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...opposite side of the stage gives access to more work rooms: the costume shop, the dyeing room (the proud home of the Huntington??s own dyeing machine, “Mr. Spock”) and the sewing room, where a significant portion of the costumes worn in productions are expressly made...
...while Martin brought his directing experience to bear on the Huntington??s artistic direction, the decisions he made did not move the company’s artistic vision into the sole hands of the director. So he decided to hire a dramaturg. He began to explore scripts and looked for newness, not in directorial interpretation or adaptation, as has become the hallmark of the ART, but in new texts...
...Martin] was really interested in making the Huntington more pertinent to American theater as a whole, to the artists who lived and worked in this city and to the American playwright,” says Ilana Brownstein, the Huntington??s literary manager, whom Martin hired. “We don’t look to do experimental, directorial-vision plays, which the ART does. Our theater looks toward the playwright and the play as text: How do we mount a production that is not experimental, but reimagines...
...Play Development department was created, which, in addition to holding seminars for reading new plays, is also a driving force behind the Huntington??s $19.7 million building campaign. Two new theatres, which will constitute the new Theatre Pavilion in the South End, will serve as smaller, more accessible venues for new plays, many of them by Boston playwrights. The Virginia Wimberly Theatre, the larger of the two, will be used by the Huntington exclusively for new plays, and the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre will be rented out to smaller theater companies associated with the Boston Center...
...Nathan Lane was in town rehearsing for Butley, the story of a jaded English professor. The play was directed by Martin and pronounced a success by the Globe even over the original 1971 production, which starred the legendary Alan Bates. Two years ago, Martin was so successful with the Huntington??s production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler that the show was taken to Broadway, where the same lead actress won a Tony. With Hedda Gabler, Martin managed to turn a familiar script into a more effective telling, not altering the essential strains of the classic story...