HUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE P. 2 THE NICETIES P. 4 SHERLOCK’S LAST CASE P. 8 MAN IN THE RING P. 12 EDUCATION P. 16 IN DEVELOPMENT P. 18 UPCOMING EVENTS & NEWS P. 20 PERFORMANCE CALENDARS P. 22 WHAT DOES THE HUNTINGTON MEAN TO YOU? P. 23

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The Huntington Theatre Company Ownership of the theatre is an astounding milestone on our remarkable journey. We are now embarking on a process to create a is now officially the sole owner of the magnificently restored and expanded Huntington Avenue Theatre in order to greatly enhance our services to our audiences, artists, and Huntington Avenue Theatre! In May 2018, the community. Notable milestones of the past year paved the way our commercial development partner QMG for our future: full separation from Boston University, the opening of our new state-of-the-art Huntington Production Center in Everett, Huntington LLC gave us a remarkable gift — and receiving the city of Boston’s approval on plans to renovate our the deed to the theatre — donating our theatre complex that includes our beautiful proscenium auditorium and support wing, as well as a new 14,000 square foot welcome home to us on a permanent basis and center in the adjacent QMG Huntington LLC residential building, fulfilling a long-held aspiration to which will provide a new fully accessible entrance and lobby, modern audience amenities, a new performance venue and first- control our own theatre space. class event space for patrons and community members.

July, 1986 2004 Huntington creates Huntington 2013 an independent builds & opens Huntington Board of Trustees the Stanford receives the & Council of Calderwood Tony Award for 1982 Overseers, separate Pavilion at the Outstanding Huntington Theatre from, but in Boston Center Regional Company founded residence at BU for the Arts Theatre by Boston University; Managing Director Michael Maso joins Producing Director Fall, 1986 2000 2008 Peter Altman to lead The Huntington’s Nicholas Martin Peter DuBois the company longstanding becomes our second becomes our third relationship with Artistic Director Artistic Director August Wilson begins with a production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

2 BOX OFFICE 617 266 0800 TRANSFORMATIONAL SPACES Our new theatre complex will beckon visitors through a soaring entrance that will be activated throughout the day welcoming the entire community to participate in programs, enjoy a café, and avail themselves of our new box office along with other visitor amenities. The expansive second floor will create flexible spaces for audiences to gather, for students and the community to engage in education programs and multi-disciplinary activities, and to invite visitors and artists to converse together, realizing our vision to be “Boston’s bruner Living Room” with an open configuration that includes an intimate

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Avenue. And, of course, both floors will have plenty of restrooms! associates Known for their award-winning designs that celebrate the heritage and craftmanship of the past while also creating vibrant, new social spaces, Bruner/Cott & Associates, the Huntington’s architects for the project, have begun the design schematics for the theatre renovation and lobby space build-out. Draft rendering of the proposed “Boston’s Living Room” second floor lobby of the Huntington Avenue Theatre COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN Another important milestone was last year’s kickoff of our comprehensive fundraising campaign, Empowering Passion, a five-year initiative designed to fund the renovation and expansion of our Huntington Avenue theatre complex, grow and diversify our program and offerings, increase the Annual Fund, and enhance our reserve and endowment funds. We are currently in the leadership phase of the Campaign. At the conclusion of the Campaign in 2022, generous donors to this effort will have provided the Huntington with the strongest possible foundation bruner with which to serve and thrive as a vital part of the cultural fabric

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You are an important part of the Huntington’s new future! Planning associates is underway and we invite you to learn about the transformation by visiting our website, attending upcoming events, and by contributing to the Huntington in the coming years. For the latest news and information about the Huntington Avenue Theatre, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or contact Elisabeth Saxe, Chief Development Officer, Draft rendering of the proposed first floor [email protected] or 617 273 1579. lobby of the Huntington Avenue Theatre

July, 2017 2019 (Projected) Huntington’s Commercial developers 2015 35 year relationship QMG begin the BU puts the with BU is demolition of Huntington officially ended; 252-254 Huntington Avenue Theatre the Huntington Avenue buildings & the complex up Production Center is construction of new Fall, 2021 for sale created in Everett apartment building (Projected) Huntington will open renovated & expanded HUNTINGTON 2016 2018 2020-2021 Season AVENUE THEATRE With the help of Huntington receives (Projected) COMPLEX Mayor Martin J. Walsh the deed to the Huntington will begin & the city of Boston, Huntington renovation of the Huntington commercial developers Avenue Theatre! Avenue Theatre & produce QMG agree to give shows at the Calderwood the theatre to the and in other venues Huntington for our “travelling year”

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 3 In this explosive story, a black student and a white professor — both brilliant, both liberal — meet to discuss a paper about slavery’s role in the American Revolution. A polite conversation becomes a powder keg of race, history, and power, and neither woman will ever be the same. An entertaining and provocative nail-biter, written by Boston native Eleanor Burgess and directed by Broadway veteran Kimberly Senior (Disgraced), that everyone will be talking about. NICETIES A POWDER KEGTHE OF RACE, HISTORY & POWER AUG.31-OCT.6 SOUTH END CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA BY ELEANOR BURGESS “A BARNBURNER! One of DIRECTED BY the best plays about who gets KIMBERLY SENIOR

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Playwright Eleanor Burgess Director Kimberly Senior REVEALING AMERICA: ELEANOR BURGESS’ THE NICETIES JANINE: You may be right. You’re probably right. Burgess started the play out of an interest in how a seemingly About feelings that were there. It’s possible you’re right straightforward disagreement can blow up to the proportions of about the effects those feelings had. But that isn’t history. a cultural divide. One example of this phenomenon for Burgess was a 2015 controversy at Yale: child development professor Erika ZOE: Yes, it is history. It’s a part of American history. Christakis objected to a campus advisory that pre-emptively In playwright Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties, a student sits down discouraged Halloween costumes that borrowed from other with her professor during office hours; their lives are about to cultures. Christakis felt that the function of college was trying out adult responsibilities, and opined in an email that Halloween change. Through their intense conversation, Burgess brings was a time when students could be allowed to be “a little bit intellectual might and refreshing nuance to discussing race, inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive.” The email went viral. history, and power in America. The play has become a breakout The response from students was that her point of view reinforced hit for Burgess, a Brookline native and alumna of the Huntington white supremacist notions that other cultures can be appropriated Playwriting Fellows program. Critic Peter Marks of The Washington freely, and that her comments contributed to a hostile learning Post named a developmental staging as one of his favorite environment; students led protests and called for Christakis’ productions of 2017, describing The Niceties as “a nail-biter of immediate dismissal and disavowal. a play that leaves you wrung out and reassessing your own pieties.” What interested Burgess was that, when discussing the incident with In the play, Zoe is a junior at an “elite university in the Northeast” friends, both sides dismissed any legitimacy to the opposing argument. with a high GPA and a focus on social activism. She is meeting “My friends are really spread across a pretty broad political spectrum, to discuss her research paper with Janine, a published expert in from quite conservative to quite liberal,” Burgess explains. “Both comparative revolutionary history. They geek out about grammar groups believed that the other side was not fighting for anything valid. and style, but soon a disagreement is sparked. “Zoe’s thesis is No one wanted to explore that both academic freedom of speech that the American Revolution could never have been a successful and the psychological safety of students of color were important, or revolution without — and was the most successful revolution in acknowledge that the disagreement was difficult but necessary. That history because of — the institution of slavery,” playwright Eleanor was too complicated. No one wanted to have a discussion.” Burgess says. “Janine does not agree.” For Burgess and director Kimberly Senior, the play is both an Zoe is black, and Janine is white; from different generations, exorcism for the entrenched polarization that has gripped America they are both part of the well-educated elite, and consider and an attempt to ask whether we can find a way forward. In themselves left-wing politically. Initially, Janine is receptive and Senior’s words, “The debate in this play is one that threatens to rip even encouraging toward Zoe’s resistance to change her thesis. apart the gorgeous fabric of our country — that disparate voices “So many of your classmates, […] they’re so eager to do what I and opinions and religions and races and genders and beliefs could all possibly share this country, and find empathy, goodness at our tell them,” Janine says to Zoe. “When what I want, of course, is core. Will our play solve these problems? Likely not. But it is a debate.” But what begins as a conversation about 18th century prescient warning bell. It is a rallying cry that we must find a way to history has implications for our 21st century moment, and those reach across the aisle, bridge the divide, and find a way to be good differences of opinion reveal an essential gap; ultimately their neighbors — and maybe, just maybe, we will do a little better next conversation — fast-paced, clever, intellectually dazzling — time we are facing someone we might consider an opponent.” concerns the foundational question of who controls the story of America and who will control its future. – CHARLES HAUGLAND

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 5 A rendering of The Niceties set by scenic designer Cameron Anderson.

IN ELEANOR BURGESS’ THE NICETIES, JANINE, A PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS, MEETS TO DISCUSS A TERM PAPER WITH ZOE, AN INTERVIEW WITH A STUDENT WHO WANTS TO START A REVOLUTION HERE AND NOW. THROUGH THEIR CONVERSATION, BURGESS CREATES AN ELECTRIFYING DEBATE BETWEEN THE TWO WOMEN. PRIOR TO WHEN REHEARSALS PLAYWRIGHT BEGAN, BURGESS AND THE NICETIES DIRECTOR KIMBERLY SENIOR SPOKE ABOUT WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE FOR THE PLAY ELEANOR BURGESS AND WHAT CONVERSATIONS THEY HOPE IT SPARKS. What does it feel like to be in the audience of this play? Kimberly Senior: The exciting thing to experience with this play is that, when you watch these two women have a conversation, & DIRECTOR they are both right and they are both wrong. You’re in a gladiatorial arena where the upper hand changes moment to moment. Eleanor Burgess: Boston is my hometown, and this is a very KIMBERLY SENIOR Boston play. All plays are about being in a room with other people in an audience — but this play especially is about having a conversation that is both right now and very challenging. Hearing other people react to it is part of the experience, and it starts a conversation that lasts long after you’ve seen the play. There’s no point in this play that isn’t, “let’s all use this as a jumping off point to go further and talk,” and I am looking forward to having a conversation with Boston about these issues.

Eleanor, what does it mean to see this play produced at the Huntington? EB: The first time I came to a play at the Huntington, I was 14. The Huntington is where I went to most of the plays that I saw until I was 20. The Huntington has shaped my understanding of what theatre is, and has meant so much to me long before I knew I wanted to write plays. On top of that, the Huntington is also the place that gave me my first “yes” as a professional playwright. Becoming a Huntington Playwriting Fellow was the

6 BOX OFFICE 617 266 0800 first time that a real theatre said, “yeah we like what you’re doing,” and that fellowship was the kickstarter that made me pursue theatre more seriously. NAME Jordan Boatman Can you talk about the play’s setting in 2016? What interested you about that moment? ROLE Zoe EB: It is set during the primaries of the Republican and Democratic HOMETOWN I was born in Los Angeles but parties. It’s partly set there because that was when I wrote the grew up mostly in Ossining, New York, about first draft — but also ever since the election, I’ve wondered about 45 minutes away from Manhattan. updating it, and that would be wrong. One thing I like about HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER the timing of the play is that the characters onstage don’t know ZOE? I think I’m like Zoe in the way that I what’s coming in this country, and we in the audience know very throw myself head-first behind my beliefs. Sometimes that fervor well. We know the stakes of liberals not agreeing with each other can get away from me, and it’s not always so easy to get me to and not being enthusiastic about the same things. We know the see things in a different light either. consequences of a white woman failing to win over people who aren’t white and the consequences of a woman in her 60s failing WHY IS THIS PLAY IMPORTANT FOR BOSTON AUDIENCES? to win over a millennial. We also know more than they do about The Niceties takes topics that aren’t always easy to discuss and how far Americans are willing to go to defend their beliefs about really breaks them down from every angle. I think people will America and their understanding of race in America. There is a identify with both Janine and Zoe, which will spark conversation dramatic irony present in the play; we have a fear of where the about the merits of each woman’s stance on the issues brought conversation is going that neither of them knows or sees. We also up in the play. know how much they’re going to lose and how dangerous the WHAT KIND OF CONVERSATIONS DO YOU HOPE THIS PLAY world is going to get for both of them. WILL PROVOKE? I hope this play can help to start a conversation between people who might be dealing with a generational KS: And there are some really good groaner jokes. divide. I hope people leave the show more open to hearing EB: Yes, there’s a joke about Jeb Bush that gets a good laugh. different opinions and to working towards a middle ground. What questions do you hope audiences will ask themselves WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PERIOD OF HISTORY? after seeing it? The Elizabethan era. EB: What is the story of America? What has happened in this country? What is this country supposed to be? What has it never NAME Lisa Banes been? Both of these women in the play want to change the world ROLE Janine and would call themselves good liberals: Janine would call herself HOMETOWN Colorado Springs, Colorado an excellent liberal, and Zoe would say “ugh, liberalism, I’m further left than that.” HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER JANINE? We are both incredibly She’s post-liberalism. KS: opinionated and love to express our EB: But they’re both on the left wing of American politics and opinions. can’t agree. That divide is something that — both in this country WHY IS THIS PLAY IMPORTANT FOR BOSTON AUDIENCES? and very specifically in the city of Boston — is highly relevant The Niceties is important for ALL audiences. It’s about as right now. timely as a play can be — it is necessary. It’s about how we are KS: The questions of the play start on a college campus: who going forward as a country, how we can talk to each other and should be teaching what to whom? How is American culture being remember that we love each other, and how we can form a more taught to students? How is that content being determined? perfect union. EB: Can we ever know something for certain? How do we know? WHO WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE PROFESSOR IN KS: Then the questions get bigger: how is history written? COLLEGE? I studied drama at Juilliard, and my professor Marian Seldes made a huge impression on me. After we had EB: How do you prove that you experienced something? How do been torn apart for the first two years of school, she patched you prove that something happened in this country? Can you ever us back together and inspired us. She was a great lady and a prove it? Does feeling something make it true? great mentor. KS: The play takes these questions and explores them through WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PERIOD OF HISTORY? an explosive and dynamic conversation. I have always been obsessed with the Civil War and have read EB: We hope the play will shake people’s beliefs. a lot about it. My grandfather had a photograph of Abraham Lincoln — it was the first era of photographs and some of those KS: And that’s what we’re supposed to do in the theatre. photos haunted me. EB: Yes, that’s what theatre should do. SEE PAGE 22 FOR SHOW PERFORMANCE CALENDAR & EVENT LISTINGS

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 7 Take a trip to Baker Street with the legendary Sherlock Holmes and his trusted sidekick Dr. Watson, to solve the seemingly perfect crime. When a threat is made against Holmes’ life by the son of his longtime nemesis, Moriarty, not everything is as it appears. The game’s afoot with equal parts hilarity and intrigue in the long- overdue Boston premiere of this murderously funny comedy-thriller, directed by Huntington favorite Maria Aitken (Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Bedroom Farce).

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LAST CASE “A clever spoof with fabulously over-the-top AVENUE OF THE ARTS twists and turns.” HUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE— BACKSTAGE 8 BOX OFFICESEPT.28-OCT.28 617 266 0800 “Huntington favorite Maria Aitken brought this sly comedy-thriller to our attention — promising the same sense of fun, surprise, and suspense as her hit production of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.” – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PETER DuBOIS

Playwright Charles Marowitz Director Maria Aitken FATAL SOLUTION: OUTSMARTING THE WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE In the parlor at 221B Baker Street, the home of the legendary how Conan Doyle revolutionized the detective genre. Mirroring the detective Sherlock Holmes, Holmes and Watson are celebrating scientific discoveries of the era, the Holmes stories popularized the another case solved by Holmes’ ingenious logic — when a convention of introducing forensic science — like blood tests and mysterious letter arrives. The letter claims to be written by the fingerprinting — into detective stories. Conan Doyle’s skill at mixing son of Sherlock’s greatest nemesis Moriarty, and contains a practical knowledge and literary flair came from his background as mysterious riddle: a practicing doctor. The deductive method of a doctor diagnosing “If you would know the hornet’s sting a disease inspired Conan Doyle’s method for Sherlock sleuthing out Seek the insect in his nest. the truth behind a crime. But do not dare to cut his wing Or never shall your heart know rest.” Sherlock’s Last Case also puts a new spin on the bond between Holmes and his partner John Watson. In your classic Holmes story, From the obscure poem, Sherlock immediately senses that an critic John Sutherland says, Watson represents “the so-called attempt is going to be made on his life, so he and Watson embark ‘idiot friend’, who must have everything explained to him — thus on a wild journey to catch the killer before the killer catches up informing, as well, the idiot reader.” In the hands of playwright with them in the Huntington’s new staging of Charles Marowitz’s Sherlock’s Last Case. Part send-up, part thriller, the play marks a Charles Marowitz, this friendship is examined to have deeper and return to the Huntington stage for Maria Aitken, director of Alfred unexpected dimensions. Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Private Lives, and Betrayal, among others. Sherlock has captured readers’ imaginations for over a century For Aitken, the appeal of the play is in how it brings a new twist because of his knack for discovering the truth behind even the most to one of the world’s best-known characters. “I didn’t know much devious schemes. As actor Simon Callow writes, Holmes’ charm is about Sherlock before directing this play, except for the ordinary that “he restores logic to an unruly, disturbingly incomprehensible things you know about Sherlock when you are young,” Aitken says. world. Initial chaos — the crime — appears to be without meaning. “I had read the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and slightly forgotten The great detective, inhumanly brilliant, makes sense of things some. Doing my homework for this play was a great pleasure; I read again.” In Sherlock’s Last Case, Holmes’ certainty ultimately falters, everything by Conan Doyle.” In addition, Aitken looked to other leading audiences to wonder whether the detective has finally authors that had put an original spin on the legendary character. met his match. “It’s kind of irresistible because it turns some of the “Reading authors like Michael Dibdin — who wrote a very good pastiche novel that distilled Sherlock — was very handy because legend on its head, and then it treats some of it quite slavishly,” you saw the things that had caught other people’s imaginations. Aitken says. “As a result, Sherlock’s Last Case takes you by surprise, It’s extraordinary how much about Sherlock had gone into my and I believe it’s quite clever.” For Aitken’s recent staging of the mind subconsciously because it is so iconic.” play at England’s Watermill Theatre, the critics agreed with The Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish, calling the play “ingenious, strange, Between 1887 and 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle published 56 Holmes and satisfying.” stories and four novels that have become the basis for countless adaptations, movies, and plays. Part of the enduring appeal lies in – CHARLES HAUGLAND

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 9 NAME Rufus Collins HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER? Mrs. Hudson is a ROLE Sherlock Holmes wonderful example of the typical landlady who goes above and beyond her job description. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote somewhat HOMETOWN New York City. I was born different versions of her in each of the stories and Charles and raised in Manhattan but I currently live Marowitz gives us a Scottish woman with a wry sense of humor, a in Brooklyn. tendency to speak her mind, and a true fondness for her eccentric HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER? lodger/employer. I have occasionally been known to get myself I am observant like [Sherlock] as well as in hot water through speaking my mind, I have a tremendous curious, studious, vigilant, self-dramatizing, and obsessive. fondness for “interesting” people, and I believe I share her wry WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SHERLOCK STORY? I love A Study sense of humor. in Scarlet, the first work in which Holmes and Watson appear. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SHERLOCK STORY? I rather like Like most of the stories, it is written in Watson’s voice. Watson “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” The device of the mistaken describes meeting Holmes and taking rooms with him at a 221B goose gives plenty of opportunity for Sherlock’s powers of Baker Street. It is the origin story of their relationship and the deduction combined with good, old fashioned detective work. establishment of the headquarters from which their legendary adventures unfold. NAME Antoinette Robinson WHAT MYSTERY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SOLVE? The mystery of ROLE Liza Moriarty Shakespeare’s genius has been investigated for centuries. I firmly HOMETOWN My lovely hometown is believe that he was the “Man from Stratford” but settling that Pflugerville, Texas (The 'pf' gets people dispute once and for all would be deeply satisfying. EVERY time!) NAME Malcolm Ingram HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER? ROLE Inspector Lestrade I hope I am as clever and quick as the character I play! It truly is enviable. HOMETOWN Gloucester, Massachusetts WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SHERLOCK STORY? The Hound of the HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER? Baskervilles. Hands down. I’ve read it more than any other and it Desperate insecurity is not unfamiliar to me, delivers EVERY time. and I have been known to have my officious moments. WHAT IS THE BEST ADVENTURE YOU’VE EVER BEEN ON? I LOVE to hike. And was taken — in the middle of fall — to a WOULD YOU SAY YOU ARE MORE OF A SHERLOCK OR A wonderful park called Wissahickon. At every turn there was WATSON? More like Watson I think. I’m perhaps more empathetic something to fall in love with. The colors of the leaves, the sky, the and certainly less analytically brilliant than Sherlock. crisp fall air, the sound of trickling brooks. Ah! I fell in love that day WHAT IS THE BEST ADVENTURE YOU’VE EVER BEEN ON? I was and thus began one of the best adventures I’ve been on to date. 18 and on a hiking trip in Norway with three friends. We’d been walking and camping for a couple of weeks, and in order to reach NAME Mark Zeisler a particular village we had to embark on a journey through the ROLE Dr. Watson mountains. The walking became more difficult, and at one point HOMETOWN I was born in New York City our only option to go forward was to negotiate a narrow, outward and raised for the most part in Dobbs Ferry, sloping, very slippery ledge. I had 80 lbs on my back and there was New York. a drop of hundreds of feet below. I grabbed the rock face with my hands and started to work my way across. I remember the fear, but HOW ARE YOU LIKE YOUR CHARACTER? panicking wasn’t really an option. The only thing to do was to stay I’m a very good “wingman.” in the moment and inch my way, very slowly across, which I did. WHAT IS THE BEST ADVENTURE YOU’VE EVER BEEN ON? Two days later we reached the village and were told that the Red I was an avid hitchhiker in my teenage years and travelled all over Cross had been sending out search parties for us. the country.

NAME Jane Ridley WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CLASSIC NOVEL? Two of my favorite classics are The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Old ROLE Mrs. Hudson Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I was born in Orpington, Kent HOMETOWN WHAT MYSTERY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SOLVE? I would like to in the United Kingdom. My family moved all get the questions to the JFK assassination finally resolved. over the South East of London in my early years except for the two years we lived in the United States when I was eight and nine. Perhaps that SEE PAGE 22 is how this country got into my bones. FOR SHOW PERFORMANCE CALENDAR & EVENT LISTINGS

10 BOX OFFICE 617 266 0800 HOLMES & WATSON: DYNAMIC DUO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN IN A SLEUTHING PARTNERSHIP FOR DECADES? SHERLOCK AND WATSON. LIKE GIN AND TONIC OR PIE AND ICE CREAM. THE ORIGINAL, BELOVED SLEUTHING DUO THAT HAS ENTERTAINED AND THRILLED PEOPLE SINCE THEIR DEBUT IN 1887 ARE MASTERFULLY REIMAGINED IN CHARLES MAROWITZ’S DARKLY COMIC SHERLOCK’S LAST CASE. BUT HOW DO HIS CHARACTERIZATIONS COMPARE TO OTHER SHERLOCK ADAPTATIONS?

“Sherlock” “Elementary” “House” The Return of Sherlock Holmes (BBC 2010-PRESENT) (CBS 2012-PRESENT) (FOX 2004-2012) Sherlock Holmes (FILM, 2009) SETTING SETTING SETTING (TV-FILM, 1987) SETTING Present-day London Present-day Present-day New Jersey, SETTING London, 1890 New York City in a fictional town Present-day Boston SHERLOCK SHERLOCK Benedict Cumberbatch’s SHERLOCK SHERLOCK SHERLOCK Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock is a genius, Jonny Lee Hugh Laurie’s Dr. Michael Pennington’s Sherlock is a very “high-functioning Miller’s Sherlock, Gregory House is another Sherlock is out of touch canonical take on Holmes sociopath” complete uncharacteristically, Sherlock-based leading with modern times — with eccentricities that with a canonical lack of actually has social and man who struggles literally: after being get so out of hand that emotional intelligence emotional skills, making with drug addiction, cryogenically frozen to even Watson can’t wait to and superhuman him inherently more sharing misanthropic avoid a bubonic death, move out. deductive skills cranked relatable and likable than genius qualities with he’s unfrozen years later WATSON up to the tenth degree. other Sherlocks; he also is Cumberbatch’s Sherlock; and is an old-timey, Jude Law’s Watson is a recovering drug addict. his last name House very canonical Sherlock WATSON almost as canonical as bolsters his derivation (at first). Martin Freeman’s WATSON Downey Jr.’s Sherlock from Sherlock’s canon Watson is the kind- Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson WATSON except that he’s about to hearted sidekick and is on equal ground with (House = Home = Margaret Colin’s Jane be married and can’t wait occasional moral compass Miller’s Sherlock and is Holmes). Watson is a private to move into a new place for Sherlock who is also his sober-companion; WATSON investigator and with his wife, away from dependable to a fault; Liu’s Watson is a surgeon Robert Sean Leonard’s descendent of Dr. John Sherlock. Freeman’s Watson is whose accidental killing Dr. James Wilson (initials Watson; like most other MYSTERIES & CASES also a war veteran with of a patient sent her into J.W.) is House’s critical, Watsons she is overly The duo is tracking down PTSD, making him a more an early retirement. yet supportive best empathetic and warm, an occult serial killer who nuanced character. friend; he is also the which brings her to the MYSTERIES & CASES has been killing women type of charismatic and brink of financial ruin. MYSTERIES & CASES A procedural drama à and wants to kill men in warm-hearted doctor Modern reinventions of la “Law & Order,” every MYSTERIES & CASES power to gain more power classic cases, e.g. A Study episode covers a new that “people say thanks A case featuring stolen in Scarlet (the original case with overarching to when he tells them money, double identities, Holmes story) becomes stories running throughout they’re dying.” and murder that is solved “A Study in Pink” MYSTERIES & CASES by Holmes A medical drama à la “Grey’s Anatomy,” where every episode has a new medical case that needs to be solved, with an overarching story running throughout the series – J. SEBASTIÁN ALBERDI

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 11 Man in the Ring is the incredible true story of six-time world champion boxer Emile Griffith and the fatal fight he could never forget. This sweeping tale covers Emile’s humble beginnings in the Virgin Islands, his passionate love affairs, and the infamous, life-changing Madison Square Garden match against his archrival. He searches for redemption and must confront his past in this epic new play from Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cristofer, imbued with warmth and the sounds of the Caribbean. Four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Dear Evan Hansen, Rent, Next to Normal) directs.

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— CHICAGO SUN TIMES hawver 12 BOX OFFICE 617 NOV.16-DEC.22266 0800 “I was deeply moved by this incredibly compelling true story. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer and multiple Tony Award-nominee director Michael Greif collaborate in creating a visually stunning, musically rich, and emotionally powerful piece of theatre — you won’t be able to take your eyes off it.” – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PETER DuBOIS

Playwright Michael Cristofer Director Michael Greif

Benny Paret in Madison Square Garden on March 24, 1962; Paret taunted the openly bisexual Griffith with homophobic slurs at the weigh-in, and in the ring, Griffith pummeled Paret, who lapsed into RINGSIDE VIEW: a coma. Paret died 10 days later. Griffith, a sensitive and mild man despite his prowess as a boxer, was never able to come to terms MICHAEL CRISTOFER with having played a role in Paret’s death. “I keep thinking how strange it is ... I kill a man, and most people understand and forgive me. However, I love a man, and to so FINDS SOUL-STIRRING many people, this is an unforgivable sin; this makes me an evil person. So, even though I never went to jail, I have been in ECHOES IN EMILE prison almost all my life.” – EMILE GRIFFITH In the outline of Griffith’s life, Cristofer saw a way to explore major themes that still permeate our culture. Griffith was one of GRIFFITH’S LIFE the earliest “out” athletes of his caliber, open about his sexuality in a way that would still attract attention today for a professional athlete. In another point of contemporary relevance, Griffith’s When playwright Michael Cristofer’s Man in the Ring begins, the life was shaped by the violence that happened in the sporting character of Emile Griffith sits onstage, softly singing a Caribbean ring, both physical and psychological. Griffith was diagnosed children’s rhyme to himself: “Brown boy in the ring, tra la la la la.” with dementia pugilistica, a condition now known to be related Once one of the world’s great boxers, Griffith is now 70; years of hits and knockouts have affected his brain. He needs the help to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Cristofer found both of his caregiver and partner Luis to get his shoes on. The simple these themes resonant as a storyteller. “The important thing about tenderness of Emile and Luis’ interaction is the jumping-off point for doing the play now is that it’s so relevant to what’s still going on Cristofer’s visionary new play — one that spans 50 years of Emile’s in the sports world and the damage that’s been done to athletes,” life. Emile Griffith is an all-time legend in boxing; but as told onstage Cristofer says. “In the world of gay and lesbian rights, this is the by Cristofer and director Michael Greif, the dramatic portrait of story of an athlete who was gay and couldn’t come out in the Griffith is more than a sports story. Following Griffith’s life in and 1950s and 1960s, and I’m not sure how much different it is now in out of the ring, every moment is filled with the boxer’s irrepressible the boxing world. Although Emile’s story takes place mainly from spirit, by turns charming and flirtatious, angry and wounded. 1959-1962, there is a real relevance to what’s going on in the world today, and there’s a great opportunity to tell this story now.” Cristofer’s interest in Emile Griffith’s life began when writing the libretto for a biographical jazz opera Champion. Cristofer sensed Cristofer knew he wanted the play to convey the sense of pleasure that a play would allow him to bring in more facets of Griffith’s that Griffith brought to his life and his buoyant personality. To life than the opera allowed. “I had so much material that I wanted Cristofer, the play is a tribute that “despite a really difficult life, he to use,” Cristofer says, “aspects of his life and of his story that I was a joyful presence through most of it.” Capturing that sense of just couldn’t get into the opera. The play has been a really great delight was important to Cristofer both in how he portrayed Emile’s opportunity for me to finish telling the story of Emile’s life.” personality and in how he thought about the whole experience of the play. “Hearing Emile’s story can be a joyful experience for the The play travels back to Griffith’s earliest years — when he was a audience,” Cristofer says. “That’s why we’re using all of these old young immigrant from the British Virgin Islands, arriving in New traditional Caribbean children’s games that have little songs and York with nothing but “champagne dreams and lime juice money.” proverbs. All of those are interwoven into the structure of the Though he is already good at making delicate hats, his powerful play and how we tell the story. I’m hoping that, finally, it will be physique matches that of a boxer, and he is pushed into amateur not only a satisfying theatrical experience, but also a joyful boxing competitions by an ambitious manager. Griffith becomes theatrical experience.” a quick success in prizefighting and a six-time world champion. But the central event of Griffith’s life is an infamous match against – CHARLES HAUGLAND

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The Huntington’s annual Spotlight Spectacular on May 7, 2018 then participated in an enthusiastic live auction followed by our began with a rousing performance of “Old Friends” from Merrily We paddle raiser to “Sponsor-A-Class” in support our Student Matinee Roll Along sung by cast members Eden Espinosa, Maurice Parent, Series, which allows thousands of young people to see Huntington and Patrick Varner. This performance was apropos, as we were productions each year. honoring our long-time friends, director Liesl Tommy and Trustee Neal Balkowitsch, with the Wimberly Award for their remarkable The night continued with encores from Espinosa, Parent, contributions to the Huntington. and Varner, as well as a show-stopping performance of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” by Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom actor Yvette Freeman Artistic Director Peter DuBois and co-chairs Carol Deane, Maria Hartley. Neal Balkowitsch took the stage to receive the Wimberly Gerrity, and Annie Hall opened the program with a welcome to Award and used the opportunity to proclaim his confidence in the attendees, followed by the presentation of the Gerard and the future of the Huntington, stating, “I watched the Calderwood Sherryl Cohen Award, which each year honors two outstanding revitalize my neighborhood, and I know that the Huntington Avenue employees, to Huntington staff members Christine Marr (Wardrobe project will do the same for the Avenue of the Arts. This is exciting Supervisor) and Jazzmin Bonner (Company Manager) for their for the many young people across the Boston area who are waiting professionalism and service to the Huntington. The evening to be introduced to theatre.” was punctuated by the late-breaking news that the Huntington officially received the deed to and, thus, is now the sole owner of Our sold-out event was designed by Rafanelli Events and catered by the Huntington Avenue Theatre, which was announced from the MAX Ultimate Food. Thank you to all our 2018 Spotlight Spectacular podium by Managing Director Michael Maso and was greeted committee members and guests for your support. We hope to see by an immediate standing ovation by the gala guests. Attendees you next year!

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The Huntington is thrilled to have been selected as one of 15 arts organizations in Massachusetts to participate in the Barr Foundation’s new ArtsAmplified initiative. Known for its THURSDAY, philanthropic vision in contributing to the arts, the Barr Foundation OCTOBER 4, 2018 has been a longtime supporter of the Huntington and institutions Huntington Avenue Theatre serving Greater Boston and beyond. and Studio 210 Launched in May 2018, ArtsAmplified is a six-year, $30 million initiative 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston bringing together a cohort of major Massachusetts arts institutions to help expand their leadership, strengthening their communities. You are cordially invited to a night Helmed by Jim Canales, the Barr Foundation’s President, and San of mystery in celebration of the San Wong, Director of Arts & Creativity, ArtsAmplified is centered Huntington’s 2018-2019 season! on four pillars: artistic excellence, relevance, civic leadership, and Enjoy pre-performance cocktails and risk-taking. In addition to generous funding, Barr is working with British-inspired “small plates” fare with each cohort member on an ongoing basis to provide assistance featured guests Sherlock’s Last Case with market research, organizational development, and artistic director Maria Aitken (Ms. Aitken’s innovation. At this pivotal moment, ArtsAmplified is supporting the availability is subject to change). Revel Huntington in building our capacity to develop new collaborations with the cast post-show and enjoy music, and implement more robust audience and community engagement. drinks, and sweet and savory snacks. This preparation will position us for our relaunch when construction of the new Huntington Avenue Theatre complex is complete. 5:30pm | Pre-Show VIP Reception 7:30pm | Sherlock’s Last Case Curtain We are excited to participate in ArtsAmplified with our cohort fellows Following the performance | After Party who represent the pinnacle of artistic leadership in Massachusetts, including the A.R.T., ArtsEmerson, Celebrity Series, GrubStreet, For more information, please the ICA, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, MASS contact Sam Buntich at 617 273 1513 or MoCA, Peabody Essex Museum, the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy [email protected]. Greenway Conservancy, Silkroad, The Theater Offensive, World Music/CRASHarts, and The Yard. We look forward to providing the HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG/CELEBRATION Huntington community with updates on this extraordinary process. WELCOME NEW OVERSEERS We are delighted to announce the election of six new members to the Huntington’s Council of Overseers: Ivy B. Cubell, Jon A. Levy, David R. Peeler, Donna J. Robinson, George Ticknor, and Melissa Wylie. Huntington Overseers play a vital role, giving their time and lending their expertise and talents on a wide array of topics including finance, development, investment, and community building. We are grateful for their commitment and welcome these new members to the Huntington family.

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 19 UPCOMING EVENTS & HUNTINGTON NEWS STAGE & SCREEN AT THE JUST ANNOUNCED: COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE A collaboration between the Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Huntington which explores shared themes in Huntington HUNTINGTON SUBSCRIBERS productions and acclaimed films. This fall’s lineup includes: GET EXCLUSIVE ACCESS! SPAMILTON: AN AMERICAN PARODY CREATED, WRITTEN, AND DIRECTED BY GERARD ALESSANDRINI FEBRUARY 12 – MARCH 10, 2019 SOUTH END / CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA DEAR WHITE PEOPLE • THU., AUG. 23 AT 7PM HILARIOUS MUSICAL SPOOF Join us for a conversation after the film with The Niceties playwright Eleanor Burgess. Don’t miss this “convulsively funny” (The New York Times) musical Dear White People follows the stories of four black students at parody from the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Winchester University, where a riot breaks out over a popular “African Forbidden Broadway. After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, American”-themed party thrown by a white fraternity. With tongue and Los Angeles, Spamilton: An American Parody fulfills its planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in “post-racial” manifest destiny by conquering Boston for a limited time only. America while weaving a universal story of forging one’s unique path The Huffington Post raves “you don’t have to see Hamilton to in the world. Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special have side-splitting fun at Spamilton.” Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, Tickets to Spamilton are available now to Huntington provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. subscribers and FlexPass holders only and will not go on sale to the general public until later this year. Call 617 266 0800 or visit us online at huntingtontheatre.org to learn more about becoming a Huntington subscriber.

MURDER BY DEATH • MON., OCT. 1 AT 7PM “Smart, silly & Join us for a conversation after the film with a special guest from the Huntington’s production of Sherlock’s Last Case.

convulsively funny!” Neil Simon pays homage to classic detective films in his parody – THE NEW YORK TIMES Murder by Death. Millionaire Lionel Twain invites five famous private eyes to a mysterious dinner at a remote castle. The wise Sidney Wang, the urbane couple Dick and Dora Charleston, the canny Englishwoman Jessica Marbles, the clever Milo Perrier from Belgium, and tough-talking Sam Diamond all arrive wondering why they have been invited. When the private eyes and their guests sit down to dinner, they meet Mr. Twain, who explains that a murder will take place at midnight and that whoever can solve the crime will win a million dollars.

TICKETS: $14.50 ($11.50 for Huntington subscribers) and may be purchased online at coolidge.org or at the Coolidge Corner Theatre box office, located at 290 Harvard Street, Brookline. Stay tuned for more information about screenings in conjunction with the Huntington’s productions of Romeo & Juliet and Indecent this spring!

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FOG X FLO: FUJIKO NAKAYA OPEN HOUSE: ON THE EMERALD NECKLACE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY SEPT. 1 – OCT. 31, DAWN TO DUSK MON., OCT. 8, 10AM – 2PM 5 LOCATIONS ALONG THE EMERALD NECKLACE HUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE Venture out in the fog with Sherlock Holmes, and listen to an Go behind the scenes of the Huntington Avenue Theatre and original series of free, short audio plays featuring the world’s learn more about the plans to revitalize our beautiful performance most famous detective. Written by Huntington Playwriting space. Activities will include special performances, backstage Fellow Walt McGough, these original audio plays will respond tours, technical demonstrations, giveaways, and more — families to the environment of each of Fujiko Nakaya’s free public art welcome! Part of the Fenway Alliance’s Opening Our Doors Day fog installations and follow an original storyline. Learn more at celebration. Learn more at huntingtontheatre.org/openhouse. huntingtontheatre.org/fog. BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL BEANTOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL SAT., OCT. 13, 11AM - 5PM SUN., SEPT. 23, 12 – 6PM COPLEY SQUARE COLUMBUS AVENUE, WEST OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, The Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival is Boston’s biggest block party delight, and inspire, Boston Book Festival’s annual event — a free, annual, outdoor public concert featuring a host of jazz, promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the Latin, blues, funk, and groove performances. vibrancy of our city.

had pretty much given up on attending the theatre NEW FOR 2018-2019: OPEN as my hearing loss has progressively deteriorated, “I and it has been hard to read about the wonderful CAPTIONING AT THE HUNTINGTON! performances happening at the Huntington and know that We are thrilled to it would be a frustrating experience if I tried attending.... 2018-2019 announce that the Captioning is so amazing for people who need it. It will be OPEN-CAPTIONED Huntington has been so wonderful to be able to attend Huntington plays; almost PERFORMANCES selected to participate in like turning back the clock and being able to enjoy theatre SHERLOCK’S LAST CASE the Theatre Development like I did before my hearing loss 32 years ago. Thank you Thursday, October 11 at 7:30pm Fund’s (TDF) National again for all you do to help people like me enjoy the Tuesday, October 16 at 7:30pm Open Captioning pleasures of live theatre again. It is life-changing for us.” Initiative! Over our 36 ROMEO AND JULIET years, the Huntington has - EXCERPT FROM A LETTER OF SUPPORT TO TDF ON BEHALF OF THE Wednesday, March 20 at 2pm continuously strengthened HUNTINGTON FROM CAROLYN HILLES-PILANT, MEMBER, HLAA BOSTON Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30pm its commitment to accessible YERMA programming to be more open captioning to audiences, ideal for patrons with hearing loss Tuesday, June 18 at 7:30pm inclusive of audiences of all who may not be fluent in American Sign Language. Open captioning Sunday, June 23 at 2pm abilities. More than 4,500 will join ASL interpretation and audio description as services the adults and students with Huntington is proud to offer to our community. We are grateful accessibility needs participate in Huntington productions each to members of Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) season. TDF will sponsor open captioning at two performances each chapters across Massachusetts who stepped up to demonstrate of Sherlock’s Last Case, Romeo and Juliet, and Yerma in the 2018- their enthusiasm for open captioning at the Huntington with an 2019 season, provided by the company c2 (Caption Coalition). outpouring of letters of support accompanying our application to The Huntington is excited to join theatres nationwide in offering TDF (see above).

For more information or to order tickets, please call the Huntington’s access coordinator Meg O’Brien at 617 273 1558 or email [email protected].

HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG 21 PERFORMANCE CALENDARS: AUG. 2018 – DEC. 2018 THE NICETIES S M T W T F S 31 1 NEW POST-SHOW SERIES: SOUTH END / CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA •f8PM •f8PM CONVERSATIONS WITH ROBIN ABRAHAMS 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 •2PM •2PM Join master conversationalist Robin •f7PM LABOR DAY •f7:30PM •7:30PM •c7:30PM •8PM 8PM Abrahams — author of The Boston ROSH 9 10 11 HASHANAH 12 13 14 15 2PM Globe’s “Miss Conduct” column — for ROSH • •2PM HASHANAH •7:30PM p7PM •7:30PM •8PM 8PM scintillating post-show conversations YOM KIPPUR 16 •2PM 17 18 19 20 21 22 •2PM throughout the Huntington season. 7PM •7:30PM •7:30PM d7:30PM •8PM 8PM She’ll bring her wit and wisdom, along 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 with a PhD in psychology, to explore h2PM d2PM •2PM 7PM •7:30PM •7:30PM •7:30PM •8PM 8PM human behavior and how theatre holds a mirror up to the drama of daily life. Speaking 30 1 2 3 ds10AM 4 5 6 2PM 2PM 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM @8PM 8PM dates included in The Niceties and Man in the Ring performance calendars. AUGUST - OCTOBER 2018 THE NICETIES: Saturday, October 6 at 2pm MAN IN THE RING: Saturday, December 1 at 2pm SHERLOCK’S LAST CASE Braille S M T W T F S AVENUE OF THE ARTS / 28 29 CALENDAR KEY HUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE •wf8PM •f8PM (w) 35 Below Wrap Party (h) Humanities Forum 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 •2PM (@) ASL-Interpreted (o) Open Captioned f7PM p7PM #7:30PM 8PM • f7:30PM 8PM (~) Audio-Described (•) Post-Show Conversations 7 8 9 10 d2PM 11 12 13 2PM (d) Actors Forum (#) Season Celebration COLUMBUS • •2PM DAY 7:30PM 7:30PM o7:30PM 8PM 8PM (c) Huntington Community (p) Press Opening Night 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 •2PM Membership Initiative (s) Student Matinee h2PM o7:30PM 7:30PM d7:30PM 8PM 8PM Reception 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (f) First Look •2PM •2PM ds10AM ~•2PM 7PM 7:30PM 7:30PM @8PM 8PM 28 2PM SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2018 TICKETS PRICES Start at $25 35 BELOW $30 for those 35 and under at every performance MAN IN THE RING STUDENTS (25 AND UNDER) & MILITARY $20 S M T W T F S GROUPS (10+) Discounts are available for groups of 10 or 16 17 more, plus groups have access to backstage tours, talks with artists, and space for receptions. Contact 617 273 1657 or SOUTH END / CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA •f8PM •f8PM [email protected]. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 •2PM Receive $10 off any additional tickets purchased. •f7PM f7:30PM f7:30PM THANKSGIVING 8PM 8PM SUBSCRIBERS

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22 BOX OFFICE 617 266 0800 WHAT DOES THE HUNTINGTON MEAN TO YOU?

I’m involved with the Huntington to support performing arts, connect with the community, and have a deeper understanding of the world around me.” “ - MICHELLE RHODES, CHAIR OF THE HUNT, THE HUNTINGTON’S COMMUNITY OF YOUNG DONORS Cast and audience members hawver interact at a 35 Below Wrap Party nile

I remember my first real play a very long time ago… Our Town in New Haven with a very young Kate Mulgrew. I was hooked for life. And I was so happy to bring my “teenage son to the Huntington’s Our Town a few years ago. What a pleasure to pass the bug on to him that way.” A future theatre lover explores the hawver

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I never knew that I could get up on stage in front of all those people and move on to a national competition. I never knew that I could do that until I started working “with the Huntington.” - CARLA VASQUEZ, 2015 AUGUST WILSON MONOLOGUE COMPETITION marshall Carla Vasquez performs during the BOSTON REGIONAL CHAMPION August Wilson Monologue Competition david

Every single child in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts deserves an opportunity to participate in the arts, and the Huntington really makes that possible for so many of our “young people.” - ANITA WALKER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MASS CULTURAL COUNCIL marshall Poetry Out Loud champion Courtney Stewart celebrates his win david

We love theatre and adore the Huntington, which creates a season of plays that truly touch us. The Huntington’s success is, in part, the range of plays it offers and also the “incredibly talented creative team it assembles to shape each production.”

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Director Rebecca Taichman will recreate her Tony Award- winning production of Indecent for Huntington audiences, the original Broadway production of Indecent pictured