Huntington Theatre Company News

The Gospel According to Jerry by Richard Krevolin and Irwin Kula will close at Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company May 8, 2011. This poignant comedy is the final production of MJTC's 16th season.

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square, has been bringing exciting and original programming to the space in 2011.

An experienced, talented cast takes on the age-old tradition of matchmaking with a contemporary twist in San Jose Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Love in American Times, by Philip Kan Gotanda. Love in American Times is directed by San Jose Rep's Artistic Director Rick Lombardo, and will run from May 12 through June 5, 2011.

Passage Theatre, Trenton's only professional theater company, is pleased to announce the New Jersey premiere of Mat Smart's two-person drama Samuel J. and K., a play which traces the complex bond between two brothers as they travel to the homeland of the younger.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/01 for Boston

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, will conclude its 27th Season with the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange. Directed by Kate Warner, with music direction by Todd C. Gordon, and choreography by Kelli Edwards, Passing Strange begins performances on May 1 and runs through May 22, 2011.

Huntington Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam (Speech & Debate, columbinus), directed by Peter DuBois (Trust, Becky Shaw). The cast of the irreverent and darkly comic story includes Kelsey Kurz (The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino) as elder brother Joseph, Dan McCabe (Donnie Darko, Saving Throw Versus Love) as younger brother Charles, and Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Into the Woods) as Gloria, Charles' eccentric employer. The production will clsoe on May 1, 2011.

Long Wharf Theatre has contracted with AMS Planning and Research to secure the services of Joshua Borenstein to serve as interim managing director.

What do you get when you put Wonder Woman, Supergirl and other beloved spandex-clad females together on the same stage?

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston took home four 2010 Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards in the Large Theater category on Monday, April 25, during the fifteenth annual awards ceremony held at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama on Tremont Street.

Theatre Exile concludes its 2010-2011 season with Saturn Returns (April 28 - May 22), by Noah Haidle. Saturn Returns launches audiences into a bittersweet orbit of memory, longing and love with the same offbeat, savagely funny exploration into loneliness that made Haidle's Mr. Marmalade an audience favorite.

Boston University School of Theatre in association with the Huntington Theatre Company brings the internationally acclaimed Propeller Theatre Company to Boston for the first time to perform Shakespeare's Richard III and The Comedy of Errors in ambitious rotating repertory.

Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, concludes its 2010-11 season with Italian American Reconciliation, by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Eric Ting, running from April 27 through May 22.

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE), a panel of critics from media outlets around the state of Massachusetts, have announced the winners for the 2011 IRNE Awards honoring the best of the 2010 Theatre Season. A list of the nominees and winners is below.

Huntington Theatre Company productions from the 2010 calendar year were honored with eight Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards last night. No theatre company received more awards for their productions than the Huntington.

Stage, film and television actress Ginnifer Goodwin ('Big Love', He's Just Not That Into You) will play Carnelle Scott in an industry reading of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Beth Henley's comedy THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST this Thursday, April 28th. Tony Award winning actress Judith Ivey directs.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 4/24 for Boston

Passage Theatre, Trenton's only professional theater company, is pleased to announce the New Jersey premiere of Mat Smart's two-person drama Samuel J. and K., a play which traces the complex bond between two brothers as they travel to the homeland of the younger.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today four musicals to be developed at its 2011 National Music Theater Conference under the leadership of Artistic Director Paulette Haupt.