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10 AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU
13 PLAYWRIGHT’S RULES OF ENGAGEMENT PLUS: 4 04 Backstage by Olivia J. Kiers 14 About the Company 34 Patron Services 35 Emergency Exits 38 Guide to Local Theatre 44 Boston Dining Guide 46 Dining Out: Davio’s 10
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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 3 BACKSTAGE BEHIND THE SCENES IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL THEATRE BY OLIVIA J. KIERS The Colonial, which is more than 100 years old, underwent extensive renovations beginning in 2015. It is now operat- ing under the manage- ment of London-based Ambassador Theatre Group, which signed a long-term lease with Emerson College to run the Colonial after the college cancelled its plan to change the historic venue into a campus dining hall amid public outcry. For tickets, go to emersoncolonialtheatre.com.
Awards Season Begins in the Hub Save the date! The 2018 Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, or IRNE Awards, take place on Monday, April 23. Held every spring, the ceremony finds itself at the Brookline Holiday GRAND RE-OPENING: The dates for the world premiere of Moulin Rouge! Inn for the second year in The Musical, June 27–August 5 at the renovated Emerson Colonial Theatre, a row. Founded by Beverly were recently released. Creasey and Larry Stark in 1997, the IRNE Awards is Colonial Re-opening Date Set a much-anticipated annual celebration of talent As previously reported, Emerson College’s in the Boston theatre community. For updates, Colonial Theatre reopens this summer with visit the IRNE Awards’ Facebook page. the world premiere production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The when was revealed Local Students Make the Grade recently when the run dates of that show, The August Wilson Monologue June 27–August 5, were finally released. The Competition, held in honor of the Pulitzer stage adaption of Baz Luhrmann’s popular Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, film set in a Parisian nightclub is directed announced the winner of its Boston by Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers, and regional finals, hosted by the Huntington is expected to head to Broadway afterwards. Theatre Company’s education depart- Sonya Tayeh, an Obie Award winner and ment. Bishop Edwards, a student at the Emmy Award nominee, takes on the chore- Snowden International School at Copley, ography. As of this story’s press time, the cast won with his rendition of the character has yet to be announced. Troy from Wilson’s Fences in a performance 4 SKELETON CREW BACKSTAGE (continued)
at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts on January 29. Edwards, along with first runner-up Beyonce Martinez of Margarita Muniz Academy, advance to the national competition at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway on May 7 after earning an all-expenses-paid trip for their efforts. The national compe- tition is free and open to the public. Go to huntingtontheatre.org for details. Courtesy of A.R.T. SpeakEasy’s Spring Gala CELEBRATING WITH SPEAKEASY: SpeakEasy SpeakEasy Stage Company Stage Company’s Spring Gala features entertain- ’s Spring Gala ment by singer/actress Mary Callanan (above left) takes place on Friday, April 6 at the Revere while also posthumously honoring the life and Hotel near Boston Common. Featuring live career of actor Thomas Derrah (above right). music by special guest duo Mary Callanan and Brian Patton, the gala also includes a Daigneault: “I remember how fiercely pas- cocktail reception, three-course dinner, and sionate [Derrah] was about each and every silent auction. SpeakEasy posthumously hon- play he did for SpeakEasy. And watching him ors Thomas Derrah with its Mayor Thomas work was a master class in humanity. He just M. Menino Memorial Award for Inspired knew how to get inside a character.…He was Support of the Arts in Boston. In the words a mentor to so many of us.” For more infor- of SpeakEasy producing artistic director Paul mation, visit speakeasystage.com.
WHAT’S ON STAGE in March Our picks for the hottest plays and musicals on local stages this month
THE WHITE CARD GUARDS AT ARTSEMERSON AND THE TAJ AMERICAN REPERTORY UNDERGROUND THEATER RAILWAY THEATER Through April 1 March 1–April 1 Claudia Rankine (pic- This violent, dark tured), prize-winning comedy by NEA author of Citizen: An grant-winning American Lyric, exam- playwright Rajiv ines race in contempo- Joseph (pictured) rary America through a Manhattan dinner party setting in is set in 1648 at this production directed by Diane Paulus. Refer to listing, the unveiling of page 38. one of the architectural wonders of the world. Refer to list-
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation John D. & Catherine T. ing, page 40. EVERY BRILLIANT THING SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY R.U.R. March 2–31 THEATRE@FIRST What makes life worth living? Find out in this enchanting March 15–24 new play, narrated by Boston favorite Adrianne Krstansky, Updated for a modern audience, Karel Cˇ apek’s classic sci-fi that encourages audience participation. Refer to listing, play from the 1920s is the origin of the word “robot.” Refer page 40. to listing, page 41.
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by Dominique Morisseau Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Wilson Chin Ari Fulton Adam Honoré Nathan Leigh
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Skeleton Crew is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Skeleton Crew was developed at The Lark, New York City and the 2014 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort.
Winner of the 2014 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize at Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, California; Artistic Director, Jasson Minadakis; Managing Director, Michael Barker.
World premiere presented by Atlantic Theater Company, New York City, 2016.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 7 Draft rendering of the Huntington Avenue redevelopment project. ARCHITECTURE STANTEC HUNTINGTON AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WINS APPROVAL On December 14, 2017 the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) voted to approve the proposed redevelopment of 254-264 Huntington Avenue, which includes the renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre and the theatre’s support wing, as well as a new apartment building next to the theatre.
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Faye...... Patricia R. Floyd Dez...... Jonathan Louis Dent Shanita...... Toccarra Cash Reggie...... Maurice Emmanuel Parent
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AVENUE OF THE ARTS APR.20-MAYHUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE 20 TOP GIRLS HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 9 ONE HUMONGOUS FAMILY: AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT DOMINIQUE Dominique Morisseau MORISSEAU Including Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau has now written three plays about her home city of Detroit, a cycle of plays that has brought her national recognition. This season, Skeleton Crew is the third most-produced play in the country. In this interview, she talks about why she was drawn to tell stories onstage and how this play resonates with our current cultural and political moment.
Danielle Mages Amato (Literary Manager at The Old Globe): What sparked your interest in playwriting? Dominique Morisseau (Playwright): I was studying acting at the University of Michigan, and I was feeling marginalized because we weren’t really reading or producing work by writers of color. I was frustrated with not being able to have as many chances at roles. Even though I had never been a playwright before, I was a poet, so I set out, in the fashion of Ntozake Shange with for colored girls…, to create a choreopoem that I could perform in as an actor, along with the other two black women in our department. It became kind of legendary at the university, and it got a lot of attention and support. It sort of turned my gears — not away from acting, but to include playwriting.
Do you still perform? I do. Not as often, just because of how busy I am, but it’s still very much a part of my artistic vocabulary. It’s part of my creative DNA to be a performer. Actually, in February [2017], we celebrated the 40th anniversary of for colored girls… on Broadway, and I performed in a reading of Ntozake’s play at The Public Theater.
What made you decide to write a cycle of plays about Detroit? A number of things. I was reading all of Pearl Cleage’s plays — she’s from Detroit. And I was moved by reading someone’s body of work, rather than just one play. And then I started reading August Wilson’s play cycle, and I thought: what he’s doing for Pittsburgh — what the people of Pittsburgh must
10 SKELETON CREW feel like when they read his work — I want to do that for my city. I want the people of my city to feel that they have been immortalized in art, that there’s someone who sees them and recognizes them and loves them Ford Focus vehicles are assembled at
enough to the Michigan Assembly Plant in 2011 SANCYA PAUL scribe them.
It sounds like Detroit plays a big role in your sense of self? Yes, definitely. Not just for me, but for many Detroiters. It’s kind of our badge, if you will.
How would you describe the city, for those of us who aren’t familiar with it? My whole entire family lives in Detroit. I mean, aunts, uncles, grandparents, my husband’s family, in-laws, cousins, everybody. I have a family of 300 in Detroit. So when I hear negative press about the city, it’s like they’re talking about my family. They work in the auto industry, they’re educators in the city, they’re city employees. The working class of the city — they’re all my family. And my extended family, in a certain way. What Detroit is for me is one humongous family. Also, once you know the city, you fall in love with it. The people are resilient — because you have to be resilient in a city that’s taken so many hits, both from the media and the economy — but it’s more than that. It’s the creativity, the political savvy and awareness, the intellect in the city, the wisdom and the spirit, the culture. It’s like the history of being African American in this nation is embedded in that city. You feel like that in Detroit.
How would you describe Skeleton Crew’s place in your Detroit cycle? Skeleton Crew was one of the hardest plays for me to write because I don’t work in the auto industry and I never have. Until wanting to write this play, I never even visited a factory. So I’m stepping into a world, into a trade, that I don’t know. And it’s not just that I’ve written a play in which it’s one character’s job — I’m actually setting the play at the factory. And that’s hard. I’ve interviewed dozens of people in different walks of the auto life, and I still never feel like I have enough information. When you’re writing about people whose story has rarely been told, the burden is very big. So I’ll always be sensitive about how well I got it right. Of course, I also had to make room for my own creativity, so even though people can’t always talk about their work while they’re at work, I decided to let this play live in a place where people can gather and talk. It kind of lives in this existential breakroom. A false space, in a way, but a false space within a very real place.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 11 What was the experience of doing research for the play like for you? When I visited the Ford River Rouge Complex — where they give factory tours — I remember thinking that an assembly line is like the most beautiful choreography. It’s like a dance. Which inspired the visual world of the play. So much is being automated, but there’s also something very beautiful about watching these people do their work on the line.
Skeleton Crew is set in 2008, but it feels uncannily of this moment. Every single play in my Detroit cycle has become a contemporary play. Detroit ’67 is set during the 1967 riot/rebellion that happened in Detroit. It’s about police brutality in the black community, and a fire that rises out of that civil unrest. And we’re seeing that same civil unrest right now. I wrote Detroit ’67 long before Trayvon Martin was killed, which was, I think, where the current wave of political action started. By the time it came out, it was so current, but I was trying to write about the past. My play Paradise Blue is about 1949 Detroit, about a housing renewal act that was passed that built a freeway through the black part of town. It’s about gentrification. And again, we’re seeing gentrification happen in every major city now, aggressive gentrification. So even though Paradise Blue is the oldest-set play in my cycle, it also feels like the most accurate about Detroit right now.
And of course, Skeleton Crew feels extremely relevant to conversations we’re having right now in this country about industrial jobs and the working class. It’s an issue that’s dividing our nation right now, one that was particularly divisive in this past election. I want to broaden the face of the working class; I want white working-class people to watch this story and to see themselves in it. I think we all need to see ourselves more in one another.
This interview originally appeared in the program at The Old Globe, San Diego, California. Reprinted with permission. MICHELLE AND CHRIS GERARD
Capitol Park and historic buildings in downtown Detroit
12 SKELETON CREW Jonathan Louis Dent, Patricia R. Floyd,
Toccarra Cash, and Maurice Emmanuel Parent NILE HAWVER PLAYWRIGHT’S RULES OF ENGAGEMENT by Dominique Morisseau
• You are allowed to laugh audibly. • You are allowed to have audible moments of reaction and response. • My work requires a few “um hmms” and “uhn uhnns” should you need to use them. Just maybe in moderation. Only when you really need to vocalize. • This can be church for some of us, and testifying is allowed. • This is also live theatre and the actors need you to engage with them, not distract them or thwart their performance. • Please be an audience member that joins with others and allows a bit of breathing room. Exhale together. Laugh together. Say “amen” should you need to. • This is community. Let’s go.
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 13 ABOUT THE COMPANY Toccarra Cash* (Shanita) has Off Broadway credits that include Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout Theatre Company); Brothers from the Bottom (Billie Holiday Theatre, AUDELCO Award for Best Supporting Actress); and Playing with Fire (The Negro Ensemble Company); as well as regional theatre productions at Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Studio
SKELETON CREW Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, and Alliance Theatre, among many others. Film credits include Faraway Eyes, Gracie’s Keeper, ATL, Blue Car, Rosy, and Hands to the Sky. Television credits include “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “Younger” (TV Land), and “Royal Pains” (USA). She is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for acting. Ms. Cash is a proud graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and received her MFA from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. toccarracash.com.
Jonathan Louis Dent* (Dez) was last seen at the Huntington in Sons of the Prophet. He is a New York City-based actor and writer who previously appeared Off Broadway in Church and State (New World Stages) and Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company). Regional credits include Romeo and Juliet (Hartford Stage), The Good Negro (Company One Theatre), and The Etymology of Bird (The Providence Black Repertory Company). Mr. Dent wrote and performed in The Broken Record which won the award for Best Overall Play at the 2015 International New York Fringe Festival. His credits at New York University’s graduate acting program include Free Man of Color and Describe the Night (world premiere by Rajiv Joseph). Television credits include “Elementary.” He received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from New York University.
Maurice Emmanuel Parent* (Reggie) previously appeared at the Huntington in Merrily We Roll Along and as Bobo in A Raisin in the Sun. His other credits include Hair (Barrington Stage Company), Ragtime (Music Theatre of Wichita, Fulton Opera House, and New Repertory Theatre), King Edward in Edward II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Elliot Norton Award), Mr. Bones in The Scottsboro Boys (SpeakEasy Stage Company, Arts Impulse Award), and Chilford Ndlovu in The Convert (Underground Railway Theater, IRNE Award). He received a BS in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University and a MA from New York University’s Steinhardt School. Mr. Parent is a resident company member of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project and co-founder of The Front Porch Arts Collective. mauriceparent.com.
Patricia R. Floyd* (Faye) is an actor, director, and writer proudly hailing from Detroit, Michigan. She is a two-time AUDELCO Award winner. She appeared in two episodes of the HBO mini-series “Show Me a Hero” and recurred as Judge Rochelle Desmond on “Law & Order.” Her recent television appearances include “Jessica Jones,” “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” “Elementary,” “Deception,” “Blue Bloods,” and “Orange is the New Black.” She has been in several films including Thirty Years to Life and The Incredible Jessica James. She is currently awaiting the release of Bikini Moon. She is a 30-year veteran of the theatre whose favorite roles were in productions of Flying West, The American Menu, A Raisin in the Sun, The Raft of the Medusa, and Munched. Ms. Floyd has worked as a guest director
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Dominique Morisseau (Playwright) is the author of The Detroit Project, a three-play cycle that includes Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company/Scott Rudin), Paradise Blue (Williamstown
SKELETON CREW Theatre Festival), and Detroit ’67 (The Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and National Black Theatre). Her additional plays include Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theater), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre), and Follow Me to Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is an alumna of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop, and has developed work at Sundance Lab and Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Ms. Morisseau’s work has been commissioned by the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Women’s Project, South Coast Repertory, People’s Light and Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Penumbra Theatre. She has received numerous honors for her work, including a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Stavis Playwright Award, NAACP Image Award, Spirit of Detroit Award, Weissberger Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, TEER Spirit Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award for Impact & Activism in the Theatre Community, Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Prize for promotion of human rights (Blood at the Root), the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama (Detroit ’67), and an Obie Award (Skeleton Crew). Ms. Morisseau currently serves as co-producer on the Showtime series “Shameless.” Her new play, Pipeline, recently completed its run at Lincoln Center Theater, and her new musical, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, recently premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She received her BFA in acting from the University of Michigan and her start as a performance poet in the Detroit community of Harmonie Park.
Megan Sandberg-Zakian (Director) has recent directing credits that include the world premiere of Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York Theatre Workshop), The Broken Record (New York Times Critic’s Pick, FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award), The Convert (Underground Railway Theater, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Trinity Repertory Company/Perishable Theatre), and Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (Cleveland Public Theatre, National New Play Network rolling world premiere). She is the director-in-residence at Merrimack Repertory Theatre where her credits include the world premiere of Eleanor Burgess’ Chill, The Royale, A Christmas Carol, and It’s a Wonderful Life. She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Theater Award and the TCG Future Leaders fellowship, a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a proud Stage Directors and Choreographers Society member, and co-founder of Maia Directors, a consulting group for artists and organizations engaging with Middle Eastern stories. megansz.com. maiadirectors.com.
Wilson Chin (Scenic Design) previously designed Tiger Style! at the Huntington. He has earned acclaim for his designs for new plays, including Geoffrey Nauffts’ Next Fall (Broadway), Julia Cho’s Aubergine (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Samuel Hunter’s Lewiston (Long Wharf Theatre), Elizabeth Irwin’s My Mañana Comes (The Playwrights Realm), Hansol Jung’s Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater), Jason Kim’s The Model American (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living (Manhattan Theatre Club), Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons (Bucks County
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ABOUT THE COMPANY SKELETON CREW SKELETON Playhouse), Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over (Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Lincoln Center Theater), and Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap (Seattle Repertory Theatre). Opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Eine Florentinische Tragodie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company, Dora Award). Mr. Chin recently designed his first film for Spike Lee’s Pass Over. wilsonchin.com.
Ari Fulton (Costume Design) has theatre design credits that include Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (Playwrights Realm); Terminus (Monk Parrots/New York Theatre Workshop); Alligator (The Sol Project); We are Proud to Present… (Yale Dramatic Association); Late Wedding, Wake, and The Seagull (Columbia University); Sweet (The National Black Theatre); But I Cd Only Whisper (The Flea Theater), Locusts Have No King (INTAR Theatre); Force Continuum (Fordham University); R/evolution, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), and Meantime (New York University); and The Widow of Tom’s Hill (59E59 Theaters). Film credits include Nigerian Prince (Tribeca New Voices Award) and Black Girl in Paris (HBO Special Selection). Ms. Fulton has a MFA in design for stage and film from New York University. arifulton.com.
Adam Honoré (Lighting Design) was previously the associate designer for Top Dog/ Underdog with the Huntington Theatre Company. He is a New York-based lighting designer for plays, musicals, concerts, and dance. Off Broadway credits include Raisin (Astoria Performing Arts Center) and Red Scare on Sunset (Theater for the New City). Recently, he designed the regional premiere of Mamma Mia! (John W. Engeman Theater) and the national tour of Dance to the Movies, which featured performers
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Nathan Leigh (Sound Design) has designed sound and composed original
SKELETON CREW music for New York Theatre Workshop, Red Bull Theater, American Repertory Theater, Berkshire Theatre Group, The Debate Society (Gothamist, Best Sound Design 2007 for The Eaten Heart), Greater Boston Stage Company (IRNE Award, Best Sound Design 2009 for Strangers on a Train), Central Square Theater (IRNE Award, Best Sound Design 2010 for The Hound of the Baskervilles), and many more. With Kyle Jarrow, Mr. Leigh co-created the musicals Big Money (Williamstown Theatre Festival Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship 2008) and The Consequences (world premiere Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater 2012). With the Liars and Believers ensemble, he composed scores for adaptations of Song of Songs and Icarus. With Megan Sass, he is the composer and lyricist for The Mad Scientist’s Guide (New York International Fringe Festival 2015). nathanleigh.net.
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 Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. She credits Lisa Donadio as her associate casting director.
Kevin Schlagle* (Production Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington after previously working on Tartuffe; Merrily We Roll Along; Ripcord; Topdog/Underdog; Bedroom Farce; Sunday in the Park with George; Can You Forgive Her?; Milk Like Sugar; A Confederacy of Dunces; A Little Night Music; after all the terrible things I do; Come Back, Little Sheba; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Smart People; Venus in Fur; Our Town; God of Carnage; Ruined; and Prelude to a Kiss. Other theatre credits include American Repertory Theater, New Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His opera credits include Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera, New England Conservatory, Boston University’s Opera Institute, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He holds a BFA in stage management from Boston University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Alycia Marucci* (Stage Manager) has previous stage management credits that include Burn All Night (American Repertory Theater); Show Boat, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Rent, The Wiz, and Jesus Christ Superstar (Fiddlehead Theatre Company); and Finish Line: A Documentary Play about the 2013 Boston Marathon (Boston Theatre Company). Opera credits include Le Carnival De Venise, Versailles, Orfeo, Ulisse, Almira, Niobe Regina de Tebe, Pergolesi, Charpentier (international tour), Dido & Aeneas (Boston Early Music Festival), Guilio Cesare (Boston Baroque), and Rev 23 (White Snake Projects). She has also served on
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his 10th season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include Moliére’s Tartuffe, Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music; the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples; the regional premieres of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible the things I do, Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff, and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn; and Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss. His West End/London credits include Sex with Strangers and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre); All New People with Zach Braff (Duke of York’s Theatre); and Becky Shaw (Almeida Theatre). His New York credits include Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard Theatre); The Power of Duff with Greg Kinnear (New York Stage and Film/ Powerhouse Theater); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Modern Terrorism, Becky Shaw, Trust with Sutton Foster, All New People, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theatre); Measure for Pleasure,
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ABOUT THE COMPANY SKELETON CREW SKELETON Richard III with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public Theater); and Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and The View From 151st Street (LAByrinth Theater Company/The Public Theater). He served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague. His productions have been on the annual top ten lists of The New York Times, Time Out, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsday, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, The Evening Standard, The Boston Globe, and Improper Bostonian, and he received an Honorable Mention for 2013 Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe Magazine.
Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington’s administrative and financial operations since 1982. He has produced more than 200 productions in partnership with three artistic directors and is one of the most well-regarded managing directors in the theatre industry. Under his tenure, the Huntington has received over 140 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Mr. Maso received the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, the Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor) in the category of Catalyst, and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. In 2004 the Boston Herald honored him as Theatre Man of the Year. Mr. Maso led the Huntington’s 10-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004, and is currently leading the redevelopment and renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre. He currently serves on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and previously served as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and StageSource, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 70 of the country’s major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. Prior to the Huntington, he served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico.
Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 18th season at the Huntington where he has produced over 80 productions. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Bay Street 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.
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Sign up at Globe.com/Newsletters ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets. Since its founding in 1982, the Huntington has received over 140 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. In the past 35 years, the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (18 of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 500,000 students, community members, and other cultural organizations. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington brings world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond together with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. Long an anchor cultural institution of the Avenue of the Arts, the Huntington’s primary home will remain on Huntington Avenue on a permanent basis. The Huntington plans to renovate and expand the current theatre into a first-rate, modern, state-of-the-art venue with enhanced services for audiences, artists, and the community. The Huntington built the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2004 as a home for its new works activities and to provide a much- needed resource for the local theatre community. At the Calderwood Pavilion, the Huntington provides first-class facilities and audience services at significantly subsidized rates to dozens of organizations each year, including some of Boston’s most exciting small and mid-sized theatre companies. The Huntington serves 200,000 audience members each year at the Huntington Avenue Theatre and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally renowned education and community programs, the Huntington reaches 36,000 young people and underserved audience members each year. These programs include the Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest, the August Wilson Monologue Competition, the Huntington Community Membership Initiative, and the student matinee series. The Huntington is a founding partner of Codman Academy Charter Public School and has collaborated with Codman year-round for 16 years to create and teach its innovative, interdisciplinary Humanities curriculum. A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. Through the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstone of its new work activities, the Huntington supports local writers through two-year fellowships and is also proud to serve as a home for Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez. The Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form and is committed to mentoring local playwrights, educating young people in theatre, and serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts organizations.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
David R. Epstein John Cohen Anne M. Morgan Chairman Carol G. Deane Cokie Perry James J. Dillon Bryan Rafanelli Sharon Malt Betsy Banks Epstein Mitchell J. Roberts President William Finard Robert H. Scott David Firestone John D. Spooner Carol B. Langer John Frishkopf Wendell Taylor Treasurer Ann T. Hall Linda H. Thomas Thomas Hamilton III Linda Waintrup Sherryl Cohen Arthur C. Hodges J. David Wimberly Clerk Frederick Jamieson Veronica Wiseman Nada Despotovich Kane Mary Wolfson Carole Alkins Michelle Karol Fancy Zilberfarb David Altshuler David Leathers Neal Balkowitsch Rumena Manolova-Senchak Warren R. Radtke Michael Brown William P. McQuillan Trustee Emeritus John Cini Ann Merrifield Gerard H. Cohen Sandra Moose
COUNCIL OF OVERSEERS
Nancy S. Adams Paul Greenfield Gail Roberts Kitty Ames Janice Hunt Valerie Shey Steven M. Bauer Alan S. Johnson Ben Taylor Camilla Bennett Katherine Jones Kate Taylor Nancy Brickley Linda Kanner Stephen M. Trehu Jim Burns Loren Kovalcik Juliet Schnell Turner Suzanne Chapman Sherry Lang Tracey A. West J. William Codinha Joie Lemaitre John Taylor Williams Bette Cohen Tracie Longman Bertie Woeltz Elizabeth Cregger Nancy Lukitsh Christopher R. Yens Catherine Creighton Charles Marz Linda Zug Deborah First Noel McCoy Anne H. Fitzpatrick Thalia Meehan Maria Farley Gerrity Daniel A. Mullin Eilene Davidson Grayken Tania Phillips as of February 8, 2018
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 25 BENEFACTORS CIRCLE
The Benefactors Circle recognizes our lead Annual Fund donors and offers its members a range of special benefits. We are deeply grateful to the members of the Benefactors Circle and to all donors whose generous Annual Fund gifts support our artistic programs, and our award- winning youth, education, and community initiatives. Please visit huntingtontheatre.org/support to learn about making a gift or contact the Development Office at 617 273 1523.
$100,000+ Dr. John and Bette Cohen Carol B. Langer Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Susan and David Leathers Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield Sharon and Brad Malt Carol G. Deane Bill and Linda McQuillan Betsy and David Epstein Jill and Mitchell Roberts Denise and William Finard Mr. J. David Wimberly Eilene Davidson Grayken 1 anonymous gift Jane and Fred Jamieson $50,000–$99,999 Karen and David Firestone Jane and Neil Pappalardo Gardner C. Hendrie and Karen Johansen Nancy and Ed Roberts Ms. Anne M. Morgan 1 anonymous gift $25,000–$49,999 Nancy Adams and John Burgess Paula and Bill O’Keeffe Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes Cokie and Lee Perry Stephen Chapman John D. Spooner Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Faith and Joseph Tiberio Ann and John Hall Charitable Foundation Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Linda and Daniel Waintrup Barbara and Amos Hostetter Howard and Veronica Wiseman Nancy Lukitsh Linda and Brooks Zug Sandra Moose and Eric Birch $10,000–$24,999 Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Adrienne Kimball Fay Chandler‡ Loren B. Kovalcik/IntePros Consulting John Cini and Star Lancaster Mr. and Mrs. David Long Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Counts Tracie L. Longman and Linda L. D’Onofrio Chaitanya Kanojia Jeffrey Dover and Tania Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson Debbie and Bob First, in memory of Jan and Joe Roller Susan Spooner Robert M. Rosenberg, in honor of John Frishkopf Mary Wolfson Nicki Nichols Gamble Dr. Paul S. Russell Karen and Gary Gregg Darin and Debbie Samaraweera Tom and Nancy Hamilton Marilyn and Jay Sarles Cassandra Hyland Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan Joyce Huber and Randall Ellis Linda H. Thomas Elizabeth and Woody Ives Mary Wolfson Nada Despotovich Kane Genevieve and Justin Wyner Marjie and Robert Kargman Christopher R. Yens and Temple Gill Shelley and Steve Karol 1 anonymous gift 26 SKELETON CREW PATRONS PROGRAM $5,000–$9,999 Alice and Walter Abrams Robert Fine and Sharon Miller Steven M. Bauer Matthew Fine Daniel A. Mullin Charles and Kathleen Ames Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Brant Cheikes and Marianne Baldwin and Anne H. Fitzpatrick, Janine Papesh Eva Marie Mancuso in honor of Dan Mullin Gail Roberts Coralie Berg and Donald Fulton Rumena and Alexander Steve Schwartz Maria and Daniel Gerrity Senchak Amy and Joshua Boger Mary Beth and Robert Sherblom♦ Susan and Michael Brown Chris Gordon Valerie Shey Jim Burns Donna and Jay Hanflig Bruce and Emily Stangle Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Ned Murphy and Ellie Svenson and Susan and Alfred Chandler Ann-Ellen Hornidge Mark Klempner Suzanne Chapman Paul and Tracy Klein Ben and Kate Taylor Nancy Ciaranello David A. Kronman Jean C. Tempel J. William Codinha and Sherry Lang John Travis Carolyn Thayer Ross Joie Lemaitre Drs. Stephen and Beth Trehu Betsy and David Cregger Cecile and Fraser Lemley Juliet Schnell Turner Laura and Neil Cronin John and Jean Lippincott Norman Weeks Amey A. DeFriez‡ Gregory Maguire Elizabeth and Caleb White Margaret Eagle and Jack Fabiano and Ike Williams Eliezer Rapaport Noel McCoy Bertie and Anthony Woeltz Steve Elman and Thalia Meehan and Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Joanne D’Alcomo Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw Zilberfarb
$2,500–$4,999 Patricia Bellinger and Betsy and David Harris Coleen and David Pantalone Richard Balzer‡ Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Jackie and Bob Pascucci Michael Barza and Hibbard, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Judith Robinson David Wimberly Powell Dr. Susan E. Bennet and Carmela M. Hilbert Deborah and S. Caesar Raboy Dr. Gerald Pier Prof. and Mrs. Morton Z. Sally C. Reid and Carolyn Birmingham Hoffman John D. Sigel Edward Boesel Emily Hughey Victoria and John Rizzi Nancy and Richard Brickley Janice and Roger Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins Kevin and Virginia Byrne Linda and Steven Kanner Mona Roberts McLane and Tenney Cover Seth and Mary Kaufman Richard Powers and Catherine and Peter Susie and David Kohen Stephen Schram Creighton Ted and Ann Kurland Vivian and Lionel Spiro Ellen and Kevin Donoghue Anthony Lucas Helen and Jack Stewart Jonathan Dyer and Ann D. Macomber Lisbeth Tarlow and Thomas Foran Mary T. Marshall Stephen Kay Norman and Madeleine Gaut Charles Marz Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Thomas and Joanne Gill Mike and Mary McConnell Pamela Tucker‡ and Mark E. Glasser and Amy Merrill, in honor of George Pettee Frank G. McWeeny Donna Glick Mary Verhage Paul Greenfield and Charles Merrill‡ Mindee Wasserman Sandy Steele Paul Odland 2 anonymous gifts
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 27 PATRONS PROGRAM (continued)
$1,000–$2,499 James Alexander and Sharon and Irving Gates Bill and Ginny Mullin Thomas Stocker Lori and Michael Gilman Bob and Alison Murchison Carole and Leonard Alkins Peter and Jacqueline Gordon Jonette Nagai and Dr. Ronald Arky Phil Gormley and Stephen O’Brien Carol Baker Erica Bisguier Fred and Julie Nagle George and Katharine Baker Mr. K. Frank Gravitt Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren Kate and Gordon Baty Garth and Lindsay Greimann Mary Owens Bruce and Denise Bauman Irene and Stephen Grolnic Joy Pak‡ and David Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. George Beal Katherine Haltom Susan Pak Susana and Clark Bernard H. Patricia Hanna Dr. and Mrs. John William Jerry M. Bernhard Theodore and Sally Hansen Poduska, Sr. Christina and Ky Bertoli♦ Mr. and Mrs. James L. Suzanne Priebatsch Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon C. Hartmann Warren R. Radtke and Bolton III Kathleen Henry and Judith Lockhart-Radtke Lori Bornstein and Kim Marrkand Jessica and David Reed Alan Rithman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High Lynn and John Reichenbach Joseph L. Bower and Barbara Hirshfield and Ellen Remmer Elizabeth Potter Cary Coen, in honor of Sharon and Howard Rich Geri and Bill Brehm Sherry and Gerry Cohen Jean and Richard Roberts Jane Brock-Wilson, in honor Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss Donna Robinson and of Carol Deane Richard and Priscilla Hunt Chris Zook Pam and Lee Bromberg Susan M. Hunziker Sarah Rothermel Kenneth Brown Terence Janericco Susan and Geoffrey Rowley Paul Buddenhagen Alan Johnson Allison Ryder Betsy Cabot Leonard W. Johnson Rohini Sakhuja A. William and Holly and Bruce Johnstone Susan Pioli and Carol Caporizzo Katherine and Hubie Jones Martin Samuels Ronald G. Casty Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis Mr. and Mrs. William R. Peggy and Anton Chernoff Paul and Elizabeth Kastner Sapers George and Mary Chin John Keane Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline Dominic Cioffoletti and Cathie and Clarke Keenan Jane E. Shattuck Christopher Scinto Dorothy and Richard Koerner Ellen Sheehy and Dorothy Coffin Yuriko Kuwabara and Scott Aquilina Kenneth R. Traub and Walter Dzik Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke Pamela K. Cohen Barrie Landry Rebecca Jean Smith Rosalie Florence Cohen Drs. Lynne and Sidney Beth and Michael Ken and Ginny Colburn Levitsky Stonebraker Dennis Condon and Jon A. Levy John H. Straus and Robert Cummings Ms. Susan Lincoln Liza Ketchum Beth and Linzee Coolidge Mr. and Mrs. Francis V. Lloyd III Hope and Adam Suttin Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dayton Janet Mack Lise and Myles Striar Dean K. Denniston, Jr. Stuart and Yvonne Madnick Jared Tausig, in honor of George Dhionis Mahmood Malihi David Wimberly Linda and Tim Diering The Mancuso Family David Parker and Virginia Drachman and Joan and John McArdle Janet Tiampo Douglas Jones Louise and Sandy McGinnes Robert C. Volante Jerome and Vivien Facher Kathy McGirr and Dr. Ronald Weinger Barbara and Larry Farrer Keith Carlson Scott and Jacqueline Newell Flather Jack and Susan McNamara Wellman Gail Flatto Mary Rivet and Wendling Charitable Fund Donna and Harley Frank Christopher Meyer Tracey Allyson West Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardiner Neal and Lynne Miller Wilson Butler Architects Susan Gardner Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, Dr. Elaine Woo Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. in memory of Jerold and Abbe Beth Young Garrison Virginia Wimberly 5 anonymous gifts
28 SKELETON CREW SUPPORTERS PROGRAM
$500–$999 Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler John and Holliday Heine Marianne Pasts Elizabeth Aragao♦ Dr. Galen Henderson and Patricia Patricelli John and Rose Ashby, Dr. Vanessa Britto Ellen C. Perrin in honor of Ann T. Hall Peggy and Ronald Hillegass, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler Robin Barnes and David Bor in honor of Nancy and Margaret Ramsey Molly and John Beard Tom Hamilton Robert Raymond Louis and Nancy Beckerman Rosalind and Herbert Hill Edith Rea Kathleen Beckman Peter K. Jenkins Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs Howard H. Bengele Peter Jenney Gretchen Reilly Jonas Berman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Karofsky Michelle and Aaron Rhodes♦ Martin S. Berman and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Karon Audrey Rideout Mary Ann Jasienowski Nancy R. Karp Christina Rifkin Leonard and Jane Bernstein Jane Katims and Michael and Jane Roberts Linda Cabot Black Foundation Daniel Perlman Sue Robinson Margaret and James Blackwell, Amelia and Joshua Katzen Christine and David Root in honor of David Wimberly Michael and Dona Kemp Diane Rosenberg Jeffrey Borenstein Mary S. and Duncan Kennedy Sari Rosman Stephen and Traudy Bradley John T. Kittredge Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro Jill Kneerim Pauline and Robert Rothenberg Mrs. Barbara Buntrock- Edgar Knudson Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Schuerch John and Sharon Koch Magi McKinnies Thomas Burger and Cheryl and James Kolb Kathleen and William Rousseau Andree Robert Dale Koppel Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz Eric Butler♦ Jeanne and Allen Krieger Susan and Bob Schechter, Carrig Kitchens LLC Rhonda and Stewart Lassner in honor of Donald Nelson Cara and Anthony Casendino Patricia Leighfield, and Neal Balkowitsch Patricia Chadwick and in memory of Robert Crisp Diane and Richard Norman Cantin Jenny and Jay Leopold Schmalensee Lynda and John Christian Nancy Levy William Schutten John Clippinger Katherine Lewandowski and William and Elisabeth Shields Herbert Stuart Cohen Adam Guren♦ David W. Shuckra and Janet L. Comey June K. Lewin, in memory of Clifford S. Wunderlich Alison Conant and Richard Frank Ted Kazanoff Omar Siddiqi Stephen Conner Elizabeth Lintz Gilda Slifka Paul Curtis Mark H. Lippolt Mark Smith and John O’Keefe Lloyd and Gene Dahmen Babette and Peter Loring Edward Sonn Josh and Jennifer Davis Barbara A. Manzolillo Nancy and Edward Stavis Marguerite Davoren Edward Marram Lee Steele Judy DeFilippo‡ Amy and Bill Marshall Gail Steketee and Joan Dolamore Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Brian McCorkle Mr. Glenn Edelson Travis Martin Jennifer Stone and Gordon Edes Kathy Martin and David Johnson Robert Waldinger Dr. Rachela Elias and James D. Maupin Bob and Dorothy Stuart Gedalia Pasternak Kenneth Virgile and Darline Lewis and Martha A. Erickson Helene Mayer Marshall Sugarman Peter and Jan Eschauzier Geraldine McManus and Beth and Larry Sulak Maggi Farrell Richard Hand Margaret M. Talcott and Pierre Fleurant Frank B. Mead L. Scott Scharer Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd Dan Miller Todd Trehubenko Hilary and Chris Gabrieli Dorian Mintzer and Rosamond B. Vaule Tony and Melissa Gallo David Feingold Sumer and Kiran Verma William Gault Nicole Moceri Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther Drs. Laura Green and Mary Ellen Moore Scott and Brenda Warner David Golan Kevin Morris Constance V.R. White Suzanne Greenberg The Munzer Family Karolye and Fernando Cunha Tracy Griffin and David Long Eileen Murray P.T. Withington Gail and Jan Hardenbergh Tom Norris Clark Wright and Terry Rockefeller and Janet and David Offensend Lisa Goldthwait Wright William Harris Ray O’Neill Robert E. Zaret Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos William Pananos 5 anonymous gifts
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 29 SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued)
$250–$499 Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein Robert Crone Lindsey Humes Rosanna Alfaro Catherine Crow Andrea Humez Fidler Family Anne Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hunsicker David and Holly Ambler Howard S. Crowley Barbara Bradlee Robert Allen James F. Crowley Amal Hussein Nancy T. and Jack W. Ammerman Zoltan and Cristina Csimma Mr. and Mrs. Howard Israel Michael Ansara Karen Davis and Randy Block Jill Jackson Tammy Arcuri Bill and Kay DeFord Maggie Jackson and Pat Mawn♦ Tom Austin Charlotte Delaney and Roland Jacobson Carolyn and John Baird Steve Pattyson Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi Mr. and Mrs. James Banker Raymond De Rise Toini and Carl Jaffe Emily Barclay and John Hawes Joel Desilets Peter and Adrienne Jaffe Marilyn Barrett Jane and Stephen Deutsch Kerry James Peter Barrett Mary L. Dill Norman W. Johnson David Barry Soroor Dowlati The Jolly Family Nancy Barry Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey Peter Jones Caitlin Bearce Owen Doyle Jess and Aran Kadar Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Berglund Raya Dreben Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski James Berkman Grace Durrani Jane Kamer Gregory Bialecki and Mary Herlihy Harriett M. Eckstein Neal Kane Robert Bienkowski Diane F. Engel Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet Clinton Blackburn and Mr. and Mrs. James Feldman Yetta Katz Michelle Lessly♦ Roger Ferguson and Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard Donald and Ellen Bloch Chris Gaucher Jim Keefe and Family Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Barry Fireman Glenn Kelly Scott Chisolm and Afshan Bokhari Kathleen McGrath Fitts Paul Kelly Anthony Boral and Leah Rugen Thomas M. Formicola and Judy and Dan Kennedy, Sandy Bornstein Lenny Goldstein in honor of Richard and Dorothy Botnick Ariane and Stefan Frank Stephen Sondheim Payne/Bouchier, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frumkin Margie Kern Jonathan Golding and Stephen Gaal David Kettner Sally Bradley-Golding Michael and Leslie Gaffin Gail King and Eric and Sandra Brenman Michael Gallerstein Christopher Condon Ellen and Jeremiah Bresnahan Kathryn M. Gallucci Remsen M. Kinne S. Britt Judith L. Ganz Jason Knutson Deborah B. Brown Clifford Garnett Nancy Korman and Ken Elgart Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld Gisele Garraway Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn Allan and Rhea Bufferd Vincent Genest Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel Diane Buhl and Mark Polebaum Jack and Maureen Ghublikian Drs. Carol and Ben Kripke Diane Burman Celia and Walter Gilbert Joan Kuhn Daniel C. Burnes Silvia Glick Oldrich Kyn Renee Burns Michael and Sophie Gordon Andreas Laddis Pauline H. Bynum Amelia and William Graham Susan Lane and William Kane Missage Cadet, M.D. Susan Greco Carol Lazarus Cathy Campbell and Jack Orrock Thomas Greeley Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape Colleen Campion Paul and Martha Green Michelle Lewis Judith Carmany Dr. William and Susan Griever Dr. and Mrs. David Lhowe Charles R. Carr Steven and Barbara Grossman Virginia Litle Frank Carrano and David Grossman Jim and Allie Loehlin Ronna M. Casper and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Groves Priscilla Krey Loring Isaac Greenberg Susan Haller Ms. Barbara Lurvey Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Stella M. Hammond Kim and Paul Mahoney Cheston, Jr. Eunice Harps David and Christine Manns Mary Chin Judith Harris Arthur Mattuck Maria Church Mary Hayes Stephen T. McAvinn Krista Clouse Lizbeth Hedstrom Kevin McCarthy Valerie Cloutier Margaret N. Henderson and Terri-Lynn McCormick Priscilla Cogan Loretta Henderson Hope and Shaw McDermott Phyllis Cohen Alfio Hernandez Lindsay McNair Steven Cohen Erin Higgins Robert McOwen Stuart Cole Esther and Richard Hochman Gabriella Meyer Steven Coleman and David Hollowell Forrest and Sara Milder Christine Tunstall Ken Horn Gale Minot, in memory of Silvia Coulter Lyle Howland Alice L. Harford
30 SKELETON CREW SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued)
Joseph Misdraji Barbara Roby Kenneth Sweder Adam and Denise Moehring Daniel P. Romard Richard A. Sweeney Margaret Mone Anne Romney Patrick Tally Barbershop Deluxe Etta and Mark Rosen Jacob Taylor and Jean Park Michael and Donna Moskow Jean Rosenberg and M.K. Terrell Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan Peter Southwick Janet Testa Bob Muti, in memory of Abby Rosenfeld Mary Anne Thadeu James Robinson Leila Joy Rosenthal Karen Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Mathilde and Robert Ross Judy Thomson Newbury, Jr. Susan Rothenberg Mark Thurber Thomas Novak Debra Ruder Patricia Tibbetts Chukwuemeka Nwanze Ryan Ruopp Mr. Robert Toomey Richard Belin and George and Faye Russell Mr. and Mrs. Mario Umana Rosanne O’Brien Nancy L. Russell Thomas and Barbara Van Dyke Kathryn O’Connell Jeremy Ryan Barbara Van Zoeren Nancy and Chris Oddleifson Vinod and Gaile Sahney Pat and Steve Vinter Linda Ordoukhanian David and Anne Salant Christopher Wade Robert and Beverly Parke Molly Schen Lori and Christopher Wadsworth, Marian Pasquale Kim and Eric Schultz in appreciation of Ted and Josie Petersen Eric Searls and April Levin Dave Wimberly Mr. and Mrs. Harry Photopoulos Mark Seliber Mr. and Mrs. David Wahr Stephen Pike Karen J. Shack Carolyn Walton Josephine Pizzuto, in memory of James Shields and Gayle Merling Jerry Warshaw Pat Pizzuto James Shuman Susan Weiler James Poterba and Nancy Rose David Siegel David White Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx Mr. and Mrs. Edward Siegel Nancy White Helene M. Quinn and Drs. Margaret and Michael Simon Leslie Wilcox Tony Kanopt Ellen L. Simons Richard and Frances Winneg Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt Nancy Sklar Elizabeth P. Wolf Jennifer Rabold Dr. and Mrs. Carl Soderland Janis Woodman, in honor of Kerry Mulligan Railey Renai Stalzle Christopher Woodman Tom Redburn Michele Steinberg Alfred Woodworth Jodi Rand Candace Steingisser David C. Wright Peter and Suzanne Read Bob and Susan Stevenson Natalie Wright Katharine and William Reardon Glenn and Katherine Strehle Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman Mary Rench, in honor of Debbie London and Ted Sturman Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zafft David Wimberly Ellen Beth Suderow Lorena and Robert Zeller Suzanne Ricco Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit Carolyn Zern Roger Riggs Linda Sutter and 13 anonymous gifts Patricia Robinson Stephen Centore
This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to February 8, 2018. ♦ Member of The Hunt, the Huntington’s community of young donors. For more information or to join, visit huntingtontheatre.org/thehunt. ‡ Deceased Every effort has been made to assure accuracy of listings. Please bring errors or omissions to the attention of Elizabeth MacLachlan at 617 273 1523 or [email protected].
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FASCINATING UNTOLD STORY OF ARTHUR MILLER SOUTH END MAY 18-JUNECALDERWOOD PAVILION 16 AT THE BCA FALL 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].
Executive Season Producers Kingsbury Road Charitable Members ($100,000+) Foundation** ($2,500–$4,999) The Andrew W. Mellon Lucy R. Sprague Memorial Boston Cultural Council Foundation Fund** Cambridge Savings Bank** The Barr Foundation MEDITECH Jackson and Irene Golden Liberty Mutual Insurance** Schrafft Charitable Trust** 1989 Charitable Trust** Massachusetts Cultural Council Roy A. Hunt Foundation** The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Patrons Surdna Foundation ($10,000–$14,999) Season Co-Producer Eaton Vance Investment Thank you to our in-kind ($50,000–$99,999) Counsel contributors Hershey Family Foundation The Tiny Tiger Foundation** Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP Production Sponsors Supporters High Output ($25,000-$49,999) ($5,000–$9,999) MAX Ultimate Food Bank of America** Berkshire Partners Noble Ford Productions Edgerton Foundation Cue Ball Group National Endowment Goodwin for the Arts Nixon Peabody The Boston Foundation** Proskauer LLP Ramsey McCluskey Family Benefactors Foundation** ($15,000–$24,999) Rodgers Family Foundation BPS Arts Expansion Fund Ropes & Gray LLP at EdVestors** Theatre Communications Harold and Mimi Steinberg Group** Charitable Foundation WilmerHale
** Education and community programs donor
32 SKELETON CREW THE HUNTINGTON LEGACY SOCIETY
BUILDING A LEGACY OF GREAT THEATRE — The Huntington Legacy Society recognizes those who play a lasting role in securing the Huntington’s strong, successful future beyond their lifetime by making a bequest or other planned gift.
We are grateful to these members of the Huntington Legacy Society:
Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Sharon and Brad Malt Howard H. Bengele Bill and Linda McQuillan Suzanne Chapman Mary C. O’Donnell Brant A. Cheikes Steve Stelovich Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Robert C. Volante Carol G. Deane Linda and Daniel Waintrup Susan Ellerin Margaret J. White Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges J. David Wimberly Jane and Fred Jamieson Veronica and Howard Wiseman Mary Ellen Kiddle Genevieve and Justin Wyner Carol B. Langer 1 anonymous Joie Lemaitre
THE HUNTINGTON LEGACY SOCIETY BUILDING A LEGACY OF GREAT THEATRE
“Our participation is not only a legacy we leave for the Huntington, it’s a legacy we leave our family as well. We want them to think about the mark they will leave on society and culture.” — SHARON & BRAD MALT
If you have already included the Huntington as part of your will or estate plans, or if you wish to discuss how you can participate, please contact Celina Valadao, Major Gifts Officer, at 617 273 1536 or [email protected].
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 33 CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA• GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact Information Refreshments for the Huntington Theatre Company Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available The Huntington Theatre Company performs in three before opening curtain and during intermission in the beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston neighborhoods. main lobby. Food is not permitted inside the theatre. The 890-seat Huntington Avenue Theatre is on the Drinks purchased at concessions are permitted inside Avenue of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), diagonally the theatre. across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and 250-seat Roberts Studio Theatre Babes in Arms are part of the Calderwood Pavilion in the historic South Children under the age of five are not permitted End, on the campus of the Boston Center for the Arts in the theatre. (527 Tremont Street). Cameras Website: huntingtontheatre.org The use of all cameras and recording devices, including Box Office: 617 266 0800 cell phone cameras, in the theatre is Box Office email: [email protected] strictly prohibited. Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Administrative office email: Pagers and Cellular Phones [email protected] Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during Lost and Found: 617 933 8608 the performance.
Box Office Hours Wheelchair Accessibility The Box Office is generally open Tuesday-Saturday, The Calderwood Pavilion is fully accessible, noon-curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon-curtain (or 4pm). and can accommodate both wheelchair and Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, companion seating in the orchestra and please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office mezzanine sections. Please notify us when at 617 266 0800. you 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, and Hearing Enhancement space for receptions. Contact Victoria Swindle 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. If Your Plans Change For more information about parking, please visit We hate to see empty seats when so many of our huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office at performances sell out. Please consider donating any 617 266 0800. tickets you can’t use. For more information please call the Box Office at 617 266 0800. Please note that these parking options are independently owned and operated, and are not affiliated with the Huntington or the Large Print Programs Large print programs are free of charge and are available Calderwood Pavilion. at the coat check.
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