The Huntington Theatre Company is a non-profit professional theater company in Boston, Massachusetts. The Huntington has garnered six Elliot Norton Awards and three Tony Award nominations for productions that were transferred to Broadway after critically acclaimed productions in Boston. The Huntington produces its season in the 890-seat Boston University Theater and in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. [1]
Past productions include Wishful Drinking with Carrie Fisher, Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps, Two Men of Florence by Richard Goodwin, She Loves Me directed by Nicholas Martin, and Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean, and seven other plays by August Wilson. [2]
The Calderwood Pavilion opened in 2004, and is operated by the Huntington Theatre Company. It houses the 360 seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre, the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre, Carol G. Deane Hall, and Hall A. The Huntington also operates BostonTheatreScene.com where tickets are sold for productions at the Boston University Theatre, the BCA Theatres on the Plaza, and Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. [3]
The 2009-2010 Season of American plays includes August Wilson's Fences, Maureen McGovern's A Long and Winding Road, Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas, All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Stick Fly by Lydia Diamond, Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, and Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas.[4]
In the 2010-2011 season, they featured "The Shirley, VT Plays" Festival, with 3 plays written by Annie Baker being put on at the same time in three different theatres; Circle Mirror Transformation (Huntington), Body Awareness (SpeakEasy), and Aliens (Company One).[5]