DIRECTED BY M. BEVIN O’GARA
BY PROVOCATIVE AND MOVING DRAMA AYAD AKHTAR THE WHO & THE WHAT
MAR.31-MAYSOUTH END 7 CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA Seasonal cocktails, handmade pasta, perfectly cooked steaks & fresh seafood, expertly prepared using the nest ingredients. At Davio’s, it’s all about the guest.
PLUS: 7
CONTENTS
Vice PresidentAdvertising: 12 Senior AccountExecutive: 11 Vice PresidentPublishing: Chief OperatingOfficer:
Assistant ArtDirector: E PLURIBUSUNUM ARTISTIC DIRECTORPETERDuBOIS A MESSAGEFROM THE PROGRAM
44 46 34 38 35 President/Publisher: 14 Business Manager: 4 Backstage Editorial Assistant: Dining Out:Davio’s Boston DiningGuide Guide toLocalTheatre Emergency Exits Patron Services About theCompany Art Director: STAFF by OliviaJ.Kiers Melissa J.O’Reilly Tyler J.Montgomery Andrea Renaud Jacolyn AnnFirestone Rita A.Fucillo Olivia J.Kiers Laura Jarvis Scott Roberto Tim Montgomery
theatrebill
e-mail [email protected]. To advertiseinTheatrebill , call857-366-8131 or gencies donotrun— WALK TOTHATEXIT. route tothestreet.Ineventoffire orotheremer- sign nearesttotheseatyouoccupy is theshortest FIRE NOTICE:Theexitindicatedbyaredlightand offender liableformoneydamages. punished by ejection and violations may render the management, isprohibitedbylaw.Violatorsmaybe this theatre,withoutthewrittenpermissionof for suchphotographingorsoundrecordinginside of anyperformanceorthepossessiondevice WARNING: Ave., Suite 412,Boston,MA02118,857-366-8131. Panorama: TheOfficialGuidetoBoston,560Harrison lication of New Venture Media Group LLC, publisher of Publishing servicesareprovidedbyTheatrebill,apub- HUNTINGTON THEATRECOMPANY The photographing or sound recording APRIL–MAY 2017 38 12 3
Nile Hawver BACKSTAGE BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS Angela Sterling
FINISHING STRONG: Boston Ballet concludes its recently announced 2017–2018 season by bringing August Bournonville’s magical La Sylphide to the Boston Opera House stage May 24–June 10, which is paired with the rarely performed Bournonville Divertissements.
Boston Ballet’s Old and New Unite for the Scandinavian Season Huntington’s 2017–2018 Season When Boston Ballet opens its 2017–2018 season Huntington Theatre Company announced a in November, it will honor Mikko Nissinen in a lineup for its 36th season that includes eight special way by highlighting the artistry of several works wildly different from one another, composers and choreographers who share the artis- from the revival of a Sondheim musical to a tic director’s Finnish heritage. The much-awaited classic 17th-century farce. A multi-award- North American premiere of Wayne McGregor’s winning musical about one man’s showbiz all-male Obsidian Tear, a co-production with the career trajectory, Sondheim’s Merrily We Royal Ballet, is set to music by Finnish composer Roll Along is directed by Maria Friedman, Esa-Pekka Salonen. The evening also includes who first presented this stunning revival in choreographer Jorma Elo’s World Premiere, as London to rave reviews. Huntington’s produc- well as an orchestral performance of Jean Sibelius’ tion of Molière’s French Enlightenment-era Finlandia, a turbulent masterpiece composed in comedy, Tartuffe, promises to play with the- protest over Russian censorship in Finland at the atregoer’s expectations about period staging. turn of the 20th century. Huntington’s other six productions include The remainder of the season is no less excit- two new works—Huntington Playwriting ing, while covering more familiar territory. It Fellow Ken Urban’s drama featuring a chance goes without saying that The Nutcrackerarrives encounter, A Guide for the Homesick, and over the holidays; another Tchaikovsky clas- Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, a sic, The Sleeping Beauty, is back by popular timely play set in a breakroom full of Detroit demand in May for a limited, one-week run. auto workers. There’s also a special presenta- Other highlights include Classic Balanchine, tion of Mala, a new play recently premiered a triple-bill of dances choreographed by the by ArtsEmerson that is by Huntington legendary George Balanchine, in late May; a Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez. Go to spring repertory program featuring the work of huntingtontheatre.org for more information. Elo, William Forsythe, and Justin Peck; John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet; and a season finale New Season for New Rep of Danish choreographer August Bournonville’s New Repertory Theatre, the resident troupe La Sylphide. For details, visit bostonballet.org. at Watertown’s Mosesian Center for the Arts,
4 THE WHO & THE WHAT BACKSTAGE (continued) traditionally threads a thought-provoking Stoneham Theatre in January. At a time and theme through each play in its season lineup, place still to be determined, the Boston pre- and 2017–2018 is no exception. Artistic direc- miere of Jennifer Barclay’s site-specific drama tor Jim Petosa announced that New Repertory’s Ripe Frenzy—the winner of the National New upcoming season promises to weave a tapestry Play Network’s 2016 Smith Prize for Political of “resilience.” Theatre—is sure to be a powerful event. Visit Productions include two Boston-area pre- newrep.org for details. mieres. Ideation, Aaron Lobe’s psychological thriller featuring a cadre of consultants work- Putting the “Fun” in Fundraiser ing for a mysterious client, opens the season It’s coming! The Theater Offensive’s annual in September, and Kate Cayley’s The Bakelite climACTS! gala, that is. ClimACTS! is a Masterpiece arrives in the spring with the true unique experience—a celebratory evening that story of art forger Han van Meegeren’s highly also explores queer identities through unusual publicized trial in the wake of World War II. themes. The Theater Offensive, a Boston- Also of note is a revival of the Tony Award- based LGBT theatre group, has community- winning musical Man of La Mancha, on stage building and breaking through isolation at just in time for the holidays and featuring Elliot the heart of its mission to present a diversity Norton and IRNE award-winning Maurice of gender expression through art. Attending Emmanuel Parent as the delusional, yet coura- the annual fundraising party is a great way to geous and chivalrous, Don Quixote. get involved while having one heck of a good In addition, New Rep announced a pair time. Promising to be full of bold color and of very topical and “resilient” add-on pro- surprises, this year’s party is themed “Bounce.” ductions. Rohina Malik’s one-woman show It jumps on stage at the Theatre District’s about five Muslim women living in a post Royale Nightclub on May 3. For tickets, go to 9/11 world, Unveiled, is co-presented with thetheateroffensive.org.
WHAT’S ON STAGE in April Our picks for the hottest plays and musicals on local stages this month
BARBECUE 17 BORDER CROSSINGS LYRIC STAGE COMPANY ARTSEMERSON April 7–May 7 April 19–29 Award-winning playwright Robert O’Hara takes on stereo- Stage designer and TV types of all sorts in this witty new play about interventions, actor Thaddeus Phillips’ starring a multiracial family. Refer to listing, page 38. one-man play is a sur- real exploration of trav- BARNUM el’s odder moments, MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS from invasive body April 8–30 searches at Charles de Directed by choreographer Rachel Bertone—who was also Gaulle Airport to smug- Marc Simpson involved with Moonbox’s 2014 production of The Musical gling Kentucky Fried Chicken through Palestine. Refer to of Musicals that was listing, page 38. nominated for six IRNE Awards, including Best THE GIFT HORSE Choreography—this daz- NEW REPERTORY THEATRE zling musical harkens April 22–May 14 back to the 19th-century The Boston premiere of this comedy by acclaimed play- heyday of circus. Refer to wright Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly) deals with a teacher and listing, page 38. artist confronting her dark past. Refer to listing, page 40.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 5
Art New England New Art S ARTIST DIRECTORY CLIMATE CHANGE ART AUCTIONS THE ARTS ARMY VERMONT T ON TRE AR GT HE Art New England F T ontemporary r t a n d u l t u r e TIN C a C THEAANYUE O N HUN VE MP A SOUTH END CO &
March/April 2017 • Vol. 38 issue 2 issue 38 Vol.March/April • 2017
MARCH/ APRIL 2017
$5.95 US $7.00 Canada
Critical. Compelling. Contemporary. Don’t miss a thing! Stay connected to New England’s unrivalled arts scene. To Subscribe: visit artnewengland.com
Subscribers receive six issues per Available by subscription, on year and are invited to exclusive art newsstands everywhere, and salons, exhibitions, and openings at special art events throughout throughout New England. the region.
ON THE COVER: Jay Critchley, Mobil Warming: In God We Trust (detail), 2015, digital print.
TS ON TRE AR GT HE F T TIN UBOIS THEAANYUE O N HUN VE PETER D MICHAEL MASO MP A SOUTH END NORMA JEAN CALDERWOOD MANAGING DIRECTOR CO & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
THE WHO & THE WHAT by Ayad Akhtar Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Cristina Todesco Mary Lauve Annie Wiegand M.L. Dogg Original Music Casting Saraswathi Jones Alaine Alldaffer
Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Carola Morrone LaCoste Jeremiah Mullane
We gratefully acknowledge the Huntington’s 2016–2017 Season Sponsors Sherryl & Gerard Cohen Carol G. Deane J. David Wimberly the Production Sponsors of The Who & the What Jill & Mitch Roberts and the Production Co-Sponsors of The Who & the What Eloise & Art Hodges Jane & Fred Jamieson
The world premiere of The Who & the What was produced in 2014 by La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California, Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director & Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director
Produced by LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2014
The Who & the What is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 7 S RT TON TRE E A G TH TIN F THEAANYUE O N HUN VE MP A SOUTH END CO & 2017-2018
SEASON 2014
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG There will be one 10-minute intermission. A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK TARTUFFE BAD DATES SKELETON CREW TOP GIRLS FALL PLUS A SPECIAL EVENT MALA 7-PLAY PACKAGES START AT $154 SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW ON SALE! CAST Zarina...... Aila Peck Mahwish...... Turna Mete Afzal...... Rom Barkhordar Eli...... Joseph Marrella PLACE Atlanta, Georgia TIME 2014
There will be one 10-minute intermission.
The Huntington Theatre Company is supported in part by a major contribution from Boston University. Additional support is provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by more than 6,000 massculturalcouncil.org individual, foundation, and corporate contributors.
, APRIL 24, 2017 HONORING Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Tony Award winner 2017 SPOTLIGHT Billy Porter with the MONDAY Wimberly Award SPECTACULAR CYCLORAMAHUNTINGTON AT THE BCA THEATRE COMPANY 9 Huntington production staff members visit the site of the new Huntington Production Center in Everett
HUNTINGTON PRODUCTION CENTER TO OPEN IN EVERETT After an extensive search of the and to build upon the Huntington’s Greater Boston area for a new space, community mission by expanding the Huntington Theatre Company production services to other arts Production Center will relocate to organizations and companies. Everett, Massachusetts beginning The Huntington will begin fit out July 1, 2017. The Huntington’s current construction on the Everett space this production facility located at 252-258 spring and begin fulltime operations Huntington Avenue in Boston, next there in July. door to the Boston University Theatre, will become the site of a new building “The Huntington’s production team developed by QMG Huntington LLC, has been searching for a new space who purchased the lot in May 2016. since last May and we’re delighted to call Everett our new home,” says The new Huntington Theatre Company Huntington Production Manager Todd Production Center in Everett will Williams. “And while this transition will include 25,000 square feet of have its challenges, the production production space, 18,000 square feet team is looking forward to a workspace of storage space, and 4,000 square where an entire stage floor can be feet of office space, housing the built and painted at one time — with company’s prop, paint, and scenery no columns in the way! — and with shops. The new facility will feature room to paint both full size backdrops open and flexible work areas and and set pieces simultaneously. The onsite prop, costume, and scenery new production facility will allow our storage, allowing Huntington staff artisans the space they need to create to produce more complex design their best work in the most efficient work in a more efficient workspace workspace possible.”
The Huntington is extremely grateful for the vocal support and encouragement from our loyal audience members and supporters throughout Greater Boston. For the latest news and information about the Huntington Production Center and the Huntington Avenue Theatre, visit huntingtontheatre.org/FAQ. Dear Friends,
We are living in turbulent times, and nowhere is that stress more felt than in Muslim communities across the country. In November, our attorney general here in Massachusetts set up a dedicated hotline for communities hit by an increase in harassment and bias-motivated violence, a group that includes Muslims, Arab Americans, Sikhs, and others; the surge of islamophobia in our country has only seemed to accelerate since then, and that current context changes the way we experience this very particular American story of a Muslim family right now.
The Who & the What is set in 2014. We may be the first production of the play that does not and cannot say “the present” in its program. Yet the core theme of the play — about how our relationship to our faith changes how we relate to our families and to ourselves — has shifted very little, and in fact, has never felt more vital to me. In the wake of what we are experiencing here in our city, in our state, in our country, our staff was compelled to write a statement of our values, of what we want to put into the world right now:
The Huntington is committed to telling stories of all races and cultures on our stages, and providing a platform to theatre artists who expand our definition, recognition, and understanding of the human experience. We stand with our peer institutions in resisting fear and intolerance, and we strive to cultivate generosity, artistic excellence, and radical hospitality. All are welcome here.
Vaddey Ratner, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, wrote: “We are capable of extraordinary beauty if we dare to dream.” Come, let’s dream together for an hour or two with Zarina and her family. And then let’s go out in the world a little better for it.
Peter DuBois Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 11 Aila Peck and Turna Mete NILE HAWVER E PLURIBUS UNUM
THE HISTORY OF AMERICA IS THE HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION AND ASSIMILATION. Apart from Native Americans, every family in this country arrived here from someplace else. Every immigrant group that has come to America has played out these familial tensions in domestic tragicomedy, whether on stage, film, radio, or TV: the Irish, the Italians, East European Jews and Slavs, Chinese, Greeks, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, South Americans, and more recently Filipinos and South Asians. From the 1870s, when Ned Harrigan and Tony Hart invented the misadventures of a tenement-Irish social club called the Mulligan Guard, down to the inter-ethnic and intra-family disputes of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical In the Heights, new arrivals have played out, from every conceivable angle, the story of their search for identity in their new homeland, “the melting pot where nothing melted,” as the Rabbi in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America describes it. Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & the What adds another tasty morsel to the American stew.
12 THE WHO & THE WHAT This domestic drama is populated by Afzal, a successful, widowed, Pakistani immigrant, who dotes on his American daughters and worries about their future. His elder daughter Zarina struggles to complete her novel, blocked partly by a broken heart and partly by the book’s potentially blasphemous content. His younger daughter Mahwish studies to be a nurse and lusts after her GRE tutor. Akhtar creates a complex web of conflicting ideas and wants, all of it supported by a deep love between the characters. In a talkback at the Huntington last season, Akhtar explained, “People are not consistent, situations are not consistent. What’s happing in the world is not unipolar and yet we yearn for the simplicity of a single narrative.” In all of Akhtar’s work, the ways that the characters work out how to be true to themselves and each other are always thorny.
Because the battle for identity always ends in a draw — you can’t go back to the old country and you can’t abandon your heritage — works that tackle it tend to be hardy perennials, spawning sequels or living on in multiple media forms. Harrigan and Hart produced 17 versions of the Mulligan Guard over a decade. Anne Nichols’s Abie’s Irish Rose, a 1922 comedy of ethnic feuding between Irish and Jewish neighbors, followed its original five-year run with two Broadway revivals, two film versions, and a radio series before evolving into the 1972 television sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie.” The joy in revisiting these stories as they expand to include Americans of Latino, Asian, and Middle Eastern heritage is that they tell our own families’ stories refracted through another culture. Zarina and Mahwish are not the first women to have a meddling father. Nor is Afzal the first man to struggle with his daughters’ choices.
The great value of immigrant dramas is that they all pose the question, what is America? Is America the Enlightenment rationality of the Founding Fathers, the anything-goes anarchism of gun enthusiasts and libertarians, the theocratic rigidity of fundamentalists, the sheer materialist greed of capitalism, or simply an inexplicable polyglot confusion containing elements of them all? No wonder, with all these possible sources of tension, the immigrant family is an enduringly juicy theatrical subject. No wonder the younger generation perpetually feels adrift, while the older longs for a former homeland idealized out of all similarity to the land that’s really there now. Clifford Odets got it exactly right in Awake and Sing! when he made the grandfather retreat, not into a Russian or Russian-Jewish dream world, but into his prized recording of Enrico Caruso singing “O Paradiso” — an Italian tenor singing a French aria about a beautiful, exotic world that exists only in the romantic imagination. For all the laughs that assimilation drama often stirs up, its ultimate thrust is tragic: In this ever-evolving nation — where some children of immigrants now advocate building a wall to keep immigrants out — we may never fully know who we are.
— LISA TIMMEL
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 13 ABOUT THE COMPANY Rom Barkhordar* (Afzal) lives and works in Chicago where he was recently seen in the title role of Vanya, (or, “That’s Life!”) (Rasaka Theatre Company); Semitic Commonwealth, a month-long, intensive staged reading series and Mosque Alert (Silk Road Rising); Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & the What (Victory Gardens Theater); In a Garden (A Red Orchid Theatre, Jeff Award nomination for Best Actor); Around the World in 80 Days (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The Elephant Man (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Hollow Lands (Steep Theatre); Mother Courage and THE WHO & THE WHAT Her Children (Vitalist Theatre); and Pravda (TimeLine Theatre); to name a few. His regional credits include productions of Around the World in 80 Days (Baltimore Center Stage and Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Television credits include episodes on “The Beast,” “Boss,” “Chicago Fire,” and “Chicago Justice.”
Joseph Marrella* (Eli) has regional credits that include Shear Madness (Charles Street Playhouse); Death of Salesman, Big River, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (Lyric Stage Company); Twelfth Night (Summer Festival Theater); Story Time Preservation Hour (New Exhibition Room); and Tales of Poe (New Repertory Theatre on tour). Mr. Marrella has appeared in commercials and corporate videos for Hewlett Packard, Thumbtack.com, Pinnacle Golf, Staples, and W.B. Mason, among others. He is a proud graduate of Emerson College (BA in theatre education, acting emphasis). Mr. Marrella is also a coach for My College Audition. josephmarrella.com.
Turna Mete* (Mahwish) has Off Broadway credits that include Soldier X (Ma-Yi Theater Company); The Parable Conference (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Triple Threat and Asking for Trouble (Ensemble Studio Theatre); and Looking at Christmas, Office Hours, and The Great Recession (The Flea Theater). Her regional credits include The Way We Get By (American Theater Group); and Time Stands Still and The 39 Steps (Theatre Workshop of Nantucket). Her film and television credits include Hiding in the Open, How He Fell in Love, and “Deadbeat” (Hulu). Ms. Mete received her BA in acting from California State University Fullerton. turnamete.com.
Aila Peck (Zarina) was last seen at Huntington in the workshop performance of The Mirror by Yasmeen Emam, one of the works included in Rebekah Maggor’s anthology The Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution. Other Boston theatre credits include Yerma (Huntington Summer Workshop) and Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand Up Comedy Show (Company One Theatre). Her Chicago theatre credits include Miss Bennet (Northlight Theatre), The Royal Society of Antarctica (The Gift Theatre), 1984 (Steppenwolf for Young Adults), Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand Up Comedy Show (About Face Theatre and Silk Road Rising), and The Elephant and the Whale (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Ms. Peck is a proud graduate of The School at Steppenwolf and holds her BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
14 THE WHO & THE WHAT
ABOUT THE COMPANY THE WHO & THE WHAT THE & WHO THE Ayad Akhtar (Playwright) is the author of Disgraced which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was nominated for the 2015 Tony Award Boston University and the for Best Play for its Broadway Huntington Theatre Company run, and was produced at the have partnered to train the Huntington in its 2015–2016 season. next generation of artists. He is a novelist and author of American Dervish, published in The Who & the What features the over 20 languages worldwide. His following BU alumni, staff, and students: plays The Who & the What and NICK CHEN The Invisible Hand received Off (Assistant to the Sound Designer) Broadway runs and are currently BFA, Sound Design, 2017 being produced around the world, and his play Junk will be produced CHRISTINE HAMEL (Dialect Coach) on Broadway this fall. Mr. Akhtar MFA, Theatre Education, 2005 was listed as the most produced Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech playwright for the 2015–2016 season by American Theatre M. BEVIN O’GARA magazine. As a screenwriter, he (Director) was nominated for an Independent BFA, Theatre Studies, 2004 Spirit Award for Best Screenplay BRANDI PICK for The War Within. He has received (Assistant to the Lighting Designer) fellowships from MacDowell, MFA, Lighting Design, 2019 Djerassi, the Sundance Institute, Ucross, and Yaddo, where he serves KATHRYN SCHONDEK as a board director. He is also a (Costume Design Assistant) board trustee at PEN/America and BFA, Costume Design, 2014 New York Theatre Workshop. Mr. CRISTINA TODESCO Akhtar is currently the resident (Scenic Design) playwright with Arena Stage at the BFA, Painting, 1994 Mead Center for American Theater. MFA, Scene Design, 2004 Lecturer, School of Theatre M. Bevin O’Gara (Director) is the Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company, and was director of Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar (Elliot Norton Award nomination for Best Production) and Melinda Lopez’s Becoming Cuba. Other directing credits include appropriate, A Future Perfect, Tribes (Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for Best Production), and Clybourne Park (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Brahman/i, Chronicles of Kalki, You for Me for You, Love Person, and The Pain and the Itch (Company One Theatre); Phedre (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Fast Company (Lyric Stage Company); Marjorie Prime (Nora Theatre Company); How Soft the Lining and Translations (Bad Habit Productions); Matt and Ben (Central Square Theater); Two Wives in India and Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); 2.5 Minute Ride (New Repertory Theatre); Melancholy Play (Holland Productions); Tattoo Girl, Painting You, and Artifacts (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop); and Anti-Kiss (3 Monkeys Theatrical
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 15 ABOUT THE COMPANY Productions). She is the recipient of the Lois Roach Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Boston Theatre Community from Company One Theatre. She has a BFA from Boston University in theatre studies. This summer she will be moving to Ithaca, New York to become the Producing Artistic Director of the Kitchen Theatre Company. mbevinogara.com.
Cristina Todesco (Scenic Design) previously designed Milk Like Sugar, Circle Mirror Transformation (one of the three plays she designed in The Shirley, Vermont Play Festival), The Long and Winding Road, and The Atheist for the THE WHO & THE WHAT Huntington. Recent designs include Chill (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Hand to God (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Red Noses (Boston Conservatory at Berklee), and The Totalitarians (Gloucester Stage Company). Other theatre credits include productions at the ART Institute, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Harbor Stage Company, Israeli Stage, Lyric Stage Company, Olney Theatre Center, Orfeo Group, Stoneham Theatre, Summer Play Festival, Wheelock Family Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Culture Project, and Opera Boston. She is a four-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design for The Clean House (New Repertory Theatre); The Aliens and The Flick (Company One Theatre); and Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Ms. Todesco is an MFA graduate of Boston University’s School of Theatre Arts where she also teaches.
Mary Lauve (Costume Design) designed the costumes for the Huntington’s production of Can You Forgive Her? and has collaborated with other designers in over 70 productions as the company’s resident assistant. Recent regional designs include The Winter’s Tale and Phedre (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Tribes and Clybourne Park (SpeakEasy Stage Company); and Intimate Apparel (Brandeis University). Ms. Lauve studied theatre at Boston College and Emerson College, and design at The Art Institute of Boston.
Annie Wiegand (Lighting Design) is a freelance lighting designer who happens to be deaf. She previously lit several shows with Boston University’s School of Theatre including Trumpery and Lizzie Stranton—Class of 2010. She assisted on the Broadway production of Spring Awakening (Tony Award nomination, Best Lighting Design). Other New York credits include Movements of the Soul (Baruch Performing Arts Center) and Square Peg, Round Hole (Tectonic Theater Project, Lighting Design Associate). Her Boston credits include Fast Company (Lyric Stage Company); Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company); The Trumpet of the Swan and The Taste of Sunrise (Wheelock Family Theatre); Phedre and Othello (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Forgetting Curve (Bridge Repertory Theater); and Colossal, You for Me for You, and Love Person (Company One Theatre). Ms. Wiegand is an adjunct professor in the theatre arts department at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She is also the producing director of New York Deaf Theatre. anniewiegand.com.
M.L. Dogg (Sound Design) previously designed Milk Like Sugar; after all the terrible things I do; Smart People; The Power of Duff; Captors; Sons of the Prophet; and Rapture, Blister, Burn at the Huntington. His Broadway credits include Oh, Hello on Broadway and The Pee-wee Herman Show, and his Off Broadway designs include The Moors, Fade, The Ultimate Beauty Bible, Aubergine, Mercury Fur, Permission, Little Children Dream of God, Jacuzzi, A Walk in the Woods, Here Lies Love (co-design), The Open
16 THE WHO & THE WHAT
ABOUT THE COMPANY THE WHO & THE WHAT THE & WHO THE House, Core Values, Modern Terrorism, Sons of the Prophet, The Lapsburgh Layover, All New People, Trust, Monstrosity, The Language of Trees, Boom, A Hard Heart, and transFigures. Other credits include In the Body of the World and The Shape She Makes (American Repertory Theater); Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville); Bad Jews (Long Wharf Theatre); Tribes (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Reunion (South Coast Repertory); Blood Play (Williamstown Theatre Festival, co-design); The Diary of Anne Frank (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Power of Duff (New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse Theater); Animals Out of Paper (Boise Contemporary Theater); and Private Lives (Two River Theater Company). He won the Outstanding Sound Design Lucille Lortel Award for Here Lies Love and the Outstanding Sound Design Award at the FringeNYC Festival for Go-Go Kitty, GO!
Saraswathi Jones (Original Music) is a Boston musician and purveyor of postcolonial pop. Her work draws from the well of South Asian history, culture, and aesthetics and reflects on life in immigrant America. She released the solo EP Lingua Franca in 2013, and fronts Boston band Awaaz Do, who released their debut EP Kite Fight in 2016 and received an Iguana Music Fund grant in 2017 to record their next album. Ms. Jones co-produces Hindie Rock Fest — an annual music festival in Cambridge featuring South Asian American artists from a broad array of genres — and currently serves as board president of Girls Rock Campaign Boston, a feminist non- profit empowering girls through musical performance and education. saraswathijones.com.
Are you charting a new course toward retirement? Why not many courses—
Lasell Village on the Campus of Lasell College where being a senior on campus takes on a whole new meaning
Newton, MA www.Lasellvillage.org 617-663-7053
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 17 ABOUT THE COMPANY 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 Theatre). 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 THE WHO & THE WHAT Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. She credits Lisa Donadio as her associate casting director.
Carola Morrone LaCoste* (Production Stage Manager) has previously worked on August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned, Becoming Cuba, Ryan Landry’s “M,” Now or Later, Luck of the Irish, Before I Leave You, Educating Rita, Vengeance is the Lord’s, Prelude to a Kiss, Becky Shaw, All My Sons, Boleros for the Disenchanted, Two Men of Florence, and Pirates! for the Huntington. Other credits include A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Cabaret, A Christmas Carol, The Wild Party, The Clean House, and more (New Repertory Theatre); Happy Days and My Old Lady (Gloucester Stage Company); Everything in the Garden (Brandeis Theater Company); and Sylvia, Siddhartha, and It Goes Without Saying (Berkshire Theatre Group). She holds a BA in theatre studies from the University of Connecticut.
Jeremiah Mullane* (Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington having previously stage managed A Doll’s House, Tiger Style!, August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned, Disgraced, Choice, The Second Girl, Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Seagull, The Cocktail Hour, The Jungle Book, and Invisible Man. He has regional credits that include 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 Kennedy Center); Really Really, The Boy Detective Fails, Chess, [title of show], and Giant (Signature Theatre); and As You Like It, The Alchemist, The Way of the World, Julius Caesar, and Major Barbara (Shakespeare Theatre Company). He is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in drama and computer science.
Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music; the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, 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 RIPCORD include The Power of Duff with Greg Kinnear (New York Stage and Film/
18 THE WHO & THE WHAT
ABOUT THE COMPANY THE WHO & THE WHAT THE & WHO THE Powerhouse Theater); the premiere of Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Modern Terrorism, Becky Shaw, Trust with Sutton Foster, All New People, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theatre); Measure for Pleasure, Richard III with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public Theater/NYSF); Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and The View From 151st Street (LAByrinth Theater Company/The Public Theater); and the upcoming Can You Forgive Her? at the Vineyard Theatre. Regional US and UK credits include productions at American Conservatory Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Humana Festival of New Plays, Manchester Opera House, and King’s Theatre Glasgow. Before arriving at the Huntington, he served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague. His productions have been on the annual top ten lists of The New York Times, Time Out, New York 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.
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
BY THE AUTHOR OF GOOD PEOPLE DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE DIRECTED BY JESSICA STONE
UPROARIOUS COMEDY JUNE 25
RIPCORD “Great fun and genuinely moving.” SOUTH END — TIME OUT NEW YORK CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA MAY 26 - HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 19 Arts | Culture | Boston
Be in touch with the full spectrum of arts and culture happening right here in our community. Visit The ARTery at wbur.fm/artery today.
WBUR_ARTery_facepaint_Huntington_475x775nb_adƒ.indd 1 1/23/17 11:05 AM
ABOUT THE COMPANY THE WHO & THE WHAT THE & WHO THE Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington’s administrative and financial operations since 1982, producing more than 200 plays in partnership with three artistic directors and leading the Huntington’s 10-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004. In recognition of these efforts, Boston Herald honored him as 2004’s Theatre Man of the Year. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 70 of the country’s major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. He currently serves on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and previously served as a member of the board of directors of ArtsBoston; as a board member for Theatre Communications Group (TCG); as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts; as a member of Mayor Menino’s Advisory Task Force for Cultural Planning; as a trustee of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (MAASH); as a board member of StageSource; and as a member of the Boston Foundation’s Cultural Task Force. He is the recipient of the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, the Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor) in the category of Catalyst, and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence from the Boston Theatre Critics Association. He has also served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico. Mr. Maso is an associate professor of theatre at Boston University.
Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 17th 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 Theater, 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.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 21 Created by Latinos. Celebrated by all.
A history of five decades of Latin rhythms at the beating heart of American jazz, rock, country and blues.
Starts April 28 at 9pm ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY Celebrating its 35th season, the Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets since its founding in 1982. The Huntington is the recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award and was named Best of Boston 2013 and 2014 by Boston magazine. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso and in residence at Boston University, the Huntington brings world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond together with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. By also mentoring local playwrights in the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, educating young people in theatre, and serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts organizations by providing discounted access to facilities and audience services, the Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form. 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 as we plan to renovate and expand our current theatre into a first-rate, modern, state-of-the-art venue with outstanding enhanced services for audiences, artsits, and the community. A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. It supports local writers through a playwright residency and the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstone of its new work activities. Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally renowned education and community programs, the Huntington serves 35,000 young people and underserved audience members each year. The Huntington built the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2004 as a home for its new works activities and to provide a much-needed resource for the local theatre community. At the Calderwood Pavilion, the Huntington provides first-class facilities and audience services at significantly subsidized rates to dozens of organizations each year, including some of Boston’s most exciting small and mid-sized theatre companies. The Huntington was founded in 1982 by Boston University due to the vision and leadership of President John Silber and Vice President Gerald Gross and was separately incorporated as an independent non-profit in 1986. Its two prior artistic leaders were Peter Altman (1982 – 2000) and Nicholas Martin (2000 – 2008). In the past 34 years, the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (16 of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 450,000 students, community members, and organizations.
WE THANK THE FOLLOWING HUNTINGTON FRIENDS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE WHO & THE WHAT JILL & MITCH ROBERTS PRODUCTION SPONSORS ELOISE & ART HODGES JANE & FRED JAMIESON PRODUCTION CO-SPONSORS ANN MERRIFIELD & WAYNE DAVIS OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 23 Go beyond the performance.
Get the latest arts related news from The Boston Globe.
EXCLUSIVE OFFER
Get 50% off home delivery and unlimited access to BostonGlobe.com.
Sign up at BostonGlobe.com/Arts50
Globe.com HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY TRUSTEES & OVERSEERS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
David R. Epstein James J. Dillon James Petosa Chairman Betsy Banks Epstein Bryan Rafanelli Peter Fiedler Mitchell J. Roberts Sharon Malt William Finard Joseph V. Roller II President David Firestone Robert H. Scott John Frishkopf John D. Spooner Carol B. Langer Ann T. Hall Wendell Taylor Treasurer Thomas Hamilton III Linda H. Thomas Cassandra Hyland Linda Waintrup Sherryl Cohen Henderson J. David Wimberly Clerk Arthur C. Hodges Veronica Wiseman Frederick Jamieson Mary Wolfson Carole Alkins Nada Despotovich Kane Fancy Zilberfarb David Altshuler Michelle Karol Neal Balkowitsch David Leathers Warren R. Radtke Michael Brown William P. McQuillan Trustee Emeritus John Cini Ann Merrifield Gerard H. Cohen Sandra Moose John Cohen Anne M. Morgan Carol G. Deane Cokie Perry
COUNCIL OF OVERSEERS
John Cohen Paul Greenfield Juliet Schnell Turner Tania Phillips Janice Hunt Tracey A. West Co-Chairs Alan S. Johnson Caleb White Katherine Jones John Taylor Williams Nancy S. Adams Linda Kanner Bertie Woeltz Kitty Ames Christopher Kimball Christopher R. Yens Nancy Brickley Victoria Knox Linda Zug Jim Burns Loren Kovalcik Suzanne Chapman Sherry Lang J. William Codinha Joie Lemaitre Bette Cohen Debbie Lewis Tenney Cover Tracie Longman Elizabeth Cregger Nancy Lukitsh Catherine Creighton Rumena Manolova-Senchak Eilene Davidson Charles Marz JoAnne W. Dickinson Noel McCoy Susan Ellerin Thalia Meehan Deborah First Daniel A. Mullin Anne H. Fitzpatrick Gail Roberts Maria Farley Gerrity Stephen M. Trehu as of March 10, 2017
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 25 THE HUNTINGTON CIRCLE
The Huntington Circle recognizes our leadership donors to the Huntington Annual Fund and offers members a range of special benefits. We are grateful to the members of the Huntington Circle and the other donors listed below whose generous Annual Fund gifts support our artistic programs, as well as our award-winning youth, education, and community initiatives. For information or to become a Huntington Circle member, please call Meg White, Director of Major Gifts, at 617 273 1596.
Lead Producers Circle Directors Circle Jennifer Eckert and ($100,000+) ($10,000-$14,999) Richard D’Amore Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Neal Balkowitsch and Robert Fine and Carol G. Deane Donald Nelson Matthew Fine Betsy and David Epstein Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Eilene Davidson Grayken Fay Chandler‡ Debbie and Bob First, Albert W. Merck Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts in memory of Susan Spooner 1997 Family Trust Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Donald Fulton Nancy and Edward Roberts Linda L. D’Onofrio Ann and John Hall Mr. J. David Wimberly Karen and David Firestone Scottie Held John Frishkopf Ned Murphy and Executive Producers Circle Karen and Gary Gregg Ann-Ellen Hornidge ($50,000-$99,999) Julie and Jordan Hitch Alan Johnson Dr. John and Bette Cohen Joyce Huber and Randall Ellis Seth and Mary Kaufman Gardner C. Hendrie and Elizabeth and Woody Ives Vicki and Northrup Knox Karen Johansen Nada Despotovich Kane Christine Kondoleon and Carol B. Langer Marjie and Robert Kargman Frederic Wittmann Sharon and Brad Malt Loren B. Kovalcik/ David A. Kronman Jane and Neil Pappalardo IntePros Consulting Cecile and Fraser Lemley Mitchell and Jill Roberts Joie Lemaitre John and Jean Lippincott Linda and Daniel Waintrup Alan and Harriet Lewis Nancy Lukitsh 1 anonymous gift Mr. and Mrs. David Long The Mancuso Family Tracie L. Longman and Marion Martin, in memory Artistic Producers Circle Chaitanya Kanojia of Travis John Martin ($25,000-$49,999) Paula and Bill O’Keeffe Sharon Miller Arthur C. and Eloise W. Jeffrey Dover and Daniel A. Mullin Hodges Tania Phillips Dr. and Mrs. Barbara and Amos Hostetter Jan and Joe Roller John William Poduska, Sr. Jane and Fred Jamieson Robert M. Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson Susan and David Leathers in honor of Mary Wolfson Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel Wayne Davis and Estate of Marie Rotti‡ Gail Roberts Ann Merrifield Mr. and Mrs. Darin S. Samaraweera John D. Spooner Patrick J. Sullivan Marilyn and Jay Sarles Faith and Joseph Tiberio Linda H. Thomas Coralie Berg and Charitable Foundation 1 anonymous gift Steve Schwartz Howard and Veronica Wiseman M.H. Sirvetz Linda and Brooks Zug Playwrights Circle Ellie Svenson and Anonymous, celebrating ($5,000-$9,999) Mark Klempner the Huntington’s Alice and Walter Abrams Wendell Taylor President Sharon Malt and Nancy Adams and Jean C. Tempel Chairman David Epstein John Burgess John Travis Charles and Kathleen Ames Drs. Beth and Stephen M. Trehu Associate Producers Circle Marianne Baldwin and Juliet Schnell Turner ($15,000-$24,999) Eva Marie Mancuso Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Stephen Chapman Camilla Bennett Elizabeth and Caleb White Denise and William Finard Carolyn Birmingham Ike Williams Nicki Nichols Gamble Amy and Joshua Boger Bertie and Anthony Woeltz Tom and Nancy Hamilton Susan and Michael Brown Justin and Genevieve Wyner Cassandra Hyland Henderson Jim Burns Christopher R. Yens and Rita J. and Stanley Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Temple Gill H. Kaplan Family Suzanne Chapman Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Zilberfarb Foundation, Inc./ Brant Cheikes and 1 anonymous gift Susan B. Kaplan and Janine Papesh Nancy and Mark Belsky John Cini and Star Lancaster Designers Circle Adrienne Kimball J. William Codinha and ($2,500-$4,999) Bill and Linda McQuillan Carolyn Thayer Ross Michael Barza and Sandra Moose and Eric Birch Betsy and David Cregger Judith Robinson Ms. Anne M. Morgan Laura and Neil Cronin Bruce and Denise Bauman Cokie and Lee Perry Amey A. Defriez Patricia Bellinger and Dr. Paul S. Russell Margaret Eagle and Richard Balzer Mary Wolfson Eliezer Rappaport Nancy and Richard Brickley
26 THE WHO & THE WHAT THE HUNTINGTON CIRCLE (continued)
Kevin and Virginia Byrne Actors Circle Mahmood Malihi Betsy Cabot ($1,500-$2,499) Shelley and Brad Marcus Suzanne and Bert Capone James Alexander and Mike and Mary McConnell Nancy Ciaranello Thomas Stocker Louise and Sandy McGinnes McLane and Tenney Cover Carole and Leonard Alkins Sarah M. McGinty Catherine and Peter Creighton Dr. Ronald Arky Neal and Lynne Miller Charles and JoAnne Dickinson Liliana and Hillel Bachrach Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, Ellen and Kevin Donoghue Steven M. Bauer in memory of Virginia Virginia Drachman and Deborah L. Benson and Wimberly Douglas Jones Frederic J. Marx Bill and Ginny Mullin Susan Ellerin Jeff and Jody Black Bob and Alison Murchison Winifred Ewing Joseph L. Bower and Joy Pak and David Deutsch Anne H. Fitzpatrick Elizabeth Potter Susan Pak Newell Flather Kenneth Brown Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Maria and Daniel Gerrity Dominic Cioffoletti and Dr. Gerald Pier Thomas and Joanne Gill Christopher Scinto Meredith and Bob Pitts Mark E. Glasser and Rosalie Florence Cohen Steven J. Ralston and Frank G. McWeeny Ken and Ginny Colburn William Robert Hair Paul Greenfield and Dennis Condon and Lynn and John Reichenbach Sandy Steele Robert Cummings Christine and David Root Betsy and David Harris David Dalena and Diane Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Brian Patton Susan and Geoffrey Rowley T. Hibbard, in honor of Lynn and Bruce Dayton Irvine and Louise Rusk David Wimberly Dean K. Denniston, Jr. Richard Powers and Estate of Carmela M. Hilbert‡ Tim and Linda Diering Stephen Schram Prof. and Mrs. Morton Richard Donoho Jane E. Shattuck Z. Hoffman Jonathan Dyer and The Spector Family Linda and Steven Kanner Thomas Foran John H. Straus and Mary S. and Duncan Kennedy Stephen Elman and Liza Ketchum Richard and Dorothy Koerner Joanne D’Alcomo Lise and Myles Striar Susan and David Kohen Jerome and Vivien Facher Lisbeth Tarlow and Alvin and Barbara Krakow Barbara and Larry Farrer Stephen Kay Ted and Ann Kurland Donna and Harley Frank, Ben and Kate Taylor Sherry Lang in honor of Jill & Kenneth R. Traub and Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Mitch Roberts Pamela K. Cohen Deborah Lewis and Sharon and Irving Gates P.T. Withington Robert Grinberg Norman and Madeleine Gaut Jerold and Abbe Beth Young Joseph Machera Eric P. Geller and Cathy Thorn 3 anonymous gifts Charles Marz Drs. Laura Green and Jack Fabiano and Noel McCoy David Golan Thalia Meehan and Mary Beth and Chris Gordon Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw Peter and Jacqueline Gordon s Member of The Hunt, the Amy Merrill Phil Gormley and Erica Bisguier Huntington’s young donor Charles Merrill and Garth and Lindsay Greimann program Julie Boudreaux Katherine Haltom Jonette Nagai and Jay and Donna Hanflig ‡ Deceased Stephen O’Brien H. Patricia Hanna Jerry Nelson Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hartmann This list reflects gifts received Coleen and David Pantalone Barbara Hirshfield and during the 14 months prior to Jackie and Bob Pascucci Cary Coen, in honor of March 10, 2017. Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell Sherry and Gerry Cohen Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss Victoria and John Rizzi Janice and Roger Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins Margaret Jackson and Rumena and Alexander Peter Harrington Senchak Leonard W. Johnson, Vivian and Lionel Spiro in memory of Virginia Bruce and Emily Stangle Wimberly Estate of Demetre J. Steffon‡ Holly and Bruce Johnstone Helen and Jack Stewart Jill and Stephen Karp Beth and Michael Stonebraker Paul and Elizabeth Kastner Joanna and Nigel Travis John and Marilyn Keane Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Susan Kirk Pamela Tucker and Paul and Tracy Klein George Pettee Louise Kwan Mindee Wasserman Barrie Landry Norman Weeks Jon Levy Sally and Richard Ann D. Macomber Zeckhauser Stuart and Yvonne Madnick HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 27 CAMBRIDGE, MA $1,085,000
[email protected] / gailroberts.com / 617 245-4044
Building Community One Home at a Time
Supporting: The Mt. Auburn Hospital, US Fund for UNICEF, The Guidance Center, Huntington Theatre Company, and Cambridge Community Foundation FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON
Leading Role ($750-$1499) John and Rose Ashby, in honor of Ann T. Hall • Carol Baker • George and Katharine Baker • Kate and Gordon Baty • Calvin J. Beckett • Susana and Clark Bernard • Leonard and Jane Bernstein • Linda Cabot Black Foundation • Margaret Blackwell, in honor of David Wimberly • Edward Boesel • Lori Bornstein and Alan Rothman • Geri and Bill Brehm • Jane Brock-Wilson, in honor of Carol and Disque Deane • Paul Buddenhagen • Rick and Nonnie Burnes • A. William and Carol Caporizzo • Cara and Anthony Casendino • Ronni‡ and Ronald Casty • Peggy and Anton Chernoff • George and Mary Chin • Beverley Cooper-Wiele • Joan Dolamore • Peggy Engel • Martha A. Erickson • Dave and Kelly Frederickson • Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardiner • Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Garrison • Lori and Michael Gilman • Mr. K. Frank Gravitt • Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos • Bucky and Clifton Helman • Kathleen Henry and Kim Maarkand • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High • Richard and Priscilla Hunt • Susan M. Hunziker • Terence Janericco • Andronike E. Janus • Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis • Cathie and Clarke Keenan • John T. Kittredge • Jeanne and Allen Krieger • Katherine Lewandowski and Adam Gurens • Anthony Lucas • Barbara A. Manzolillo • Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Travis Martin • Joan and John McArdle • Kathy McGirr and Keith Carlson • Jack and Susan McNamara • Marianne and Richard Moscicki • Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren • Patricia Patricelli • Kevin Powers and John Wolfarth • Jessica and David Reed • Ellen Remmer • Michelle and Aaron Rhodess • Michael and Jane Roberts • Sarah Rothermel • David and Anne Salant • Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers • Susan Schiro and Peter Manus, in honor of Carol Deane • Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke • Hope and Adam Suttin • Jared Tausig, in honor of David Wimberly • David Parker and Janet Tiampo • Mary Verhage • Sumer and Kiran Verma • Kenneth Virgile and Helene Mayer • Robert C. Volante • Norman Weeks • Dr. Ronald Weinger • Wendling Charitable Fund • Dr. Elaine Woo • 4 anonymous gifts
Featured Role ($500-$749) Elizabeth Aragaos • Molly and John Beard • Richard R. Beaty • Kathleen Beckman • Danielle Belanger and Robert Sparkes • Howard H. Bengele • Jonas Berman • William Bloor • Stephen and Traudy Bradley • Frank B. Mead • Jeremiah J. Bresnahan • Pam and Lee Bromberg • Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch • Thomas Burger and Andree Robert • Diane Burns • Robert Capliss • Carol Chandler • John Clippinger • Connie Coburn and James Houghton • Herbert Stuart Cohen • Alison Conant and Richard Frank • Stephen Conner • Beth and Linzee Coolidge • Anne Crowley • Lloyd and Gene Dahmen • Dammann Boston Fund • Josh and Jennifer Davis • Marguerite Davoren • Terry O. Decima • Judy DeFilippo • Richard J. Diamond, in honor of David Wimberly • Peter and Jan Eschauzier • Sara and James Feldman • Pierre Fleurant • Hilary and Chris Gabrieli • Edward Glazer • Rimma Gluzman • Deborah Goddard • Irene and Stephen Grolnic • Steven and Barbara Grossman and David Grossman • Gail and Jan Hardenbergh • Eunice Harps • Terry Rockefeller and William Harris • John and Holliday Heine • Dr. Galen Henderson and Dr. Vanessa Britto • Rosalind and Herbert Hill • Andrew Himmelblau • Sherry Jacobs • Ernest and Madeline Jacquet • Peter Jenney • Molly Johnston • Julia Karols • Nancy R. Karp • Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman • Michael and Dona Kemp • Jill Kneerim • John and Sharon Koch • Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik • Anne LaCourt • Stewart and Rhonda Lassner • Jenny and Jay Leopold • Mark H. Lippolt • Babette and Peter Loring • Priscilla Krey Loring • James D. Maupin • Mary McFadden • Daniel and Annette McIntyre • Joseph Misdraji • Harry and Ruth Montague • Mark Nelke • Mary Owens • Constance Page • Marianne Pasts • Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler • Suzanne Priebatsch • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt • Edith Rea • Katharine and William Reardon • Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs • Sharon and Howard Rich • Margaret Ridge • Lily and Gerald Riffelmacher • Jean and Richard Roberts • Sue Robinson • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg • Robert and Pauline Rothenberg • Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Magi McKinnies • Kathleen and William Rousseau • Rohini Sakhuja • Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels • Diane and Richard Schmalensee • William Schutten • Gilda Slifka • Mark Smith and John O’Keefe • Renai Stalzle • Nancy and Edward Stavis • Lee Steele • Bob and Dorothy Stuart • Darline Lewis and Marshall Sugarman • Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther • Scott and Brenda Warner • Mrs. Lewis R. Weintraub • Constance V. R. White • Karolye White • Clark Wright and Lisa Goldthwait Wright • 9 anonymous gifts
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 29 FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued)
Supporting Role ($250-$499) Marilyn and Bill Adams • Robert Allen • Nancy Ammerman • Michael Ansara • Tammy Arcuri • Tom Austin • Jeannine M. Ayotte • Robert Banker • Michelle Barbera, in honor of Theodore Barbera • Barbershop Deluxe • Emily Barclay and John Hawes • Robin Barnes and David Bor • Beth Barrett • Elizabeth Barrett • David Barry • Auli and Ken Batts • Caitlin Bearce • Mr. and Mrs. Milton Berglund • Martin S. Berman and Mary Ann Jasienowski • Jerry M. Bernhard • Christina and Ky Bertolis • Gregory Bialecki and Mary Herlihy • Robert Bienkowski • Clinton Blackburns • Donald and Ellen Bloch • Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom • Scott Chisholm and Afshan Bokhari • Sandy Bornstein • Richard and Dorothy Botnick • Payne/Bouchier Inc. • Jonathan Golding and Sally Bradley-Golding • Eric and Sandra Brenman • S. Britt • Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro • Teresa Brown • Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld • Allan and Rhea Bufferd • Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Burnes • Eric Butlers • Bismarck and Ingrid Cadet • Missage Cadet, M.D. • Judith Carmany • Charles R. Carr • Carrig Kitchens LLC • Elyse D. Cherry • Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. • Mary E. Chin • Maria Church • Andrea and Jon Clardy • Grace D. Clark • Valerie Cloutier • Priscilla Cogan • Arlene Cohen • Steven Coleman and Christine Tunstall • Sarah Columbia • Janet L. Comey • Jaden Crawford • German Crisostomo • Don and Sandy Crocker • Julie Crockford and Sheridan Haines • James F. Crowley • Zoltan and Cristina Csimma • Paul Curtis • Sue Dahlie • Marla Daniels • Fred Davis • Karen Davis and Randy Block • Bill and Kay DeFord • Ray and Debra De Rise • Charlotte Delaney and Steve Pattyson • Sara Delano • David Delany • Suzanne DelVecchio • Jane and Stephen Deutsch • George Dhionis • Reed Dickinson • Beatrice and William Dole • Soroor Dowlati • Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey • Owen Doyle • David and Eleanor Drachman • Mary Ann Driscoll • Grace Durrani • Dunch Arts, LLC • Harriett M. Eckstein • Mr. Glenn Edelson • Gordon Edes • Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak • Diane F. Engel • Andrew Eschtruth and Elana Varon • Jose Estabil • Maggi Farrell • Fidler Family • Dr. Charles Fine • Gail Flatto • Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd • Mr. and Mrs. Martin Flusberg • Judy Foster • Patricia A. Fraser, M.D., in memory of Ivy Markes Fraser • Michael and Leslie Gaffin • Tony and Melissa Gallo • Kathryn M. Gallucci • Judith L. Ganz • Gisele Garraway • Clifford Garnett • William Gault • Vincent Genest • Jack and Maureen Ghublikian • Ronald Goldstein • Michael and Sophie Gordon • David Govonlus • Amelia and William Graham • Mr. and Mrs. Herbert P. Gray • Suzanne Greenberg • Theodore and Sally Hansen • Patricia Hardyman and Charles H. Jones • Judith Harris • Alice H. Haveles • Alfio Hernandez • Erin Higgins • Jim Hoben • Wanda Holland Greene, in honor of Ken Berman • Mark and Cindy Holthouse • Ken Horn • Bruce Howlett • Maggie Huff- Rousselle • Mrs. Donald Hunsicker • Amal Hussein • Robert Hutchison, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. Howard Israel • Maggie Jacksons • Roland Jacobson • Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi • Peter and Adrienne Jaffe • Peter K. Jenkins • Norman W. Johnson • Peter Jones • Jess and Aran Kadar • John Quackenbush and Mary Kalamaras • Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski • Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet • Amelia and Joshua Katzen • Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard • Jim Keefe and family • Paul Kelly • Judy and Dan Kennedy, in honor of Stephen Sondheim • Gail King and Christopher Condon • Nancy F. Korman • Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn • Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel • Joan Kuhn • George Langer • Carol Lazarus • Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape • Stacey and David Lee • Naomi Leeper • Richard and Kathleen Leitermann • Timothy Leland and Julie Hatfield • Laurel C. Lhowe • Ms. Susan Lincoln • Virginia Litle • Lida and Francis Lloyd • Jim and Allie Loehlin • Dennis and Nancy Lynch • Peter and Yvette Madany • Amy and Bill Marshall • Kathy Martin • Dr. Rosemary Mazanet • Michael and Barbra Ann McCahill • Kevin McCarthy • Terri-Lynn McCormick • Hope and Shaw McDermott • Lindsay McNair • Lynne Menichetti • Forrest and Sara Milder • Michael Miller • Mrs. Fermo A. Bianchi • Lacie and Michael Milton • Saro and Elizabeth Minassian • Gale Minot • Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold • Paula Monbouquette and Kevin McElroy • Gloria and Deborah Monosson • John W. Moore • Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan • The Munzer Family • Eileen Murray • Bob Muti, in memory of James Robinson • Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Newbury, Jr. • Mary Norato-Indeglia • Tom Norris • Thomas Novak • Richard Belin and Rosanne O’Brien • Kathryn O’Connell • Nancy and Charles Oddleifson • Roy and Kathleen Olesky • James Orleans and Nancy Walker • RADM and Mrs. J. Clarke Orzalli • William Panaros • Edith Parekh, in honor of Anissa Parekh • Robert and Beverly Parke • Marian Pasquale • Ellen C. Perrin • Ted and Josie Petersen • Martha and Joel Pierce • Stephen Pike • Joan Pilsmaker • Russell Pollock • James and Jeanette Post • James Poterba and Nancy Rose • Allison Powersa • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx • Kathleen Quillard, in honor of Kara Amelia Quillard’s acting
30 THE WHO & THE WHAT FRIENDS OF THE HUNTINGTON (continued) career • Helene M. Quinn and Tony Kanopt • Kerry Mulligan Railey • Jodi Rand • Robert Raymond • Gretchen Reilly • Mary Rench, in honor of David Wimberly • Helen Robertson • Patricia Robinson • Barbara Roby • Daniel P. Romard • Anne Romney • Mathilde and Robert Ross • Susan Rothenberg • Farley Sullivan and Jeff Roy • Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz • Debra Ruder • Sue and Terry Rushfirth • Vinod and Gaile Sahney • Dr. Lucienne Sanchez • Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Sandler • Robert and Susan Schechter • Molly Schen • Kim and Eric Schultz • Ivy and Fran Scricco • Irene Sege • Mark Seliber • Jim A. Sersich • Michael Seward • Karen J. Shack • Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline • Elisabeth Shields • James Shields and Gayle Merling • David W. Shukra and Clifford S. Wunderlich • James Shuman • Omar Siddiqi • David Siegel • Judith and Edward Siegel • Ellen L. Simons • Donald S. Sisson • Peter L. Smith and Donna J. Coletti • Rachel Smith • Edward Sonn • Paula and Joseph Spound • Renai Stalzle • Naomi Stearns, in honor of Bill & Dee Finard • Candace Steingisser • Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle • Laurin Stoler • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Glenn and Katherine Strehle • Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit • David Swartz and Lisa Fitzgerald • Richard A. Sweeney • Jane Talcott • Margaret M. Talcott and L. Scott Scharer • Patrick Tally • Jacob Taylor and Jean Park • Nancy Temple • M.K. Terrell • Janet Testa • Judy Thomson • Patricia Tibbetts • Edwin and Joan Tiffany • Dawn Tucker • Judith Tucker • Mr. and Mrs. Mario Umana • Rosamond B. Vaule • Pat and Steve Vinter • Daniel Wakabayashi • Jennifer Stone and Robert Waldinger • Rabbi and Mrs. Frank Waldorf • Susan Weiler • Scott Weiss • David White • Nancy White • Leslie Wilcox • Richard and Frances Winneg • Pamela Wood and Bruce Kirch • Janis Woodman, in honor of Christopher Woodman • Alfred Woodworth • Amy and Robert Worth • David C. Wright • Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman • Richard Yule, in memory of Helen Yule • Robert E. Zaret • Lorena and Robert Zeller • 15 anonymous gifts
This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to March 10, 2017. s Member of The Hunt, the Huntington’s young donor program ‡ Deceased HELP US MAKE THE MATCH! Your Annual Fund gift provides critical funding that helps the Huntington create the world-class theatre you love.
All new and increased Annual Fund gifts up to $350,000 will be matched by our generous board.
PAUL MAROTTA PAUL
huntingtontheatre.org/donate The cast of Sunday in the Park with George HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 31 CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT DONORS
The Huntington Theatre Company is grateful to receive support from a wide range of corporations, foundations, and government agencies that support the Huntington’s annual operations, as well as our award-winning productions and education and community programs. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Diana Jacobs-Komisar, Institutional Giving Manager, at 617 273 1514 or [email protected].
Grand Patron Associate Producers Circle Ropes & Gray LLP Boston University ($15,000-$24,999) TJX* BPS Arts Expansion Fund at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Lead Producers Circle EdVestors* Worldwide ($100,000+) Kingsbury Road WilmerHale The Andrew W. Mellon Charitable Foundation* Foundation Harold and Mimi Steinberg Designers Circle The Barr Foundation Charitable Trust ($2,500-$4,999) Klarman Family Foundation Boston Cultural Council MEDITECH with the Barr-Klarman Cambridge Savings Bank* Schrafft Charitable Trust* Arts Capacity Cambridge Trust Company Building Initiative Directors Circle Jackson and Irene Golden The Shubert Foundation, Inc. ($10,000-$14,999) 1989 Charitable Trust Alfred E. Chase Danversbank Charitable Executive Producers Circle Charitable Foundation* Foundation and ($50,000-$99,999) Eaton Vance People’s United Bank* Bank of America* Investment Counsel Roy A. Hunt Foundation* Liberty Mutual Insurance* Lucy R. Sprague Mabel Louise Memorial Fund* Actors Circle Riley Foundation* The Tiny Tiger Foundation* ($1,500-$2,499) Massachusetts Cultural AAFCPAs Council* Playwrights Circle Staples Foundation* Theatre Communications ($5,000-$9,999) Surdna Foundation Group* Cue Ball Group
Goodwin Procter LLP Artistic Producers Circle Nixon Peabody * Education and community ($25,000-$49,999) Nutter McLennen & Fish programs donor The Boston Foundation* Proskauer Rose LLP ** Includes in-kind support Hershey Family Foundation Ramsey McCluskey Family National Endowment Foundation for the Arts Rodgers Family Foundation
32 THE WHO & THE WHAT 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 Justin and Genevieve 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 before opening curtain and during intermission in the three beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston main lobby. Food is not permitted inside the theatre. neighborhoods. The 890-seat Boston University Theatre Drinks purchased at concessions are permitted inside is on the Avenue of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), the theatre. diagonally across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and 250-seat Roberts Studio Babes in Arms Theatre are part of the Calderwood Pavilion in the Children under the age of five are not permitted in the historic South End, on the campus of the Boston Center theatre. for the Arts (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 Box Office fax: 617 421 9674 strictly prohibited. Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Administrative office fax: 617 353 8300 Pagers and Cellular Phones Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during Calderwood Theatre Lost and Found: 617 933 8608 the performance. BU Theatre Lost and Found: 617 266 1666 Wheelchair Accessibility Box Office Hours The Calderwood Pavilion is fully accessible, The Box Office is generally open Tuesday-Saturday, and can accommodate noon-curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon-curtain (or 4pm). both wheelchair and companion Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, seating in the orchestra and mezzanine please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office sections. Please notify us when you at 617 266 0800. purchase your tickets if wheelchair accommodations will be required and confirm Huntington Group Discounts arrangements with the House Manager at 617 933 8672. Discounts available for groups of 10 or more, plus groups have access to backstage tours, talks with artists, Hearing Enhancement and space for receptions. Contact Jon Slater for more The Calderwood Pavilion is equipped with an information at 617 273 1657 or FM hearing enhancement system. Wireless [email protected]. headphones are available free of charge at the coat check in the main lobby for your use Public Transportation during a performance. We encourage patrons to use public transportation to the Calderwood Pavilion whenever possible. The Restrooms Pavilion is located near the MBTA Green Line Copley Located in the main lobby and mezzanine lobby. and Arlington Stations; Orange Line and Commuter Rail All restrooms are wheelchair-accessible. Back Bay Station; and the Tremont Street & Union Park stop on the #43 Bus which travels between Park Street Coat Check and Ruggles Station. For more information, please visit Located in the main lobby. huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office. If You Arrive Late Parking near the Calderwood Pavilion In consideration of our actors and other audience Parking is available at the Atelier 505 Parking Garage members, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of located next to the Calderwood Pavilion at 505 Tremont the management. Street (entrance on Warren Avenue), the Garage @ 100 Clarendon Street, and other nearby locations. For more If Your Plans Change information about parking, please visit huntingtontheatre. We hate to see empty seats when so many of our org or call the Box Office at 617 266 0800. performances sell out. Please consider donating any tickets you can’t use. For more information please call Please note that these parking options are the Box Office at 617 266 0800. independently owned and operated, and are not affiliated with the Huntington or the Large Print Programs Calderwood Pavilion. Large print programs are free of charge and are available at the coat check.
34 THE WHO & THE WHAT CALDERWOOD Deane PAVILION Rehearsal Hall EMERGENCY TREE T
EVACUATION ENU E Hall A
MAP TREMONT S Wimberly Theatre ARREN AV W In addition to the
lobby exits through 2nd floor which you entered, there are emergency exits highlighted on this map.
Stage Roberts Studio Theatre
EGRESS TREE T
VENU E Wimberly Theatre E IT SIGN TREMONT S ARREN A W
1st floor
THU FRI SAT SUN MAY 4 5 6 7 2017 7:30p 8:00p 2:00p 2:00p 8:00p For ticket information, visit The BostonTheatreScene.com Labyrinth of by CaridadDesire Svich Boston University Theatre Boston University College of Fine Arts 264 Huntington Ave, Boston School of Theatre BostonTheatreScene.com
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 35 STAFF
Peter DuBois Michael Maso Norma Jean Calderwood Managing Director Artistic Director
ADMINISTRATION MARKETING General Manager...... Sondra R. Katz Director of Marketing...... Temple Gill Associate General Manager...... Conwell Worthington III Associate Director of Marketing...... Meredith Mastroianni Company Manager...... Jazzmin Bonner Communications Manager...... Desiree Barry Assistant Company Manager...... Meagan Garcia Tessitura Analytics Manager...... Derrick Martin Assistant to the Managing Director...... Gabrielle Jaques Digital Content Manager...... Carolyn MacLeod Management Assistant...... Annie Walsh Promotions & Community Coordinator...... James Boyd Community Membership Finance Coordinator...... Candelaria Silva-Collins Director of Financial Management...... Glenda Fishman Creative Services Coordinator...... Dan Pecci Accounting Manager...... June Zaidan Marketing Associate...... Katie Iafolla Accounting Coordinator...... Laura Casavant Marketing Apprentice...... Leah Reber Accountants...... Alexander, Aronson, Finning, CPA Marketing Interns...... Natalie Gaber, Kaya Williams Human Resources Director of Human Resources...... Peggy J. Novello THEATRE OPERATIONS Human Resources Coordinator...... Michael Comey Director of Theatre Operations...... Joey Riddle Payroll and Reporting Specialist...... April Swiniuch BU Theatre Administrative Support Assistant...... Kendrick Terrell Evans BU Theatre House Manager...... Daniel Morris Information Technology Assistant House Managers...... Meg Ciabotti, IT Director...... Scott Poole Brian Dudley, Annie Walsh Helpdesk Specialist...... Jevon Foster Front of House Staff...... Julie Cameron, Michael Choueiri, Kendrick Terrell Evans, ARTISTIC Ariana Goldsworthy, Robin Goldberg, Dalton Gordon, Producing Director...... Christopher Wigle Sierra Grabowska, Zachary McPheeters, Director of New Work...... Lisa Timmel Brianna Randolph, Ivy Ryan, Kathleen Sansone, Associate Producer...... M. Bevin O’Gara Geri Spanek, Madeline Wigon Artistic Programs & Dramaturgy...... Charles Haugland Maintenance...... Ronald Belmonte, Assistant to the Artistic Director...... Stephanie LeBolt Kenneth Carter, Gary Santos Playwright-In-Residence...... Melinda Lopez Literary Apprentice...... Sarah Schnebly Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Producing Apprentice...... Justin Samoy Associate Calderwood Pavilion Manager...... Katie Most Huntington Playwriting Fellows...... Mia Chung, Calderwood Pavilion House Manager...... Katrina Alix Thom Dunn, John J King, Sam Marks, Calderwood Pavilion Management Assistant...... Gabe Hughes Nina Louise Morrison, Deborah Salem Smith House Electrician...... Mercedes Roman-Manson BU Graduate Directors...... Zohar Fuller, Kelly Galvin, House Sound Operator...... Jesse McKenzie Adam Kassim, Jeremy Ohringer, House Carpenter...... Mike Hamer Stephen Pick, Jillian Robertson Wardrobe Run...... Barbara Crowther Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice...... Dalton Zogleman DEVELOPMENT Assistant House Managers...... Paul Fox, Ksenia Lanin, Director of Annual Giving & Matt Feldman, Maura Neff Development Operations...... Joy Pak Front of House Staff...... Natasha Bonfield, Director of Major Gifts...... Margaret J. White Mia Buchsbaum, Robert Caplis, Major Gifts Officer...... Celina Valadao Barbara Crowther, Talia Curtin, Linnea Donnelly, Special Events Manager...... Kirsten Doyle Katie Flanagan, Madeleine Gibbons, Institutional Giving Manager...... Diana Jacobs-Komisar Ryan Impagliazzo, Terry McCarthy, Laura Meilman, Annual Fund & Research Coordinator...... Annalise Baird Maura Neff, Maegan Passafume, Tiniqua Patrick, Development Database Coordinator...... Lisa McColgan Nick Perron, Leah Reber, Sarah Schnebly, Development Associate...... Elizabeth MacLachlan Ciera-Sadé Wade, Dalton Zogleman Development Apprentice...... Sam Buntich Custodians...... Jose Andrade Development Intern...... Vicky Huang Security Coordinator...... Greg Haugh EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Subscription and Box Office Director of Education...... Donna J. Glick Audience Services Manager...... Jon Slater Manager of Education Operations...... Meg O’Brien Assistant Audience Services Manager...... Katie Catano Manager of Curriculum & Instruction...... Alexandra Smith BU Theatre Box Office Coordinator...... Victoria Swindle Education Associate...... Marisa Jones Pavilion Box Office Coordinator...... Noah Ingle Education Interns...... Elizabeth Botelho, Subscriptions Coordinator...... Amy Klesert Daniella Forero, Liam McParland Teaching Artists...... Kortney Adams, Pascale Florestal, Box Office Associates...... Brittany Rae Bonnell, Naheem Garcia, Lydia Graeff, Brenton Thurston Keith Mascoll, Allie Meek, Anneke Reich Full-Time Customer Service Reps...... Christine Lefter, Tasha Matthews, Ellie Solomon, Nicole Williams Customer Service Reps...... Victoria Barry, Nick Boonstra, Meagan Garcia, Sue Dietlin, Taylor Granger, Mary Olsen, Katelyn Reinert, Katie Sumi, Yurika Watanabe 36 THE WHO & THE WHAT STAFF (continued)
PRODUCTION Costumes Production Manager...... Todd D. Williams Costume Director...... Nancy Hamann Associate Production Manager...... Bethany Ford Assistant Costume Director...... Virginia V. Emerson Stage Management Apprentice...... Billy Cowles Costume Design Assistant...... Mary Lauve Graduate Assistant...... Emily Vaughn Head Draper...... Anita Canzian Costume Crafts Artisan/Dyer...... Denise M. Wallace-Spriggs Scenery First Hand...... Rebecca Hylton Technical Director...... Dan Ramirez Wardrobe Coordinator...... Christine Marr Associate Technical Director...... Adam Godbout Costume Intern...... Lauren Reuter Assistant Technical Director...... Dan Oleksy Master Carpenter...... Larry Dersch Electrics Scenery Mechanic...... Jesse Washburn Master Electrician...... Katherine Herzig Carpenters...... Andrew Cancellieri, Assistant Master Electrician...... Alisa Hartle Milosz Gassan, Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon Electrics Apprentice...... Paige Johnson Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...... Carolyn Daitch Sound Stage Carpenter...... Chris Largent Sound Supervisor...... Ben Emerson Scenery Apprentice...... Grayson Basina Sound Engineer...... J. Jumbelic Properties Sound Apprentice...... Terrence Dowdye Properties Master...... Kristine Holmes Graduate Assistants...... Collin Barnum, Aubrey Dube Assistant Properties Master...... Justin Seward BU SCHOOL OF THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF Properties Artisan...... Ian Thorsell Theatre Complex Properties Run...... Andrew DeShazo Production Manager...... Johnny Kontogiannis Paints Senior Staff Assistant Charge Scenic Artist...... Kristin Krause Design & Production...... Renee Yancey Assistant Charge Artist...... Romina Diaz-Brarda Costume Shop Supervisor...... Karen Martakos Scenic Artist...... Chelsey Erskin BU Certificate Interns...... Katherine Keaton, Jaqueline Kempe, Lauren White
Additional Staff for The Who & the What
Vocal Coach...... Thom Jones Costume Design Assistant...... Kathryn Schondek Dialect Coach...... Christine Hamel First Hands...... Katie Kenna, Sara Marhamo Fight Consultant...... Ted Hewlett Dresser...... Kat Shanahan Assistant to the Director...... Phaedra Scott Assistant to the Lighting Designer...... Brandi Pick Production Assistant...... Jessica Halem Electricians...... Kevin Barnett, Emily Bearce, Original Music Performed by...... Neel Agrawal (Percussion), Shannon Clarke, Bridget Collins, Evey Connerty-Marin, Saraswathi Jones (Vocals, guitar, percussion), Kevin Fulton, Aaron Henry, Aja Jackson, Alex Kennedy, Shahjehan Khan (Guitar, vocals), Daryl Laurenza, Taylor Ness, David Orlando, Azhar PH (Bass), Ariel Rejman (Drums), Gifford Williams, Ali Witten Jagdeep Singh (Guitar), Michael Dwan Singh Assistant to the Sound Designer...... Nick Chen (Production, beats, synths, oud, tabla, sarangi) Rehearsal ASL Interpreters...... Letitia Bynoe, Carpenter...... Gary Beisaw Nathan Fowler, Michael Herschberg, Deck Run Crew...... Katie Sumi Rachel Judelson, Kelly Muskopf, Properties Artisan...... Jeffrey Petersen Drew Pidkameny, Janine Sirignano, Scenic Artist...... Amanda Gimbel Caity Snyder, Wendy Watson
The Huntington Theatre Company is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of the nation’s leading resident professional theatres; Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre; StageSource, a regional alliance of theatre artists and producers; and ArtsBoston, the voice and resource for the arts in Greater Boston. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 37 GUIDE to LOCAL THEATRE APRIL–MAY 2017
DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT ANNIE, Boch Center, The Wang Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 800- 982-2787. May 9–21. The world’s best-loved musical returns, directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and HARD KNOCK LIFE: A new produciton of Annie, choreographed by Liza Gennaro. This brand-new incarnation the beloved musical about everyone’s favorite red- of the iconic original features such unforgettable songs as “It’s headed orphan, comes to life on the Wang Theatre the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “I Don’t Need Anything But stage May 9–21. You,” plus the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow.”
BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., whom the modernist King, in the imperialistic world of the 1860s, 800-BLUE-MAN. Ongoing. This giddily subversive off- brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children. Broadway hit serves up outrageous and inventive theatre where three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both RENT, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., contemporary art and modern technology. Wry commentary 866-348-9738. Apr 11–23. In this vibrant 20th anniversary and bemusing antics are matched only by the ingenious ways touring production, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer in which music and sound are created. Prize-winning reimagining of Puccini’s La Bohème once again follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists strug- GIRLS NIGHT—THE MUSICAL, Boch Center, The Shubert gling to follow their dreams without selling out. Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Apr 7. Share the fun and laughter at this hilarious, feel-good musical comedy as 17 BORDER CROSSINGS, Emerson/Paramount Center Jackie five girlfriends go from heartbreak to happiness during a wild Liebergott Black Box Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-824- night of karaoke that includes such favorite tunes as “Lady 8400. Apr 19–29. The history of passports, smuggling Ken- Marmalade,” “It’s Raining Men,” “Man, I Feel Like a Woman,” “I tucky Fried Chicken into other countries and the peculiarities Will Survive” and many more. of airline security—it’s all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC, Emerson/Paramount Center travel become the actual journey. Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617- 824-8400. May 11–21. Part Gonzo rock performance, part SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—this one-man 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at the Shear show uses the words of legendary rock critic Lester Bangs to Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs gets knocked imagine a single night of his turbulent life. off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience matches wits with the suspects to catch the killer in this wildly popular comedy. THE ILLUSIONISTS—LIVE FROM BROADWAY, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 800-982-2787. Apr 4–9. This mind- blowing spectacular showcases the jaw-dropping talents of the LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE most incredible illusionists on earth. This stage extravaganza has BARBECUE, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617-585- shattered box office records across the globe and dazzled audi- 5678. Apr 7–May 7. The O’Mallery family gather in their local ences of all ages with its powerful mix of the most outrageous park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister. and astonishing acts ever to be seen on stage. They are the kind of family that comes to an intervention armed with a Taser, even though their own downward spirals rival hers. THE KING AND I, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 800- But that’s only the beginning as familial and cultural stereotypes 982-2787. Apr 11–23. Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed pro- are stripped away in this piercingly funny new play. duction of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic, winner of four Tony Awards, tells the story of the relationship that develops between BARNUM, Moonbox Productions, Roberts Studio Theatre, Stan- the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher ford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527
38 THE WHO & THE WHAT Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Apr 8–30. This dazzling show traces the career of P.T. Barnum, America’s greatest showman, from 1835 to 1881, the year he joined James A. Bailey to form “The Greatest Show On Earth.” Over the objections of his wife Charity, Stage Barnum attempts to create a show in which the main attractions Spotlight are freaks of society, making sacrifices along the way in this tale Building Audiences for of hope, determinism and having the courage of your convictions. Greater Boston’s Outstanding BECKETT IN BRIEF, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Not-For-Profit Performing Arts Sorenson Black Box, Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson Organizations College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. Apr 27–May 7. This presentaion of a trio of Beckett’s most autobiographi- cal works—Rough for Radio II, The Old Tune and Krapp’s Last Tape—explores universal questions of creativity, memory, aging, sex, friendship and the proximity of death.
BOSTON THEATER MARATHON, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Bernstein’s Mass • April 7–9 Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Music and text by Leonard Bernstein, with Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. May 14. additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. The 19th annual event features a 10-hour marathon of 50 new Directed by Neil Donohoe and Larry Sousa. 10-minute plays by local authors, each produced by a different Music conducted by Eric Stern. New England professional theatre company. Spring Dance Concert: Limitless • April 27–30 CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The Masterworks by esteemed choreographers Riverway, 617-879-2300. Apr 14–May 14. In this tale of Cunningham, Ronald K. Brown and Aszure friendship and loyalty, based on the best-selling children’s Barton, with a world premiere by Yury Yanowsky. paperback of all time by beloved author E.B. White, Charlotte the extraordinary spider works a miracle with her web to save Tickets: 617-912-9222 or Wilbur the irresistible young pig. bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/events
DESIRE, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Apr 28– May 20. Plays by some of America’s most lauded playwrights come together for a celebration of one of America’s greatest wordsmiths. Adapted from Tennessee Williams’ short stories, these unforgettable tales of love and innocence, isolation and loss serve as a reminder that great stories have the power to change lives.
THE DONKEY SHOW, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Ongoing. Bringing the ultimate disco experience to Boston, this crazy circus of mirror balls, feathered divas, roller skaters and hustle queens tells Surprises and reversals abound in this the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through great ’70s piercingly funny new play that turns anthems you know by heart. the American domestic comedy on its head! EVERY PIECE OF ME, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 April 7–May 7, 2017 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Apr 20–30. When Aine Lyric Stage • Copley Square returns home to Ireland to introduce her American fiancé to her 617-585-5678 • lyricstage.com family, she finds her younger sister pregnant, her mother still over-controlling and her father suffering from a bad heart. Her departure might have been the cause, but some wounds never heal in this play about guilt, mercy and the power of love.
EVERYMAN, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617-887-2336. Apr 7–May 6. In this centuries-old cornerstone of English drama adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, or anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. Music by Cy Coleman Lyrics by Michael Stewart FAITHFUL CHEATERS, Trinity Repertory Company, The Dowling Book by Mark Bramble Theater, 201 Washington St., Providence, R.I., 401-351-4242. April 8–30, 2017 Apr 20–May 21. Poppy and Theo are always working. Neither has time to pay attention to their marriage. Luckily, now there’s Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA a nose spray for fidelity! One dose daily and presto: enhances 617-933-8600 • bostontheatrescene.com HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 39 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) monogamy—or so Theo hopes. With the relationship on the story of the four March sisters at home in Concord, Massachu- rocks, will a weekend vacation with Poppy’s meddling mothers, setts while their father serves during the Civil War. hordes of mosquitos, vodka and a surprise guest go so wrong it ultimately goes right? LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, Wellesley Players, Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 GABRIEL, Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781- Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Apr 14–23. Sex, 279-2200. Apr 27–May 14. During World War II in Guernsey, drugs and rock ’n’ roll—this isn’t your parents’ Shakespeare. U.K, 10-year-old Estelle and her family struggle to survive The Bard’s tale of love gone awry is presented against the the German occupation of their island and keep hidden the backdrop of the women’s liberation movement, the sexual Jewish identity of Estelle’s sister-in-law. When they discover revolution and the counter culture of the late 1960s. a mysterious naked man washed up on the shore who has no memory of who he is and can find no way to determine if he is MASS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., a Nazi or an ally, the family must decide whether to shelter this 617-912-9222. Apr 7–9. Leonard Bernstein’s most ambitious lost stranger or turn him over to the authorities. theatre work, inspired by the Tridentine Mass of the Roman Catholic Church, features a large cast of performers, including THE GIFT HORSE, New Repertory Theatre, Charles Mosesian dancers, singers, a boy chorus, rock and blues singers, actors, Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, two orchestras and a marching band that plays through the 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Apr 22–May 14. audience, making for a truly unique experience. This humorous and introspective Boston-area premiere follows Ruth, a successful teacher and artist, whose quick and easy MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, Theatre@First, Unity wit masks a painful childhood. With the support of her best Somerville, 6 William St., Somerville, 888-874-7554. May friend Ernesto and therapist Brian she finally confronts her 12–20. Aeschylus’ the Oresteia, is transplanted to Civil War-era tumultuous past in a play infused with nationally acclaimed New England, where a tumultuous history casts a dark shadow playwright Lydia R. Diamond’s distinctive voice. over General Ezra Mannon, his wife Christine and his children Lavinia and Orin. When Lavinia uncovers her mother’s murder- HOMEBODY, Underground Railway Theater, Central Square ous intents toward Ezra, she takes drastic action to protect her Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. father and begins her own descent into evil and despair. Apr 20–May 7. Holding only an outdated guidebook of Kabul, an eccentric and agoraphobic British housewife proclaims her MR. JOY, ArtsEmerson; Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmont unconsummated passion for the world. She grapples with the Ave., Hyde Park, Apr 1 & 2; BYCF Jackson/Mann Commu- rich and turbulent history of Afghanistan, muses about living in nity Center, 500 Cambridge St., Allston, Apr 7 & 8; Zumix the Middle East and confides to us her desire to divorce herself Firehouse, 260 Sumner St., East Boston, Apr 15 & 16; The from the complacency of her safe life in London. Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Apr 20 & 21; 617-824-8400. These free community performances starring INTO THE WOODS, Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmount acclaimed actress Tangela Large present Daniel Beaty’s poi- Ave., Hyde Park, 866-811-4111. May 12–21. Ever wonder gnant solo piece exploring race and class in America through how your favorite fairy tales turned out after their happy end- the stories of the customers of a Harlem shop owner who has ing? Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning score and James fallen victim to a violent attack. Lapine’s book tell a different side of the stories we all know and love. NO EXIT, Exiled Theatre, The Space Studio at Auspicious Phoenix Productions, 438 Somerville Ave., Somerville, JULIUS CAESAR, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, 617-416-3132. Apr 14–30. Jean-Paul Sartre’s masterpiece Carling-Sorenson Theater, Sorenson Center for the Arts at involves three damned souls locked in the same room in hell Babson College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. May who discover that, instead of thumbscrews and other torture 13. Rome’s most powerful citizens plot the assassination of devices, “Hell is just—other people.” its ruler, Julius Caesar, to save the republic from an impending monarchy. In the wake of their bloody deed, the city must ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, Boston Children’s confront the consequences of their political idealism. When Theatre, Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont the curtains of rhetoric and symbolism are pulled aside, what St., 617-933-8600. Apr 15–30. Dale Wasserman’s stage underlying motivations will be un-masked? adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel tells the story of a charming rogue who, in manipulating a short prison sentence into what LA LLORONA, Fresh Ink Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights’ he thinks will be an easier stay in a mental institution, comes Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. May 5–20. into conflict with a strict head nurse while trying to stir up his When Maria, Rachel and Molly got thrown together on a school fellow inmates. project about the local urban legend, they didn’t quite bargain for some horrifying teary murderess ghost lady to start mess- PARADISE, Underground Railway Theater, Central Square ing with their lives. La Llorona, with her irreverent, haunting Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. advice and constantly changing faces, seems intent on steer- Apr 6–May 7. Yasmeen, a Muslim-American teenager, meets ing them away from her fate—or is she just luring them to a with her teacher Dr. Royston, a mysterious scientist forced watery, weeping demise in this world premiere? to teach high school biology. If Yasmeen can salvage her perfect score, she can claim her independence and pursue her LITTLE WOMEN, The Longwood Players, Cambridge Family passion for science while honoring her cultural traditions. As YMCA Theatre, 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811- an unlikely, inspired partnership is created, clashes arise over 4111. May 5–13. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 religion, science and mentorship as the lives of both teacher semi-autobiographical novel, this stage adaptation tells the and student are transformed forever.
40 THE WHO & THE WHAT GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued)
PETER PAN, The Post-Meridian Radio Players, Responsible “TECHNICALLY Grace Church, 204 Elm St., Somerville, 800-838-3006. Apr 21–29. This original adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s beloved tale presents the story of the Darling children—Wendy, John and BRILLIANT, Michael—who are whisked away to Neverland by the boy who won’t grow up to face the danger of the cunning Captain Hook. DIZZYINGLY SO.” Will the Darlings ever make it home? Will Pan triumph at last -THE STAGE (UK) over Hook? And most importantly—do you believe in fairies?
PEERLESS, Company One Theatre, Rabb Hall, Boston Public Li- brary, 700 Boylston St., 617-292-7110. Apr 27–May 28. Twin high school seniors L and M are dead-set on attending not just an Ivy League school, but the Ivy League school. With their per- fect SAT scores, perfect hair and “perfect minority status,” they think acceptance is guaranteed. When a rival student emerges with a personal tragedy to make an admissions officer weep, however, the twins will do anything to knock out the competi- tion. Does that include murder most foul in this zany black comedy inspired by one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays?
PROMISES, PROMISES, The Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3200. Apr 7–22. Set in New York City in 1968, this Neil Simon-penned tuner featuring music by Burt Bacharach is based on the 1960 film classic The Apartment and relays the misadventures of junior executive Chuck Baxter, who climbs the corporate ladder by letting his bosses use his 2 WEEKS apartment for trysts. All is well, until he learns that the object ONLY! of his affection is one of the mistresses.
SH*T-FACED SHAKESPEARE, The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Somerville, 617-684-5335. Ongoing. A fusion of an entirely Imaginary lines. serious Shakespeare play with an entirely sh*t-faced cast member, this side-splitting, raucous and interactive show pres- Real consequences. ents Romeo and Juliet with a genuinely drunken professional True border crossings. 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.
SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, Brown Box Theatre Project, Baxter Park Amphitheater at Assembly Row, Assembly Square, Somer- BORDER ville, May 5; Fall River Heritage Park, 200 Davol St., Fall River, 17 May 6; Waterfront Plaza at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St., May 7, 12 & 14; Borderland State Park, 259 Massapoag Ave., North crossings Easton, May 11; South Garden at the Prudential Center, May 13. Jason Robert Brown’s breathtaking song cycle weaves together the stories and voices of a diverse cast of characters in a musical journey that transcends time and space. A soaring, vibrant score transports the audience through a mesmerizing exploration of the APR 19 - 29 unknown world and the tough choices that follow. EMERSON/PARAMOUNT CENTER JACKIE LIEBERGOTT BLACK BOX THEATRE THE WHITE RABBIT SHOW, Deane Hall, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. May 5 & 6. Part comedy and part drama, this story of one woman’s journey to self-discovery is made up on FROM USA/COLOMBIA the spot, resulting in what has been described as “a theatrical mash-up of fairy tale and personal memoir that is by turns hilarious, bizarre and heart-breakingly honest.” ARTSEMERSON.ORG YELLOW BIRD CHASE, Liars & Believers, Martin Hall, Stanford 617.824.8400 Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Trem- ont St., 617-933-8600. May 4–21. A clownish maintenance crew finds a magical yellow bird. When they try to capture the it, the bird escapes and a mad chase begins. Racing over land, across the sea, and through the air—battling pirates, monsters and terrible pop songs—how far will the crew go?
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 41 TWO TONY AWARDS GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued)
WINNER OF BE TRANSPORTED. DANCE ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER, Boch Center, The Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., 800-982-2787. Apr 27–30. The magnificent Ailey company continues its exciting new expansion of repertoire under Artistic Director Robert Battle while celebrating the core works that have made it the world’s leading modern dance company.
LIMITLESS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Apr 27–30. Presenting iconic masterworks by internationally renowned choreographers alongside new work created especially for Boston Conservatory dance stu-
JENNIFER ELLIS. PHOTO BY GLENN PERRY PHOTOGRAPHY. GLENN PERRY BY JENNIFER ELLIS. PHOTO dents, this program feature How to Pass Kick Fall and Run by Merce Cunningham, Dancing Spirit by Ronald K. Brown, Happy Little Things (Waiting on a Gruff Cloud of Wanting) by Aszure Barton and a world premiere by Yury Yanowsky.
ROBBINS/THE CONCERT, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, MAY 6 - JUNE 3 539 Washington St., 617-695-6955. May 5–27. This trio of ballets features Jerome Robbins’ The Concert (or the Perils of music and lyrics by bOOk by JasOn rObErT brOWn marsHa nOrman Everybody), George Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto basEd On THE nOvEl by rObErT JamEs WallEr and a world premiere by Boston Ballet Resident Choreographer Jormo Elo set to the music of Bach.
BE A PART OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 617-695-6955. Apr 28–May 27. This quintes- sential production of the coming-of-age fairy tale features Tchai- SPEAKEASYSTAGE.COM kovsky’s soaring music, sumptuous costumes, superlative dancing, @speakeasystage the triumph of good over evil and the power of a single kiss. TCHAIKOVSKY. PRO ET CONTRA, Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. May 26–28. Boris Eifman’s grand artistic ballet explores the composer’s life and creative drive. The enigmatic, contemporary choreography highlights Tchaikovsky’s compli- cated sexuality and his journey through the creative process, all set to Tchaikovsky’s most popular pieces.
OPERA THE DEMON, Commonwealth Lyric Theater, Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. May 18 & SUPPORTING 20. Based on a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, Anton Rubinstein’s opera portrays an isolated protagonist weary with the weight HEALTHY OUTCOMES of immortality. While wandering the earth, he encounters the princess Tamara, a woman who overwhelms him with emotion. In his greedy passion, the Demon destroys Tamara’s fiancé and claims her for himself, leading to tragic consequences.
FREE 3-DAY PASS LA RONDINE: REMIX, Boston Opera Collaborative, Central COME IN FOR A TOUR TODAY! Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866- 811-4111. May 13–21. Puccini’s soaring opera explores the This pass entitles an individual or family to ephemeral quality of romance and the illusion and reality of experience the YMCA for one week before desire. Accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble, this 12/31/2016.6/30/2017 Valid for new free trial participants production trades spectacle and splash for taut storytelling and nuanced portrayals of character, performed in a space where over the age of 18. Government issued you are never more than a few rows from the performers. identification is required to enter the YMCA. THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Boston Lyric Opera, John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley St., 617-542-6772. Apr 28–May 7. The pas- sions and perils of love and marriage collide in one uproarious HUNTINGTON AVENUE YMCA day as Figaro struggles to get his bride, Susanna, to the altar 316 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02110 unscathed. Identities are concealed, manners upended and plots foiled, all set to the glorious music of Mozart’s masterpiece.
42 THE WHO & THE WHAT see everything.
miss nothing.
ArtsBoston is Greater Boston’s biggest champion of all things arts and culture. Our website, artsboston.org, makes it easy to find all the theatre, music, dance, visual arts and free events you can’t wait to see. No other resource gives you access to more of the arts you love.
artsboston.org ARTSBOSTON TAKE YOURSELF TO A NEW PLACE dinner, corporate events, weddings, cocktail receptions and private dining. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., D Mon–Sat BOSTON 5–10 p.m. blurestaurant.com. CITYPLACE, On Stuart Street between Tremont and S. Charles streets in the State Transportation Building. Enjoy handcrafted beers at Rock Bottom Brewery, delicious treats from Panera Bread and gourmet Chinese at P.F. Chang’s as well as flatbread sandwiches, specialty pizzas, custom burritos and more in the DINING Food Court. B, L, D, C. cityplaceboston.com. CLINK, The Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., 617-224-4004. Clink serves the freshest North Atlantic seafood, seasonal New England fare and delicious artisanal meats, highlights of a menu that artfully marries European culinary tradition GUIDE with contemporary American innovation. The dining room features vestiges of original jail cells and an open kitchen, while gold leather seats, butcher block tables and granite L–Lunch • D–Dinner • B–Breakfast accents add to the contemporary style. Nightly, Clink’s lobby C–Cocktails • VP–Valet Parking bar draws urban dwellers and hotel guests to an energetic SB–Sunday Brunch • LS–Late Supper and social nightlife scene in the heart of Boston. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m., D 5–11 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–3 p.m. clinkrestaurant.com.
49 SOCIAL, 49 Temple Pl., 617-338-9600. This eclectic bar DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington and restaurant at Downtown Crossing serves refined modern St., 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park American cuisine. The seasonal dinner menu draws inspiration Square, within walking distance to all theatres. The Northern from around the globe while also incorporating ingredients Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade from local New England farms. D, C. 49social.com. pastas and Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch pork chop, Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s ARAGOSTA BAR & BISTRO, Three Battery Wharf, 617-994- classics and selection of fresh seafood, before or after the the- 9001. This latest addition to Boston’s vibrant waterfront atre. Enjoy a lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor restaurant community offers a new take on Italian cuisine by area. D Sun–Tue 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m., L Mon–Fri. award-winning chef David Daniels who shows his signature VP. davios.com. flair through hand-made pastas, prime meats and classic New England seafood. Using quality, local farm-raised ingredients, FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in Aragosta offers a warm, social atmosphere in a stunning 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that waterfront setting. Also offering an open kitchen with Chef’s features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain Counter and an outdoor terrace. B, L, D. Mon–Sun 6:30 a.m.– prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the 10 p.m.; Sat & SB 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m. aragostabistro.com. walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon AVENUE ONE RESTAURANT, Hyatt Regency, One Avenue de & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 Lafayette, 617-912-1234. Newly renovated and located in p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. the heart of the Theatre District, Avenue One restaurant and lounge serves contemporary New England cuisine in a relaxed THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a two- atmosphere. Enjoy a refreshing cocktail, three-course prix fixe story townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor dinner or a delectable dessert. Discounted parking available. B patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French coun- 6:30–11:30 a.m., L noon–3 p.m., D 5–10 p.m. C, VP try cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include regencyboston.hyatt.com. venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-670- 0320. With three deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused JASPER WHITE’S SUMMER SHACK, 50 Dalton St., 617-867- favorites, Back Deck invites everyone to gather around patio 9955; 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, 617-520-9500. tables and chairs for a charcoal-cooked meal and backyard- Enjoy top-notch seafood such as pan-roasted lobster, award- inspired cocktails. Its ambiance brings the outdoors inside with winning fried chicken and an impressive raw bar in a casual floor-to-ceiling open windows, carriage lighting, lush green setting. L, D. summershackrestaurant.com. planters, glazed brick and an open kitchen. Drawing inspiration from a roof deck, this restaurant is the ultimate urban retreat. LEGAL SEA FOODS, 558 Washington St., 617-692-8888; L, D, Sat & SB, C. BackDeckBoston.com. 26 Park Plaza, Park Square Motor Mart, 617-426-4444; 255 State St., Long Wharf, 617-227-3115; Prudential Center, 800 BLU, 4 Avery St., 617-375-8550. Located in the heart of the Boylston St., 617-266-6800; 270 Northern Ave., Liberty Wharf, Theatre District next door to the Ritz Carlton on the fourth floor, 617-477-2900; other locations. Legal Sea Foods, a Boston blu Restaurant and Bar is celebrating its 15th anniversary tradition for more than 50 years, features more than 40 variet- with a feast for the senses. Its contemporary American menu ies of fresh fish and shellfish as well as an award-winning includes the all-time favorite lobster club. Featuring spec- wine list. Named “Boston’s Most Popular Restaurant” (Zagat tacular floor-to-ceiling windows, blu is perfect for a pre-show 2010/2011). L & D. legalseafoods.com.
44 THE WHO & THE WHAT MASSIMINO’S CUCINA ITALIANA, 207 Endicott St., 617-523- 5959. Owner/chef Massimino—former head chef of Naples’ Hotel Astoria and Switzerland’s Metropolitan Hotel—offers specialties like the veal chop stuffed with arugula, prosciutto, smoked mozzarella and black olives, amongst numerous other delights. L, D, C. Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 11 p.m. massiminosboston.com.
MERITAGE RESTAURANT + WINE BAR, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-439-3995. Known for its excellence in wine and food pairings, Meritage enters a new era with an exciting transformation featuring a stylish, refined dining room, sophisticated wine bar and the addition of two new private dining rooms overlooking Boston Harbor. To complement the bold and elegant interiors, Chef Daniel Bruce has introduced a unique vineyard-to-table menu. D Tue–Sat 5–10 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–2 p.m. C, VP. meritagetherestaurant.com.
PARKER’S RESTAURANT, Omni Parker House, 60 School St. at Tremont Street, 617-725-1600. Executive chef Gerry Tice celebrates nostalgic cuisine with a contemporary flair at Parker’s Restaurant, the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie, the Parker House Roll and Boston Scrod. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., Sat–Sun 7–11:30 a.m., offering an elaborate buffet in addition to a la carte selections. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.; D Mon– Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5–10 p.m.
ROWES WHARF SEA GRILLE, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-856-7744. Rowes Wharf Sea Grille delivers the sea straight to your table. Enjoy power breakfasts and lunches followed by a vibrant after-work cocktail and dinner scene. The sunlight-filled dining room or seasonal outdoor terrace is an ideal spot for a leisurely lunch or special date night. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Afternoon Tea 2:30–4 p.m., D 4:30–10 p.m. roweswharfseagrille.com.
RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE, 45 School St., 617-742-8401. At Ruth’s Chris Steak House, each steak is hand-selected from the top 2% of the country’s beef, broiled to perfection at 1,800 degrees and served in the restaurant’s signature style—on a sizzling, 500-degree plate so every bite stays hot and deli- cious. Located at Old City Hall, Ruth’s Chris also features fresh seafood, an award-winning wine list and a gracious environ- ment with warm hospitality. L, D, C. ruthschris.com.
THE TAJ BOSTON, 15 Arlington St., 617-536-5700. This 1927 landmark offers dishes reflecting the seasonal flavors of New England as well as authentic Indian dishes for dinner. The Cafe: B, L, D, Sat & SB. The Lounge: L, D, C. The Bar: L, D, C. tajhotels.com/boston. NEW ENGLAND’S TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, 617-536-1775. Located 52 stories above the city, Top of BEST VIEW the Hub is Boston’s special occasion favorite. With upscale American cuisine, live entertainment nightly, a spectacular BOSTON’S MOST ROMANTIC view and romantic atmosphere, Top of the Hub promises a FINE DINING EXPERIENCE unique experience for both visitors and native Bostonians alike. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net.
YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE, 41 Union St., 617-227- BRUNCH / LUNCH 2750. America’s oldest restaurant, now celebrating 191 COCKTAILS / DINNER years, serves Yankee-style seafood, beef and chicken, and is famed for the oyster bar where Daniel Webster dined daily. 52ND FLOOR OF PRUDENTIAL TOWER Specialties include clam chowder and fresh lobster. L & D TOPOFTHEHUB.NET Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 10 p.m. C ’til mid- CALL: (617) 536-1775 night. unionoysterhouse.com.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 45 DINING OUT
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 sau- Sian food or steak? Luckily, Bostonians have téed veal tenderloin with oyster mushrooms, cipol- the perfect answer to this particular dilemma— lini, potatoes and marsala; and hearty meat dishes Back Bay favorite Davio’s Northern like grilled Niman Ranch pork chop or Italian Steakhouse, which combines the seared organic salmon. At lunch- the bold flavors of a superior Italian DAVIO’S time, Davio’s also boasts a selection of 75 Arlington St. eatery with the class, sophistication 617-357-4810 gourmet pizzas and panini filled with and unmistakable flair of a classic Refer to Dining Guide, everything from braised beef short rib upscale steakhouse. page 44 to 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.
46 THE WHO & THE WHAT THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME THE AMALFI COAST
$2,699 pp/do Including Round-trip Airfare from Boston!
INCLUDES: Round-trip regularly scheduled flights from Boston to Naples, via Rome Seven nights’ four-star accommodations 2017 DEPARTURES: Fifteen meals, seven buffet breakfasts, four lunches, four dinners with wine Sept 23—Oct 1, 2017 Escorted, private, round-trip airport/ Oct 7—15, 2017 hotel transfers Services of professional local guides during all excursions including Capri, Positano, Pompeii and Ravello
Call 617-338-1111 or visit showofthemonth.com/amalfi to book your trip today!
The Travel Club is a service of Show of the Month Club, a subsidiary of New Venture Media Group publisher of Playbill, Theatrebill and Art New England magazines.