2011-2012 Student Matinees
See the show. Meet the cast. Get a private tour.
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by Noël Coward |
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Music by Leonard Bernstein
Newly adapted from the Voltaire
by Mary Zimmerman |
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by Evan M. Wiener |
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by August Wilson |
CANDIDE
Music by Leonard Bernstein • Book Adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur • Additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Leonard Bernstein
Directed and newly adapted from the Voltaire by Mary Zimmerman
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10am • BU Theatre
ASL-Interpretted
*SOLD OUT*
Contact Meg Wieder about bringing your group to another performance.
Curriculum Guide (PDF)
Glorious Musical
Featuring Leonard Bernstein's soaring score and lyrics from some of the wittiest writers of all time, this outrageous musical satire tells the story of the naïve Candide. Banished for romancing the Baron's daughter, Candide is plagued by a series of absurd hardships that challenges his optimistic outlook on life and love. An enchanting new production directed by the Tony Award-winning Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses).
"GORGEOUSLY IMAGINED, Candide is a garden of delight!" — Chicago Sun-Times
CAPTORS
by Evan M. Wiener • Directed by Peter DuBois
Based on the memoir Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein
Produced in association with Michael Weinberger, Jeff Mandel, and Tom Heller
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10am • BU Theatre
Curriculum Guide (PDF)
Thrilling True Story
1960 Buenos Aires. Covert Israeli agents have just nabbed Adolf Eichmann, the world's most wanted war criminal. The agents hold "the architect of the Holocaust" in a safe house, but bringing him to justice means getting his signature. One of his captors and Eichmann, the infamous mastermind, compete in a thrilling battle of wills.
"One of history's great manhunts." — The New York Times
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
by August Wilson • Directed by Liesl Tommy (Ruined)
Thursday, March 29 & Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 10am • BU Theatre
ASL-Interpretted
Powerful and Moving Drama
Legendary 1920s blues singer Ma Rainey and her musicians gather in a run-down Chicago studio to record new sides of old favorites when generational and racial tensions suddenly explode. The Huntington completes Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson's Century Cycle with this searing drama, Wilson's first Broadway hit.
**Seats will sell quickly — reserve your seats today and witness our completion of August Wilson's Century Cycle!**
"EXTRAORDINARY! Ma Rainey rides on the exultant notes of the blues." — Newsweek
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH
by Kirsten Greenidge • Directed by Melia Bensussen (Circle Mirror Transformation)
Friday, April 13 & Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 10am • Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
Compelling Boston Story
When an upwardly mobile African-American family wants to buy a house in an all-white neighborhood of 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to act as their front. Fifty years later, the Irish family asks for "their" house back. Moving across the two eras, this intimate new play explores personal stories of integration and the conflict of calling any place your home.
"Kirsten Greenidge is a writer of OBVIOUS AND UNUSUAL TALENT." — Village Voice
PRIVATE LIVES
by Noël Coward • Directed by Maria Aitken
Thursday, June 7, 2012 • BU Theatre
Classic Comedy
Divorcés Amanda and Elyot meet again by accident on their second honeymoons with brand-new spouses in tow. Fireworks fly as they discover how quickly romance — and rivalry — can be rekindled in Noël Coward's stylish, savvy comedy about the people we can't live with...or without.
"One of the funniest comedies of the 20th century!" — The New York Times