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04 Backstage by Olivia J. Kiers 14 About the Company 10 34 Patron Services 35 Emergency Exits 38 Guide to Local Theatre 44 Dining Guide 46 Dining Out: Top of the Hub

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

Gala Season in Beantown Cambridge YMCA. For more information, visit The New Year has barely begun and winter still longwoodplayers.org. holds New England in its icy grip, yet already Later this upcoming spring, the Huntington Boston’s theatre devotees are marking their cal- Theatre Company’s Spotlight Spectacular endars as gala season begins to heat up. occurs on May 7 at Boston Center for the Arts’ Established in 1998, The Longwood Cyclorama. This year’s honorees include trustee Players celebrate two decades of commu- Neal Balkowitsch and director Liesl Tommy, who nity development and cultural enrichment in will be presented with the prestigious Wimberly Greater Boston at its annual cabaret fundraiser Award. Notable for entertainment provided by on February 3. “A Night at the Cabaret” takes theatre luminaries and for attracting glamorous place at Chelsea Theatre Works, home to The attendees, the Spotlight Spectacular always lives up Longwood Players’ current season in CTW’s to its name. For tickets, go to huntingtontheatre.org. brand-new black box theatre. Previously, The Longwood Players performed at the A New Season for Hub Theatre Company The Hub Theatre Company of Boston announced the three plays that comprise its sixth season. Sam Shepard’s tale of sibling rivalry between a Hollywood screenwriter and his thieving older brother, True West, kicks off the 2018 season in April. July sees the Boston premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s comedy The Taming, about a Miss America pageant con- testant with political ambitions that draws inspiration from Shakespeare’s The Taming of IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Trustee Neal Balkowitsch the Shrew. Finally, the Tony Award-winning (above left) and director Liesl Tommy (right) are the honorees at the Huntington Theatre Company’s prequel to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Peter and the 2018 Spotlight Spectacular fundraising gala at Starcatcher, ends the season in November. Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama (top). more details, go to hubtheatreboston.org. 4 BAD DATES BACKSTAGE (continued)

More Opera in Boston Boston is becoming a burgeoning hub for all things opera, especially when it comes to the development of exciting new operatic proj- ects. In December, the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) held its first-ever public appearance at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. The inaugural Run AMOC! Festival of new works by AMOC company members premiered three pieces. A Study on Effort matched the music of Bach and Westhoff in a collaboration between dancer- MEN WITH A PLAN: Artistic directors Matthew choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and violinist Aucoin (pictured above left) and Zack Winokur (above right) helm American Modern Opera and poet Keir GoGwilt. Cage Match featured a Company, a new Boston-based opera troupe. series of duets between pianists, violinists, and baritones in music by Telemann, Donati, Wolff, troupe, new-music ensemble and artists’ col- and Monteverdi, as well as an original piece lective” that will focus on producing bound- by AMOC artistic director Matthew Aucoin. ary-breaking projects. Aucoin explained Finally, Were You There invited the audience to that, “for [AMOC], the essence of opera is participate in a theatrical presentation of hymns to be the field where all artistic disciplines and spirituals on themes of police brutality and collide.” The company will be in residence black lives lost. at in February, before With no permanent home, AMOC traveling to New York and San Francisco. describes itself as “at once a traveling theatre Visit runningamoc.org for details.

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

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Draft rendering of the Huntington Avenue redevelopment project. 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.

This approval sets in motion a gathering spaces, an expansive donation by commercial developers second floor lobby that will double QMG Huntington LLC of the historic as an event space and intimate Huntington Avenue Theatre and performance venue, and more its support wing to the Huntington restrooms! The Huntington will Theatre Company for its ownership expand its programming to provide in perpetuity. It will also lead to the year-round activity in the theatre creation of a new, 14,000 square feet and lobbies, and will make these of cultural space expanding the theatre new spaces available for use by at the base of their apartment building, the community. with a 100-year lease for the price of $1. This critical moment would not have The Huntington will be responsible been possible without our deep and for outfitting the new contemporary loyal community of supporters. We space, which will serve as the are excited to fulfill our bold dream, Huntington Avenue Theatre’s new and we hope we can continue to entrance and will provide public count on your support until it is amenities including increased fully realized. SKELETON For the latest news and information about the Huntington Avenue Theatre, please visit huntingtontheatre.org/FAQ.

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BY DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU DIRECTED BY RIVETING AND TIMELY NEW PLAY MEGAN SANDBERG-ZAKIAN SKELETON SOUTH END CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA CREWMAR.2-31HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 9 A CLOSER  LOOK AT PLAYWRIGHT  THERESA  Theresa Rebeck REBECK Theresa Rebeck has created one of the most versatile and prolific bodies of work in modern playwriting. She has written more than 20 plays, penned six movies, worked on a dozen television shows — including as the creator of “Smash” — and crafted three novels. “Writing is a kind of compulsion for me,” Rebeck says. With boundless creativity, her work is driven by character and animated by a streak of dark humor that is her signature.

CREATING BAD DATES The initial spark of Bad Dates, one of Rebeck’s most performed works, began with a mixture of inspiration and observation. Rebeck recalls, “One night when [actress and frequent collaborator and I] were sitting around making each other laugh, we thought about this idea to do a cable show called ‘Bad Dates’ in which we would interview people about the worst dates they’d ever had, and then we’d do dramatic reenactments of them. That conversation moved into the idea of this one person who hasn’t been dating and decides to start dating again.”

From that trigger, Rebeck created the character of Haley, “a buoyant survivor” — a single mother, a restaurant manager, and a brilliant raconteur. Though Rebeck knew almost immediately that the play would be a one-woman show, as she began creating the storyline, she knew she wanted to create something more theatrically satisfying than just a collection of anecdotes: “I wanted it to still be a play; I didn’t want it to be just somebody telling stories up there.”

Driven by that impulse, Rebeck was drawn to revisit some of the most enduring comic plots: Shakespeare’s comedies. “I went back and looked

10 BAD DATES at all those old Shakespeare comedies, because there’s something unreal about them,” Rebeck says. “This happened, and then this, and so now there’s a happy ending. There’s this sort of frothy feeling of delight when the pieces come together.” Anjelica Huston in a scene from Trouble, written and directed by Theresa Rebeck Using classic plays as inspiration is a frequent source of creativity for Rebeck; when Rebeck studied at Brandeis University in Boston, she simultaneously pursued both an MFA in dramatic writing and a PhD in Victorian literature. Across her career, she has created plays that are in conversation with works such as Pygmalion, Agamemnon, and A Doll’s House among others.

Though Rebeck is known for her gift for comedy, a skill she shows off in Bad Dates, the playwright is seldom drawn to crafting punchlines, and looks for laughs that are drawn from deeper places. “I’m not very interested in jokes,” she says, “unless they have a larger spiritual context.” For her, comedy comes out of skillful observation, timing, and often a surprising element of painful reality. Compared to a laugh that is drawn out of character and story, she believes that a joke lives on the edge of despair. “I’ve always felt like a joke is a desperate act of survival,” she says. “You could either kill yourself, or you could tell a joke. That’s pretty much the equation as far as I can tell.”

REBECK’S RECENT WORK • In March 2017, Rebeck published her third novel I’m Glad About You, which follows a romance between estranged high school sweethearts: a New York actress and a Midwestern pediatrician. Entertainment Weekly called it a “smart, heartfelt tale about the price of our dreams and whether they’re ultimately worth it.” • In January 2018, Rebeck directs a second production of her own adaptation of William Congreve’s comedy The Way of the World for the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC, starring actress Kristine Nielsen. • In March 2018, Rebeck’s movie Trouble will be released, which Rebeck wrote and directed. She created the central role for actress Anjelica Houston, who stars in the film. “I thought — what would you like to see Anjelica Huston do? And I thought, ‘I’d like to see her shoot somebody,’” Rebeck recalls of the inspiration. • Rebeck is also beginning work for Arena Stage on a commission about witches. “I’ve always wanted to write about witches,” she says, “and I never had the courage to do it.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 11 REBECK ON WRITING “Once in a while I say, ‘I’m an artist,’ and people get startled that I use the word artist to define myself. For some reason we’re not used to that word anymore, which seems a shame. Especially because I don’t know what else you’d call me, or people like me. Writer would be another accurate word. So would playwright. But the one I use a lot, that covers film and television as well as theatre, is storyteller. I am somebody who sits around and tells stories at the dinner table, narrating my day. I tell stories all the time; my head is swimming with them. […] Stories teach us so much. I really do see them as a sort of humble, human way to struggle toward enlightenment.” – Interview with BOMB Magazine

“The act of writing, and observing, is deeply unsentimental. It is ruthless, but not unkind. And if you are willing to make humanity your subject, it is alarmingly available. People reveal themselves so readily and simply, you just can’t believe it’s landing on your head. Unfortunately, spying on people’s internal lives is not entirely an endearing quality. The better you get at it, the more you will have to keep what you are thinking to yourself.” – From Rebeck’s book Free Fire Zone, a book of advice on how to keep one’s sanity when creating art for a living

“I’m interested in work that is subversively accessible and yet intellectually and psychologically complex, and rewarding to a deeper understanding of theatrical storytelling and human psychology. The people who achieve that are Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock. I’m not saying I’m in their company, but that’s who I have my sights on.” – Interview with American Theatre magazine

Michael Aronov and Marin Ireland in Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius,

which had its world premiere at the Huntington in 2006 CHARLES ERICKSON T.

12 BAD DATES “Very funny & provocative! A mind-lifting experience.” — NY POST

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ABOUT THE COMPANY Haneefah Wood* (Haley Walker) previously appeared at both the Huntington and San Diego’s The Old Globe as Cassandra in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Her credits include Avenue Q (directed by Jason Moore) and Rent at the Nederlander BAD DATES Theatre, and Brooklyn the Musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Ms. Wood can currently be seen recurring on the Norman Lear produced series “One Day at a Time.” She will next reprise her role on Netflix’s “Baskets” for

season 3. She starred opposite Brandy on BET’s “Zoe Ever After.” She’s previously

Haneefahguest starredWood on “Life in Pieces,” “ Live!,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “The League,”

and “The Millers.” Other television credits include “White Collar,” “The 22,” and “Nurse Jackie,” and the movie Freedomland. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Theresa Rebeck (Playwright) is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad. Her play Mauritius had its world premiere at the Huntington in 2006 and received the IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards for Best Play. Her play Bad Dates was previously produced by the Huntington in 2004. Ms. Rebeck’s Broadway productions include Dead Accounts, Seminar, and Mauritius. Other New York productions include The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, and Spike Heels (), Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, and Our House (), The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre Company), and View of the Dome (New Workshop). Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana Festival of New American Plays and had a commercial run Off Broadway. All of Ms. Rebeck’s past produced plays are published by Smith and Kraus as Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays, Volumes I, II, III, and IV. Ms. Rebeck’s other publications are Free Fire Zone, a book of comedic essays about writing and show business. She has written for American Theatre magazine and has had excerpts of her plays published in the Harvard Review. Ms. Rebeck’s first novel, Three Girls and Their Brother, was published in April 2008. Her second novel, Twelve Rooms with a View, was published in May of 2010. Her third novel, I’m Glad About You, was published in 2016. In television, Ms. Rebeck created the NBC drama “Smash;” has written for “Dream On,” “Brooklyn Bridge,” “LA Law,” “American Dreamer,” “Maximum Bob,” “First Wave,” and “Third Watch;” and has been a writer/producer for “Canterbury’s Law,” “Smith,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and “NYPD Blue.” Her produced feature films include Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker, an adaptation of her play, The Scene. Awards include the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama, the Imagen Award, and the Peabody Award, all for her work on “NYPD Blue.” She has won the National Theatre Conference Award for The Family of Mann, and was awarded the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award in 2003 for The Bells. Other awards include the PEN/ Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, a Lilly Award, and in 2011 she was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. Ms. Rebeck is originally from and holds an MFA in playwriting and a PhD in Victorian melodrama, both from Brandeis University. She is a proud board member of the Dramatists Guild, a contributing editor to the Harvard Review, an associate artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company, a playwright adviser and

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

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Jessica Stone (Director) returns to the Huntington after directing BAD DATES Ripcord and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, based on Nicholas Martin’s Broadway direction. She has also performed in the Huntington’s productions of She Loves Me, Betty’s Summer Vacation, and Springtime for Henry. She has worked as an actress on and Off Broadway, and in television and film, for the last 25 years. Her Broadway credits include , Butley, The Odd Couple, The Smell of the Kill, Design for Living, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Grease. Her Off Broadway credits include , Krisit, The Country Club, June Moon, Tenderloin, and Babes in Arms. She has performed in regional theatres across the country including Mark Taper Forum, Geva Theatre Center, McCarter Theatre Center, and 10 seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Concurrently, she was an assistant/ associate director on and Off Broadway to Nicholas Martin, , David Warren, and Christopher Ashley. Ms. Stone’s directing career began in earnest with her all-male 2010 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directing credits now include Charlotte’s Web (Theatreworks USA), Last of the Red Hot Lovers and June Moon (Williamstown Theatre Festival), the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and Arms and the Man (The Old Globe), Absurd Person Singular and a remount of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Two River Theater), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Bucks County Playhouse), and Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse). Upcoming productions include Dancing at Lughnasa at Two River Theater and Barefoot in the Park at The Old Globe. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

Alexander Dodge (Scenic Design) returns to the Huntington having previously designed Tartuffe; Bedroom Farce; Smart People; Rapture, Blister, Burn; Good People; and many more. Broadway credits include Anastasia (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Present Laughter (Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, and Hedda Gabler. His recent Off Broadway credits include Harry Clarke (); The Liar (); Ripcord ( Theatre Club); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons); Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theater); The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre Company); Measure for Pleasure (/ NYSF); and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme ( Theater, Lortel Award). West End credits include All New People. Opera credits include Ghosts of Versailles (LA Opera), Dinner at Eight (Minnesota Opera), Il trittico (Deutsche Oper ), and Lohengrin (Budapest). Tour credits include Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan and Germany). Television credits include “Julie’s Greenroom” (Netflix). He received his training at Yale University.

Sarah Laux (Costume Design) previously designed Come Back, Little Sheba for the Huntington. Broadway credits include The Band’s Visit, The Humans, and Fully Committed. Off Broadway and regional credits include On the Shore of the Wide World, The Band’s Visit, and Women or Nothing (), Sacred Valley (New York Stage and Film), The Man in the Ceiling (Bay Street Theater), The End of Longing and Really, Really (MCC Theater), Bad Jews

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ABOUT THE COMPANY BAD DATES BAD (George Street Playhouse), Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theater), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73 Productions), Empathitrax (Colt Coer), The Effect (), and Thresh/Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater). Ms. Laux designed the costumes for the feature film Freakshow.

David J. Weiner (Lighting Design) designed the Huntington productions of Ripcord, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, , Butley, and Springtime for Henry. His Broadway credits include The Price, Stephen King’s Misery, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, Reasons to Be Pretty, Butley, Dinner at Eight (Lincoln Center Theater), Betrayal (Roundabout Theatre Company), and The Real Thing. Off Broadway Mr. Weiner’s work has been seen at MCC Theater, Club, Second Stage Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater/NYSF, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, Vineyard Theatre, and Atlantic Theater Company. Mr. Weiner has worked at theatres across the United States including The Old Globe, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Guthrie Theater, , Alley Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, American Repertory Theater, The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Center Theatre Group, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Mr. Weiner has received for Guards at the Taj, Through a Glass Darkly, and Rodney’s Wife; a nomination for Small Fire; and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations for The Price, Plenty, Reasons to Be Pretty, This Beautiful City, Pumpgirl, The Overwhelming, and The Seven.

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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 17 ABOUT THE COMPANY Drew Levy (Sound Design) has Huntington credits that include The Seagull, Pirates!, The Corn is Green, She Loves Me, Present Laughter, The Cherry Orchard, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, and the world premiere of Sonia Flew. His work on Broadway includes Honeymoon in Vegas, Chaplin (Drama BAD DATES Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Present Laughter. Regionally he has designed at many theatres around the country including Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theater, McCarter Theatre Center, The Old Globe, and the . He has associate credits for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, Waitress, Pippin, One Man, Two Guvnors (Tony Award nomination), Rock of Ages, (Drama Desk Award nomination), Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (Tony Award), and , among others. He holds an MFA from .

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.

Emily F. McMullen* (Production Stage Manager) has previously worked on Tartuffe, Merrily We Roll Along, Ripcord, Topdog/Underdog, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Sunday in the Park with George, I Was Most Alive with You, Can You Forgive Her?, Disgraced, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Little Night Music, after all the terrible things I do, The Colored Museum, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Smart People, The Seagull, Venus in Fur, and The Cocktail Hour for the Huntington. She spent nine seasons as production stage manager at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell and 15 summers as production stage manager of Music Theatre of Wichita. Other credits include work with Lexington Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, South Coast Repertory, North Shore Music Theatre, and Capital Repertory Theatre, among others. She holds a BA from Emory University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Jeremiah Mullane* (Stage Manager) returns to the Huntington having previously stage managed A Guide for the Homesick, The Who & the What, A Doll’s House, Tiger Style!, ’s How I Learned What I Learned, Disgraced, Choice, The Second Girl, Awake and Sing!, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Seagull, The Cocktail Hour, The Jungle Book, and Invisible Man. He has regional credits that include Blood on the Snow at Boston’s Old State House (The Bostonian Society), Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and King Lear (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), First You Dream and Follies (The Kennedy Center), Really Really, The Boy Detective Fails, , [], and Giant (Signature Theatre), and As You Like It, The Alchemist, The Way of the

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

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

BAD World, Julius Caesar, and Major Barbara (Shakespeare Theatre Company). He is a

graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in drama and computer science. DATES

Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his tenth season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music; the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, Evan M. Wiener’s Captors, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples; the regional premieres of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible the things I do, Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff, and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn; and Moliére’s Tartuffe 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 (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 , All New People, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage Theatre); Measure for Pleasure, Richard III with Peter Dinklage, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, and Biro (The Public Theater/NYSF); and Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour





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ABOUT THE COMPANY BAD DATES BAD 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 ten-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004, and is currently leading the redevelopment and renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre. He currently serves on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and previously served as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and StageSource, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 70 of the country’s major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. Prior to the Huntington, he served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico.

Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 18th season at the Huntington where he has produced over 80 productions. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Bay Street Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. Working primarily as a stage manager, his credits include the original productions or New York premieres of Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare), subUrbia (Eric Bogosian), The Designated Mourner (), Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), Desdemona (), (), 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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Supporting: The Mt. Auburn Hospital, UNICEF USA, The Guidance Center, Huntington Theatre Company, and Cambridge Community Foundation HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY TRUSTEES & OVERSEERS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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

COUNCIL OF OVERSEERS

Nancy S. Adams Alan S. Johnson Stephen M. Trehu Kitty Ames Katherine Jones Juliet Schnell Turner Steven M. Bauer Linda Kanner Tracey A. West Camilla Bennett Loren Kovalcik John Taylor Williams Nancy Brickley Sherry Lang Bertie Woeltz Jim Burns Joie Lemaitre Christopher R. Yens Suzanne Chapman Tracie Longman Linda Zug J. William Codinha Nancy Lukitsh Bette Cohen Charles Marz Elizabeth Cregger Noel McCoy Catherine Creighton Thalia Meehan Deborah First Daniel A. Mullin Anne H. Fitzpatrick Tania Phillips Maria Farley Gerrity Gail Roberts Eilene Davidson Grayken Valerie Shey Paul Greenfield Ben Taylor Janice Hunt Kate Taylor as of January 5, 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 Chaitanya Kanojia Linda L. D’Onofrio Jeffrey Dover and Tania Phillips Debbie and Bob First, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson Susan Spooner Jan and Joe Roller John Frishkopf Robert M. Rosenberg, in honor of Nicki Nichols Gamble Mary Wolfson Karen and Gary Gregg Dr. Paul S. Russell Tom and Nancy Hamilton Darin and Debbie Samaraweera 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 BAD DATES PATRONS PROGRAM $5,000–$9,999 Alice and Walter Abrams Robert Fine and Brant Cheikes and Steven M. Bauer Matthew Fine Janine Papesh Charles and Kathleen Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Gail Roberts Ames Anne H. Fitzpatrick, Marilyn and Jay Sarles Marianne Baldwin and in honor of Dan Mullin Rumena and Alexander Eva Marie Mancuso Donald Fulton Senchak Coralie Berg and Maria and Daniel Gerrity Robert Sherblom♦ Steve Schwartz Mary Beth and Valerie Shey Amy and Joshua Boger Chris Gordon Bruce and Emily Stangle Susan and Michael Brown Donna and Jay Hanflig Ellie Svenson and Jim Burns Ned Murphy and Mark Klempner Katie and Paul Ann-Ellen Hornidge Ben and Kate Taylor Buttenwieser Paul and Tracy Klein Jean C. Tempel Susan and Alfred David A. Kronman John Travis Chandler Sherry Lang Drs. Stephen and Beth Suzanne Chapman Joie Lemaitre Trehu Nancy Ciaranello Cecile and Fraser Lemley Juliet Schnell Turner J. William Codinha and John and Jean Lippincott Norman Weeks Carolyn Thayer Ross Gregory Maguire Elizabeth and Caleb White Betsy and David Cregger Jack Fabiano and Ike Williams Laura and Neil Cronin Noel McCoy Bertie and Anthony Amey A. DeFriez Thalia Meehan and Woeltz Margaret Eagle and Rev. Gretchen Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Eliezer Rapaport Grimshaw Zilberfarb Steve Elman and Sharon Miller Joanne D’Alcomo Daniel A. Mullin

$2,500–$4,999 Patricia Bellinger and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Jackie and Bob Pascucci Richard Balzer‡ Hibbard, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Michael Barza and David Wimberly Powell Judith Robinson Carmela M. Hilbert Deborah and S. Caesar Carolyn Birmingham Prof. and Mrs. Morton Z. Raboy Edward Boesel Hoffman Sally C. Reid and Nancy and Richard Brickley Emily Hughey John D. Sigel Kevin and Virginia Byrne Janice and Roger Hunt Victoria and John Rizzi McLane and Tenney Cover Linda and Steven Kanner Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins Catherine and Peter Seth and Mary Kaufman Mona Roberts Creighton Susie and David Kohen Richard Powers and Ellen and Kevin Donoghue Ted and Ann Kurland Stephen Schram Jonathan Dyer and Anthony Lucas Vivian and Lionel Spiro Thomas Foran Ann D. Macomber Helen and Jack Stewart Norman and Madeleine Mary T. Marshall Lisbeth Tarlow and Gaut Charles Marz Stephen Kay Thomas and Joanne Gill Mike and Mary McConnell Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Mark E. Glasser and Amy Merrill, in honor of Pamela Tucker‡ and Frank G. McWeeny Donna Glick George Pettee Paul Greenfield and Charles Merrill‡ Mary Verhage Sandy Steele Paul Odland Mindee Wasserman Betsy and David Harris Coleen and David Pantalone 2 anonymous gifts

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 27 PATRONS PROGRAM (continued)

$1,000–$2,499 James Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, Thomas Stocker Garrison in memory of Carole and Leonard Alkins Sharon and Irving Gates Virginia Wimberly Dr. Ronald Arky Lori and Michael Gilman Bill and Ginny Mullin Carol Baker Peter and Jacqueline Gordon Bob and Alison Murchison George and Katharine Baker Phil Gormley and Jonette Nagai and Kate and Gordon Baty Erica Bisguier Stephen O’Brien Bruce and Denise Bauman Mr. K. Frank Gravitt Fred and Julie Nagle Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Garth and Lindsay Greimann Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren Dr. Gerald Pier Irene and Stephen Grolnic Mary Owens Susana and Clark Bernard Katherine Haltom Joy Pak‡ and David Deutsch Jerry M. Bernhard H. Patricia Hanna Susan Pak Christina and Ky Bertoli♦ Theodore and Sally Hansen Dr. and Mrs. John William Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon C. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Poduska, Sr. Bolton III Hartmann Warren R. Radtke and Lori Bornstein and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High Judith Lockhart-Radtke Alan Rithman Barbara Hirshfield and Jessica and David Reed Joseph L. Bower and Cary Coen, in honor of Lynn and John Reichenbach Elizabeth Potter Sherry and Gerry Cohen Ellen Remmer Geri and Bill Brehm Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss Sharon and Howard Rich Jane Brock-Wilson, in honor Richard and Priscilla Hunt Jean and Richard Roberts of Carol Deane Susan M. Hunziker Sarah Rothermel Pam and Lee Bromberg Terence Janericco Susan and Geoffrey Rowley Kenneth Brown Alan Johnson Rohini Sakhuja Paul Buddenhagen Leonard W. Johnson Susan Pioli and Betsy Cabot Holly and Bruce Johnstone Martin Samuels A. William and Carol Caporizzo Katherine and Hubie Jones Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sapers Ronald G. Casty Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline Peggy and Anton Chernoff Paul and Elizabeth Kastner Jane E. Shattuck Dominic Cioffoletti and John Keane Ellen Sheehy and Christopher Scinto Cathie and Clarke Keenan Scott Aquilina Dorothy Coffin Dorothy and Richard Koerner Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke Kenneth R. Traub and Yuriko Kuwabara and Rebecca Jean Smith Pamela K. Cohen Walter Dzik Beth and Michael Stonebraker Rosalie Florence Cohen Barrie Landry John H. Straus and Ken and Ginny Colburn Drs. Lynne and Sidney Liza Ketchum Dennis Condon and Levitsky Hope and Adam Suttin Robert Cummings Jon A. Levy Lise and Myles Striar Beth and Linzee Coolidge Ms. Susan Lincoln Jared Tausig, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dayton Lina and Francis Lloyd David Wimberly Dean K. Denniston, Jr. Janet Mack David Parker and George Dhionis Stuart and Yvonne Madnick Janet Tiampo Linda and Tim Diering Mahmood Malihi Robert C. Volante Virginia Drachman and The Mancuso Family Dr. Ronald Weinger Douglas Jones Joan and John McArdle Scott and Jacqueline Jerome and Vivien Facher Louise and Sandy McGinnes Wellman Barbara and Larry Farrer Kathy McGirr and Wendling Charitable Fund Newell Flather Keith Carlson Tracey Allyson West Gail Flatto Jack and Susan McNamara Wilson Butler Architects Donna and Harley Frank Mary Rivet and Dr. Elaine Woo Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gardiner Christopher Meyer Jerold and Abbe Beth Young Susan Gardner Neal and Lynne Miller 5 anonymous gifts

28 BAD DATES SUPPORTERS PROGRAM

$500–$999 Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler Dr. Galen Henderson and Marianne Pasts Elizabeth Aragao♦ Dr. Vanessa Britto Patricia Patricelli John and Rose Ashby, Kathleen Henry and Ellen C. Perrin in honor of Ann T. Hall Kim Maarkand Mr. and Mrs. Murray Preisler Robin Barnes and David Bor Peggy and Ronald Hillegass, Suzane Priebatsch Molly and John Beard in honor of Nancy and Margaret Ramsey Louis and Nancy Beckerman Tom Hamilton Robert Raymond Kathleen Beckman Rosalind and Herbert Hill Edith Rea Howard H. Bengele Peter K. Jenkins Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs Jonas Berman Peter Jenney Gretchen Reilly Martin S. Berman and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Karofsky Michelle and Aaron Rhodes♦ Mary Ann Jasienowski Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Karon Audrey Rideout Leonard and Jane Bernstein Nancy R. Karp Christina Rifkin Linda Cabot Black Foundation Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman Michael and Jane Roberts Margaret and James Blackwell, Amelia and Joshua Katzen Sue Robinson in honor of David Wimberly Michael and Dona Kemp Christine and David Root Stephen and Traudy Bradley Mary S. and Duncan Kennedy Diane Rosenberg Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro John T. Kittredge Sari Rosman Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch Jill Kneerim Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg Thomas Burger and Edgar Knudson Pauline and Robert Rothenberg Andree Robert John and Sharon Koch Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld and Eric Butler♦ Cheryl and James Kolb Magi McKinnies Carrig Kitchens LLC Dale Koppel Kathleen and William Rousseau Cara and Anthony Casendino Jeanne and Allen Krieger Phyllis and Sam Rubinovitz Patricia Chadwick and Rhonda and Stewart Lassner Susan and Bob Schechter, Norman Cantin Patricia Leighfield, in honor of Donald Nelson George and Mary Chin in memory of Robert Crisp and Neal Balkowitsch Lynda and John Christian Jenny and Jay Leopold Diane and Richard John Clippinger Nancy Levy Schmalensee Herbert Stuart Cohen Katherine Lewandowski and William Schutten Janet L. Comey Adam Guren♦ William and Elisabeth Shields Alison Conant and Richard Frank June K. Lewin, in memory of David W. Shuckra and Stephen Conner Ted Kazanoff Clifford S. Wunderlich Paul Curtis Elizabeth Lintz Omar Saddiqi Lloyd and Gene Dahmen Mark H. Lippolt Gilda Slifka Josh and Jennifer Davis Babette and Peter Loring Mark Smith and John O’Keefe Marguerite Davoren Barbara A. Manzolillo Edward Sonn Judy DeFilippo‡ Edward Marram Nancy and Edward Stavis Joan Dolamore Amy and Bill Marshall Lee Steele Mr. Glenn Edelson Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Gail Steketee and Brian McCorkle Gordon Edes Travis Martin Jennifer Stone and Dr. Rachela Elias and Kathy Martin and David Johnson Robert Waldinger Gedalia Pasternak James D. Maupin Bob and Dorothy Stuart Martha A. Erickson Kenneth Virgile and Darline Lewis and Peter and Jan Eschauzier Helene Mayer Marshall Sugarman Maggi Farrell Geraldine McManus and Beth and Larry Sulak Pierre Fleurant Richard Hand Margaret M. Talcott and Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd Frank B. Mead L. Scott Scharer Hilary and Chris Gabrieli Dan Miller Todd Trehubenko Tony and Melissa Gallo Dorian Mintzer and Rosamond B. Vaule William Gault David Feingold Sumer and Kiran Verma Drs. Laura Green and Nicole Moceri Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Walther David Golan Mary Ellen Moore Scott and Brenda Warner Suzanne Greenberg Kevin Morris Constance V.R. White Tracy Griffin and David Long The Munzer Family Karolye and Fernando Cunha Gail and Jan Hardenbergh Eileen Murray P.T. Withington Terry Rockefeller and Tom Norris Clark Wright and William Harris Janet and David Offensend Lisa Goldthwait Wright Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos Ray O’Neill Robert E. Zaret John and Holliday Heine William Pananos 5 anonymous gifts

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 29 SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued)

$250–$499 Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein Silvia Coulter David Hollowell Rosanna Alfaro Robert Crone Ken Horn Fidler Family Catherine Crow Lyle Howland David and Holly Ambler Anne Crowley Lindsey Humes Robert Allen Howard S. Crowley Andrea Humez Nancy T. and Jack W. Ammerman James F. Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hunsicker Michael Ansara Zoltan and Cristina Csimma Barbara Bradlee Tammy Arcuri Karen Davis and Randy Block Amal Hussein Tom Austin Bill and Kay DeFord Mr. and Mrs. Howard Israel Carolyn and John Baird Charlotte Delaney and Jill Jackson Mr. and Mrs. James Banker Steve Pattyson Maggie Jackson and Pat Mawn♦ Emily Barclay and John Hawes Raymond De Rise Roland Jacobson Marilyn Barrett Joel Desilets Ali Jadbabaie and Nikroo Hashemi Peter Barrett Jane and Stephen Deutsch Toini and Carl Jaffe David Barry Mary L. Dill Peter and Adrienne Jaffe Nancy Barry Soroor Dowlati Kerry James Caitlin Bearce Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Downey Norman W. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Berglund Owen Doyle The Jolly Family James Berkman Raya Dreben Peter Jones Gregory Bialecki and Mary Herlihy Grace Durrani Jess and Aran Kadar Robert Bienkowski Harriett M. Eckstein Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski Clinton Blackburn and Michelle Lessly♦ Diane F. Engel Jane Kamer Donald and Ellen Bloch Mr. and Mrs. James Feldman Neal Kane Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom Roger Ferguson and Chris Gaucher Sondra Katz and Jess Klarnet Scott Chisolm and Afshan Bokhari Mr. and Mrs. Barry Fireman Yetta Katz Anthony Boral and Leah Rugen Kathleen McGrath Fitts Rob and Mary Keane-Hazzard Sandy Bornstein Thomas M. Formicola and Jim Keefe and Family Richard and Dorothy Botnick Lenny Goldstein Glenn Kelly Payne/Bouchier, Inc. Ariane and Stefan Frank Paul Kelly Jonathan Golding and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frumkin Judy and Dan Kennedy, Sally Bradley-Golding Stephen Gaal in honor of Stephen Sondheim Eric and Sandra Brenman Michael and Leslie Gaffin Margie Kern Ellen and Jeremiah Bresnahan Michael Gallerstein David Kettner S. Britt Kathryn M. Gallucci Gail King and Christopher Condon Deborah B. Brown Judith L. Ganz Remsen M. Kinne Ruth Budd and John Ehrenfeld Clifford Garnett Jason Knutson Allan and Rhea Bufferd Gisele Garraway Nancy Korman and Ken Elgart Diane Buhl and Mark Polebaum Vincent Genest Gail and Dr. Marcel Korn Diane Burman Jack and Maureen Ghublikian Mrs. Charlotte Krentzel Daniel C. Burnes Celia and Walter Gilbert Drs. Carol and Ben Kripke Renee Burns Silvia Glick Joan Kuhn Pauline H. Bynum Michael and Sophie Gordon Oldrich Kyn Missage Cadet, M.D. Amelia and William Graham Andreas Laddis Cathy Campbell and Jack Orrock Susan Greco Susan Lane and William Kane Colleen Campion Thomas Greeley Carol Lazarus Judith Carmany Paul and Martha Green Dr. and Mrs. Lucian Leape Charles R. Carr Dr. William and Susan Griever Michelle Lewis Frank Carrano Steven and Barbara Grossman Dr. and Mrs. David Lhowe Ronna M. Casper and and David Grossman Virginia Litle Isaac Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Groves Jim and Allie Loehlin Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr. Susan Haller Ms. Barbara Lurvey Mary Chin Stella M. Hammond Kim and Paul Mahoney Maria Church Eunice Harps David and Christine Manns Krista Clouse Judith Harris Arthur Mattuck Valerie Cloutier Mary Hayes Stephen T. McAvinn Priscilla Cogan Lizbeth Hedstrom Kevin McCarthy Phyllis Cohen Margaret N. Henderson and Terri-Lynn McCormick Steven Cohen Loretta Henderson Hope and Shaw McDermott Stuart Cole Alfio Hernandez Lindsay McNair Steven Coleman and Erin Higgins Robert McOwen Christine Tunstall Esther and Richard Hochman Gabriella Meyer 30 BAD DATES SUPPORTERS PROGRAM (continued)

Forrest and Sara Milder Patricia Robinson Linda Sutter and Stephen Centore Gale Minot, in memory of Barbara Roby Kenneth Sweder Alice L. Harford Daniel P. Romard Richard A. Sweeney Joseph Misdraji Anne Romney Patrick Tally Adam and Denise Moehring Etta and Mark Rosen Jacob Taylor and Jean Park Margaret Mone Jean Rosenberg and M.K. Terrell Barbershop Deluxe Peter Southwick Janet Testa Michael and Donna Moskow Abby Rosenfeld Mary Anne Thadeu Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan Leila Joy Rosenthal Karen Thompson Bob Muti, in memory of Mathilde and Robert Ross Judy Thomson James Robinson Susan Rothenberg Mark Thurber Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Newbury, Jr. Debra Ruder Patricia Tibbetts Thomas Novak Ryan Ruopp Mr. Robert Toomey Chukwuemeka Nwanze George and Faye Russell Mr. and Mrs. Mario Umana Richard Belin and 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 Dave Wimberly Ted and Josie Petersen Eric Searls and April Levin Mr. and Mrs. David Wahr Mr. and Mrs. Harry Photopoulos Mark Seliber Carolyn Walton Stephen Pike Karen J. Shack Jerry Warshaw Josephine Pizzuto, James Shields and Gayle Merling Susan Weiler in memory of Pat Pizzuto James Shuman David White James Poterba and Nancy Rose David Siegel Nancy White Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx Mr. and Mrs. Edward Siegel Leslie Wilcox Helene M. Quinn and Tony Kanopt Drs. Margaret and Michael Simon Richard and Frances Winneg Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quitt Ellen L. Simons Elizabeth P. Wolf Jennifer Rabold Nancy Sklar Janis Woodman, in honor of Kerry Mulligan Railey Dr. and Mrs. Carl Soderland Christopher Woodman Tom Redburn Renai Stalzle Alfred Woodworth Jodi Rand Michele Steinberg David C. Wright Peter and Suzanne Read Candace Steingisser Natalie Wright Katharine and William Reardon Bob and Susan Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman Mary Rench, in honor of Glenn and Katherine Strehle Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zafft David Wimberly Debbie London and Ted Sturman Lorena and Robert Zeller Suzanne Ricco Ellen Beth Suderow Carolyn Zern Roger Riggs Dr. and Mrs. Herman D. Suit 13 anonymous gifts

This list reflects gifts received during the 14 months prior to January 5, 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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BY BERNARD WEINRAUB

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-Producers 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, 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 BAD DATES 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 HUNTINGTON AVENUE THEATRE • GENERAL INFORMATION

Contact Information Refreshments for the Huntington Theatre Company Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available The Huntington Theatre Company performs in three before opening curtain in the main lobby. Drinks beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston neighborhoods. purchased at concessions are permitted inside the The 890-seat Huntington Avenue Theatre is on the Avenue theatre, but food is not. of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), diagonally across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Babes in Arms Theatre and the flexible 250-seat Nancy & Edward Roberts Children must have their own seats. Babes in arms Studio Theatre are part of the Calderwood Pavilion in the are not permitted in the theatre. Children under 6 are historic South End, on the campus of the Boston Center for not permitted. the Arts (527 Tremont Street). Cameras Website: huntingtontheatre.org The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this Box Office: 617 266 0800 production is strictly prohibited. Box Office email: [email protected] Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Pagers and Cellular Phones Administrative office email: Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during [email protected] the performance. Lost and Found: 617 273 1666 Wheelchair Accessibility Box Office Hours The Huntington Avenue Theatre is accessible The Box Office is generally open Tuesday-Saturday, by ramp and can accommodate both noon-curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon-curtain (or 4pm). wheelchair and companion seating in Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, the orchestra section. A power assisted please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call the Box Office door is located at the far left Box Office entrance. at 617 266 0800. Please notify us when you purchase your tickets if wheelchair accommodations will be required and confirm Huntington Group Discounts arrangements with the House Manager at 617 273 1666. Groups of 10 or more may receive a discount of up to 20% off full ticket prices and a free ticket for every 20 Hearing Enhancement purchased. Space is available at the theatre for pre- or The Huntington Avenue Theatre is equipped post-performance receptions. Contact Victoria Swindle with an FM hearing enhancement system. for more information at 617 273 1657 or groups @ Wireless headphones are available free of huntingtontheatre.org. charge at the concessions stand in the main lobby for your use during a performance. Public Transportation We encourage patrons to use public transportation to Restrooms the Huntington Avenue Theatre whenever possible. The Located in the lower-level and balcony lobbies. A theatre is conveniently located near the MBTA Green Line wheelchair-accessible restroom is located in the main Hynes or Symphony Stations; Orange Line/Commuter lobby on the first floor. Rail Mass Ave. Station; the No. 1 Harvard-Dudley bus via Mass Ave. to Huntington Ave.; and the No. 39 Arborway- Coat Check Copley bus to Gainsborough Street. Located in the lower lobby.

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

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

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

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Peter DuBois Michael Maso Norma Jean Calderwood Managing Director Artistic Director

ADMINISTRATION Samantha Myers, Katie O’Connor, Sarah Patterson, General Manager...... Sondra R. Katz Evan Pott, Margot Spanu, Padraig Sullivan, Dan Victor Associate General Manager...... Conwell Worthington III Huntington Avenue Theatre Custodians...... Jose Andrade, Assistant General Manager...... Annie Walsh Nelson DaSilva Company Managers...... Jazzmin Bonner, Meagan Garcia Assistant to the Managing Director...... Gabrielle Jaques Ticketing Services Assistant Manager — Ticketing Systems...... Katie Catano Finance Assistant Manager — Patron Services...... Victoria Swindle Director of Financial Management...... Glenda Fishman Calderwood Pavilion Accounting Manager...... June Zaidan Ticketing Coordinator...... Noah Ingle Accounting Coordinator...... Laura Casavant Huntington Avenue Theatre Accountants...... Alexander, Aronson, Finning, CPA Ticketing Coordinator...... Brenton Thurston Subscriptions Coordinator...... Amy Klesert Human Resources Full-Time Customer Service Reps...... Michaela Buccini, Director of Human Resources...... Nina E. Nicolosi Shana Jackson, Chris Stoddard Human Resources Coordinator...... Michael Comey Customer Service Reps...... Nick Boonstra, Sue Dietlin, Payroll and Reporting Specialist...... April Swiniuch Kaylah Dixon, Katelyn Reinert, Administrative Support Assistant...... Sarah Schnebly Brittany Schmitke, Yurika Watanabe

Information Technology ARTISTIC IT Director...... Scott Poole Producing Director...... Christopher Wigle Network Administrator...... Dan Moloney Associate Producer...... Rebecca Bradshaw Director of New Work...... Charles Haugland Theatre Operations Assistant to the Artistic Director...... Billy Cowles Director of Theatre Operations...... Timothy H. OConnell Playwright-in-Residence...... Melinda Lopez Associate Director of Theatre Literary Apprentice...... J. Sebastian Alberdi Operations — Calderwood Pavilion...... Katie Most Producing Apprentice...... Kat Klein Associate Director of Theatre Huntington Playwriting Fellows...... MJ Halberstadt, Operations — Huntington Avenue Theatre...... Katrina Alix Brenda Withers Associate Director of Theatre Operations — Patron Services...... Stephen Reinstein DEVELOPMENT Security Coordinator...... Greg Haugh Chief Development Officer...... Elisabeth Saxe Director of Major Gifts...... Margaret J. White Calderwood Pavilion Major Gifts Officer...... Celina Valadao Calderwood Pavilion House Manager...... Julie Cameron Special Events Manager...... Kirsten Doyle Calderwood Pavilion Institutional Giving Manager...... Diana Jacobs-Komisar Management Assistant...... Matt Feldman-Campbell Individual Giving Manager...... Annalise Baird Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice...... Micaela Slotin Development Database Coordinator...... Lisa McColgan Calderwood Pavilion Assistant Development Associate...... Elizabeth MacLachlan House Managers...... Paul Fox, Gabe Hughes, Development Assistant...... Sam Buntich Ksenia Lanin, Maura Neff, Dalton Zogleman Calderwood Pavilion EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Front of House Staff...... Chabreah Alston, Ellie Brelis, Interim Co-Directors of Education...... Meg O’Brien, Robert Caplis, Mia Coffin, Barbara Crowther, Alexandra Smith Talia Curtin, Linnea Donnelly, Katie Flanagan, Education Associate...... Marisa Jones Madeleine Gibbons, Ryan Impagliazzo, Josh Luckens, Education Apprentices...... Lauren Brooks, Ivy Ryan Kerry Lydon, Terry McCarthy, Laura Meilman, Teaching Artists...... Kortney Adams, Naheem Garcia Tiniqua Patrick, Nick Perron, Sarah Schnebly, Lydia Graeff, Keith Mascoll, Allie Meek, Trinidad Ramkissoon Katharine Silva, Ciera-Sadé Wade Calderwood Pavilion Custodians...... Jose Andrade, Mike Brown MARKETING Director of Marketing...... Temple Gill Huntington Avenue Theatre Associate Director of Marketing...... Meredith Mastroianni Huntington Avenue Theatre House Manager...... Andrew Elk Tessitura Analytics Manager...... Derrick Martin Huntington Avenue Theatre Digital Content Manager...... Carolyn MacLeod Management Assistant...... Kendrick Terrell Evans Promotions & Community Coordinator...... James Boyd Huntington Avenue Theatre Assistant Graphic Design Coordinator...... Lauren Calder House Managers...... Kendrick Terrell Evans, Annie Walsh Community Membership Huntington Avenue Theatre Coordinator...... Candelaria Silva-Collins Front of House Staff...... J. Sebastian Alberdi, Charlie Carr, Communications Associate...... Leah Reber Terrence Dowdye, Kristina Dugas, Robin Goldberg, Marketing Associate...... Clare Lockhart Ariana Goldsworthy, Ruth Killisch, Kat Klein, Co-op Student, Patrick Mahoney, Tommy Melvin, Will Morrison, ...... Carla Mirabal Rodríguez

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

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

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Assistant to the Director...... Kimille Howard Electricians...... Kevin Barnett, Austin Boyle, Assistant Set Designer...... Ann Beyersdorfer Evey Connerty-Marin, Bridget Doyle, Carpenters...... Andrew Adamopoulos, Ben Cuba, Katie Hoolsema, Alex Kennedy, Devin Mooney, Catherine Denial, Bill O’Donnell, Christina Rossi, Bill O’Donnell, Zach Straffer, Gifford Williams Assistant Rita Roy, Slava Tchoul, Verreth Wilson Assistant Sound Designer...... J. Jumbelic Assistant to the Lighting Designer...... Chris Gilmore

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

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

The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 37 GUIDE to  LOCAL THEATRE

DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICT ANTIGONE PROJECT: A PLAY IN 5 PARTS, Emerson Stage, Semel Theater, Tufte Performance & Production Center, 10 Boylston Place, 617-824-8400. Feb 22–25. Five award-win- ning female playwrights bring five very different explorations of Sophocles’ tragedy to life. With such settings as World War I, a modern African village and the underworld of Hades, this work presents a sister’s love and devotion through many lenses.

BRAZEN, Emerson Stage, Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, RETURN OF THE PHANTOM: Love Never Dies, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington St., 617-824- Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to his blockbuster 8400. Feb 1–4. In this tale loosely based on the work of English The Phantom of the Opera, makes its Boston novelist Angela Carter and American photographer Sally Mann debut at the Boston Opera House January 30– as well as the French Bluebeard folktale, Cameron, a brilliant February 11. photographer, uses fairy tales as a basis for her work and her ever-changing daughter Miranda as a model. When Miranda joins a feminist girls’ band in order to escape her upbringing, she LOVE NEVER DIES, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington finds herself in trouble in part due to her mother’s work. St., 866-523-7469. Jan 30–Feb 11. The hit sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera transports the BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., action to 1907 New York, where the Phantom has escaped to 800-BLUE-MAN. Ongoing. This giddily subversive off- a new life living amongst the screaming joy rides and freak Broadway hit serves up outrageous and inventive theatre shows of Coney Island while still yearning for his one true love where three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both and musical protégée, Christine Daaé, who is now one of the contemporary art and modern technology. Wry commentary world’s finest sopranos. and bemusing antics are matched only by the ingenious ways in which music and sound are created. THE MAGIC OF ADAM TRENT, Boch Center, The Shubert The- atre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Mar 7–11. Showcasing /SAINT JOAN, Bedlam, Emerson Cutler Majestic his “futuristic” brand of magic, Trent has mesmerized live Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. Mar 7–25. Witness audiences around the globe. This production from the creative William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw’s most famous team behind The Illusionists presents an immersive entertain- creations side by side, in repertory, brought vividly to life in two ment extravaganza of magic, comedy and music designed to riveting, unexpectedly funny, stripped-down stagings by four entertain the entire family. actors from the acclaimed New York City theatre company. SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., THE HUMANS, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at the Shear Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Mar 13–25. Stephen Karam’s 2016 Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs gets knocked Tony Award-winner takes place over the course of a Thanksgiv- off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience matches wits with the ing dinner. Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to suspects to catch the killer in this wildly popular comedy. celebrate at his daughter’s apartment in Manhattan, yet as dark- ness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, TORREY PINES, Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Emerson the clan’s deepest fears and greatest follies are laid bare. Paramount Center, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Feb 14–17. Based on a true story, this trans-queer-punk coming- IN THE ERUPTIVE MODE, Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre, Rob- of-age tale is rich with ’90s pop-culture references in the ert J. Orchard Stage, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Wash- likes of “Star Trek,” Nintendo and MTV. The Seattle band Your ington St., 617-824-8400. Jan 24–28. In 2011, democratic Heart Breaks performs the vivid score live in tandem with the uprisings erupted all over the Arab world. Citizens challenged film, with original music recorded in collaboration with Kimya their leadership and questioned regimes. Internationally ac- Dawson and Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie). claimed Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director Sulayman Al-Bassam presents six monologues of ordinary citizens—all women— WAITRESS, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., 866- caught in the violence and chaos of the Arab Spring. 523-7469. Feb 20–Mar 4. Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s be- 38 BAD DATES Stage Building Audiences for Spotlight Greater Boston’s Outstanding Not-For-Profit Performing Arts Organizations

PAULETTE’S BALLET STUDIO

String Masters Series • January 28 Violist Kathryn Lockwood of the Lark Quartet is joined by pianist Jon Klibonoff in a program of works by Brahms, Poulenc, Schumann and Sollima. Paulette between shows, rooftop Radio City Music Hall Piano Masters Series • January 30 Conservatory professor of piano, Janice Weber, Choreography Showcase performs works by Beethoven, Ornstein and Liszt. January 27, 2018 at 4 p.m. Newton Studio Tickets: 617-912-9222 or 190 Oak St., Newton bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/events 617-527-9565 • paulettesballetstudio.com

BOSTON YOUTH SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS Federico Cortese, Music Director and Conductor Edward Berkeley, Stage Director With professional vocal soloists Mistaken identities, courtly intrigue, and January 28, 2018 backstage drama are all part of the fun at 3 p.m. in this raucous romantic comedy of errors based on the Academy Award-winning film. Ages 10 and up • Tickets from $40 Sanders Theatre, Cambridge Now through February 10 only! 617-496-2222 • bysoweb.org 617-933-8600 • SpeakEasyStage.com

LYRIC STAGE

Stephen Sondheim’s latest musical about two brothers’ adventures and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast search for riches. Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice Book by Linda Woolverton January 12– Based on the Academy Award-winning film February 11, 2018 February 2–March 4, 2018 200 Riverway Lyric Stage • Copley Square [email protected] • 866-811-4111 617-585-5678 • lyricstage.com wheelockfamilytheatre.org

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) loved film and featuring original music and lyrics by five-time the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through great ’70s Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles, this new hit musical tells the anthems you know by heart. story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and loveless marriage. AN EDUCATION IN PRUDENCE, Open Theatre Project, St. John’s Church, 1 Roanoke Ave., Jamaica Plain, theopentheatre. THE WHITE CARD, ArtsEmerson and American Repertory com. Feb 9–24. In 1833, two dozen African American girls who Theater, Robert J. Orchard Stage, Emerson Paramount Center, traveled across the free states to a new school in Connecticut 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Feb 24–Mar 25. At a met insults, assaults and a new law threatening fines and dinner party thrown by an influential Manhattan couple for whippings if they remained. When the teacher, a white Quaker an up-and-coming artist, questions arise about what—and woman, was jailed, the school challenged the law, claiming who—is actually on display. Claudia Rankine’s 2014 New York the girls were citizens entitled to every right of citizenship. Times best-selling book Citizen unpacked the insidious ways Weaving together past and present, the play traces the story in which racism manifests itself in everyday situations. Now, through the eyes of young women learning about these events this world-premiere play poses the question, “Can American in the modern day. society progress if whiteness stays invisible?” FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, Praxis Stage, Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE St., Roxbury, praxisstage.com. Feb 15–25. Ntozake Shange’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The series of 20 poetic monologues set to music and accompanied Riverway, 617-879-2300. Feb 2–Mar 4. Based on the Acad- by dance movements tells the stories of seven women who have emy Award-winning animated film, this “tale as old as time” suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society. follows Belle, a young woman who doesn’t quite fit in her village, and the Beast, a cursed prince, who, if he can learn to HEAR WORD! NAIJA WOMAN TALK TRUE, American Reper- love and be loved, will have his curse lifted and be transformed tory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, into his former self. 617-547-8300. Jan 26–Feb 11. Featuring a cast of leading Nigerian actresses, this work combining song and dance with BRAWLER, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Kitchen Theatre intimate portraits of resilience and resistance is inspired by Company, 949 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Mar multi-generational stories of inequality and transformation. The 1–18. Adam, once the scariest man in the National Hockey show grapples with the issues affecting the lives of women League, has been demoted to the minors, gotten high on across Nigeria, and the factors that limit their potential for in- painkillers and trashed the locker room at the Dunkin’ Donuts dependence, leadership and meaningful contribution in society. Center. His friends need to talk him down before he gets into real trouble, but he’s got his own agenda. This world premiere THE HEARING, Israeli Stage, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, 106 by Walt McGough is a modern-day take on Sophocles’ Ajax as Central St., Wellesley, israelistage.com. Mar 7. A high school seen through the lens of the last true gladiator sport. student complains about a teacher expressing leftist views in the classroom, and the teacher is called in for a hearing. CABARET, Moonbox Productions, Wimberly Theatre, Stanford This is the true story of Adam Verete who—after opening a Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 dialogue about the morality of an army in a public high school Tremont St.,617-933-8600. Apr 14–29. Kander and Ebb’s in Israel—was publicly threatened and humiliated. iconic musical, set in the world of the Kit Kat Klub on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, tells the story of Cliff Bradshaw, a young THE HOTEL NEPENTHE, Brown Box Theatre Project, Waterfront American writer newly arrived in Berlin who falls in love with Plaza at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St., 443-808-1215. Mar cabaret singer Sally Bowles. Their romance sizzles amid the 2–11. Through the twisting, winding corridors of the mind back room culture of the club and the tumultuous atmosphere lies a world both chillingly relatable and thoroughly alien. The of pre-Nazi Germany. settings and characters shift and morph through a series of delightfully turbulent vignettes in this perilously absurd romp DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, Commonwealth Shakespeare through the mysteries of human nature, the ripples of fairy Company, Sorenson Black Box, Sorenson Center for the Arts at wings and alternate realities, and the search for meaning from Babson College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. Jan within the abyss. 30–Feb 11. After the fall of the totalitarian regime in a South American country, a former political prisoner finds herself face- HYPE MAN: A BREAK BEAT PLAY, Company One Theatre, to-face with the man she believes was her captor, a sadistic Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., doctor who’s face she never saw. Is he guilty beyond a reason- 617-933-8600. Jan 26–Feb 24. After years of struggle, Pin- able doubt, or is her paranoia getting the better of her? nacle and his rap crew finally have the world’s attention, but on the eve of their globetrotting tour, the shooting of an unarmed DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, The Boston Conservatory The- black teenager shakes the dynamics of the group. The latest ater, 31 Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Mar 8–11. Based on work from break beat poet and playwright Idris Goodwin (How the 1988 film, this musical follows the escapades of two con We Got On) asks: Who has the privilege of staying silent in the men in the French Riviera who compete for the money—and face of social injustice? eventually affection—of the same woman. IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY, The Footlight THE DONKEY SHOW, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, 2 Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3200. Feb 2–17. Set Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Ongoing. Bringing the in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based ultimate disco experience to Boston, this crazy circus of mirror on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to balls, feathered divas, roller skaters and hustle queens tells treat “hysterical” women (and some men), the play centers on

40 BAD DATES GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their 18. After the discovery of a groundbreaking proof, Catherine is entire household. confronted with the question of how much of her mathematician father’s brilliance did she inherit—and is that the only thing he THE IRISH AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, Greater Boston passed on to her? Winner of the , David Stage Company, 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781-279-2200. Mar Auburn’s play is a moving exploration of the nature of genius, 8–25. Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt women in mathematics and father-daughter relationships. (Angela’s Ashes), this revue—underscored by music extending from the auld Irish folk ballads to World War II standards and RICHARD III, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Swedenborg Cha- beyond—is a celebration of a heritage that confronts adversity pel, 50 Quincy St., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Feb 7–Mar 11. with determination, good humor and a love of life. This story of a scoundrel’s Machiavellian overthrow of govern- ment—filled with deceit, lies, treachery and murder—presents THE LIAR, Wellesley Repertory Theatre, Ruth Nagel Jones The- Shakespeare’s most charismatic villain, who delights in every atre, 106 Central St., Wellesley, 781-283-2000. Jan 11–Feb moment of his ruthless, homicidal path to absolute power. 4. One of the Western world’s greatest comedies—a sparkling urban romance as fresh as the day Pierre Corneille wrote it in RIPE FRENZY, New Repertory Theatre and Boston Center for the 17th century—is brilliantly adapted for today by All in the American Performance, Studio ONE, Boston University, 855 Timing’s David Ives. Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Feb 24–Mar 11. Winner of the National New Play Network’s 2016 Smith Prize for Politi- LONELY PLANET, New Repertory Theatre, Black Box Theater, cal Theatre, this site-specific premiere brings us to Tavistown, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 New York, where a recent tragedy has rocked the community Arsenal St., Watertown, 617-923-8487. Feb 3–Mar 4. This to its core. Narrator and town historian Zoe recounts the days 25th anniversary revival of Steven Dietz’s humorous and leading up to the incident as the high school prepares for the touching play about friendship, loss and hope tells the story of semi-annual production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. two friends during the height of the AIDS epidemic in America. While Carl is able to see beyond the confines of Jody’s map ROAD SHOW, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., store, Jody refuses to acknowledge what’s happening. 617-585-5678. Jan 12–Feb 11. Stephen Sondheim’s true boom-and-bust story of two of the most colorful and outrageous MALA, Huntington Theatre Company, Roberts Studio Theatre, fortune-seekers in American history takes the audience from the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, Alaskan Gold Rush to the Florida real estate boom in the 1930s 527 Tremont St., 617-266-0800. Jan 6–Feb 4. Funny, brutally with entrepreneur Addison Mizner and his fast-talking brother honest and ultimately cathartic, Huntington Playwright-in- Wilson, who were proof positive that the road to the American Residence Melinda Lopez’s one-woman show puts a sharp Dream is often a seductive, treacherous tightrope walk. focus on what it means to put our loved ones first, right to the very end, and what happens when we strive to be good but ROMEO AND JULIET, The Underlings Theatre Co., Black Box, don’t always succeed. Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617- 887-2336. Feb 23–Mar 3. This classic tale of star-crossed NOMAD AMERICANA, Fresh Ink Theatre Company, Boston lovers divided by their families’ hatred is presented in its Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. original pronunciation, a recreation of how Shakespeare and Feb 2–17. Bridgette Echo didn’t grow up in a typical American his contemporaries pronounced their speech. Expect a high family. Her father sells soap sculptures, her mother is a yoga school setting and costumes a la Heathers, where everything’s guru, her younger sister plays with tarot cards and they all live funny until it’s not anymore. together under one roof in a continuously mobile RV. When the family decides to put down temporary roots in a Texas trailer SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, SpeakEasy Stage Company, park, this whimsical family soon discovers there’s a lot under Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston the hood that they’ve been suppressing. Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Jan 12–Feb 10. Based on the Academy Award-winning film, this OLD MONEY, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Carling- stage adaptation tells the story of young Will Shakespeare, Sorenson Theater, Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson who, in the midst of a severe case of writer’s block, meets the College, 231 Forest St., Wellesley, 866-811-4111. Mar 6-16. headstrong Viola. When the playwright and his muse fall in A wealthy robber baron and his family, their descendants and love, the plot undergoes some surprising rewrites as mistaken assorted characters in their midst—an Irish maid, a Hollywood identities, courtly intrigue and backstage bickering become producer, a social climbing decorator, confused teenagers and part of the fun. eccentric artists—mingle in a contrast of old money and new in this work by . SH*T-FACED SHAKESPEARE, Magnificent Bastard Produc- tions, The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Somerville, 617-684-5335. ORLANDO, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., 617- Ongoing. A fusion of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with 585-5678. Feb 23–Mar 25 . After a particularly wild night in an entirely sh*t-faced cast member, this side-splitting, raucous 17th-century Constantinople, Orlando the man wakes up to and interactive show presents The Taming of the Shrew with find himself a woman, and abandons herself to five centuries a genuinely drunken professional actor selected at random of change with an insatiable appetite to discover what it means every night. No two shows are ever the same and audiences to live fully in the present, in her own skin and in her own time can even dictate when the actor gets to drink more to prevent in ’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. unwanted sobriety.

PROOF, The Nora Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, 450 SISTER ACT, Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmount Ave., Hyde Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Jan 18–Feb Park, 800-838-3006. Mar 2–11. The feel-good musical com-

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 41 GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) edy smash based on the hit 1992 film tells the story of disco by acclaimed playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig about the diva and murder witness Deloris Van Cartier, who, disguised as insidious infiltration of Nazism into mainstream society. a nun and placed in a convent while in protective custody, uses her unique disco moves and singing talent to inspire the choir and breathe new life into the church and community. DANCE LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL, Emerson Cutler Majestic SKELETON CREW, Huntington Theatre Company, Wimberly Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. Feb 2 & 3. The inter- Theatre, Standford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center nationally renowned repertory company defies categories with for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-266-0800. Mar 2–31. In its blend of hip, funky moves infused with infectious energy, the breakroom of the last small auto plant still standing, a humor and imagination. Led by artistic director Louis Robitaille, makeshift family of workers swap stories, share dreams and the troupe presents the Boston premiere of O Balcão de Amor take pride in their work. When confronted with the possibility of by choreographer Itzak Galili, inspired by Pérez Prado’s classic the factory closing, power dynamics shift and each is pushed Cuban mambo music. to the limits of survival in Dominique Morisseau’s bold and compassionate new play. COMPAGNIE ACCRORAP, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Feb 2 & 3. Artistic director, STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY dancer and choreographer Kader Attou is a leading representa- ACT, New Repertory Theatre and Boston Center for American tive of the French hip-hop dance movement. Emphasizing Performance, Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles humanistic engagement and cultural blending, his troupe Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617- embodies a unique alchemy of hip hop, circus and contempo- 923-8487. Jan 27–Mar 3. In apartheid South Africa, where rary dance. intimate interracial relationships are illegal, a black man and a white woman share more than just their love, baring all in the GRUPO CORPO, Boch Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Trem- face of oppression and uncertainty. ont St., 866-348-9738. Jan 26–28. With its seductive move- ment, scintillating music, vibrant costuming, sets and lighting, STEVE, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Plaza Black Box Theatre, Grupo Corpo reflects the amazing diversity and rich color of Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Brazil. The company is renowned for its stunning physicality, Mar 2–23. As Steven—a failed Broadway chorus boy turned dynamic ability and rich visual finesse. stay-at-home dad—celebrates yet another birthday, he finds himself filled with fear and uncertainty. Is his partner of 16 years, Stephen, cheating on him? Is his best friend really dy- OPERA ing? And what, exactly, has he done with his life? AS ONE, Boston Opera Collaborative, Edward M. Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music of Bard College, 27 Garden St., Cam- 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, imaginary beasts, bridge, 617-517-5883. Jan 25–28. Accompanied by a string Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St., Charles- quartet, a mezzo-soprano and a baritone share the journey of a town, 866-811-4111. Jan 13–Feb 4. This tongue-in-cheek sole transgender protagonist—Hannah before and Hannah af- send-up of Jules Verne’s classic work follows a motley crew ter transition—as she strives to reconcile the discord between of adventurers as they navigate some mighty troubled waters her identity with the outside world. under the command of mad genius Captain Nemo. Join young Yves, the fisher lad, and his Salty Cat as they set out to explore CARMEN, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Sanders the wonders of the world, only to discover the true meaning of Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, 617-496-2222. Jan 28. heroism and friendship along the way. This semi-staged performance of Bizet’s fiery opera about seduction and betrayal features professional vocal soloists and UNVEILED, New Repertory Theatre and Greater Boston the BYSO Opera Chorus. Stage Company; Black Box Theater, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, 617- COSÌ FAN TUTTE, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hem- 923-8487, Jan 10–28; 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781-279- enway St., 617-912-9222. Feb 8–10. In Mozart’s sparkling 2200, Feb 7–16. Racism. Hate crimes. Love. Islam. Culture. comedy, lessons in love are learned, unrealistic expectations Language. Life. Five Muslim women in a post-9/11 world serve are shattered and everyone comes out a little wiser, if some- tea and uncover what lies beneath the veil in this critically what bruised in the process. acclaimed one-woman show. JEANNE D’ARC AU BÛCHER, Odyssey Opera, Sanders Theatre, A WINTER GATHERING, Sleeping Weazel, Plaza Black Box 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, 617-496-2222. Feb 17. This large- Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617- scale dramatic production takes place during Joan of Arc’s 933-8600. Feb 15–24. This multi- and interdisciplinary per- last minutes on the stake, with flashbacks to her trial and her formance event features performance art, video art and new younger days. The work is a dramatic mix of Swiss/French music by New England-based artists highlighting the diversity composer Arthur Honegger’s eclectic score and sung/spoken of this generation’s creative, urgent and nuanced voices of libretto by poet/playwright Paul Claudel. migration, home and cultural identity. LA ZOMBIATA: A ZOMBIE LOVE STORY, WholeTone Opera, The WINTER SOLSTICE, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Somerville, 617-684-5335. Feb 9–14. In Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, 617-887-2336. a Parisian penthouse infested by an undead horde, romantically Feb 16–Mar 10. When a charming stranger is invited into the inclined Christolpho meets the ravenous-yet-rapturous Philonia. home a German family, the man’s extreme views, rather than Suddenly, all-too-human emotions come into play, leading to repelling the liberal clan, instead seduce them in this fable chaos, comedy and a splash-zone worthy chainsaw massacre.

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

DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington 49 SOCIAL, 49 Temple Pl., 617-338-9600. This eclectic bar St., 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park and restaurant at Downtown Crossing serves refined modern Square, within walking distance to all theatres. The Northern American cuisine. The seasonal dinner menu draws inspiration Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade from around the globe while also incorporating ingredients pastas and Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch from local New England farms. D, C. 49social.com. pork chop, Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s classics and selection of fresh seafood, before or after the the- ARAGOSTA BAR & BISTRO, Three Battery Wharf, 617-994- atre. Enjoy a lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor 9001. This latest addition to Boston’s vibrant waterfront area. D Sun–Tue 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m., L Mon–Fri. restaurant community offers a new take on Italian cuisine by VP. davios.com. award-winning chef David Daniels who shows his signature flair through hand-made pastas, prime meats and classic New FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in England seafood. Using quality, local farm-raised ingredients, 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that Aragosta offers a warm, social atmosphere in a stunning features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain waterfront setting. Also offering an open kitchen with Chef’s prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the Counter and an outdoor terrace. B, L, D. Mon–Sun 6:30 a.m.– walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts 10 p.m.; Sat & SB 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m. aragostabistro.com. some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 AVENUE ONE RESTAURANT, Hyatt Regency, One Avenue de p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. Lafayette, 617-912-1234. Newly renovated and located in the heart of the Theatre District, Avenue One restaurant and lounge THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a two- serves contemporary New England cuisine in a relaxed atmo- story townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor sphere. Enjoy a refreshing cocktail, three-course prix fixe dinner or patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French coun- a delectable dessert. Discounted parking available. B 6:30–11:30 try cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include a.m., L noon–3 p.m., D 5–10 p.m. C, VP regencyboston.hyatt.com. venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-670- 0320. With three deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused JASPER WHITE’S SUMMER SHACK, 50 Dalton St., 617-867- favorites, Back Deck invites everyone to gather around patio 9955; 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, 617-520-9500. tables and chairs for a charcoal-cooked meal and backyard- Enjoy top-notch seafood such as pan-roasted lobster, award- inspired cocktails. Its ambiance brings the outdoors inside with winning fried chicken and an impressive raw bar in a casual floor-to-ceiling open windows, carriage lighting, lush green setting. L, D. summershackrestaurant.com. planters, glazed brick and an open kitchen. Drawing inspiration from a roof deck, this restaurant is the ultimate urban retreat. LEGAL SEA FOODS, 558 Washington St., 617-692-8888; 26 L, D, Sat & SB, C. BackDeckBoston.com. Park Plaza, Park Square Motor Mart, 617-426-4444; 255 State St., Long Wharf, 617-227-3115; Copley Place, 100 Huntington BLU, 4 Avery St., 617-375-8550. Located in the heart of the Ave., 617-266-7775; 270 Northern Ave., Liberty Wharf, Theatre District next door to the Ritz Carlton on the fourth floor, 617-477-2900; other locations. Legal Sea Foods, a Boston blu Restaurant and Bar is celebrating its 15th anniversary tradition for more than 50 years, features more than 40 variet- with a feast for the senses. Its contemporary American menu ies of fresh fish and shellfish as well as an award-winning includes the all-time favorite lobster club. Featuring spec- wine list. Named “Boston’s Most Popular Restaurant” (Zagat tacular floor-to-ceiling windows, blu is perfect for a pre-show 2010/2011). L & D. legalseafoods.com. dinner, corporate events, weddings, cocktail receptions and private dining. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., D Mon–Sat MASSIMINO’S CUCINA ITALIANA, 207 Endicott St., 617-523- 5–10 p.m. blurestaurant.com. 5959. Owner/chef Massimino—former head chef of Naples’

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Hotel Astoria and Switzerland’s Metropolitan Hotel—offers 49 CHARACTERS specialties like the veal chop stuffed with arugula, prosciutto, smoked mozzarella and black olives, amongst numerous other IN REPERTORY delights. L, D, C. Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 11 p.m. massiminosboston.com. NOW ON SALE! MERITAGE RESTAURANT + WINE BAR, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-439-3995. Known for its excellence in TICKETS wine and food pairings, Meritage enters a new era with an START AT exciting transformation featuring a stylish, refined dining room, $20! sophisticated wine bar and the addition of two new private dining rooms overlooking Boston Harbor. To complement the bold and elegant interiors, Chef Daniel Bruce has introduced a unique vineyard-to-table menu. D Tue–Sat 5–10 p.m., SB 10 a.m.–2 p.m. C, VP. meritagetherestaurant.com.

PARKER’S RESTAURANT, Omni Parker House, 60 School St. at Tremont Street, 617-725-1600. Executive chef Gerry Tice celebrates nostalgic cuisine with a contemporary­ flair at Parker’s Restaurant, the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie, the Parker House Roll and Boston Scrod. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., Sat–Sun 7–11:30 a.m., offering an elaborate buffet in addition to a la carte selections. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.; D Mon– Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5–10 p.m. He’s the prince. ROWES WHARF SEA GRILLE, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-856-7744. Rowes Wharf Sea Grille delivers the sea straight to your table. Enjoy power breakfasts and lunches followed by a vibrant after-work cocktail and dinner scene. The sunlight-filled dining room or seasonal outdoor terrace is an ideal spot for a leisurely lunch or special date night. B 6:30–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Afternoon Tea 2:30–4 p.m., D 4:30–10 p.m. roweswharfseagrille.com. She’s the rebel.

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE, 45 School St., 617-742-8401. At Ruth’s Chris Steak House, each steak is hand-selected from BEDLAM’s the top 2% of the country’s beef, broiled to perfection at 1,800 degrees and served in the restaurant’s signature style—on a sizzling, 500-degree plate so every bite stays hot and deli- cious. Located at Old City Hall, Ruth’s Chris also features fresh Hamlet seafood, an award-winning wine list and a gracious environ- & ment with warm hospitality. L, D, C. ruthschris.com. THE TAJ BOSTON, 15 Arlington St., 617-536-5700. This 1927 Saint Joan landmark offers dishes reflecting the seasonal flavors of New England as well as authentic Indian dishes for dinner. The Cafe: B, L, D, Sat & SB. The Lounge: L, D, C. The Bar: L, D, C. tajhotels.com/boston.

TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, 617-536-1775. Located 52 stories above the city, Top of MAR 7 - 25 the Hub is Boston’s special occasion favorite. With upscale EMERSON CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE American cuisine, live entertainment nightly, a spectacular view and romantic atmosphere, Top of the Hub promises a unique experience for both visitors and native Bostonians alike. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net. ARTSEMERSON.ORG 617.824.8400 YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE, 41 Union St., 617-227- 2750. America’s oldest restaurant, now celebrating 191 years, serves Yankee-style seafood, beef and chicken, and is famed for the oyster bar where Daniel Webster dined daily. Specialties include clam chowder and fresh lobster. L & D Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 10 p.m. C ’til midnight. unionoysterhouse.com.

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Top of the Hub ining in a room perched at one of Mays old fashioned. Given the encyclopedic the highest points in the city can be wine list, it would be a grievous oversight not Dthrilling, yet at Top of the Hub the to point out that Top of the Hub has won Wine spectacular view is merely an appetizer Spectator’s coveted Award of Excel- for an evening of fine food, drink and lence multiple times, offering wines entertainment. And while the vista TOP OF THE HUB by the bottle, half-bottle and in large may not change, the restaurant contin- 800 Boylston St. format—not to mention the dozens of ues to evolve, not only offering season- Prudential Center vintages available by the glass. 617-536-1775 ally and regionally inspired dishes, but Refer to Dining Guide, For those looking to make an also an exciting new lounge menu that page 45 entire evening out of their Top of the makes the expansive bar area an even Hub experience, the aforementioned more welcoming destination for a The lounge menu lounge victuals make for a perfect special night on the town. “ prelude to the eatery’s nightly live The kitchen at Top of the Hub offers a perfect music performances. Sandwiches, continues to turn out a wide array prelude to the soups, salads, flatbreads, oysters and of fresh seafood—from appetizers shareable platters (charcuterie and like the grilled baby octopus and nightly live music. cheese or pork belly banh mi sliders, exquisitely creamy lobster bisque to anyone?) are highlights for smaller hearty entrées like the North Atlantic ” appetites, while more substantial halibut served with quinoa, red lentils, brocco- dishes including New England fish & chips, duck lini, baby clams and saffron-braised fennel—as confit crispy chicken breast, spaghettini with white well as Instagram-worthy indulgences like the clam sauce and seared Georges Bank scallops are perfectly cooked, nearly fork-tender grilled filet featured as well. mignon. Speaking of indulgences, the bar also Whether you need a pre-theater stopover, mixes it up with creative, refreshing cocktails a place to celebrate a special occasion or a such as the blueberry mojito crafted with wild memorable spot to spend time with that special Maine blueberries and classics like the Clyde someone, Top of the Hub has you covered.

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