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Broadway's Disgraced Will Be Part of 2015-16 Season at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company

The company’s upcoming season is self-styled as “big, bold, and ambitious.”

A scene from the Broadway production of Disgraced.
A scene from the Broadway production of Disgraced.
(© Joan Marcus)

The Huntington Theatre Company has released the lineup of productions set for its 2015-16 season.

Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music (September 11-October 11) will open the season with its romantic score and book by Hugh Wheeler. Peter DuBois will direct.

A new play by Wicked book writer Winnie Holzman will continue the season. Directed by Sheryl Kaller, Choice (October 16-November 15) follows successful journalist Zipporah Zunder as she takes on an assignment to investigate a new and polarizing spiritual phenomenon.

As previously announced, Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation) will star in a world-premiere stage adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces (November 11-December 1). David Esbjornson is set to direct.

Todd Kreidler will direct Eugene Lee in August Wilson's solo show How I Learned What I Learned (January 8-February 7). The two longtime Wilson collaborators present stories about "his first few jobs, a stint in jail, his first kiss, his lifelong friends, and his encounters with racism," and more.

Kimberly Senior, who helmed the Broadway production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced (March 4-April 3), will repeat her duties at the Huntington. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, the production will play Boston University Theatre.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo's new comedy Can You Forgive Her? (March 25-April 24) is up next, with Peter DuBois directing. The play is set on Halloween night, and "Miranda is desperate for a way out. She's up to her neck in debt, she might be falling for the man who pays her bills, and now her date has threatened to kill her."

I Was Most Alive With You (June 1-July 3), a new play written and directed by Craig Lucas (An American in Paris), will be the final offering of the 2015-2016 subscription season. The play takes place at Thanksgiving dinner, where Knox shares that he is grateful for three things: "being deaf, being gay, and being an alcoholic."

Huntington will also present Huntington Playwriting Fellow Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar (January 29-February 28). M. Bevin O’Gara will direct this new play about Annie and her teenage friends. Milk Like Sugar is not part of the 2015-2016 subscription season.

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I Was Most Alive With You

Closed: July 3, 2016

Can You Forgive Her?

Closed: April 24, 2016