, and many others. International credits include Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada) and Royal Shakespeare Company (England), as well as productions in Ireland, Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Scotland. Mr. Jones has received seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24 nominations, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, an LA Drama Critics Circle Award, three nominations, two Helen Hayes Award nominations, as well as nominations for Barrymore and Henry Hewes Design Awards, and many others. Film scoring credits include Magnolia Pictures’ The Brass Teapot and HBO Films’ A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award, Best Documentary). lindsayjones.com.

Jeremy Stoller (Dramaturg) has served as dramaturg on the world premieres of Ken Urban’s Nibbler (The Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Paper Canoe’s Light (Triskelion Arts), Thomas Choinacky and John Jarboe’s Beaut, and R. Eric Thomas’s Will You Accept This Friend Request? (First Person Arts); and on the US premiere of Ken Urban’s Sense of an Ending (59E59 Theaters). He serves as director of new work for Keen

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 17 ABOUT THE COMPANY Company. Additional dramaturgy/literary work with Theater Company, Disney Theatrical, The Flea, George Street Playhouse, Luna Stage, Musical Theatre Factory, PlayPenn, Jewish Plays Project, terraNOVA Collective, Two River Theater, and Working Theater. He is a co-founding member of Beehive Dramaturgy Studio and a founder of the Dramaturgy Open Office Hour Project. He holds a BA from Drew University.

Amy Stoller (Dialect Coach) is the resident dialect designer at Off Broadway’s Mint Theater Company, where her most recent project is Critics’ Pick The Suitcase Under the Bed; up next is Hindle Wakes. Other recent

A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK New York credits include Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady, directed by Austin Pendleton, and Anna Deavere Smith’s award-winning Notes from the Field, directed by Leonard Foglia. Previous projects with Ms. Smith include Let Me Down Easy and “YoungArts Master Class.” On Broadway she coached Jessie Mueller (Tony Award) as Carole King in Beautiful. Film and television credits include coaching Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King in Selma; “Mozart in the Jungle;” “Nurse Jackie;” “Power;” and “Dora the Explorer.” stollersystem.com.

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

Adele Nadine Traub* (Production Stage Manager) previously stage managed I Was Most Alive with You for the Huntington in 2016. She is a founding company member with Actors’ Shakespeare Project where she has stage managed 23 shows over the past 13 seasons. Other projects include shows with SpeakEasy Stage Company, American Repertory Theater, Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, Vineyard Arts Project, Israeli Stage, Chester Theatre Company, Central Square Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, and BU’s Dance Theatre Group. During her four years as production stage manager at the Boston Conservatory, Ms. Traub worked on over 40 productions with the musical theatre, dance, opera, and orchestra departments and has mentored stage management students at Boston Arts Academy, Brandeis University, and the Boston Conservatory. She received her BA from Brandeis University and is a professional quilter. thequiltedchuppah.com.

Jeremiah Mullane* (Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington having previously stage managed The Who & the What, A Doll’s House, Tiger Style!, ’s How I Learned What I Learned, Disgraced, Choice, The Second Girl, Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Seagull,

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

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The Cocktail Hour, The Jungle Book, and Invisible Man. He has regional credits GUIDE that include Blood on the Snow at Boston’s Old State House (The Bostonian

Society), Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and King Lear

(Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), First You Dream and Follies (The FOR

Kennedy Center), Really Really, The Boy Detective Fails, Chess, [title of show], THE and Giant (Signature Theatre), and As You Like It, The Alchemist, The Way of

the World, Julius Caesar, and Major Barbara (Shakespeare Theatre Company). HOMESICK He is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in drama and computer science.

Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his tenth season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music; the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples; the regional premieres of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible the things I do, Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff, and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn; and Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss. His West End/London credits include Sex with Strangers and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre), All New People with Zach Braff (Duke of York’s Theatre), and Becky Shaw (Almeida Theatre). His New York credits include Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard Theatre) The Power of Duff with Greg Kinnear (New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse Theater); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Modern Terrorism, Becky Shaw, Trust with Sutton Foster, All New People, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theatre); Measure for Pleasure, Richard III with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public Theater/NYSF); and Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and The View From 151st Street (LAByrinth Theater Company/The Public Theater). He served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the

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

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BRILLIANT CLASSIC COMEDY “A CLASSIC GEM! Laugh-out-loud funny!” — THE NEW YORK TIMES AVENUEBY OF THE ARTS TARTUFFENOV.10-DEC.10HUNTINGTONMOLI AVENUEÈRE THEATRE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 19 ABOUT THE COMPANY Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague. His productions have been on the annual top ten lists of The New York Times, Time Out, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsday, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, The Evening Standard, The Boston Globe, and Improper Bostonian, and he received an Honorable Mention for 2013 Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe Magazine.

Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington’s administrative and financial operations since 1982. He has produced more than 200 productions

A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK in partnership with three artistic directors and is one of the most well- regarded managing directors in the theatre industry. Under his tenure, the Huntington has received over 140 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Mr. Maso received the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, the Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor) in the category of Catalyst, and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. In 2004 the Boston Herald honored him as Theatre Man of the Year. Mr. Maso led the Huntington’s ten-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004, and is currently leading the redevelopment and renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre. He currently serves on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and previously served as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and StageSource, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 70 of the country’s major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. Prior to the Huntington, he served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico.

Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 18th season at the Huntington where he has produced over 80 productions. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Bay Street Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. Working primarily as a stage manager, his credits include the original productions or New York premieres of Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare), subUrbia (Eric Bogosian), The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn), Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), Desdemona (Paula Vogel), Racing Demon (David Hare), Sex and Longing (Christopher Durang), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Alfred Urhy), and Sophistry (Jonathan Marc Sherman). Additional credits include the 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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ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets. Since its founding in 1982, the Huntington has received over 140 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. In the past 35 years, the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (18 of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 500,000 students, community members, and other cultural organizations. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington brings world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond together with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. Long an anchor cultural institution of the Avenue of the Arts, the Huntington’s primary home will remain on Huntington Avenue on a permanent basis. The Huntington plans to renovate and expand the current theatre into a first-rate, modern, state-of-the-art venue with enhanced services for audiences, artists, and the community. The Huntington built the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2004 as a home for its new works activities and to provide a 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 serves 200,000 audience members each year at the Huntington Avenue Theatre and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally renowned education and community programs, the Huntington reaches 36,000 young people and underserved audience members each year. These programs include the Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest, the August Wilson Monologue Competition, the Huntington Community Membership Initiative, and the student matinee series. The Huntington is a founding partner of Codman Academy Charter Public School and has collaborated with Codman year-round for 16 years to create and teach its innovative, interdisciplinary Humanities curriculum. A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. Through the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstone of its new work activities, the Huntington supports local writers through two-year fellowships and is also proud to serve as a home for Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez. The Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form and is committed to mentoring local playwrights, educating young people in theatre, and serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts organizations.

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY TRUSTEES & OVERSEERS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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

COUNCIL OF OVERSEERS

Nancy S. Adams Linda Kanner Caleb White Kitty Ames Loren Kovalcik John Taylor Williams Steven M. Bauer Sherry Lang Bertie Woeltz Camilla Bennett Joie Lemaitre Christopher R. Yens Nancy Brickley Tracie Longman Linda Zug Jim Burns Nancy Lukitsh Suzanne Chapman Rumena Manolova- J. William Codinha Senchak Bette Cohen Charles Marz Tenney Cover Noel McCoy Elizabeth Cregger Thalia Meehan Catherine Creighton Daniel A. Mullin Deborah First Tania Phillips Anne H. Fitzpatrick Gail Roberts Maria Farley Gerrity Valerie Shey Eilene Davidson Grayken Ben Taylor Paul Greenfield Kate Taylor Janice Hunt Stephen M. Trehu Alan S. Johnson Juliet Schnell Turner Katherine Jones Tracey A. West as of September 15, 2017

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 25 CAMBRIDGE, MA Coming Soon

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Supporting: The Mt. Auburn Hospital, US Fund for UNICEF, The Guidance Center, Huntington Theatre Company, and Cambridge Community Foundation BENEFACTORS CIRCLE

The Benefactors Circle recognizes our leadership and major donors and offers members a range of special benefits. We are grateful to the members of the Benefactors 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 Benefactors Circle member, please call Meg White, Director of Major Gifts, at 617 273 1596.

$100,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts Sherryl and Gerard Cohen** Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske** Carol G. Deane** Linda L. D’Onofrio Betsy and David Epstein** Jennifer Eckert and Richard D’Amore** Eilene Davidson Grayken** Debbie and Bob First, Nancy and Ed Roberts** in memory of Susan Spooner** Mr. J. David Wimberly Valerie and Mark Friedman** John Frishkopf** $50,000–$99,999 Nicki Nichols Gamble Dr. John and Bette Cohen** Maria and Daniel Gerrity** Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges** Karen and Gary Gregg Barbara and Amos Hostetter** Tom and Nancy Hamilton** Gardner C. Hendrie and Karen Johansen** Cassandra Hyland Henderson** Jane and Fred Jamieson** Joyce Huber and Randall Ellis Carol B. Langer** Elizabeth and Woody Ives Susan and David Leathers** Marjie and Robert Kargman Sharon and Brad Malt** Loren B. Kovalcik/IntePros Consulting** Bill and Linda McQuillan** Joie Lemaitre** Jane and Neil Pappalardo Mr. and Mrs. David Long Mitchell and Jill Roberts** Tracie L. Longman and Chaitanya Kanojia** Linda and Brooks Zug** Nancy Lukitsh** 1 anonymous gift Daniel A. Mullin** Paula and Bill O’Keeffe** $25,000–$49,999 Cokie and Lee Perry** Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes Jeffrey Dover and Tania Phillips Stephen Chapman** Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson** Denise and William Finard** Gail Roberts** Karen and David Firestone** Jan and Joe Roller** Ann and John Hall** Dr. Paul S. Russell Nada Despotovich Kane** Darin and Debbie Samaraweera Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield** Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan Sandra Moose and Eric Birch** Linda H. Thomas** Ms. Anne M. Morgan** Juliet Schnell Turner** John D. Spooner** Mary Wolfson** Ellie Svenson and Mark Klempner** Genevieve and Justin Wyner Faith and Joseph Tiberio 1 anonymous gift Charitable Foundation Linda and Daniel Waintrup** Howard and Veronica Wiseman** ** Spotlight Spectacular supporter $10,000–$24,999 Amy and David Abrams** ‡ Deceased Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson** Kay Calvert and Jim Manzi** This list reflects gifts received during the Fay Chandler‡ 14 months prior to September 15, 2017.

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$5,000-$9,999 Rumena and Alexander Anthony Lucas Alice and Walter Abrams Senchak** Ann D. Macomber Steven M. Bauer** Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mahmood Malihi** Nancy Adams and Sherbrooke** John Matteson** John Burgess Valerie Shey** Mike and Mary McConnell Charles and Kathleen Ames** Bruce and Emily Stangle Amy Merrill, Marianne Baldwin and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stearns** in honor of Donna Glick Eva Marie Mancuso Jean C. Tempel Kristin and John Coralie Berg and John Travis Montgomery** Steve Schwartz Drs. Stephen and Beth Trehu** Kelly Nowlin** Amy and Joshua Boger Elizabeth and Caleb White Tom and Patricia O’Brien** Susan and Michael Brown Ike Williams Paul Odland Jim Burns Bertie and Anthony Woeltz** Ella and Edward Owens** Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Christopher R. Yens and Coleen and David Pantalone Betsy Cabot Temple Gill Jackie and Bob Pascucci Susan and Alfred Chandler Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell Suzanne Chapman Zilberfarb** Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy Nancy Ciaranello 1 anonymous gift Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel John Cini and Star Lancaster Victoria and John Rizzi Dominic Cioffoletti and $2,500-$4,999 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Christopher Scinto** Patricia Bellinger and Rotenberg** J. William Codinha and Carolyn Richard Balzer Richard Powers and Thayer Ross Michael Barza and Stephen Schram** Betsy and David Cregger Judith Robinson Judith and Edward Siegel** Laura and Neil Cronin Bruce and Denise Bauman** Vivian and Lionel Spiro** Amey A. Defriez Carolyn Birmingham Helen and Jack Stewart Margaret Eagle and Edward Boesel Lisbeth Tarlow and Eliezer Rapaport Charles Merrill and Stephen Kay Bob and Esta Epstein** Julie Boudreaux Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Robert Fine and Matthew Fine Nancy and Richard Brickley Pamela Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Kevin and Virginia Byrne George Pettee Anne H. Fitzpatrick** Stephen Chapman Mary Verhage Donald Fulton McLane and Tenney Cover Mindee Wasserman** Mary Beth and Chris Gordon Catherine and Peter Creighton Norman Weeks Donna and Jay Hanflig Ellen and Kevin Donoghue** Rita and Adam Weiner** Ned Murphy and Newell Flather Roberta and Stephen R. Ann-Ellen Hornidge Thomas and Joanne Gill Weiner** David A. Kronman Mark E. Glasser and 2 anonymous gifts Ted and Ann Kurland** Frank G. McWeeny Cecile and Fraser Lemley** Paul Greenfield and John and Jean Lippincott Sandy Steele** Gregory Maguire Betsy and David Harris Charles Marz** Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Jack Fabiano and Hibbard, in honor of Noel McCoy** David Wimberly Thalia Meehan and Carmela M. Hilbert Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw** Prof. and Mrs. Morton Z. Sharon Miller Hoffman Brant Cheikes and Janice and Roger Hunt** Janine Papesh Linda and Steven Kanner Bryan Rafanelli** Seth and Mary Kaufman Robert M. Rosenberg, Susie and David Kohen in honor of Mary Wolfson** Anne and Geoff LaFond** Adrienne and Arnold Rubin** Barrie Landry** Marilyn and Jay Sarles** Sherry Lang

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$1,000-$2,499 James Alexander and Thomas Stocker • Carole and Leonard Alkins • Dr. Ronald Arky • Eric Bacon** • Carol Baker • George and Katharine Baker • Jessica and Shane Baron** • Kate and Gordon Baty • Jacqueline Bell and Aron Epstein** • Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Dr. Gerald Pier • Susana and Clark Bernard • Jerry M. Bernhard • Christina and Ky Bertoli**♦ • Jeanne and John Blasberg** • Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon C. Bolton III • Joseph L. Bower and Elizabeth Potter • Geri and Bill Brehm • Jane Brock-Wilson, in honor of Carol Deane • Kenneth Brown • Robert Buckley** • Paul Buddenhagen • Patricia and Jack Carucci** • Patricia Chadwick and Norman Cantin** • Peggy and Anton Chernoff • David Chilinski** • Matthew Clark and Jonathan Worth** • Ann and John Clarkeson** • Lisa Cleary** • Dorothy Coffin • Pamela K. Cohen • Rosalie Florence Cohen • Ken and Ginny Colburn • Anne Crowley** • Ivy and Howard Cubell** • Dennis Condon and Robert Cummings • David Dalena and Brian Patton • Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dayton • Dean K. Denniston, Jr. • Margaret Deutsch** • George Dhionis • Robert and Dubs Dickey** • Linda and Tim Diering • Kirsten Doyle and Brendon Buckley** • Virginia Drachman and Douglas Jones • Jonathan Dyer and Thomas Foran • Stephen Elman and Joanne D’Alcomo • Jason and Cecily Epstein** • Jerome and Vivien Facher • Barbara and Larry Farrer • Donna and Harley Frank • Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardiner • Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Garrison • Sharon and Irving Gates • Lori and Michael Gilman • Peter and Jacqueline Gordon • Phil Gormley and Erica Bisguier • Mr. K. Frank Gravitt • Garth and Lindsay Greimann • Irene and Stephen Grolnic • Katherine Haltom • H. Patricia Hanna • Theodore and Sally Hansen • Louis A. Harrison** • Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hartmann • Susan and Michael Hartnett** • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High • Barbara Hirshfield and Cary Coen, in honor of Sherry and Gerry Cohen** • Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss • Richard and Priscilla Hunt • Susan M. Hunziker • Terence Janericco • Alan Johnson • Leonard W. Johnson • Holly and Bruce Johnstone • Katherine and Hubie Jones • Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis • Paul and Elizabeth Kastner • John Keane • Cathie and Clarke Keenan • Paul and Tracy Klein • Dorothy and Richard Koerner • Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik • Alan Leventhal • Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky • Jon A. Levy • Ms. Susan Lincoln • Stuart and Yvonne Madnick • The Mancuso Family • Mr. and Mrs. Carmine A. Martignetti** • Joan and John McArdle • Louise and Sandy McGinnes • Kathy McGirr and Keith Carlson • Jack and Susan McNamara • Mary Rivet and Christopher Meyer • Neal and Lynne Miller • Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, in memory of Virginia Wimberly • Bill and Ginny Mullin • Bob and Alison Murchison • Jonette Nagai and Stephen O’Brien • Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren • Mary Owens • Joy Pak and David Deutsch** • Susan Pak • Dr. and Mrs. John William Poduska, Sr. • Billy Porter and Adam Smith** • Jessica and David Reed • Lynn and John Reichenbach • Ellen Remmer • Michelle and Aaron Rhodes**♦ • Jean and Richard Roberts • Donna Robinson and Chris Zook** • Sue Robinson, Ricardo Rodriguez, and Michael Kelley** • Sarah Rothermel • Susan and Geoffrey Rowley • Farley Sullivan and Jeff Roy** • Rohini Sakhuja • Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels • Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers • Jane E. Shattuck • Ellen Sheehy and Scott Aquilina • Eric Sheffels** • Rebecca Jean Smith • Eric and Barbara Snyder** • Beth and Michael Stonebraker • John H. Straus and Liza Ketchum • Hope and Adam Suttin • Lise and Myles Striar • Anne and Tank Tankanow** • Jared Tausig, in honor of David Wimberly • Ben and Kate Taylor** • Beth and Anthony Terrana** • David Parker and Janet Tiampo • Richard Trant** • Robert C. Volante • Carolyn Walton • Dr. Ronald Weinger • Scott and Jacqueline Wellman • Wendling Charitable Fund • Tracey Allyson West • Wilson Butler Architects • Dr. Elaine Woo • Jerold and Abbe Beth Young • Sally and Richard Zeckhauser** • 6 anonymous gifts SUPPORTERS PROGRAM

$500-$999 Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler • Elizabeth Aragao**♦ • John and Rose Ashby, in honor of Ann T. Hall • Robin Barnes and David Bor • Molly and John Beard • Louis and Nancy Beckerman • Kathleen Beckman • Howard H. Bengele • Jonas Berman • Martin S. Berman and Mary Ann Jasienowski • Leonard and Jane Bernstein • Margaret and James Blackwell, in honor of David Wimberly • Lori Bornstein and Alan Rothman • Stephen and Traudy Bradley • Pam and Lee Bromberg • Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro • Cammie and Douglas Bryant** • Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch • Thomas Burger and Andree Robert • A. William and Carol Caporizzo • Carrig Kitchens LLC • Cara and Anthony Casendino • Hsiu Chang**♦ • George and Mary Chin • John Clippinger • Herbert Stuart Cohen • Janet L. Comey • Alison Conant and Richard Frank • Stephen Conner • Charles Cooney and Peggy Reiser • Paul Curtis • Lloyd and Gene Dahmen • Josh and Jennifer Davis • Marguerite Davoren • Judy DeFilippo‡ • Dunch LLC** • Karen Dunnet and Richard Murphy** • Mr. Glenn Edelson • Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak • Jill and Richard Epstein** • Martha A. Erickson • Peter and Jan Eschauzier • Doug Faithfull** • Maggi Farrell • Ed Feijo** • Glenda and Bob Fishman** • Gail Flatto • Pierre Fleurant • Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd • Hilary and Chris Gabrieli • Tony and Melissa Gallo • William Gault • Drs. Laura Green and David Golan • Nathaniel and Jodi Gorton** • Suzanne Greenberg • Tracy Griffin and David Long** • Diane and Steve Hall** • Gail and Jan Hardenbergh • Terry Rockefeller and William Harris • Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos • John and Holliday Heine • Dr. Galen Henderson and Dr. Vanessa Britto • Kathleen Henry and Kim Maarkand • Shari and Christopher Hill** • Rosalind and Herbert Hill • Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Howlett • Maggie Jackson and Pat Mawn**♦ • Peter K. Jenkins • Peter Jenney • Candace

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 29 SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued)

Julyan and David Hancock** • Mr. and Mrs. Paul Karofsky • Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Karon • Nancy R. Karp • Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman • Bicky and Nicholas Kelly** • Michael and Dona Kemp • Mr. and Mrs. William Keravouri** • John T. Kittredge • Jill Kneerim • Edgar Knudson • John and Sharon Koch • Cheryl and James Kolb • Dale Koppel • Jeanne and Allen Krieger • Patricia Leighfield, in memory of Robert Crisp • Jenny and Jay Leopold • Katherine Lewandowski and Adam Guren♦ • June K. Lewin, in memory of Ted Kazanoff • Linda and Stephen Lindsay** • Mark H. Lippolt • Lenore and Elliot Lobel** • Babette and Peter Loring • Barbara A. Manzolillo • Amy and Bill Marshall • Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Travis Martin • Kathy Martin and David Johnson • James D. Maupin • Kenneth Virgile and Helene Mayer • Geraldine McManus and Richard Hand • Frank B. Mead • Dan Miller • Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold • Nicole Moceri • Mary Ellen Moore • Kevin Morris • Marianne and Richard Moscicki** • The Munzer Family • Eileen Murray • Fred and Julie Nagle • Janet and David Offensend • Ray O’Neill • Elizabeth and Robert Owens** • Marianne Pasts • Patricia Patricelli • Ellen C. Perrin • Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler • Suzane Priebatsch • Margaret Ramsey • Robert Raymond • Edith Rea • Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs • Sam Reiche** • Gretchen Reilly • Sharon and Howard Rich • Audrey Rideout • Christina Rifkin • Michael and Jane Roberts • Sue Robinson • Christine and David Root • Diane Rosenberg • Sari Rosman • Jen and Mitchell Ross** • Pauline and Robert Rothenberg • Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Magi McKinnies • Kathleen and William Rousseau • Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz • Diane and Richard Schmalensee • William Schutten • David W Shukra and Clifford S Wunderlich • Omar Saddiqi • Gilda Slifka • Mark Smith and John O’Keefe • Edward Sonn • Nancy and Edward Stavis • Lee Steele** • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stein** • Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Darline Lewis and Marshall Sugarman • Beth and Larry Sulak • Todd Trehubenko • Gregory Van Boven and David Beck** • Rosamond B. Vaule • Sumer and Kiran Verma • Beverlee Vidoli** • Bill Walczak** • Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther • Scott and Brenda Warner • Constance V. R. White • Karolye and Fernando Cunha • P.T. Withington • Clark Wright and Lisa Goldthwait Wright • Robert E. Zaret • 5 anonymous gifts

$250-$499 Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein • Rosanna Alfaro • Fidler Family • Robert Allen • Nancy T. and Jack W. Ammerman • Michael Ansara • Tammy Arcuri • Tom Austin • Carolyn Baird • Mr. and Mrs. James Banker • Emily Barclay and John Hawes • Marilyn Barrett • Peter Barrett • David Barry • Nancy Barry • Caitlin Bearce • Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Berglund • James Berkman • Gregory Bialecki and Mary Herlihy • Robert Bienkowski • Clinton Blackburn and Michelle Lessly♦ • Donald and Ellen Bloch • Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom • Anthony Boral and Leah Rugen • Sandy Bornstein • Richard and Dorothy Botnick • Jonathan Golding and Sally Bradley-Golding • Eric and Sandra Brenman • S. Britt • Deborah B. Brown • Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld • Allan and Rhea Bufferd • Diane Burman • Daniel C. Burnes • Eric Butler**♦ • Pauline H. Bynum • Missage Cadet, M.D. • Cathy Campbell and Jack Orrock • Colleen Campion • Judith Carmany • Charles R. Carr • Frank Carrano • Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. • Mary Chin • Maria Church • Krista Clouse • Valerie Cloutier • Priscilla Cogan • Steven Cohen • Stuart Cole • Steven Coleman and Christine Tunstall • Silvia Coulter • Robert Crone • Howard S. Crowley • James F. Crowley • Zoltan and Cristina Csimma • Karen Davis and Randy Block • Bill and Kay DeFord • Charlotte Delaney and Steve Pattyson • Joel Desilets • Jane and Stephen Deutsch • Mary L. Dill • Soroor Dowlati • Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey • Owen Doyle • Raya Dreben • Grace Durrani • Harriett M. Eckstein • Gordon Edes • Diane F. Engel • Mr. and Mrs. James Feldman • Roger Ferguson and Chris Gaucher • Mr. and Mrs. Barry Fireman • Michael Firestone** • Kathleen McGrath Fitts • Thomas M. Formicola and Lenny Goldstein • Margot Fronsaglia** • Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frumkin • Stephen Gaal • Michael and Leslie Gaffin • Michael Gallerstein • Kathryn M. Gallucci • Judith L. Ganz • Clifford Garnett • Gisele Garraway • Vincent Genest • Jack and Maureen Ghublikian • Celia and Walter Gilbert • Silvia Glick • Michael and Sophie Gordon • Amelia and William Graham • Susan Greco • Thomas Greeley • Paul and Martha Green • Dr. William and Susan Griever • Steven and Barbara Grossman and David Grossman • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Groves • Stella M. Hammond • Eunice Harps • Judith Harris • Mary Hayes • Lizbeth Hedstrom • Margaret N. Henderson and Loretta Henderson • Alfio Hernandez • Erin Higgins • David Hollowell • Ken Horn • Lyle Howland • Andrea Humez • Mrs. Donald Hunsicker • Barbara Bradlee • Amal Hussein • Mr. and Mrs. Howard Israel • Roland Jacobson • Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi • Toini and Carl Jaffe • Peter and Adrienne Jaffe • Norman W. Johnson • The Jolly Family • Peter Jones • Jess and Aran Kadar • Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski • Jane Kamer • Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet • Amelia and Joshua Katzen • Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard • Jim Keefe and Family • Glenn Kelly • Paul Kelly • Judy and Dan Kennedy, in honor of Stephen Sondheim • Margie Kern** • David Kettner • Gail King and Christopher Condon • Remsen M. Kinne • Jason Knutson • Nancy F. Korman • Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn • Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel • Drs. Carol and Ben Kripke • Joan Kuhn • Oldrich Kyn • Andreas Laddis • Monica and Thomas LaFond** • Susan Lane and William Kane • Carol Lazarus • Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape • Colleen Leary** • Michelle Lewis • Dr. and Mrs. David Lhowe • Virginia Litle • Lida and Francis Lloyd • Jim and Allie Loehlin • Ms. Barbara Lurvey • David and Christine Manns • Michael Maso • Arthur Mattuck • Stephen T. McAvinn • Kevin McCarthy • Terri- Lynn McCormick • Hope and Shaw McDermott • Robert McOwen • Gabriella Meyer • Forrest and Sara Milder • Gale Minot • Joseph Misdraji • Margaret Mone • Barbershop Deluxe • Michael and Donna Moskow • Bob Muti, in memory of James Robinson • Tom Norris • Thomas Novak • Chukwuemeka Nwanze • Richard Belin and Rosanne O’Brien • Kathryn O’Connell • Nancy and Chris Oddleifson • Linda Ordoukhanian • William Pananos • Robert and Beverly Parke • Marian Pasquale • Ted and Josie Petersen • Mr. and Mrs. Harry Photopoulos • Stephen Pike • Josephine

30 A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued)

Pizzuto, in memory of Pat Pizzuto • James Poterba and Nancy Rose • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx • Helene M. Quinn and Tony Kanopt • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt • Jennifer Rabold • Kerry Mulligan Railey • Tom Redburn • Jodi Rand • Peter and Suzanne Read • Katharine and William Reardon • Mary Rench, in honor of David Wimberly • Suzanne Ricco • Roger Riggs • Patricia Robinson • Barbara Roby • Daniel P. Romard • Anne Romney • Jean Rosenberg and Peter Southwick • Abby Rosenfeld • Leila Joy Rosenthal • Mathilde and Robert Ross • Susan Rothenberg • Debra Ruder • Ryan Ruopp • Nancy L. Russell • Jeremy Ryan • Vinod and Gaile Sahney • David and Anne Salant • Margaret M. Talcott and L. Scott Scharer • Robert and Susan Schechter • Molly Schen • Kim and Eric Schultz • Eric Searls and April Levin • Karen J. Shack • Firouzeh Shahbazi** • Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline • Mrs. F. Shedd Fisher** • Elisabeth Shields • James Shields and Gayle Merling • James Shuman • David Siegel • Mr. and Mrs. Edward Siegel • Drs. Margaret and Michael Simon • Ellen L. Simons • Nancy Sklar • Dr. and Mrs. Carl Soderland • Renai Stalzle • Candace Steingisser • Bob and Susan Stevenson • Glenn and Katherine Strehle • Debbie London and Ted Sturman • Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit • Julia Swanwick**♦ • Kenneth Sweder • Richard A. Sweeney • Patrick Tally • Jacob Taylor and Jean Park • M.K. Terrell • Janet Testa • Mary Anne Thadeu • Karen Thompson • Judy Thomson • Patricia Tibbetts • Mr. Robert Toomey • Thomas and Barbara Van Dyke • Barbara Van Zoeren • Pat and Steve Vinter • Lori and Christopher Wadsworth, in appreciation of Dave Wimberly • Mr. and Mrs. David Wahr • Jerry Warshaw • Susan Weiler • David White • Nancy White • Leslie Wilcox • Richard and Frances Winneg • Elizabeth P. Wolf • Janis Woodman, in honor of Christopher Woodman • Alfred Woodworth • David C. Wright • Natalie Wright • Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman • Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zafft • Lorena and Robert Zeller • Carolyn Zern • 13 anonymous gifts

♦ Member of The Hunt, the Huntington’s young donor program ** Spotlight Spectacular supporter ‡ Deceased

This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to September 15, 2017.

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

Executive Season Producers Benefactors Supporters ($100,000+) ($15,000–$24,999) ($5,000–$9,999) The Andrew W. Mellon BPS Arts Expansion Fund AON Consulting** Foundation at EdVestors* CBT Architects** The Barr Foundation The Druker Company** Citizens Bank** Klarman Family Foundation Goodwin** Cue Ball Group with the Barr-Klarman Arts Harold and Mimi Steinberg Nixon Peabody Capacity Building Initiative Charitable Foundation Proskauer LLP Liberty Mutual Insurance* Kingsbury Road Charitable Ramsey McCluskey Family Massachusetts Cultural Council Foundation* Foundation* The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Leggat McCall Properties** Rodgers Family Foundation Lucy R. Sprague Memorial Ropes & Gray LLP Season Co-Producers Fund* Stantec Architecture Boston** ($50,000–$99,999) MEDITECH Theatre Communications Group Hershey Family Foundation Suffolk Construction** WilmerHale Mabel Louise Riley Foundation* Schrafft Charitable Trust* Members Production Sponsors Patrons ($2,500–$4,999) ($25,000–$49,999) ($10,000–$14,999) Boston Cultural Council The Abbey Group** Alfred E. Chase Bruner/Cott & Associates** Bank of America* Charitable Foundation* Cambridge Savings Bank* Edgerton Foundation Eaton Vance Investment Jackson and Irene Golden National Endowment Counsel 1989 Charitable Trust* for the Arts HYM Investment Group** Roy A. Hunt Foundation* PR Restaurants LLC** The Tiny Tiger Foundation* * Education and community programs donor ** Spotlight Spectacular supporter

Thank you to our in-kind contributors: Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP Noble Ford Productions** High Output** Rafanelli Events** MAX Ultimate Food**

32 A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK 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 Sharon and Brad Malt Howard H. Bengele Bill and Linda McQuillan Suzanne Chapman Mary C. O’Donnell Brant A. Cheikes Steve Stelovich 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 Genevieve and Justin Wyner Carol B. Langer 1 anonymous Joie Lemaitre

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 CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA• GENERAL INFORMATION

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

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ADMINISTRATION MARKETING General Manager...... Sondra R. Katz Director of Marketing...... Temple Gill Associate General Manager...... Conwell Worthington III Associate Director of Marketing...... Meredith Mastroianni Assistant General Manager...... Annie Walsh Communications Manager...... Desiree Barry Company Managers...... Jazzmin Bonner, Tessitura Analytics Manager...... Derrick Martin Meagan Garcia Digital Content Manager...... Carolyn MacLeod Assistant to the Managing Director...... Gabrielle Jaques Promotions & Community Coordinator...... James Boyd Community Membership Finance Coordinator...... Candelaria Silva-Collins Director of Financial Management...... Glenda Fishman Communications Associate...... Leah Reber Accounting Manager...... June Zaidan Marketing Associate...... Clare Lockhart Accounting Coordinator...... Laura Casavant Co-op Trainee, Northeastern University...... Liam Hofmeister Accountants...... Alexander, Aronson, Finning, CPA THEATRE OPERATIONS Human Resources Director of Theatre Operations...... Joey Riddle Director of Human Resources...... Nina E. Nicolosi Human Resources Coordinator...... Michael Comey Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Payroll and Reporting Specialist...... April Swiniuch Associate Director of Theatre Administrative Support Assistant...... Kendrick Terrell Evans Operations — Calderwood Pavilion...... Katie Most Calderwood Pavilion House Manager...... Julie Cameron Information Technology Calderwood Pavilion Management Assistant...... Matt Feldman IT Director...... Scott Poole Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice...... Micaela Slotin Network Administrator...... Dan Moloney Assistant House Managers...... Paul Fox, Gabe Hughes Ksenia Lanin, Maura Neff ARTISTIC Front of House Staff...... Chabreah Alston, Producing Director...... Christopher Wigle Natasha Bonfield, Mia Buchsbaum, Robert Caplis, Associate Producer...... Rebecca Bradshaw Barbara Crowther, Talia Curtin, Linnea Donnelly, Director of New Work...... Charles Haugland Katie Flanagan, Madeleine Gibbons, Ryan Impagliazzo, Assistant to the Artistic Director...... Billy Cowles Josh Luckens, Kerry Lydon, Terry McCarthy, Playwright-In-Residence...... Melinda Lopez Laura Meilman, Maegan Passafume, Tiniqua Patrick, Literary Apprentice...... J. Sebastian Alberdi Nick Perron, Sarah Schnebly, Katharine Silva, Producing Apprentice...... Kat Klein Ciera-Sadé Wade, Dalton Zogleman Huntington Playwriting Fellows...... MJ Halberstadt, Custodians...... Jose Andrade, Mike Brown Brenda Withers Security Coordinator...... Greg Haugh

DEVELOPMENT Huntington Avenue Theatre Director of Major Gifts...... Margaret J. White Associate Director of Theatre Major Gifts Officer...... Celina Valadao Operations — Huntington Avenue Theatre...... Katrina Alix Special Events Manager...... Kirsten Doyle Huntington Avenue Theatre House Manager...... Andrew Elk Institutional Giving Manager...... Diana Jacobs-Komisar Assistant House Managers...... Gabe Hughes, Annie Walsh Individual Giving Manager...... Annalise Baird Front of House Staff...... Charlie Carr, Development Database Coordinator...... Lisa McColgan Kendrick Terrell Evans, Robin Goldberg, Development Associate...... Elizabeth MacLachlan Ariana Goldsworthy, Annalise Lamberty, Development Assistant...... Sam Buntich Tommy Melvin, Will Morrison, Brianna Randolph Custodians...... Jose Andrade, EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Nelson DaSilva, Calvin Traylor III Interim Co-Directors of Education...... Meg O’Brien, Security Coordinator...... Greg Haugh Alexandra Smith Education Associate...... Marisa Jones Ticketing Services Education Apprentices...... Lauren Brooks, Ivy Ryan Assistant Manager — Ticketing Systems...... Katie Catano Teaching Artists...... Kortney Adams, Naheem Garcia, Assistant Manager — Patron Services...... Victoria Swindle Donna Glick, Lydia Graeff, Keith Mascoll, Huntington Avenue Theatre Allie Meek, Trinidad Ramkissoon Ticketing Coordinator...... Brenton Thurston Calderwood Pavilion Ticketing Coordinator...... Noah Ingle Subscriptions Coordinator...... Amy Klesert Ticketing Associate...... Nicole Williams Full-Time Customer Service Reps...... Shana Jackson, Matthew Lewis Customer Service Reps...... Victoria Barry, Nick Boonstra, Sue Dietlin, Katelyn Reinert, Brittany Schmitke, Yurika Watanabe

36 A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK STAFF (continued)

PRODUCTION Paints Director of Production...... Todd D. Williams Charge Scenic Artist...... Kristin Krause Associate Director of Production...... Bethany Ford Assistant Charge Scenic Artist...... Romina Diaz-Brarda Stage Management Apprentice...... Jamie Carty Scenic Artist...... Chelsey Erskin Production Management Apprentice...... Rachael Hasse Scenic Painting Apprentice...... Molly Hall

Scenery Costumes Technical Director...... Dan Ramirez Costume Director...... Nancy Hamann Associate Technical Director...... Adam Godbout Assistant Costume Director...... Virginia V. Emerson Assistant Technical Director...... Dan Oleksy Costume Design Assistant...... Mary Lauve Scene Shop Foreman...... Mike Hamer Head Draper...... Anita Canzian Master Carpenter...... Larry Dersch Draper...... Sarah Pak Scenery Mechanic...... Jesse Washburn Costume Crafts Artisan/Dyer...... Denise M. Wallace-Spriggs Carpenters...... Andrew Cancellieri, Milosz Gassan, First Hand...... Rebecca Hylton Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon Wardrobe Supervisor...... Christine Marr Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...... Carolyn Daitch Wigmaster...... Troy Siegfried Huntington Avenue Theatre Calderwood Pavilion Wardrobe Run...... Barbara Crowther Stage Carpenter...... Chris Largent Electrics Properties Lighting & Projections Supervisor...... Katherine Herzig Properties Master...... Kristine Holmes Assistant Lighting Supervisor...... Bridget Collins Assistant Properties Master...... Justin Seward Calderwood Pavilion House Electrician...... Taylor Ness Properties Artisan...... Ian Thorsell Huntington Avenue Theatre House Electrician...... Sean Baird Properties Run...... Andrew DeShazo Properties Apprentice...... Margot Adolphe Sound Sound Supervisor...... Ben Emerson Sound Engineer...... J. Jumbelic Calderwood Pavilion House Sound Operator...... Jesse McKenzie Sound Apprentice...... Valentin Frank

Additional Staff for A Guide for the Homesick

Fight Consultant...... Ted Hewlett Costume Design Assistant...... Becca Jewett Associate Sound Designer...... Brendan F. Doyle Assistant to the Lighting Designer...... Chris Gilmore Assistant to the Director...... Liam Hofmeister Electricians...... Abbey Dutton, Evey Connerty–Marin, Production Assistants...... John Meredith, Ryan Kane Emily Bearce, Brittney Page, Carpenters...... Andrew Adamopoulos, Zach Straeffer, Kevin Barnett, Bill O’Donnell, Rita Roy Keithlyn Parkman, Devin Mooney, Props Run Crew...... Torrence Chrisman Lauren Scattolini, Mitchell Girgasky

Special thanks to the Midtown Hotel.

The Huntington Theatre Company is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of the nation’s leading resident professional theatres; Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre; StageSource, a regional alliance of theatre artists and producers; and ArtsBoston, the voice and resource for the arts in Greater Boston. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The director and choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. SUPPORTING FREE 3-DAY PASS HEALTHY OUTCOMES COME IN FOR A TOUR TODAY!

This pass entitles an individual or family to experience the YMCA for one week before 9/30/2016.6/30/2018 Valid for new free trial participants over the age of 18. Government issued identification is required to enter the YMCA. HUNTINGTON AVENUE YMCA 316 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02110 YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON • ymcaboston.org HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 37 GUIDE to  LOCAL THEATRE

DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., 800-BLUE-MAN. Ongoing. This giddily subversive off- Broadway hit serves up outrageous and inventive theatre where three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both contemporary art and modern technology. Wry commentary Joan Marcus and bemusing antics are matched only by the ingenious ways GROWING UP: Winner of five 2015 Tony Awards in which music and sound are created. including Best Musical, Fun Home—which makes its Boston debut at the Opera House October 17–29—is THE COLOR PURPLE, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic mem- Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Nov 21–Dec 3. The 2016 Tony oir about her childhood. Award winner for Best Musical Revival features a soul-raising score of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues, giving an exhilarating new spirit to this Pulitzer Prize-winning story.Don’t miss this SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., stunning re-imagining of an epic story about a young woman’s 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at the Shear journey to love and triumph in the American South. Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs gets knocked off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience matches wits with FUN HOME, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., the suspects to catch the killer in this wildly popular comedy. 800-982-2787. Oct 17–29. Winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical, this play based on Alison Bechdel’s STARDUST, Emerson Stage, Greene Theater, Tufte Performance best-selling graphic memoir—hailed as “a rare beauty that & Production Center, 10 Boylston Place, 617-824-8400. Nov pumps fresh air into Broadway” by the New York Times—intro- 9–12. Thirty-five of legendary lyricist Mitchell Parish’s most duces us to Alison at three different ages as she explores and enchanting songs— including such favorites as “Deep Purple,” unravels the many mysteries of her childhood. “Moonlight Serenade,” “Don’t Be That Way,” “Sophisticated Lady” and, of course, the title song—are celebrated in this GARDENS SPEAK, Emerson/Paramount Center Robert J. elegant and entertaining musical adventure. Orchard Stage, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Nov 8–19. Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury carefully reconstructs the oral THE STATE OF SIEGE, Théâtre de la Ville, Emerson/Cutler histories of ten ordinary people and transforms statistics of the Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. Nov 9–11. Syrian uprising into universal, human stories via a stunning, Written by Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus, staged by full-body interactive experience. leading avant-garde French director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and produced by a celebrated Paris theatre company, this rarely INCORRUPTIBLE, Emerson Stage, Emerson/Paramount Center staged 1948 work weaves a tale of paranoia, endurance and Robert J. Orchard Stage, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. political struggle that results in a dizzying modern metaphor. Oct 19–22. In 1250 AD in Priseaux, France, the town’s patron saint relic ceased producing miracles years ago, driving away pilgrimaging peasants and their pennies to a rival monastery LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE claiming miracles from the same saint. With starvation looming, ALLIGATOR ROAD, Greater Boston Stage Company, 395 Main a larcenous, one-eyed minstrel and his wife (of sorts) shows the St., Stoneham, 781-279-2200. Oct 12–29. Kathy’s recent desperate monks a way out of bankruptcy, one that strains the widowhood has resulted in some peculiar behavior—like very essence of church teachings. yarn-bombing the family hardware store. But her decision to literally give away the store to a complete stranger causes a KISS, Emerson/Paramount Center Jackie Liebergott Black Box tense confrontation with her college-age daughter in this world Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Oct 26–Nov premiere by Maine playwright Callie Kimball. 19. When a young, aspirational theatre troupe discovers and performs what they believe is a Syrian soap opera, they come A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY, Flat Earth Theatre, Black Box to realize just how much they got wrong in this brilliant play- Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, within-a-play that shows how misunderstanding cultural cues 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Through Oct 14. can reveal blind spots you never knew you had. In 1932 Berlin, a group of young radicals struggle to respond

38 A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK Stage Building Audiences for Spotlight Greater Boston’s Outstanding Not-For-Profit Performing Arts Organizations

TRINITY REP Death of a Salesman Boston Conservatory Orchestra by Arthur Miller October 1 A complete performance of Directed by Brian McEleney Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. Tickets: 617-496-2222 Don’t miss the American masterpiece that everyone should see performed live Carousel • October 12–15 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 musical revolves September 28– around a carousel barker and millworker whose November 26, 2017 comes at the expense of their jobs. Tickets: 617-912-9222 or Downtown Providence bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/events 401-351-4242 • TrinityRep.com

LYRIC STAGE TRINITY REP

Skeleton Crew A Fantasia on the Life of by Dominique Morisseau Florence Foster Jenkins Directed by Featuring Tiffany Nichole Greene Leigh Barrett Detroit, 2008: Can these Will McGarrahan factory workers find their American Dream? October 20– November 19, 2017 October 1– November 22, 2017

Lyric Stage • Copley Square Downtown Providence 617-585-5678 • lyricstage.com 401-351-4242 • TrinityRep.com

From Hammerstein to Hamilton, with a splash of country and pop! Supporting the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Adapted by Patrick Barlow October 14, 2017 at 8 p.m., auction at 7 p.m. November 17–December 9, 2017 North Shore Music Theatre BCA Plaza Theatre 978-232-7200 • nsmt.org 617-933-8600 • bostontheatrescene.com voicesofhopeboston.org

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) as Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power. Watching THE FEVER, 600 Highwaymen, Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 their world unravel around them from the uncertain safety of Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Nov 15–19. The New Agnes Eggling’s apartment, these artists, activists and idealists York-based theatre company tests the limits of individual and grapple with fear for their lives and the responsibility of mak- collective responsibility, and our willingness to be there for one ing moral choices in a time of vanishing options. another. Performed in complete collaboration with the audi- ence, the show examines how we assemble, organize and care CAROUSEL, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway for the bodies around us. St., 617-912-9222. Oct 12–15. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 musical revolves around a carousel barker and mill- 42ND STREET, North Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Road, worker whose romance comes at the expense of their jobs. Beverly, 978-232-7200. Oct 31–Nov 12. Meet those dancing feet in the glamorous, Tony Award-winning, 1930s-set musical A CHRISTMAS CAROL, The Nora Theatre Company and spectacular. The stakes are high when a young chorus girl Underground Railway Theater, Central Square Theater, 450 fresh from Allentown, Pa., is given the once-in-a-lifetime Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Nov 24–Dec change to become a star. 31. This new incarnation of Dickens’ classic tale of the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge utilizes puppetry, live music, dancing and HOW CHRISTMAS FEELS, Create. Inspire. Change. Theater intimate storytelling to relay this celebration of generosity, Company, Plaza Black Box Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, compassion and personal transformation. 539 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Nov 29–Dec 2. In this world premiere musical, Mimi works at Scrangle’s Snow Globe Factory A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Trinity Repertory Company, The Chace in a bustling city, and has become disillusioned by “the Christ- Theater, 201 Washington St., Providence, R.I., 401-351-4242. mas spirit.” Lost and lonely, she begins receiving anonymous Nov 9–Dec 31. Ebenezer Scrooge—a greedy, sour business- letters that seem to magically correspond with her actual life. man, infamous for his lack of Christmas cheer—is visited These letters, along with a few surprisingly close friends, guide by three ghosts that give him the chance to examine his life. her in finding herself and what the holidays are all about. Inspired to change his ways, Scrooge is wholly transformed by the spirit of Christmas in Dickens’ holiday classic. IN THE HEIGHTS, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The Riverway, 617-879-2300. Oct 27–Nov 19. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, Tony Award-winner for Best Musical tells the universal story SpeakEasy Stage Company, Roberts Studio Theatre, Stanford of a vibrant, multi-generational community in New York’s Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Washington Heights—a place where the biggest struggles can Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Oct 20–Nov 18. Winner of five be deciding which traditions you take with you and which ones Tony Awards including Best Play and based on the international you leave behind. best-seller, the play takes audiences inside the mind of Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old math savant who talks in JULIUS CAESAR, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Studio 210, loud declamatory sentences, doesn’t do “chat” and can’t stand Huntington Avenue Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-933- to be touched. When he discovers that his neighbor’s dog has 8600. Nov 15–Dec 17. Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy been murdered, he sets out to solve the crime, embarking on a explores the ebb and flow of power and the consequences of thrilling journey that will upend his world. politically motivated assassination. Set in a futuristic parallel universe where women are in power, the to claim the DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Trinity Repertory Company, Dowling empire spirals out of control in this all-female production. Theater, Lederer Theater Center, 201 Washington St., Providence, R.I., 401-351-4242. Through Nov 26. Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer LOST TEMPO, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Common- Prize-winning masterpiece of the perilously high cost of the wealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Oct 5–22. Gifted jazz saxophonist American Dream tells the story of Willy Loman, who desperately Willie “Cool” Jones is lured back from Paris by former love craves success for himself and his sons. When stark reality Babs with the promise of ownership in Mitzy’s Jazz Kitchen, cannot live up to his dreams, the wall of delusions he has but Cool’s inner demons compete with his ambitions as he constructed quietly crumbles around him while a devastated and tries to make sense of his life in this riff on the addictions from demoralized man searches in vain for a hidden path to greatness. which we all suffer, musical and otherwise.

THE DONKEY SHOW, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 THE MAGIC FIRE, Theatre@First, Unity Somerville, 6 William St., Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Ongoing. Bringing the Somerville, 888-874-7554. Nov 10–18. A memory play set in ultimate disco experience to Boston, this crazy circus of mirror Buenos Aires in 1952, this work focuses on Lise, a young girl in balls, feathered divas, roller skaters and hustle queens tells a lively intellectual family of immigrants from Austria and Italy, the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through great ’70s whose common interest is opera. As an adult, Lise looks back on anthems you know by heart. her childhood memories and tries to understand them in light of what she now knows about what was happening at the time. ELEMENO PEA, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Com- monwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Nov 2–19. When Devon THE MUSIC MAN, The Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica visits Simone on Martha’s Vineyard, she finds her little sister Plain, 617-524-3200. Nov 4–18. There’s trouble in River City changed beyond recognition. As personal assistant to a when a fast-talking con man gets his heart stolen by the town wealthy and demanding trophy wife, Simone enjoys a lavish librarian in Meredith Willson’s Tony Award-winning musical lifestyle that these girls never could have imagined growing up comedy classic. in blue-collar Buffalo. Worlds collide and sisters square off in this keenly-observed comedy about ambition, regret and the NEXT TO NORMAL, Boston Theatre Dance Company, Black choices that shape who we become. Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the

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Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Nov 3–5. This pop/rock musical exploring how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness was the recipient of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score, and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

OLEANNA, New Repertory Theatre, Charles Mosesian Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Oct 14–Nov 5. It’s all about power in ’s groundbreaking drama about political correctness and perception. When John, a professor, tries to help his student Carol, is it a misunderstanding or inherent misogyny that causes trouble?

[OR, THE WHALE], imaginary beasts, Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St., Charlestown, 866-811-4111. Oct 13–Nov 4. Juli Crockett’s unabashedly experimental play inspired by Herman Melville’s Dick is a poetic meditation on loss and longing in which a chorus of Captain Ahabs form a mad crew who set out in search of his missing leg, which is lost somewhere in the impossible vastness of the sea.

THE REVOLUTIONISTS, The Nora Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866- 811-4111. Oct 19–Nov 12. Paris, France, 1793: The Reign of Terror. Four badass women conspire, plot murder and resist extremist insanity. Join playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian activist Marianne Angelle and former queen Marie Antoinette as they hang out before each of them loses their heads in this irreverent, fantastical comedy by Lauren Gunderson.

ROBYN IS HAPPY, The Hub Theatre Company of Boston, First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., 617-267-6730. Oct 27– Nov 11. Despite her protestations to the contrary, Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could sabotage her life and career, and, as her best friends since second grade, it’s their duty to intervene. What could possibly go wrong?

SH*T-FACED SHAKESPEARE, The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Somerville, 617-684-5335. Ongoing. A fusion of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely sh*t-faced cast member, this side-splitting, raucous and interactive show pres- ents with a genuinely drunken professional actor selected at random every night. No two shows are ever the same and audiences can even dictate when the actor gets to drink more to prevent unwanted sobriety.

SKELETON CREW, Trinity Repertory Company, Dowling Theater, Lederer Theater Center, 201 Washington St., Providence, R.I., 401-351-4242. Oct 1–Nov 22. In Detroit, as the Great Recession begins, a makeshift family of four factory workers toil as their industry flirts with failure. With their future uncertain, Faye, Sha- nita, Dez and foreman Reggie must decide how they will balance their own desires, their loyalty to one another and their survival.

SOUVENIR, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-585- 5678. Oct 20–Nov 19 . Despite being called “majestically awful,” the concerts of coloratura soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in the 1930s and ’40s were sold-out affairs attended by the crème de la crème of Manhattan society. Told affectionately through the eyes of her longtime accompanist, this is a sweet, inspiring, hilarious portrait of a passionate music lover who believed that “what matters most is the music you hear in your head.”

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SWEENEY TODD, Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmount Ave., favorite holiday tradition returns. Join Clara on her magical Hyde Park, 800-838-3006. Oct 27–Nov 12. Stephen Sond- journey through an enchanted winter wonderland to a palace heim’s bloody tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street unfolds of sugary confections, featuring choreography by Boston in his Tony Award-winning musical about a vengeful haircutter Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen and Tchaikovsky’s and his cheerful accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, who bakes Todd’s classic score. victims into the meat pies she sells in her shop. OBSIDIAN TEAR, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539 TARTUFFE, Huntington Theatre Company, Huntington Avenue Washington St., 617-695-6955. Nov 3–12. This duo of Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-266-0800. Nov 10–Dec 10. astonishing contemporary works features the North American Molière spins religious piety and hypocrisy into high comedy in premiere of the title work by Royal Ballet Resident Choreogra- this hilarious and biting satire about the title character, a con pher Wayne McGregor, as well as a world premiere by Boston man who charms his way into Orgon’s household and schemes Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo, set to Jean Sibel- to marry his daughter, seduce his wife and run off with the ius’ glorious 5th Symphony and an orchestral performance of family’s fortune. Sibelius’ rousing and turbulent tone poem, Finlandia.

THE 39 STEPS, Moonbox Productions, Roberts Studio Theatre, PILOBOLUS, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Oct 27–29. The wildly creative Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Nov 17–Dec 9. Alfred avant-garde dance company has transformed itself into an Hitchcock and Monty Python collide in the hilarious spy- international entertainment juggernaut, and continues to melodrama-turned-comedy in which an ordinary man living a explore new ways of using the human body as a graphic and quiet life meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious past who expressive medium. is murdered in his apartment, making him the target of both a nationwide manhunt and a nefarious ring of spies. A cast of more than 150 characters (played by just four actors) makes OPERA adventure and romance more absurdly enjoyable than ever. CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS, Guerilla Opera, Ipswich Hall, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 132 Ipswich St., 617-912- 3/FIFTHS: THE TRAVELING MINSTREL SHOW, Sleeping Weazel, 9222. Nov 3–5. Andy Vores’ world premiere opera, sung in Martin Hall, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center English, is based on the absurdist, satirical play by Henry for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Nov 3–11. This Carey from 1734 that parodies the high-blown style of revenge intimate stage experience, performed by four actors, enlists tragedies and operatic libretti, while attacking the amorality video, song, dance, humor and beauty, all aimed at the audience and depravity of the rich, privileged and powerful. to implicate them in an examination of race and racism. L’ASSEDIO DI CALAIS, Odyssey Opera, Huntington Avenue TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Gloucester Stage Company, 267 Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-933-8600. Oct 26 & 28. East Main St., Gloucester, 978-281-4433. Oct 6–28. In this Donizetti’s rarely performed 1836 melodrama tells the story of stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s timeless American classic the English siege of the French city of Calais at the beginning exploring civil rights and racism in the segregated South of the of the Hundred Years’ War. 1930s, 10-year-old Scout Finch observes the trial of a black man unjustly accused of rape as her attorney father, Atticus, THE NEFARIOUS, IMMORAL BUT HIGHLY PROFITABLE struggles to prove the innocence of the accused. ENTERPRISE OF MR. BURKE & MR. HARE, Boston Lyric Opera, The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 TOMES OF TERROR: LENORE, The Post-Meridian Radio Tremont St., 617-542-6772. Nov 8–12. When Edinburgh’s Players, Responsible Grace Church, 204 Elm St., Somerville, world-renowned anatomy schools face a cadaver shortage in 800-838-3006. Oct 20–28. Three chilling tales—Edith Nesbit’s the 1820s, two men smell a money-making enterprise. Based “Hurst of Hurstcote,” adapted by Liz Salazar; Poe’s “The on historical events, this highly theatrical and brutally funny Premature Burial,” adapted by Tegan Kehoe; and Poe’s “Hop chamber opera follows the infamous 10-month killing spree Frog,” adapted by Christian Krenek—are presented along with of William Burke and William Hare—and questions how far a reading of the poem “Lenore.” society will go in the name of “science.”

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JESUS?, Gold Dust Orphans, OPERA BITES, Boston Opera Collaborative and Boston New Theater Machine, 1254 Boylston St., 800-838-3006. Nov 30– Music Initiative, Edward M. Pickman Hall at Longy School of Dec 23. Everyone’s favorite comedic theatrical troupe present Music of Bard College, 27 Garden St., Cambridge, 617-517- Ryan Landry’s brand-new Christmas mystery for its annual, 5883. Nov 10–12. Seven short works—including three brand- satirical holiday spectacular. new commissions and world-premieres—by composers Oliver Caplan, Tom Cipullo, Eva Kendrick, Carrie Magin, Tony Solitro, Beth Ratay and David Wolfson are presented in a cabaret style DANCE setting at this third annual feast of 10-minute operas. FROM THE GROUND UP, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Nov 2–5. Boston Conservatory TOSCA, Boston Lyric Opera, Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre, dancers perform new works by renowned guest choreogra- 219 Tremont St., 617-542-6772. Oct 13–22. Against a back- phers Campbell and Diaz, Gregory Dawson, Uri Sands, Jennifer drop of war, chaos and corruption, a singer named Floria Tosca Archibald and Thang Dao. must give the performance of a lifetime to save the man she loves. Set in early 1800s Italy, Puccini’s classic is the passion- THE NUTCRACKER, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539 ate, sweeping story of three strong-willed characters destined Washington St., 617-695-6955. Nov 24–Dec 31. Boston’s to become masters and victims of their own fate.

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#GlobeLive 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 DINING sandwiches, specialty pizzas, custom burritos and more in the Food Court. B, L, D, C. cityplaceboston.com.

CLINK, The Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., 617-224-4004. Clink serves the freshest North Atlantic seafood, seasonal New England fare and delicious artisanal meats, highlights GUIDE of a menu that artfully marries European culinary tradition with contemporary American innovation. The dining room features vestiges of original jail cells and an open kitchen, while gold leather seats, butcher block tables and granite 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 and restaurant at Downtown Crossing serves refined modern DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington American cuisine. The seasonal dinner menu draws inspiration St., 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park from around the globe while also incorporating ingredients Square, within walking distance to all theatres. The Northern from local New England farms. D, C. 49social.com. Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade pastas and Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch pork chop, Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s ARAGOSTA BAR & BISTRO, Three Battery Wharf, 617-994- 9001. This latest addition to Boston’s vibrant waterfront classics and selection of fresh seafood, before or after the the- restaurant community offers a new take on Italian cuisine by atre. Enjoy a lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor award-winning chef David Daniels who shows his signature area. D Sun–Tue 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m., L Mon–Fri. flair through hand-made pastas, prime meats and classic New VP. davios.com. England seafood. Using quality, local farm-raised ingredients, Aragosta offers a warm, social atmosphere in a stunning FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in waterfront setting. Also offering an open kitchen with Chef’s 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that Counter and an outdoor terrace. B, L, D. Mon–Sun 6:30 a.m.– features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain 10 p.m.; Sat & SB 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m. aragostabistro.com. prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon AVENUE ONE RESTAURANT, Hyatt Regency, One Avenue de Lafayette, 617-912-1234. Newly renovated and located in & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 the heart of the Theatre District, Avenue One restaurant and p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. lounge serves contemporary New England cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy a refreshing cocktail, three-course prix fixe THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a two- dinner or a delectable dessert. Discounted parking available. B story townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor 6:30–11:30 a.m., L noon–3 p.m., D 5–10 p.m. C, VP r patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French coun- egencyboston.hyatt.com. try cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-670- 0320. With three deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused favorites, Back Deck invites everyone to gather around patio JASPER WHITE’S SUMMER SHACK, 50 Dalton St., 617-867- tables and chairs for a charcoal-cooked meal and backyard- 9955; 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, 617-520-9500. inspired cocktails. Its ambiance brings the outdoors inside with Enjoy top-notch seafood such as pan-roasted lobster, award- floor-to-ceiling open windows, carriage lighting, lush green winning fried chicken and an impressive raw bar in a casual planters, glazed brick and an open kitchen. Drawing inspiration setting. L, D. summershackrestaurant.com. from a roof deck, this restaurant is the ultimate urban retreat. L, D, Sat & SB, C. BackDeckBoston.com. LEGAL SEA FOODS, 558 Washington St., 617-692-8888; 26 Park Plaza, Park Square Motor Mart, 617-426-4444; 255 State BLU, 4 Avery St., 617-375-8550. Located in the heart of the St., Long Wharf, 617-227-3115; Copley Place, 100 Huntington Theatre District next door to the Ritz Carlton on the fourth floor, Ave., 617-266-7775; 270 Northern Ave., Liberty Wharf, blu Restaurant and Bar is celebrating its 15th anniversary 617-477-2900; other locations. Legal Sea Foods, a Boston with a feast for the senses. Its contemporary American menu tradition for more than 50 years, features more than 40 variet- includes the all-time favorite lobster club. Featuring spec- ies of fresh fish and shellfish as well as an award-winning tacular floor-to-ceiling windows, blu is perfect for a pre-show wine list. Named “Boston’s Most Popular Restaurant” (Zagat dinner, corporate events, weddings, cocktail receptions and 2010/2011). L & D. legalseafoods.com.

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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, BRING YOUR 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. EVENT TO

MERITAGE RESTAURANT + WINE BAR, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-439-3995. Known for its excellence in NEW HEIGHTS 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.

TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, 617-536-1775. Located 52 stories above the city, Top of the Hub is Boston’s special occasion favorite. With upscale American cui- sine, live entertainment nightly, a spectacular view and romantic CONTACT OUR SALES OFFICE: atmosphere, Top of the Hub promises a unique experience for both   visitors and native Bostonians alike. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net. KMCCARTHY TOPOFTHEHUB.NET

YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE, 41 Union St., 617-227- 2750. America’s oldest restaurant, now celebrating 191 TOP OF THE HUB SKYWALK years, serves Yankee-style seafood, beef and chicken, and is ND FLOOR OF TH FLOOR OF famed for the oyster bar where Daniel Webster dined daily. PRUDENTIAL TOWER PRUDENTIAL TOWER Specialties include clam chowder and fresh lobster. L & D TOPOFTHEHUB.NET SKYWALKBOSTON.COM Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 10 p.m. C ’til mid- night. unionoysterhouse.com. Photo credit: Je rey Dodge Rogers

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Davio’s ometimes an evening out can get derailed by and tomato sauce and hand-rolled potato gnocchi; the simplest of debates—for example, Ital- modern Italian cuisine like lobster risotto or Sian food or steak? Luckily, Bostonians have roasted veal sirloin with oyster mushrooms, cipol- the perfect answer to this particular dilemma— lini, potatoes and marsala; and hearty meat Back Bay favorite Davio’s Northern dishes like grilled Niman Ranch pork Italian Steakhouse, which combines chop or the seared Atlantic salmon. At the bold flavors of a superior Italian DAVIO’S lunchtime, Davio’s also boasts a selec- 75 Arlington St. eatery with the class, sophistication 617-357-4810 tion of gourmet pizzas and panini and unmistakable flair of a classic Refer to Dining Guide, filled with everything from shrimp to upscale steakhouse. page 44 grilled chicken. Diners at Davio’s can begin their By night, Davio’s delivers every- meal with a selection from a superb thing you expect from a top-notch Davio’s delivers wine list that earned the eatery an “ steakhouse. Whether you opt for the Award of Excellence from Wine Spec- everything you center cut filet mignon or natural aged tator magazine in 2011, or dive right expect from a top- New York sirloin, these mighty, meaty into a wide array of antipasti. From cuts of beef come cooked to perfec- the bold taste of Davio’s Kobe beef notch steakhouse. tion. Enjoy them with a la carte meatballs to the restaurant’s trademark sides ranging from steakhouse faves Philly cheese steak spring rolls, from ”like creamy mashed potatoes, grilled salads like the arugula with shaved parmigiano and asparagus and crispy onion rings to Mediterranean- lemon olive oil to the baby iceberg with bacon, toma- influenced treats likebaked eggplant with fresh toes, onions, croutons and herbed buttermilk dressing, mozzarella or the special spinach alla Romana. guests will find something distinctive and delicious Located just blocks from both the fabulous to kick off their dining experience. shopping on Newbury and Boylston streets and From there, Davio’s diverse entrees take the first-rate entertainment of the Theatre Dis- center stage: diners can sample tempting pasta trict, Davio’s is a prime spot for either a night on dishes like tagliatelle with braised veal, beef, pork the town or simply lunch with friends.

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