About The Huntington
Founded in 1982 by Boston University, The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston's largest and most popular theatre company and one of the nation's most respected. In July 2008, Peter DuBois became the company's third artistic leader, succeeding Peter Altman (1982 – 2000) and Nicholas Martin (2000 – 2008). As Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director, he works in partnership with longtime Managing Director Michael Maso.
The Huntington is renowned for creating seven world-class productions each season for an audience of over 130,000. It brings the country's finest theatre artists to Boston, including Phylicia Rashad, Kate Burton, Nathan Lane, John C. Reilly, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin and Campbell Scott, to work with Boston's finest artists. With partner Boston University, the company has nurtured future stars such as Julianne Moore and Michael Chiklis. The Huntington has premiered plays by Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, and Tony Award-winning luminaries such as August Wilson and Tom Stoppard, as well as rising local literary stars such as Melinda Lopez and Ronan Noone.
The company stages its productions in two world-class venues: the historic, Broadway-style, 890-seat Boston University Theatre on Huntington Avenue, and the state-of-the-art Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, built and operated by the Huntington since 2004, houses the 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and the 200-seat Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio. The Roberts Studio and the Pavilion's other spaces serve as homes for many of Boston's smaller theatre companies, expanding the Huntington's local leadership role to supporting many of Boston's emerging and midsized theatre companies.
The Huntington's world-class productions are widely acknowledged to have the highest production values in Boston and are created by its talented resident production staff. The Huntington has sent more productions to Broadway than any company in Boston, including the current Broadway hit, the Tony Award-winning Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, Butley starring Nathan Lane, Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius, and eight August Wilson plays over 20 years. Additionally, the Huntington is the only producing company in Boston to bring the best of Broadway directly to its audiences, including the original Broadway productions of Well, Shining City and James Joyce's The Dead.
The Huntington is a national leader in the development of new plays, with The Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays and the Harry Kondoleon Fund supporting the commissioning of emerging and established writers, our annual Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings, and full productions of new plays. Through the Huntington Presents series, the company brings special productions from outside of Boston to the local audience.
Since its founding, the Huntington's staff and resident artists have dedicated themselves to providing professional mentorship, training and experience to students in the Boston University School of Theatre, helping to mold the next generations of artists for the American theatre. In addition, over the past two decades the Huntington's nationally-recognized education programs have served more than 200,000 middle school and high school students in individual and group settings, and our community outreach programs bring theatre to the Deaf and blind communities, the elderly, and other underserved populations in the Greater Boston area.