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2019-2020 Season

2019-2020 Season

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Adapted from The Lightning Thief  by Rick Riordan
Book by Joe Tracz | Music & Lyrics by Rob Rokicki
July 17 – July 28, 2019
The Huntington Theatre

This “winning adaptation” (The Hollywood Reporter) of the best-selling Disney-Hyperion novel by Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is “a colossal, crowd-pleasing hit of Herculean proportions!” (Broadwayworld.com). The Greek gods are real, and they’re ruining Percy Jackson’s life. As a son of Poseidon, Percy has newly discovered powers he can’t control, monsters on his trail, and is on an epic quest to find Zeus’s lightning bolt to prevent a war between the gods.

The Purists
by Dan McCabe | Directed by Billy Porter
August 30 – October 6, 2019
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

A thrilling world premiere by an exciting new voice, The Purists brings Tony Award winner Billy Porter (Kinky Boots, “Pose” on FX) to the Huntington to direct this soaring new play by Dan McCabe. A former rapper, a DJ, and a showtunes-loving telesales director have become an unlikely group who hang out and spar about music on a stoop in Queens. But when an impromptu rap battle erupts between two younger female emcees, everything gets questioned. With raw emotion and uproarious humor, The Purists asks, what is friendship? How can we embrace new ideas? And what does it mean to be wholly yourself?

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard | Directed by Peter DuBois
September 20 – October 20, 2019
The Huntington Theatre

Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play arrives in a marvelously funny, spectacularly beautiful new production. This modern-day classic tragicomedy imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As the story unfolds, they voice their confusion about the play that’s being performed without them, untangling bigger questions about life and death, reality and art. It’s all from the pen of Academy Award and four-time Best Play Tony Award winner Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Real Thing, and Arcadia), and directed by the Huntington’s own Artistic Director, Peter DuBois.

The Judy & Varla Show
Huntington Theatre Company & Mark Cortale present
The Judy & Varla Show
Starring Judy Gold & Varla Jean Merman with Gerald Goode at the piano
Sat., Oct. 19 at 6pm & 9pm
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

Don’t miss these two extraordinary talents share a stage for the first time ever in an unforgettable evening of music, stand-up, and all around hilarity. Featuring Gerald Goode at the piano.

Quixote Nuevo
by Octavio Solis | Directed by KJ Sanchez
November 15 – December 8, 2019
The Huntington Theatre

One of literature’s most vibrant and memorable characters, Cervantes’ Don Quixote is boldly brought to life by award-winning playwright Octavio Solis and director KJ Sanchez in this hysterically funny and exceptionally poetic adaption of the classic novel. Transported to a border town in Texas, the eccentric, brilliant knight embarks on a cross-desert quest to reunite with a long-lost love. Chased by Death himself – in the form of roving bands of guitar-playing Calacas – Quixote always leads with his heart in a world of people led astray by their brains. Quixote Nuevo is a triumphant celebration and a rich, contemporary, theatrical fable that has been created anew by Solis, one of the storytellers behind the Disney/Pixar film Coco.

We All Fall Down
by Lila Rose Kaplan | Directed by Melia Bensussen
January 10 – February 16, 2020
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

Linda and Saul Stein still live in the Westchester home where they raised their two beautiful daughters. But when Saul unexpectedly retires, Linda summons the family to celebrate Passover for the first time in decades. Linda tends slightly toward the theatrical (okay, a lot), and their family has never been particularly religious (okay, not at all). So their comic attempts to bring the Seder to life go from riotous to heartwrenching in this play from Huntington Playwriting Fellow and Somerville resident Lila Rose Kaplan, directed by Obie Award winner Melia Bensussen. Can this family come together, or will an age-old tradition tear them apart?

Sweat
by Lynn Nottage | Directed by Kimberly Senior
January 31 – March 1, 2020
The Huntington Theatre

The Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated Best Play by Lynn Nottage (Ruined) comes alive in a moving and urgently relevant new production directed by Kimberly Senior (The Niceties). Based on interviews with the residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of close friends struggle to stay connected when their factory is at risk of collapse. In a neighborhood bar, each of them reaches for their piece of the American dream. Can their friendships survive this test? Nottage weaves a tale of trust and doubt, longtime bonds and short-term possibilities. The New York Times raves, “Superb… Nottage is writing at the peak of her powers.”

She the People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing It for Themselves
February 18 – March 8, 2020
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA

Hot off rave reviews and extended engagements in Chicago and Toronto, She the People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing It for Themselves is heading to Boston. A high-octane show entirely created, designed and performed by the fearlessly funny women of world-famous comedy mecca The Second City, She the People is a mimosas-and-madness-fueled foray that proudly roasts the patriarchy in a mashup of sketches and songs that reclaims comedy for everyone!

Our Daughters, Like Pillars and The Bluest Eye got postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.