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Captors, Private Lives Added to Huntington’s 2011-2012 Season

Maria Aitken
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Maria Aitken
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Huntington Theatre Company has added two productions to its previously announced season.

The world premiere of Evan M. Wiener’s Captors will play November 11 – December 11 at the Boston University Theatre prior to an anticipated New York run. Peter DuBois will direct this play, inspired by the memoir Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein. Set in 1960 Buenos Aires, it involves the battle of wills between a covert Israeli agent and Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

Tony Award nominee Maria Aitken will direct Private Lives, May 25 – June 24, 2012. In Noël Coward’s stylish, savvy comedy, divorcés Amanda and Elyot meet again by accident on their second honeymoons with brand-new spouses in tow. Fireworks fly as they discover how quickly romance — and rivalry — can be rekindled. The production replaces the previously announced Tartuffe.

As , the theater’s season also includes Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of the musical Candide (September 10 – October 16); Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro’s Before I Leave You (October 14 – November 13), directed by Mark Brokaw; Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage (January 6 – February 5), directed by Daniel Goldstein; August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (March 9 – April 8), directed by Liesl Tommy; and Kirsten Greenidge’s The Luck of the Irish (March 30 – April 29), directed by Melia Bensussen.

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