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Huntington
Opens 25th Season Special $25 Tickets Available On August 17 August Wilson's "Radio Golf" will open the Huntington Theatre Company's 25th Anniversary Season with a run from Sept. 8-Oct. 15. "Radio Golf" is the late playwright's final work, finished just before his death in 2005. It also caps Wilson's ambitious 10-play cycle that recounts the African-American experience through each decade of the 20th century. To celebrate its anniversary and reach a wider array
of patrons, the Huntington has announced that all "Radio Golf"
tickets sold on Thursday, August 17, will be priced
at just $25 per seat, regardless of show date or seat
location. Tickets will go on sale at the Huntington's B.U. Theatre Box
Office (264 Huntington Ave.) at 9 a.m. Phone, internet, and Calderwood
Pavilion Box Office (527 Tremont St.) sales begin at noon. Box office
and phone sales end at 6 p.m. Online sales continue until midnight.
For further details, call 617-266-0800. "Radio Golf" is directed by Kenny
Leon, who helmed Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean"
at the Huntington and on Broadway in 2004. He also directed the Seattle
Repertory Company, CENTERSTAGE (Baltimore),
and Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles) productions of "Radio
Golf." Leon, who runs the Atlanta-based True Colors
Theatre, directed "Blues for an Alabama Sky"
at the Huntington in 1999, and is now directing the filmed adaptation
of his 2004 hit stage version of Lorraine Hansberry's "A
Raisin in the Sun" with Phylicia Rashad and
Sean "Diddy" Combs. The Huntington cast features the following, in alphabetical order: • Hassan El-Amin (who starred in the Huntington's 1995 production of "A Raisin in the Sun") plays businessman and aspiring politician Harmond Wilks; • Anthony Chisholm (Solly Two Kings in the Huntington's 2004 production of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean") as Elder Joseph Barlow, the man who claims the deed to the house at 1839 Wylie Street; • Suzzanne Douglas as Mame Wilks, Harmond's well-connected wife and publicist; • John Earl Jelks (Citizen Barlow in "Gem of the Ocean") returns to the Huntington as Sterling Johnson, a Hill District community activist who threatens to derail Wilks' plans; and • James A. Williams as Roosevelt Hicks, Wilks golf-and power-obsessed friend and business partner. Including "Radio Golf," the Huntington has produced eight of August Wilson's ten plays documenting African-American life in the 20th century. In order of their production dates: 2006 - "Radio Golf" (which
takes place in the 1990s) For more information, visit www.huntingtontheatre.org. -- OnStage Boston 08/08/06
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