Rebekah Maggor portrays Ellen Terry's take on Juliet in the Huntington Theatre Company's "Huntington Presents" production of Shakespeare's Actresses in America, running Jan. 27–Feb. 11 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. Photo: Eric Antoniou.

Rebekah Maggor, as Sarah Bernhardt, portrays a gender-bending version of Hamlet in the Huntington Theatre Company's "Huntington Presents" production of Shakespeare's Actresses in America, running Jan. 27–Feb. 11 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. Photo: Eric Antoniou.

Rebekah Maggor as Margaret Webster, who narrates a parade of famous women thespians in the Huntington Theatre Company's "Huntington Presents" production of Shakespeare's Actresses in America, running Jan. 27–Feb. 11 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. Photo: Eric Antoniou

As portrayed by Rebekah Maggor, Ellen Terry's Ophelia remains one of the galvanizing interpretations of that complex role, in the Huntington Theatre Company's "Huntington Presents" production of Shakespeare's Actresses in America, running Jan. 27–Feb. 11 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. Photo: Eric Antoniou.

364 - Rebekah Maggor sheds one role after another in the Huntington Theatre Company's "Huntington Presents" production of Shakespeare's Actresses in America, running Jan. 27– Feb. 11 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. Photo: Eric Antoniou.

Playwright and actress Rebekah Maggor stars in "Shakespeare's Actresses in America," which she created, and which runs Jan. 27–Feb. 11, 2008 at the Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
Photo: Andrew Brilliant.

Playwright and actress Rebekah Maggor stars in "Shakespeare's Actresses in America," which she created, and which runs Jan. 27–Feb. 11, 2008 at the Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
Photo: Andrew Brilliant.