FCD - Huntington Theatre Company

GENERAL INFORMATION

Huntington Theatre Company
264 Huntington Ave/Avenue of the Arts
Boston, MA
02115-4606

Box Office Phone:
617-266-0800

E-mail:
htc@bu.edu

Box office hours:
Non-performance weeks
M - F 11am-5pm
Performance weeks
M - Th 11am-5pm
Friday 11am-8pm
Saturday noon-8pm
Sunday noon-7pm

Web site:
www.huntingtontheatre.org

EVENTS

Events at, or related to the Huntington Theatre Company are listed throughout the Cultural District website. Please explore one the website categories and the Calendar in the upper right hand corner of this screen.

The Huntington Theatre Company, now in its 23rd season, is Boston's leading professional theatre. Under the leadership of Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Nicholas Martin and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington is experiencing a period of artistic and institutional growth.

Established in 1982 as a professional theatre in residence at Boston University, the Huntington offers a seven-play season for an annual audience of more than 200,000, including 17,500 subscribers.

The Huntington has received three Tony Award nominations for productions transferred to Broadway and six Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2003, the Huntington production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, directed by Nicholas Martin, completed a New York run at Lincoln Center Theater where it received two Lucille Lortel Awards and a total of six nominations. In 2001 the Huntington production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, also directed by Nicholas Martin, enjoyed an acclaimed Broadway run and garnered a Tony nomination for Kate Burton in the title role. The Huntington has also reinvigorated classics by Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov, Turgenev, Shaw, O'Neill, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Baldwin, and Hansberry; as well as musicals by Gilbert and Sullivan, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim.

The Huntington has produced nearly 50 New England, American, or world premieres, including most recently, the world premiere of The Blue Demon, written and directed by Resident Director Darko Tresnjak, featuring music by Michael Friedman, and the musical Marty, by the creative team of Rupert Holmes (book), Charles Strouse (music), and Lee Adams (lyrics). Other premieres include works by Tom Stoppard, Brian Friel, Jon Robin Baitz, Christopher Durang, Donald Margulies, Richard Nelson, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Horton Foote. Six major works by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson have had developmental productions on our stage prior to their New York premieres. The Altman Fund for Artistic Diversity, founded in honor of former Producing Director Peter Altman, maintains our support of plays written by and about people of color.

Mr. Martin has enhanced the Huntington's commitment to developing new plays for the American theatre. To this end, the Huntington has established Breaking Ground, a new play readings festival, and the Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays, which allows the Huntington to commission new works from emerging and established writers. The Huntington has built two new performance spaces - the Virginia Wimberly Theatre and the Nancy and Edward Roberts Theatre - in collaboration with the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), the first new theatre building to be built in Boston in more than 75 years. The Huntington will focus its new play development at the new Theatre Pavilion, while continuing to perform primarily at its home base, the 890-seat Boston University Theatre on Huntington Avenue.

The Huntington provides professional training and experience to students in the Boston University School of Theatre Arts. During the past two decades, the Huntington's nationally recognized education programs have served more than 200,000 middle school and high school students, and our community outreach programs bring theatre to the Deaf and blind communities, the elderly, and other underserved populations in the Greater Boston area.