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2012-2013 Season

2012-2013 Season

Good People
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
Sep. 14 – Oct. 14, 2012
The Huntington Theatre

On election night, the son of a presidential candidate sends his father’s political team into crisis mode when controversial photos of him at a college party spread over the internet, potentially sparking an international incident. Smart and timely, Christopher Shinn’s searching new play examines religion, freedom of expression, and personal responsibility.

Now Or Later
by Christopher Shinn
Directed by Michael Wilson
Oct. 12 – Nov. 10, 2012
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

On election night, the son of a presidential candidate sends his father’s political team into crisis mode when controversial photos of him at a college party spread over the internet, potentially sparking an international incident. Smart and timely, Christopher Shinn’s searching new play examines religion, freedom of expression, and personal responsibility.

Betrayal
by Harold Pinter
Directed by Maria Aitken
Nov. 9 – Dec. 9, 2012
The Huntington Theatre

For seven years, Emma and Jerry engage in a passionate love affair, deceiving their spouses, each other, and at times, even themselves. One of the 20th century’s most influential dramatists, Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter innovatively explores the complexities of love, guilt, and duplicity in this Olivier Award-winning classic.

Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
Directed by David Cromer
Dec. 7 – Jan. 27, 2013
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

Obie Award-winning visionary director David Cromer brings his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed new version of the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town to the Huntington. In 1901 Grover’s Corners, George and Emily fall in love, marry, and live out their lives as one New England town becomes a microcosm of everyday life. An Off Broadway smash playing for more than 600 performances, this wonderfully intimate staging marks the Huntington’s first production in the Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison / Adapted by Oren Jacoby
Directed by Christopher McElroen
Jan. 4 – Feb. 3, 2013
The Huntington Theatre

“I am an invisible man.” An idealistic young African-American man searches for identity and his place in the world in an epic journey through 1930s America. Ellison’s landmark American novel about race, power, freedom, and liberty comes to life in this Jefferson Award-winning gripping theatrical adaptation.

A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Liesl Tommy
Mar. 8 – Apr. 7, 2013
The Huntington Theatre

In a crowded apartment in Chicago’s South Side, each member of a struggling African-American family yearns for a different version of a better life. An impending and sizeable insurance payment could be the key. Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking 1959 classic drama is an inspiring and fiercely moving portrait of people whose dreams are constantly deferred.

Ryan Landry’s “M”
by Ryan Landry
Directed by Caitlin Lowans
Mar. 30 – Apr. 28, 2013
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

Light and shadow, comedy and drama. Elusive elements all, now mashed together in the dazzling crescendo of Ryan Landry’s sur-really screwball take on Fritz Lang’s masterpiece M. Watch with glee (and horror) as the genius behind the legendary Gold Dust Orphans brings his delirious imagination to this hilarious and heart-stirring new adaptation of the film noir classic. Warning: not for the faint of heart!

Rapture, Blister, Burn
by Gina Gionfriddo
Directed by Peter DuBois
May 24 – June 30, 2013
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

After grad school, Catherine pursued a career as a rockstar feminist academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, each friend covets the other’s life. With searing insight and trademark wit, this new comedy takes a deep look at family, career, romance, and the decisions that define a life.  A 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

Selected Shorts on Tour: Springtime, Sex, and Baseball

Tony and Emmy Award nominee Kate Burton (“Grey’s Anatomy,” The Cherry Orchard, and the upcoming The Seagull at the Huntington), Emmy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare (“True Blood” and “American Horror Story”), and Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) perform powerful, surprising, romantic, and funny stories by comic master Dorothy Parker, baseball writer W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), and quirky contemporary humorists Aimee Bender and N. M. Kelby.

Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts feature short stories — always fiction, a mix of classics and new — centering on a theme and brought to life in performance by great actors from stage, screen, and television.