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One of the most prestigious and coveted honors in the entertainment industry, the Regional Theatre Tony Award is presented each year to honor a nonprofit professional regional theatre company in the United States that has displayed a continuous level of artistic achievement contributing to the growth of theatre nationally. It is awarded by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing based upon a recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association. This year it was awarded to Boston's Huntington Theatre Company.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced Friday that it will present the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award to the Huntington Theatre Companyof Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, June 9.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University will present the world premiere of the musical Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, and directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. The production will begin performances at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge in February of 2014.

The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) announces its nominations for the 31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards, which recognize excellence in Greater Boston theater, will be presented on Monday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Mainstage, 559 Washington Street, Boston.

Wonderfully conceived and stylistically creative, the world premiere of Ryan Landry's "M" is a unique theatrical event. Light and shadow, comedy and drama and silliness and seriousness are blended together in a surrealistic and at times totally quite poignant adaptation of uberdirector Fritz Lang's masterpiece "M." We are compelled to watch with both amused wonder and horror as Landry brings his unique imagination to a new adaptation of this dark film noir 1931 classic. This is theatre of the absurd with a point. It is a gothic visual and verbal journey that is dreamlike but unconditionally entertaining.

In a crowded apartment in Chicago’s South Side, each member of a struggling African-American family yearns for a different version of a better life. An impending large insurance payment seems to be the key. While American prejudice and racism set barriers and even roadblocks to life's journey, this is an moving portrait of resilient people whose dreams are constantly deferred. A must see theatrical event.

The complete 2013-2014 Season will include four plays at the Boston University Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts, three plays at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, and one play in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.

Berkshire Theatre Group announces award-winning actress, Christine Lahti, and award-winning actor, Treat Williams, will join.the cast of The Lion in Winter at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage. The classic play runs June 25 to July 13

The production which Jack Lyons reviewed is being restaged with some changes at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. “Pygmalion”, the sparkling comedy production on the Old Globe’s Shiley Stage, in San Diego stars Robert Sean Leonard of TV’s “House M.D.” as Henry Higgins. The production, steadfastly directed by Nicholas Martin, (former artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival) co-stars San Diego favorite, Paxton Whitehead as the redoubtable Colonel Pickering and Charlotte Parry as Eliza Doolittle. Parry’s Eliza is one of the best Eliza’s seen on any stage in a long time. At WTF she is played by Heather Lind.

This well-acted play is the journey of an idealistic young African-American man searching for identity and his place in the world in pre-Civil Rights America. Based on Ralph Ellison’s landmark American novel about race, power and ultimately personal freedom, it is presented as an eloquent theatrical experience.

With her third Broadway production, Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck is running on vapors. Perhaps this half backed, ersatz sit-com is a part of the collateral damage of last season's struggles with the brilliant but embattled TV series Smash. She has departed from the show which she originated. Whatever the reason this new play entirely lacks focus. It is little more than a one liner and gag stretched out in two miserable acts. It does however have the star power of Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz and tabloid regular Katie Holmes to sell tickets.

In 1901 Grover's Corners, George and Emily fall in love, marry, and live out their lives as one New England town becomes a microcosm of everyday life. Or maybe not? Cleverly conceived and directed by David Cromer, this is a wonderfully intimate yet contemporary staging of the Thornton Wilder American classic. In several ways, Our Town is everyone's town. Due to demand the show has been extended to January 26.

With its usual crafted quality, the Huntington presents Harold Pinter's most famous and perhaps most resolved play. Here, for seven years, Emma and Jerry engage in a passionate love affair, deceiving their spouses, each other and perhaps even themselves. Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter innovatively explores the complexities of love, guilt, and duplicity in this contemporary classic.

Named one of Time Magazine’s 10 best plays of 2011, Chinglish follows an American businessman as he heads to a bustling Chinese province looking to cash in on the area’s growth potential. It is a hilarious comedy of mistranslation and manners by Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang, author of M Butterfly. It comes to Lyric Stage of Boston from November 30 to December 23.

During election season, the Huntington Theatre Company has scheduled a timely play about politics when all hell broke loose. Now or Later is set on election night. A presidential candidate's son sends his father’s political team beyond crisis mode when controversial photos of him at a college party go viral over the web. They potentially spark an international incident. This smart topical drama examines inherited religion, freedom of expression and personal responsibility in a time of electionmania.

In working class, Irish-American South Boston, each month’s paycheck barely covers last month’s bills, bingo at the Parish Church is a night on the town (thank you, Father), and put-upon sharp-tongued single-mom Margaret Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. At times poignant, this is a compelling humor-filled drama full of twists of fate and human foibles. Brilliantly cast and beautifully staged, it was created by Boston-born Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire. This play is a must-see.

Witty and wonderful, a comedy of bad manners, Private Lives tells the story of divorcés Amanda and Elyot who meet again by accident on their second honeymoons with their ill-suited new spouses. The two discover how quickly passionate confrontational romance can be rekindled in Noël Coward’s elegantly stylish comedy about the people who can’t be lived with or without. A period piece (1930) that seems to be somehow of our time as well. It is a wonderful do not miss theatrical treat to begin the Summer.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announce additional events and offerings as part of the third Emerging America— an annual festival featuring groundbreaking performance by American artists June 21 to 24.

The Huntington Theatre Company completes its 30th Anniversary Season , May 25 – June 24, 2012, with the perfect play for springtime: Lifetime Tony Award-winning playwright Noël Coward’s beloved sparkling comedy Private Lives. Tony Award-nominated Maria Aitken, director of the Huntington’s acclaimed productions of Educating Rita and the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps and director of the upcoming Betrayal (November 2012) helms.

Beginning May 11, SpeakEasy Stage will present the Boston Premiere of the hit Broadway musical comedy XANADU. This acclaimed show will be the company’s 100th production.

Numerous unique events in Boston this week. Maestro Bernard Haitink leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s warm and ever-popular Pastoral Symphony. Handel and Hayden presents the memorable Mozart Coronation. The Celebrity Series showcases at Jordan Hall: Emerson String Quartet, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra ends its season with Mahler Triumphant! ArtsEmerson presents Hershey Felder in Maestro: Leonard Bernstein while The Luck of the Irish final weeks continue at the Huntington Theatre. The Institute of Contemporary Art presents the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival of animation and technical innovation.

This has been a breakout season for Theresa Rebeck one of the most highly regarded playwrights of her generation. Her TV series Smash has been exactly that. Now confirmed for another season with Rebeck in a less that pivotal role. That leaves more time for theatre like the current Broadway hit Seminar. There has been a cast change with the lead handed from Alan Rickman to Jeff Goldblum. Its second coming is simply fabulous.

Subscribing is the only way to guarantee tickets to MacArthur "Genius" David Cromer's groundbreaking and critically acclaimed new production of Our Town. Our Town is not part of any subscription series, but Huntington subscribers have exclusive access and are first in line to purchase tickets to this extraordinary theatrical event. We expect this limited engagement to sell out! Subscribe today and buy your Our Town tickets now while they are still available.

A flurry of activities in both Boston and Cambridge this week. Do not miss the Elliot Norton laureate William Kentridge will present his animated films at the Harvard Archives. The Jewish film festival promises a variety of special movies. Maestro Bernard Haitink will conduct at the Boston Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Institute of Contemporary Art & World Music/CRASHARTS showcases the unforgettable India Jazz Suites: Kathak Meets Tap.

This is the World Premiere of a play about the tricky process of breaking the rules of segregated house ownership by means of a ghost or straw buyer . When an upwardly mobile African-American family wanted to buy a house in an all-white neighborhood of 1950s Boston, they often paid a struggling Irish family to act as their front. Fifty years later, the Irish family asks for "their" house back. Moving back and forth across the two eras, this intimate new play explores the complex impact of racial integration in Boston, the notion of benevolent fraud and the universal longing for property, house and home. Do not miss this wonderfully crafted play!