19 Mar
Huntington Theatre Company Announces 2024-2025 Season (Boston, MA.)

Huntington Theatre Company

Announces Their 

2024-2025 SEASON!


More information available online at huntingtontheatre.orgby phone at 617-266-0800 or in person at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 

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THE HUNTINGTON ANNOUNCES AN ADVENTUROUS AND BOLD 2024/25 SEASON –POWERFUL STORIES BY INSPIRING WRITERS 

THE HUNTINGTON announces five of seven dynamic titles, including timely, diverse, and epic stories about family, Stoppard’s latest, and a beautiful contemporary musical!

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ABOUT THE SHOWS


"LEOPOLDSTADT"

Written by Tom Stoppard

Directed by Carey Perloff

THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. 

Produced in Association with Shakespeare Theatre Company

Performances:

September 12, 2024 through October 13, 2024 

(Contact Box Office for Exact Times) 

TICKETS:

Available online at huntingtontheatre.org, by phone at 617-266-0800 or in person at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 

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Winner! Four Tony Awards, including Best Play! 

Winner! Two Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play! 

The latest masterpiece and most personal play from Tom Stoppard, "LEOPOLDSTADT" is a stirring and epic story of love, family, and enduring bravery. 

In Vienna, the heart of European culture at the rise of the 20th century, two brothers have conflicting visions of prosperity – both for their family and the Jewish people – a tension that will echo through the generations that follow.

 

"SOJOURNERS"

Written by Mfoniso Udofia

Directed by Dawn M. Simmons

THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. 

Performances: 

October 31, 2024 through December 1, 2024 

(Contact Box Office for Exact Times) 

TICKETS:

Available online at huntingtontheatre.org, by phone at 617-266-0800 or in person at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 

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Rising star playwright Mfoniso Udofia launches her sweeping cycle with a family’s origin story. 

Marriage, migration, and the pursuit of education collide when a young and brilliant Nigerian couple arrives in Houston, looking to earn their degrees and bring insights back to their home country. 

But when Abasiama discovers that her husband has been seduced by Motown records and American culture, she has to choose between the Nigerian Dream and her obligations as a matriarch. 

Director Dawn M. Simmons helms the lively and funny "SOJOURNERS" at the historic HUNTINGTON THEATRE following her acclaimed production of "K-I-S-S-I-N-G" at the Calderwood Pavilion


"THE GROVE" 

Written by Mfoniso Udofia

Directed by Awoye Timpo

Calderwood / Wimberly Theatre, 527 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02116  

Performances: 

February 7, 2025 through March 9, 2025 

(Contact Box Office for Exact Times) 

TICKETS:

Available online at huntingtontheatre.org, by phone at 617-266-0800 or in person at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 

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Playwright Mfoniso Udofia stages a family homecoming, asking what it means to draw on the wisdom and beauty of our ancestors when the bonds of family are stretched to the limit. 

Abasiama’s eldest daughter Adiaha wants to become a writer to make her family proud, but at her graduation party, she has to choose: fulfill her parents’ desires to settle with a traditional Nigerian man, or stay true to her own romantic match. 

Director Awoye Timpo ("THE BLUEST EYE" at THE HUNTINGTON) reunites with longtime collaborator Udofia for a play with the rich heart of a family drama against the thrilling theatrical backdrop of a Greek chorus of ancestors.   


"DON'T EAT THE MANGOS"

Written by Ricardo Pérez González

Directed by David Mendizábal

Calderwood / Wimberly Theatre, 527 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02116  

Performances: 

March 26, 2025 through April 27, 2025 

(Contact Box Office for Exact Times) 

TICKETS:

Available online at huntingtontheatre.org, by phone at 617-266-0800 or in person at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 

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Winner! 2021 Will Glickman Award for Best Play! 

Playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s wickedly funny tragedy "DON'T EAT THE MANGOS" portrays life on his home island of Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the saga of three sisters living just outside San Juan

As a hurricane approaches the beautiful island, secrets and ugly truths are revealed that cause the sisters to wrestle with how to stay true to their familia and homeland – and seek a satisfying revenge. 

Obie Award winner David Mendizábal returns from the acclaimed world premiere production to direct.  


"LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA"

Book by Craig Lucas

Music & Lyrics by Adam Guettel

Based on the Novel by Elizabeth Spencer

Directed by Huntington Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Loretta Greco

THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.

Performances: 

May 8, 2025 through June 15, 2025 

(Contact Box Office for Exact Times) 

TICKETS:

Available online at huntingtontheatre.org, by phone at 617-266-0800 or in person at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 

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Winner! 6 Tony Awards including Best Original Score! 

A lush and soaring romance unfolds as Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco ("PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC") creates a brand-new production of Adam Guettel’s sweeping Tony Award-winning score and Craig Lucas’ profound book in this must-see story of a mother, a daughter, and the many meanings of love. 

Florence, Italy in the summer of 1953

Protective American mother Margaret Johnson brings her daughter Clara abroad for a glimpse of Italy’s romantic history. 

But when a real-life attraction sparks between Clara and a local boy, Margaret must ask: can she reconcile her own hopes with her daughter’s future?   

Later this spring, THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE will announce plans for a city-wide celebration of the Ufot Family Cycle in partnership with a number of Boston theatre companies and arts organizations, local universities and businesses, and community organizations, to collectively produce the nine plays of the cycle over the next two seasons. 

THE HUNTINGTON will also announce two additional productions as part of its 2024/25 season – one to be performed at the Calderwood Pavilion in fall of 2024 and one at THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE in 2025


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ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY

THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets since its founding in 1982. Recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award, THE HUNTINGTON brings together superb local and national talent and produces a mix of groundbreaking new works and classics made current to create award-winning productions. THE HUNTINGTON runs nationally renowned programs in education and new play development and serves the local theatre community through its operation of the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. THE HUNTINGTON has long been an anchor cultural institution of Huntington Avenue, the Avenue of the Arts, and will remain so on a permanent basis with plans to convert the Huntington Avenue Theatre into a first-rate, modern venue with expanded services to audiences, artists, and the community. THE HUNTINGTON cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form. 

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