Huntington Announces Two Post-Show Events for PRELUDE TO A KISS 5/21

Huntington Theatre Company will present two exciting post-show events in conjunction with award-winning playwright Craig Lucas' modern classic Prelude to a Kiss.

Young professionals who are culturally curious and aged 21 to 35 are invited to attend a special 35 Below Wrap Party after the 8pm performance of Prelude to a Kiss on Friday, May 21. Admission is free with the purchase of a $25 35 Below ticket to the 8pm performance.

The wrap party for Prelude to a Kiss will offer free food and beverages, live music, an opportunity to mingle with the cast, creative team, and Huntington staff, and exclusive backstage access. Appetizers from Symphony 8 will be served, along with drinks generously donated by Magners Irish Cider. Local favorite Hayley Jane and the Primates, featuring Annie Goodchild, will provide folk-fusion live music.

35 Below is the Huntington Theatre Company's ongoing program providing $25 tickets to performances of all Huntington productions for young professionals aged 35 and under (with valid I.D.). Tickets are available online at huntingtontheatre.org; by phone at 617 266-0800; and in person at the B.U. Theatre Box Office, 264 Huntington Avenue or the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Box Office, 527 Tremont Street in Boston's South End.

At the Humanities Forum on Sunday, May 23 immediately following the 2pm performance, the Huntington Theatre Company welcomes Harvard University professor Maria Tartar, who will interpret themes from the play and examine fairy-tale motifs in a post-show discussion.

Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures. She chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in German Studies, Folklore, and Children's Literature. She has written Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Secrets Beyond the Door: "Bluebeard" in Folklore, Fiction, and Film, Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany, and more. As an editor, her works include The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Classic Fairy Tales, among others.She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio's Denison University and her doctorate from Princeton University.

ABOUT PRELUDE TO A KISS
The Huntington Theatre Company concludes its 28th season - a season of American stories - with Prelude to a Kiss, the modern classic by award-winning playwright Craig Lucas, directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois. After a whirlwind courtship and a storybook wedding, a young couple's life is abruptly changed by a mysterious elderly man's kiss. This life-affirming comedy, a 1991 Pulitzer Prize finalist, explores the enduring power of love and the nature of commitment. "Craig's play makes my heart race," says DuBois. "It quite literally takes my breath away. I am thrilled to be introducing this contemporary master playwright to the Huntington Theatre Company." Prelude to a Kiss plays at the B.U. Theatre May 14 - June 13, 2010. Learn more or buy tickets at huntingtontheatre.org/prelude or 617 266-0800.

ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON
The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston's largest and most popular theatre company, hosting 66 Tony Award-winning artists, garnering 38 Elliot Norton Awards, and sending over a dozen shows to Broadway since its founding in 1982. In July 2008, Peter DuBois became the Huntington's third artistic leader and works in partnership with longtime Managing Director Michael Maso. In residence at and in partnership with Boston University, the Huntington is renowned for presenting seven outstanding productions each season, created by world-class artists and the most promising emerging talent, and reaching an annual audience of over 130,000. The company has premiered plays by Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, and Tony Award-winning luminaries such as August Wilson and Tom Stoppard, as well as rising local literary stars such as Melinda Lopez and Ronan Noone. The Huntington has transferred more productions to Broadway than any other theatre in Boston, including the Broadway hit and Tony Award-winner Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. In 2004, the Huntington opened the state-of-the-art Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which includes 370-seat and 200-seat theatres to support the company's new works activities and to complement the company's 890-seat, Broadway-style main stage, the Boston University Theatre. The Huntington is a national leader in the development and support of new plays, producing dozens of New England, American, or world premieres in its 27-year history. The Huntington's nationally-recognized education programs have served more than 200,000 middle school and high school students in individual and group settings and community programs bring theatre to the Deaf and blind communities, the elderly, and other underserved populations in the Greater Boston area.

For information about 35 Below, please visit huntingtontheatre.org/events/35below.aspx

For more information about Prelude to a Kiss, please visit huntingtontheatre.org/prelude.

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