After shutting down its current and remaining future productions in its spring 2020 season back in March, Boston鈥檚 Huntington Theatre Company has announced that it will not return to the stage until 2021, and will have to furlough or lay off a majority of its staff due to the public health crisis.
While Artistic Director Peter DuBois says the company 鈥渞emains committed鈥� to producing all of the plays that had been announced for the 2020鈥�2021 season, there is no word yet on a new production timeline for any of those titles.
The lineup was to begin this summer with Heidi Schreck鈥檚 What the Constitution Means to Me, followed by Calista Flockhart in Oscar Wilde鈥檚 An Ideal Husband, Jen Silverman鈥檚 Witch, Melia Benussen and Kirsten Greenidge鈥檚 Common Ground Revisited, Michael Kimmel and Lauren Pritchard鈥檚 musical Songbird, and Madeleine George鈥檚 Hurricane Diane. Also on the roster were presentations of The Simon & Garfunkel Story and Ruben Santiago-Hudson鈥檚 Lackawanna Blues.
In the wake of the extended closure, Huntington Theatre Company is looking at a 50 percent slash to its budget, and will face rounds of layoffs, furloughs, and work and salary reductions beginning next month. The company anticipates that two thirds of the current staff will be let go in some capacity.
